13th & Market

Formerly a station for the Pennsylvania Rail Road, this property was purchased by John Wanamaker in 1876 and became Wanamaker's Grand Depot, a large central market that at first sold only men's clothing. In 1877 Wanamaker added women's clothes and dry goods, creating the first department store in America. The Grand Depot introduced several innovations, becoming the first department store illuminated with electricity in 1878, the first store with a telephone in 1879, and the first store with an elevator in 1884. By 1910, Wanamaker had closed the Grand Depot to create the grand department store located south of this bus shelter, and the new space featured the pipe organ from the St. Louis World's Fair of 1904, which in 1980 became the first organ designated as a National Historic Landmark.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · United States