This month marks the 100th anniversary of the construction of the original Penn Station. "The largest building ever to be built at one time," points out the New York Times, was completed in August 1910, and service on the Long Island Rail Road was inaugurated on September 8. Full use of the station by the Pennsylvania Rail Road to New Jersey and beyond began on November 26th. That day, 100,000 visitors came to admire the new building.

Little did President of the Pennsylvania Rail Road Alexander Cassatt know that his monumental structure would stand barely longer than 50 years.

Browse our collection of images of the original Penn Station.