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This cache is hidden in a portion of the historic Reading Terminal. Built by the Reading Railroad in 1893, the building has three components – the headhouse, the train shed and the Market.
Reading Terminal not only served passengers on the Reading's inter-city services heading to Philadelphia, but also as the base for Reading's regional rail services, many of which are still in use today as part of the SEPTA Regional Rail system. During its peak usage, around the time of World War II, as many as 45,000 passengers passed through the Reading Terminal complex daily.
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The eight-story headhouse, built in the Italian Renaissance style, features brick-bearing walls with cast-iron columns and timber floors. Interior finishes are molded ornamental plaster and marble, with cast-iron detailing in the Renaissance style.
At the time of its construction, the train shed was one of the largest single-span arched roof structures in the world. It is now the oldest surviving single-span arched train shed roof structure in the world, and the only one of its kind remaining in the United States. The shed was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972 and was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1976.
The Reading Terminal Market is an enclosed farmers market found at 12th and Arch Streets in downtown Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Market preexists the Terminal and was incorporated into the structure when the station was built. The entire structure is now part of the Pennsylvania Convention Center.
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