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Is this really the oldest U.S. station?
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It could look like a house because when the first steam locomotives were developed, nobody passed out pictures and said, "This is what a train station ought to look like." In the 18th and 19th century, even large stores and factories in Philadelphia were just slight variations on what the houses of the day looked like. They built what they knew, and the form evolved gradually when they realized what the special needs of the station were going to be.
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