Reading Railroad Station (Lebanon, Pennsylvania)

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Reading Railroad Station
Lebanon Reading RR Station.jpg
Reading Railroad Station, June 2006
Reading Railroad Station (Lebanon, Pennsylvania) is located in Pennsylvania
Reading Railroad Station (Lebanon, Pennsylvania)
Location N. 8th St., Lebanon, Pennsylvania
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Area 1 acre (0.40 ha)
Built 1900
Architect Wilson Bros.; Wilson, Joseph M.
Architectural style Shingle Style, Other, Shingle style adaptation
NRHP Reference # 75001647[1]
Added to NRHP July 17, 1975

Reading Railroad Station is a historic Shingle Style railway station in Lebanon, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. Designed by the Wilson Brothers & Company and built by the Reading Company in 1900, it consists of two sections connected by a large overhanging roof.

The smaller section is a 1 1/2-story, rectangular structure that contained a baggage room, telegraph office, and yardmasters' office. It measures 55 ft 6 in by 32 ft 6 in. It has a hipped gable roof with bellcast hiIerpped gable dormers and a two-story octagonal tower.

The larger section is a two-story structure measuring approximately 80 ft 6 in by 32 ft 6 in and contained men's and women's waiting areas and restrooms. It features a large octagonal tower rising 70 80 ft above the station and has a hipped gable roof with hipped gable dormers and a semicircular bay.[2]

The station was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.[1]

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