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Science Museum of Virginia


Broad Street Station - Broad Street Station served passengers of the Richmond, Fredricksburg, & Potomac Railway and the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad from 6 Jan 1919 until 15 Nov 1975. This Neoclassical Revival station was the only commercial building designed by John Russell Pope, who also designed the Branch House in Richmond and the Jefferson Memorial, National Gallery of Art, and National Archives in Washington DC. The station is noted architecturally for its Classical details, hundred-foot-high rotunda, and cast-iron and steel butterfly canopies that sheltered travelers from the weather. Listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1971, the station became the home of the Science Museum of Virginia in 1977. Picture 3 of 14
Historic plaque in front of the science museum.
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