Dworzec Terespolski, 19th century station building in Praga-Północ district, Warsaw, Poland.
Dworzec Terespolski is a 19th-century station building in Warsaw that originally had a two-story main body flanked by side wings connected through long corridors running alongside the tracks. Today only a fragment of the eastern wing survives at Kijowska Street 14a, showing three ground-floor window bays.
Architect Alfons Kropiwnicki designed this terminal station for the Warsaw-Terespol Railway, which opened in 1865. A 1939 air raid left the building in ruins, and most of it was later demolished.
The station carried several names over the decades, including the Petersburg Station and the Eastern Station, each name reflecting the political moment of the time. The surviving fragment on Kijowska Street still shows the original brick facade with its arched ground-floor windows.
The surviving fragment is in the Praga-Północ district and is easy to reach from the city center. Only a small section of the original building remains standing, so a visit is short and done from the outside.
The fragment was listed as a monument only in 2021, even though the Polish State Railways initially challenged this designation. This dispute shows how hard it can be to agree on the value of a single surviving piece of a larger structure.
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