Unique Features
- Ground floor: 2,500-pound bronze eagle statue in the Grand Court, made by French sculptor August Gaul for the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exhibition and purchased by John Wanamaker; for many decades, Philadelphians would agree to "meet me at the eagle" (at Wanamaker's).
- 3rd floor: Egyptian Hall auditorium behind the executive offices, also a Greek Hall auditorium. The architecture of Egyptian Hall is presently (2008) obscured by the Executive Offices and Dickens Christmas Village.
- 8th floor: toy department had a monorail for the kids that traveled around the entire department, camera dept, piano and organ dept. The monorail car is a feature at Philadelphia's Please Touch Museum.
- 9th floor: Crystal Tea Room
- 10th floor: in-house physician and nurses
- 12th floor: Wanamaker Organ Shop, where the Wanamaker Organ was enlarged by an in-house expert staff
- Sub-floors: the Downstairs Store, post office, lost and found, shoe repair, the Dairy restaurant. This area became a parking garage.
- Radio broadcasting station
- Model house on the furniture floor
- Home of the world's largest playable pipe organ
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