Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station
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Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station
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| Coordinates | Coordinates: 38°53′28.58″N 77°1′15.09″W / 38.8912722°N 77.0208583°W |
| Owned by | Baltimore and Potomac Railroad |
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| Structure type | At-grade |
| Architect | Wilson Brothers & Company |
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| Opened | 1873 |
| Closed | 1907 |
The Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station was a railroad station that was operated by the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad in Washington, D.C., from 1873 until its closure in 1907. It was the location of James A. Garfield's assassination.
The first Baltimore and Potomac (B&P) station in Washington was a simple wood frame structure. A more substantial brick and stone building opened in 1873 at the southwest corner of Sixth Street and B Street NW (later renamed Constitution Avenue). This is the present site of the West Building of the National Gallery of Art, on the National Mall. The station was built over the old Washington City Canal, which complicated the construction of the foundation.Tracks ran south from the station along Sixth Street to a wye junction at Sixth Street SW, Maryland Avenue SW, and Virginia Avenue SW. Ironically, the tracks along Maryland Avenue ran over the Long Bridge to Virginia, and the tracks along Virginia Avenue went east into Maryland (see Landover Subdivision).
South of the station, in Virginia, was the Alexandria and Washington Railroad, which opened in 1857. The B&P acquired this line after reaching it, operating it until 1901, when the Washington Southern Railway (the successor of the Alexandria and Washington) was taken over by the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad, an independent bridge line owned equally by the PRR and five other railroads. Soon after, in 1904, the line from the Long Bridge to Rosslyn, built by the Washington Southern, was split off into the Rosslyn Connecting Railroad, owned by the PRR.
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