Daily News | Historic gas station at 20th and Arch is being relocated to Fairmount Park
At 20th and Arch Streets, perched on the edge of a vast surface parking lot, sits a nearly 100-year-old Gulf gas station done up in Spanish terra-cotta trappings.
Once that’s done, it will be turned into office space for the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia’s youth cycling program and the, which champions amateur rowing on the river. Both organizations already have facilities in and around the Sedgley Porter House. The gas station will be the responsibility of the Department of Parks and Recreation. A spokesperson says it will be converted into a single meeting room.
“There’s a handful of these that are still sort of hiding, and they’re cute,” Grossi said. “It wouldn’t surprise me if a different owner did not commit to relocating this thing and just sought permission to demolish it.”The gas station sat unused for decades at 20th and Arch, despite being historically designated in 1981. After that, a previous owner tried to donate the building to organizations like the Henry Ford Museum and SEPTA.
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