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The General Electric Switchgear Plant is a historic
factory A factory, manufacturing plant or a production plant is an industrial facility, often a complex consisting of several buildings filled with machinery, where workers manufacture items or operate machines which process each item into another. T ...
building located at 421 North 7th Street at Willow Street 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 was built in 1916, and is a seven-story, seven bay by nine bay, reinforced concrete building with brick facing. It was designed by William Steele & Company for
General Electric General Electric Company (GE) is an American multinational conglomerate founded in 1892, and incorporated in New York state and headquartered in Boston. The company operated in sectors including healthcare, aviation, power, renewable energ ...
, which manufactured
electric switchboard An electric switchboard is a device that distributes electricity from one or more sources of supply to several smaller load circuits. It is an assembly of one or more panels, each of which contains switching devices for the protection and contro ...
equipment there. ''Note:'' This includes The building was added to the
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in 1985. A music venue,
Franklin Music Hall Franklin Music Hall is a concert venue in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is in a converted building once part of the General Electric Switchgear Plant and opened in 1995. It has a capacity between 2,500 and 3,000 people. It is owned and operated ...
, occupies part of the building.


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* Industrial buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Philadelphia Industrial buildings completed in 1916 1916 establishments in Pennsylvania General Electric {{PhiladelphiaPA-NRHP-stub