Data current as of the date the nomination was submitted (June 1997). Corrections and additions may have been made since then, but are not included in this file.
Original Source Information
NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018
(8-86)
United States Department of the Interior
National Park Service
National Register of Historic Places
Continuation Sheet
West Philadelphia Streetcar Suburb Historic District, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
SOUTH 49TH STREET
500 block S. 49th Street
501-511 S. 49th Street
c. 1910
Six three-story, two-bay brick Colonial Revival twins one of which is a triple unit. Distinguishing features include 1st story porch with classical columns and modified bracketed cornice and turned balustrade, 2nd story projecting pressed metal bay with bracketed cornice, 3rd story paired windows wit raised brick surround, 4th story hipped dormer, wide bracketed eaves, hipped roof. Contributing.
529-537 S. 49th Street
c. 1900
Five three-story, two-bay brick Queen Anne/Colonial Revival twin residences. 529: 1st story classical columned porch, 2nd story projecting metal bay with swags, 3rd story mansard with peak dormer with paired 1/1 sash. 531-533: 1st story porch with classical columns, 2nd story projecting metal bay with swags, mansard roof penetrated by 3rd story tall gable with three arched windows, small rectangular window in uppermost peak. 535-537: 1st story porch with classical columns, one-half of 2nd story has a metal bay with swags while the other half contains a large arched window beside a smaller rectangular opening, one-half of the 3rd story has three windows while the other has a pair, shallow hipped roof with wide eaves suggests the arts and crafts influence. Contributing.
539-547 S. 49th Street
c. 1900
Five three-story, two-bay brick Queen Anne/Colonial Revival twin residences. 539, 541: 1st story porch with classical columns, one-half of 2nd story has a metal bay with swags while the other half contains a large arched window beside a smaller rectangular opening, one-half of the 3rd story has three windows while the other has a pair, shallow hipped roof with wide eaves suggests the arts and crafts influence. 543-545: 1st story porch with classical columns, 2nd story projecting metal bay with swags, mansard roof penetrated by 3rd story tall gable with three arched windows, small rectangular window in uppermost peak. 547: 1st story classical columned porch, 2nd story projecting metal bay with swags, 3rd story mansard with peak dormer with paired 1/1 sash. Contributing.
500-510 S. 49th Street
c. 1910
Six three-story, two-bay brick Colonial Revival twins, one of which is a triple unit. Distinguishing features include 1st story porch with classical columns and modified bracketed cornice and turned balustrade, 2nd story projecting pressed metal bay with bracketed cornice, 3rd story paired windows wit raised brick surround, 4th story hipped dormer, wide bracketed eaves, hipped roof. Contributing.
530-538 S. 49th Street
c. 1900
Five three-story, two-bay brick Queen Anne/Colonial Revival twin residences. 530: 1st story classical columned porch, 2nd story projecting metal bay with swags, 3rd story mansard with peak dormer with paired 1/1 sash. 532-534: 1st story porch with classical columns, 2nd story projecting metal bay with swags, mansard roof penetrated by 3rd story tall gable with three arched windows, small rectangular window in uppermost peak. 536-538: 1st story porch with classical columns, 2nd and 3rd story pressed metal bay with swags, orangish brick front with red brick side and rear elevations, bracketed cornice, and peaked roof with finial. Contributing.
540-548 S. 49th Street
c. 1900
Five three-story, two-bay brick Queen Anne/Colonial Revival twin residences. 540-542: 1st story porch with classical columns, 2nd and 3rd story pressed metal bay with swags, orangish brick front with red brick side and rear elevations, bracketed cornice, and peaked roof with finial. 544-546: 1st story porch with classical columns, 2nd story projecting metal bay with swags, mansard roof penetrated by 3rd story tall gable with three arched windows, small rectangular window in uppermost peak. 548: 1st story classical columned porch, 2nd story projecting metal bay with swags, 3rd story mansard with peak dormer with paired 1/1 sash. Contributing.
600 block S. 49th Street
627-637 S. 49th Street
c. 1900
Six three-story, three-bay brick Queen Anne/Colonial Revival twins. Distinguishing features include orangish brick frontice, 1st story classical columned porch, denticulated porch cornice, 2nd and 3rd story pressed metal bay with peak roof and finial, slate mansard roof. Contributing.
700 block S. 49th Street
706-722 S. 49th Street
Sixteen, three-story, two-bay, brick with wood trim, Queen Anne rowhouses with front porch and flat roof. Contributing.
