The Heywood Chair Factory was a manufacturing facility for
bentwood chairs built at 1012 Race St. between N. 10th and N. 11th Streets in 1892 in what is now the
Chinatown
Chinatown ( zh, t=唐人街) is the catch-all name for an ethnic enclave of Chinese people located outside Greater China, most often in an urban setting. Areas known as "Chinatown" exist throughout the world, including Europe, Asia, Africa, O ...
neighborhood of
Philadelphia
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. It has been converted into
condominium
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s, and was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
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in 1984.
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Industrial buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Philadelphia
Renaissance Revival architecture in Pennsylvania
Industrial buildings completed in 1892
Chinatown, Philadelphia
Chair-making
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