Reading Terminal (Philadelphia, Pa.)

found: Reading Company records, 1795-1976:processing notes (Reading Terminal; railroad station located at 12th and Market Streets, Philadelphia, Pa.; built 1893 under the charter of the Philadelphia and Reading Terminal Railroad Company; headquarters of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company system (1893-96) and of the Reading Company (1896-1976); part of the ground floor occupied by the Reading Terminal Market from 1893 onward; closed as a railroad station Nov. 6, 1984; train shed sold and incorporated into the Pennsylvania Convention Center as its Grand Hall and Ballroom in 1991; head house redeveloped with shops and rooms for the adjacent Philadelphia Marriott Downtown hotel)