Imagine how morally depraved a society must be to demolish this.
NYC's Penn Station was torn down in 1963 to build Madison Square Garden, and the station was forced underground.
“One entered the city like a god; one scuttles in now like a rat.”
A reminder of how it looked 🧵
The main waiting room was NYC's largest indoor space. Both the interior and exterior drew inspiration from St. Peter's Basilica and the Bank of England.
The Corinthian columns of the main waiting room led up to a majestic marble ceiling that was 150 feet high.
Those who say that America doesn't have magnificent cathedrals are simply wrong.
A thread of the finest churches in the U.S. 🧵
1. St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York City, NY (1878)
A Gothic sanctuary in the heart of the city - it's the largest Gothic Catholic cathedral in the country, and a symbol of the triumph of religious freedom in America.
2. The Cathedral of Saint Paul, Saint Paul, MN (1915)
A 306-foot-tall Beaux-Arts masterpiece crowned with a mighty copper dome. The architect, Emmanuel Louis Masqueray, was also chief architect of the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri.