Tulpehocken Station Historic District
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| Location | Roughly bounded by McCallum St., W. Walnut Ln., Penn Central RR tracks, and W. Tulpehocken St., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
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| Coordinates | 40°2′21″N 75°11′1″W / 40.03917°N 75.18361°W |
| Area | 80 acres (32 ha) |
| Architect | Multiple |
| Architectural style | Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals, Late Victorian |
| NRHP reference No. | 85003564[1] |
| Added to NRHP | November 26, 1985 |
The Tulpehocken Station Historic District is a historic area in the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Large suburban houses were built in the area from about 1850 to 1900 in a variety of styles including Carpenter Gothic, Italianate, and Bracketed as part of the Picturesque Movement of architecture. In the 1870s styles moved toward High Victorian and Second Empire. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985, and it covers about six square blocks, bounded by McCallum Street on the north, the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks on the south, Tulpehocken Street on the west, and Walnut Lane on the east. Thirty-seven buildings in the district are considered to be significant and 118 are considered to be contributing, with only 13 considered to be intrusions.[2]
Contributing properties
[edit]Among the 80-acre (320,000 m2) district's 155 contributing properties are:
- Comawaben, aka Charles Currie House, 50 West Walnut Lane, built 1899 (Mantle Fielding, architect)
- Conyers Button House, 143 W. Walnut Lane, c. 1875
- Kimball House, 144 West Walnut Lane, built 1860
- Lister Townsend House, 6015 Wayne Ave., built 1887
- Ebenezer Maxwell House, 200 W. Tulpehocken St., built 1859
- Mitchell House, 200 W. Walnut Lane, built c. 1856
- Morris House, 131 W. Walnut Lane, c. 1853
- George T. Pearson Residence, 125 West Walnut Lane, 1852–54, altered 1893
- Reformed Episcopal Church of the Atonement, 6100 Greene St., built 1929
- St. Peter's Episcopal Church of Germantown, 6000 Wayne Ave., built 1873
- Tulpehocken Station, 314 West Tulpehocken St., built 1878
- Van Dyke Residence, 150 West Walnut Lane, built c. 1860
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Comawaben, 50 West Walnut Lane -
Van Dyke Residence, 150 West Walnut Lane -
Lister Townsend House, 6015 Wayne Avenue -
6135 Wayne Avenue -
Maxwell House, 200 W. Tulpehocken -
Tulpehocken Station -
St. Peter's Episcopal Church of Germantown -
Church of the Atonement
See also
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- Awbury Historic District
- Colonial Germantown Historic District
- Rittenhousetown Historic District
- Chestnut Hill Historic District
References
[edit]- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ "Tulpehocken Station District". National Register of historic Places nomination (reprint). Bryn Mawr University. Retrieved December 15, 2013.
External links
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- Description at LivingPlaces.com
- Historic districts in Philadelphia
- Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania
- National Register of Historic Places in Philadelphia
- Germantown, Philadelphia
- Railway stations on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania
- Houses in Philadelphia
- Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania