Girard Horse Car Barn Girard Avenue Horse Car Barn was a complex of buildings constructed in 1859
between Girard Avenue, Poplar Street, 26th and 27th Streets,
by the Richmond & Schuylkill Passenger Railway Co.
Between the 1890s and 1912, the barns housed early electric trolleys.
The main building (shown above) once faced Girard Avenue, but has been torn down.
Ed Torpey collection, courtesy of Joel Spivak

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