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 historic building, older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons. In some countries or jurisdictions, historic districts receive legal p ...

located in the Callowhill neighborhood of

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Philadelphia ( ), colloquially referred to as Philly, is the List of municipalities in Pennsylvania, most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the List of United States cities by population, sixth-most populous city in the Unit ...

. 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,

terra cotta Terracotta, also known as terra cotta or terra-cotta (; ; ), is a clay-based Vitrification#Ceramics, non-vitreous ceramicOED, "Terracotta""Terracotta" MFA Boston, "Cameo" database fired at relatively low temperatures. It is therefore a term used ...

, 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

rowhouses A terrace, terraced house ( UK), or townhouse ( US) is a type of medium-density housing which first started in 16th century Europe with a row of joined houses sharing side walls. In the United States and Canada these are sometimes known as row ...

, 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 (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 Histor ...

, Goodman Brothers and Hinlein Company, and the

Packard Motor Corporation Building The Packard Motor Car Company Building, also known as the Press Building, is an historic, American office building that is located at 319 North Broad Street between Pearl and Wood Streets in the Callowhill neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsyl ...

. ''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 Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...

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