Freight Station - AAA East Penn

Pottstown's growing importance as a regional manufacturing center led the Reading Co. to upgrade its facilities there in the 1920's. On the 26th of December in 1924, the Reading Co. announced plans to build a new $1,000,000 passenger and freight station in Pottstown, purchasing five homes on Hanover St. and several business properties on the south side of the tracks and underwriting the cost of new plants for Pottstown Cold Storage and Auchenbach Wholesale Grocery Co. Virtually devoid of ornamentation, the station is architecturally significant for showing the development of a modern facility that emphasized utilitarian concepts. It remained in use by the Reading Railroad and later Conrail through 1976. In 1986, Freight Station Associates, a partnership of Ronald and Eugene Dinnocenti and the East Penn Motor Club, purchased the property for rehabilitation, preserving it. AAA East Penn began in 1908 as the Pottstown Automobile club, became affiliated with the American Automobile Association in 1927, became the East Penn Motor Club in 1979, and after consolidating operations with AAA Lehigh Valley in 1999 became known as AAA East Penn. As an affiliate of AAA and the Pennsylvania AAA Federation, AAA East Penn provides members with travel, insurance, financial, and automotive services.

Pottstown, Pennsylvania · United States