{"nrhp_refnum":"01000462","name":"Awbury Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Chew Ave., Avonhoe Rd., Devon PL., Haines and Ardleigh Sts. and Arboretum boundary","address_restricted":false,"city":"Philadelphia","county":"Philadelphia","state":"PA","lat":40.05181951800006,"lon":-75.16938372680418,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2001-05-02","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Landscape Architecture","Conservation"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"The Awbury Historic District is a mid-19th to early 20th century enclave of houses, outbuildings and designed landscapes in East Germantown, Philadelphia, built by successive generations of the Cope extended family. It includes the Awbury Arboretum, which covers most of the district's land area.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the district is significant for its concentration of buildings and landscapes by designers of regional and national importance, and for the way buildings and landscape were conceived together as a single whole by a family sharing design and conservation interests. It also cites the early twentieth-century conservation of the enclave as the Awbury Arboretum, a publicly accessible arboretum established in 1916.","narrative":"Awbury is a historic district in East Germantown, Philadelphia, made up of houses, outbuildings and designed grounds built by members of the Cope family between 1849 and the early twentieth century. The first house, built in 1849 for John S. Haines, was designed by Thomas U. Walter, the architect of the United States Capitol from 1850. Henry Cope, a Quaker merchant's son, built the house that gave the enclave its name, Awbury, in 1852-53. Later houses were designed by Addison Hutton and by Cope & Stewardson. The landscape began with a picturesque garden laid out by William Saunders in the 1850s. In 1916 the family donated land and funds to create the Awbury Arboretum, which is now the largest part of the district. The district is valued for the combination of architecture and landscape by notable designers, and for its surviving garden layout and conservation history.","period_of_significance":"1849-1940","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Gothic Revival; Italian Villa; Queen Anne; Tudor Revival; Colonial Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Awbury Arboretum is run by the Awbury Arboretum Association, established in 1988, with a professional director and staff.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:37.533877-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/01000462.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01000462/b94a1795ae-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01000462/b94a1795ae-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Davidt8","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Phila_1AwburyRoad10.png\" rel=\"noopener\">Davidt8</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Phila_1AwburyRoad10.png"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71997336","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awbury_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4829986"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia/awbury-historic-district-01000462/"}