The former American Trust Co. & Savings Bank, top, at Broad and Fairmount, and as it stands today, amid billboards. INGA SAFFRON / Inquirer Architecture Critic
The former American Trust Co. & Savings Fund at Broad and Fairmount is a good example, despite its mutilated condition. Though partially obscured by a scrim of billboards, you can still see the hallmarks of the Richardsonian Romanesque style in the heavy, almost medieval, massing, the picturesque roofline with its single, asymmetrical gable, the rusticated stone, and richly colored checkerboard detailing.
The 45 will take over the southern third of the 23’s old route, operating between Broad Street and Oregon Avenue in South Philly and 12th and Noble streets in Callowhill (or the Eraserhood, as it’s also known). The 23 will continue to operate from the Germantown Avenue and Bethlehem Pike loop in Chestnut Hill down Germantown Avenue, then 11th and 12th streets, to Chestnut Street in Center City. Northbound Route 23 buses will lay over at the main northbound transfer point between the two lines on 11th Street between Market and Filbert.
View from the Reading Viaduct
Philadelphia, PA
Copyright 2014, Bob Bruhin. All rights reserved.
(prints via fork.cc/21dpLwn)
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