The 26th District Police and Patrol Station is a historic

police station A police station (sometimes called a "station house" or just "house") is a building which serves to accommodate police officers and other members of staff. These buildings often contain offices and accommodation for personnel and vehicles, a ...

in the

Kensington Kensington is a district in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in the West of Central London. The district's commercial heart is Kensington High Street, running on an east–west axis. The north-east is taken up by Kensington Garden ...

neighborhood of

Philadelphia 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. Since ...

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. It was designed by architect John T. Windrim (1866-1934) and built in 1896. It and is a three-story, "L"-plan,

brownstone Brownstone is a brown Triassic–Jurassic sandstone that was historically a popular building material. The term is also used in the United States and Canada to refer to a townhouse clad in this or any other aesthetically similar material. Type ...

and brick building in the

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style. It features a monumental arched entrance with

terra cotta Terracotta, terra cotta, or terra-cotta (; ; ), in its material sense as an earthenware substrate, is a clay-based unglazed or glazed ceramic where the fired body is porous. In applied art, craft, construction, and architecture, terracotta ...

decorative elements, curved corner, copper entablature, wide frieze, and pitched roof. It housed a police station until 1969. ''Note:'' This includes 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 ...

in 1984. It currently (Sep 2017) houses a branch of The

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at Philadelphia Architects and Buildings {{DEFAULTSORT:26th District Police And Patrol Station Government buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Philadelphia Renaissance Revival architecture in Pennsylvania Government buildings completed in 1896 Kensington, Philadelphia