Panorama 726 - Smaltz Building Revisited

Panorama 823 - Terminal Commerce Building

Panorama 731 - Goodman Brothers Building

Callowhill Industrial Historic District is a national

historic district A historic district or heritage district is a section of a city which contains older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons. In some countries or jurisdictions, historic districts receive legal protection from c ...

located in the Callowhill neighborhood of

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the sixth-largest city in the U.S., the second-largest city in both the Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic regions after New York City. Sinc ...

. It encompasses 31 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 1 contributing structure. The commercial and industrial buildings were mostly built from the 1890s through the 1930s. They range from 4 to 14 stories in height and the exteriors are of brick, concrete,

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, and stone. Most of the buildings are characterized as box-shaped, mid-rise loft buildings with flat roofs. Also in the district are eleven -story brick

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, with the earliest dated to the 1830s. Notable buildings include the Rebman Building (1903), Stewart Cracker Building (c. 1900), U.S. Tire Company Building (1911), Lasher Building (1927), Philadelphia City Morgue (1928), and Overland Motor Company Building (1910, c. 1940). Located in the district and listed separately are the

Smaltz Building The Smaltz Building, also known as the Smaltz-Goodwin Building, is an historic, American factory building that is located in the Callowhill neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005, it ...

(1912),

Terminal Commerce Building The terminal Terminal Commerce Building, also known as the North American Building, is an historic, American building complex that is located in the Callowhill neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Added to the National Register of Histori ...

Goodman Brothers and Hinlein Company The Goodman Brothers and Hinlein Company is an historic factory building which is located at 1238 Callowhill Street in the Callowhill neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is a contributing property to the Callowhill Industrial Histor ...

, and the

Packard Motor Corporation Building The Packard Motor Car Company Building, also known as the Press Building, is a historic office building located at 317–321 N. Broad Street between Pearl and Wood Streets in the Callowhill neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The structu ...

. ''Note:'' This includes In 2012 the Overland Motor Company Building was demolished by The Pennsylvania Ballet in order to make room for their planned Louise Reed Center for Dance. In 2018 the U.S. Tire Company Building met with the same fate. It was added to the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

in 2010.

References

{{National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Philadelphia Historic districts in Philadelphia Callowhill, Philadelphia Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania