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Pennsylvania Turnpike, Everett Headquarters, North side of State Route 1004 near intersection with Township Route 503, Everett, Bedford County, PA

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Summary

Significance: Everett was selected as a headquarters for maintenance, engineering, and fare collection for the Pennsylvania Turnpike because of its central location on the original turnpike between Irwin and Carlisle. It was the only building on the turnpike built to Pennsylvania Department of Highways plans rather than to standards drawn up by the new turnpike design team.

Survey number: HAER PA-355

Building/structure dates: 1938- 1949 Initial Construction

Building/structure dates: 1969 Subsequent Work

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office buildings corporate headquarters brick buildings transportation toll collection highway maintenance and repair bedford county pennsylvania turnpike pennsylvania turnpike everett headquarters everett headquarters state route intersection township route bedford america industrial heritage project aihp historic american engineering record jet lowe pennsylvania department of highways pennsylvania turnpike commission kim e wallace photo ultra high resolution high resolution library of congress
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Date

1969 - 1980
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Contributors

Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission
Pennsylvania Department of Highways
America's Industrial Heritage Project (AIHP), sponsor
Madrid, transmitter
Wallace, Kim E, historian
Lowe, Jet, photographer
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bedford county ,  40.01147, -78.37335
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Library of Congress
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http://www.loc.gov/
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No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html

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office buildings corporate headquarters brick buildings transportation toll collection highway maintenance and repair bedford county pennsylvania turnpike pennsylvania turnpike everett headquarters everett headquarters state route intersection township route bedford america industrial heritage project aihp historic american engineering record jet lowe pennsylvania department of highways pennsylvania turnpike commission kim e wallace photo ultra high resolution high resolution library of congress