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emk544 t1_j1e00pq wrote

Don't mean to be pedantic, and this is a beautiful shot, but the current Wanamaker building was actually built around 1910. The original building, the "Grand Depot," was built in 1876. John Wanamaker replaced that original building piece-by-piece on the same site in the first decade of the 1900s. My source is a combination of Wikipedia and the fact that I've been to the roof - there is a cornerstone up there inlaid with John Wanamaker's name and the year the building was completed.

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respondstostupidity t1_j1gdkwx wrote

> the fact that I've been to the roof

Marvin must've liked you, or one of the staff was slippin with their duties :P

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emk544 t1_j1op6xn wrote

I’m an engineer who was working with a developer on some plans to renovate the upper floors. Those plans never panned out

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