Head house
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A head house or headhouse is an enclosed building attached to an open-sided shed, including one with piers extending into a waterway, or the aboveground part of a train or subway station.
The Reading Terminal in Philadelphia, showing a nine-story brick head house to the right and arched train shed (with market below) to the left.
New York's Chelsea Piers complex, showing the shore-side head house running perpendicular to, and connecting, Piers 62 to 59 (from left to right), which extend into the Hudson River.
A station building of Siuntio railway station in Siuntio, Finland
The head house to Bowling Green subway station in New York City
New Market and Head House
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New Market, as it was originally known, and later also known as Head House Market and Second Street Market, is an historic street market which is located on South 2nd Street between Pine and Lombard s
Head house
…19th centuries, head houses were often civic buildings such as town halls or courthouses located at the end of an open market shed; one example is the former market and firehouse from which Philadelphia's Head House Square takes its name. In mining, a headhouse is the housing of the headworks of various types of machinery used…
Head House (left) and market sheds (right) (2024)
Buildings on the square