The Mayfair House was a historic 14 story apartment building completed in 1926 and located at 401 West Johnson Street in the West Mount Airy neighborhood of

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, on Lincoln Drive between Johnson and Cliveden Streets. It was considered "one of the city's most original and distinctive landmarks, a major architectural work."George E. Thomas, NRHP Nomination, November 1981, available a
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Key number H001416 It may be considered part of a set of three apartment buildings in the area, the others being the Alden Park Manor and

McCallum Manor McCallum Manor is a historic apartment building located in the Mount Airy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Mount Airy neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is located next to Malvern Hall. It was built in 1925, and is a nine-story, "H"-shaped ...

which offered a type of modern city living in the early 20th century in a suburban, even rustic, setting. The Regency architecture also offered "ethnic continuity" to Philadelphia's anglophile culture. The building has been destroyed and 401 West Johnson Street is now an empty lot.Skyscraperpage.com
Mayfair House Philadelphia, accessed 2010-06-07

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Residential buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Philadelphia Houses completed in 1925 Germantown, Philadelphia Residential skyscrapers in Philadelphia {{Pennsylvania-NRHP-stub