Architecture
The station was built in 1907 by the Pennsylvania Railroad, and replaced an earlier station erected by the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad. This station, along with the adjacent Pennsylvania Building (which housed the offices for the Delaware Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad) and the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad's Water Street freight depot, were designed by renowned architect Frank Furness.
Wilmington Station has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1976. A renovation project was conducted in 1984. The National Register added the adjacent railroad viaduct in 1999.
A two-year, $37.7 million restoration of the station was active throughout 2010; about ⅔ of the funding for this project was from United States government stimulus funds. All customer operations, including platform access, was housed in a temporary station adjacent to the main station during the restoration period. The station reopened to customers December 6, 2010, and final work was completed in March 2011.
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