The Tulpehocken Station Historic District is a historic area in the

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neighborhood of

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. Large suburban houses were built in the area from about 1850 to 1900 in a variety of styles including

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, and Bracketed as part of the Picturesque Movement of architecture. In the 1870s styles moved toward

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and

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. The district was added to the

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in 1985, and it covers about six square blocks, bounded by McCallum Street on the north, the

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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.

Contributing properties

Among the district's 155

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are:
Comawaben
aka Charles Currie House, 50 West Walnut Lane, built 1899 (

Mantle Fielding Mantle Fielding, Jr. (September 30, 1865 – March 27, 1941) was an American architect, art historian, and tennis player. Career Fielding was born in Manhattan to Mantle Fielding (1837–1890) and Anne Margaret Stone (''maiden''; 1838–1906). H ...

, 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

125 West Walnut Lane, 1852–54, altered 1893 *

St. Peter's Episcopal Church of Germantown St. Peter's Episcopal Church of Germantown is a historic church at 6000 Wayne Avenue in the Germantown section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1873 to the designs of Furness & Hewitt. George W. Hewitt likely was mainly respons ...

, 6000 Wayne Ave., built 1873 * Tulpehocken Station, 314 West Tulpehocken St., built 1878 *Van Dyke Residence, 150 West Walnut Lane, built c. 1860 File:50 Walnut Gtown.JPG, Comawaben, 50 West Walnut Lane File:150 Walnut Lane Philly.JPG, Van Dyke Residence, 150 West Walnut Lane File:6015 Wayne Philly.JPG, Lister Townsend House, 6015 Wayne Avenue File:6135 Wayne Philly.JPG, 6135 Wayne Avenue File:Ebenezer Maxwell House.JPG, Maxwell House, 200 W. Tulpehocken File:Tulpehocken Station SEPTA.JPG, Tulpehocken Station File:St Petes Philly.JPG, St. Peter's Episcopal Church of Germantown

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Contributing properties

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