Delaware Ave and Washington St: A Changing Scene
Delaware Ave and Washington St A Changing Scene In our last post, you saw the intersection of Delaware Ave and Washington St as it looked in the 1950s. The Atlantic gas station dates to the 1920s. The classical Greek style "pavilion," the original facility, was probably designed by the architect Joseph F Kunz, who did many service station designs for Atlantic Refining Co., many in this classical style, as told in a blog no longer available on-line. The utilitarian vitreous enameled panel structure was a later addition. In my memory, in the 1950s the Greek pavilion housed the restrooms. When the gas station was razed in 1964, the Greek pavilion was acquired by Chick Laird, a well-known local philanthropist, and donated to Tatnall School on Barley Mill Road, near the now-residence of President Joe Biden. It was repurposed as an open air structure and still stands on the grounds of the Tatnall School campus. The intersection has even more recently been rebuilt and now is t