Gare d'Orsay is a former Paris railway station and hotel, built in 1900 to designs by Victor Laloux, Lucien Magne and Émile Bénard; it served as a terminus for the Chemin de Fer de Paris à Orléans. It was the first electrified urban terminal station in the world, opened 28 May 1900, in time for the 1900 Exposition Universelle. After closure as a station, it reopened in December 1986 as the Musée d'Orsay, an art museum. The museum is currently served by the RER station of the same name.
1909 postcard: "La Gare d'Orleans (the Gare d'Orsay) et Quai d'Orsay"
The burnt-out ruins of the Palais d'Orsay
Beaux-Arts architect Victor Laloux
Electric trains operating in the Gare d'Orsay, ca. 1900
Compagnie du chemin de fer de Paris à Orléans
The Compagnie du chemin de fer de Paris à Orléans (PO) was an early French railway company.
Main front of the Musée d'Orsay, which building was originally a railway station, Gare d'Orsay, constructed for the Chemin de fer de Paris à Orléans