800 block S. 49th Street
801-815 S. 49th Street
c. 1900
Eight, three-story, two-bay, brick with wood trim, Queen Anne, twin residence with front porch and slate gambrel roof. Contributing.
817-819, 825-827, 833-835 S. 49th Street
c. 1900
Six, three-story, two-bay, brick with wood trim, Queen Anne, twin residence with front porch and gambrel roof. Contributing.
821-823, 829-831 S. 49th Street
c. 1900
Four, three-story, one-bay, Queen Anne, twin residence with front porch and clay tile gambrel roof. Contributing.
800-802 S. 49th Street
E. A. Wilson
1908
One, four-story, five-bay, brick with stone and wood trim, Georgian apartment building with flat roof. Distinguishing features include central door with Tuscan portico accessing first story shops and apartments above, paired windows flanked by three-sided pressed metal bays, flanked by Palladian windows, small paired 12/1 windows, pressed metal cornice and window trim. Contributing.
804-818 S. 49th Street
c. 1909
Eight, three-story, two-bay, brick with pressed metal trim, Queen Anne twin residence with front porch and slightly peaked roof. Contributing.
820-834 S. 49th Street
c. 1900
Eight, three-story, three-bay, brick with wood and pressed metal trim Queen Anne twin residence with front porch and slate gambrel roof. Contributing.
900 block S. 49th Street
901 S. 49th Street
c. 1909
One, three-story, two-bay, brick with brick and pressed metal trim, Colonial Revival free-standing residence with front porch and gambrel roof. Contributing.
903-905, 911-913 S. 49th Street
c. 1900
Four, three-story, two-bay, brick with wood and pressed metal trim, Queen Anne, twin residence with slate gambrel roof. Contributing.
907-909 S. 49th Street
c. 1900
Two, three-story, two-bay, brick, Richardson Romanesque twin residence with front porch and mansard roof. 907: alterations by J. Fieldstein for James H. McLean in 1921. Contributing.
915 S. 49th Street
c. 1900
One, three-story, three-bay, brick with stone and wood trim, Queen Anne free-standing residence with wrap[-around porch and gambrel roof. Alterations by J. Fieldstein for James H. McLean in 1921. Contributing.
917-923 S. 49th Street
c. 1895
Four, three-story, two-bay, brick with wood trim, Queen Anne, twin residence with front porch and cross-gabled roof. 919 altered by J. Struckert & Son in 1901. Contributing.
900-902 S. 49th Street
c. 1900
Two, three-story, two-bay, brick with wood trim, Queen Anne twin residence with front porch and slate gambrel roof. Contributing.
904-906 S. 49th Street
c. 1900
Two, three-story, two-bay, Queen Anne twin residence with front porch and slate mansard roof. Contributing.
908-938 S. 49th Street
c. 1909
Sixteen, three-story, two-bay, brick with wood trim, Queen Anne twin residence with front porch and slate and clay tile roof gambrel roof. 910 altered by J. Thompson in 1925. Contributing.
940-942 S. 49th Street
c. 1909
Two, three-story, two-bay, brick with wood trim, Queen Anne twin residence with half-width front porch and gambrel roof. Contributing.
1000 block S. 49th Street
1005-1007 S. 49th Street
c. 1886
Two, three-story, three-bay, brick with wood trim, Queen Anne, twin residence with wrap-around porch and slate cross-gabled roof. Contributing.
1009 S. 49th Street
c. 1892
One, three-story, three-bay, brick with wood trim, Queen Anne, free-standing residence with wrap-around porch and cross-gabled roof. Contributing.
1011 S. 49th Street
c. 1886
One, three-story, three-bay, brick with wood trim, Queen Anne, twin residence with wrap-around porch and slate cross-gabled roof. Contributing.
1013 S. 49th Street
c. 1886
Two, three-story, three-bay, brick with wood trim, Queen Anne, twin residence with wrap-around porch and slate cross-gabled roof. Contributing.
1015-1019 S. 49th Street
Three, one-story, three-bay, concrete and terra cotta commercial structure with flat roof. Contributing.
1000 S. 49th Street
c. 1886
One, three-story, two-bay, brick, Queen Anne apartment building with flat roof. Contributing.
1002-1016 S. 49th Street
c. 1886
Eight, three-story, three-bay, brick with wood trim, Queen Anne, twin residence with wrap-around porch and slate cross-gabled roof. Contributing.
1018 S. 49th Street
c. 1892
One, three-story, three-bay, stucco with wood trim, Queen Anne, free-standing residence with wrap-around porch and slate cross-gabled roof. Contributing.
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