{"nrhp_refnum":"02000066","name":"Fairmount Avenue Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Fairmount Ave., Melon St., North St., 15th St., 16th St., and 17th St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Philadelphia","county":"Philadelphia","state":"PA","lat":39.96767551050007,"lon":-75.16405460516681,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2002-02-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"An approximately 20-acre mixed-use historic district along Fairmount Avenue and Melon, North, 15th, 16th and 17th Streets, three and a half blocks west of Broad Street in north central Philadelphia, containing factories, warehouses, workshops, garages, stores, offices and rowhouses. It has 75 contributing buildings, built mainly c.1850 to c.1930.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the district illustrates the mixed residential, commercial and industrial land uses of the mid-19th to early 20th century industrial city and how the automobile industry transformed the local economy and built environment between 1900 and 1930. It also holds Victorian and Art Deco era buildings, several by notable local architects, that represent the period's architectural styles with integrity.","narrative":"Mixed-use streetscape of 75 contributing buildings in north central Philadelphia, built mostly between about 1850 and 1930 along Fairmount Avenue and its service streets Melon and North. Three-story brick rowhouses with ground-floor stores from the 1850s through 1870s stand alongside Queen Anne rowhouses with brownstone trim at 1631-1637 Fairmount Avenue, and a buff brick rowhouse at 678 North 15th Street designed by Henry Dagit in 1891. The Bernot dye works at 1642-1644 Fairmount Avenue, designed by Baker and Dallett in 1900-1901, has a rounded corner and terrazzo floors. Later factories and showrooms from the 1910s and 1920s, including reinforced concrete workshops by Werner Trumbower at 1615-1627 Melon Street and the Art Deco automobile dealership at 1501-1505 Fairmount Avenue, reflect the rise of the automobile trade. The district is regarded as an intact example of the close mix of homes, workshops and shops that once characterized industrial Philadelphia neighborhoods.","period_of_significance":"c. .1850-c.1930","architect_builder":"Baker and Dallett; Henry Dagit; Durham Brothers; Thalheimer and Weitz; Werner Trumbower; Leroy Berman Rothschild","architectural_style":"Late Victorian: Queen Anne, Second Empire; 20th Century Revival: Classical Revival; Modern Movement: Art Deco","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":null,"vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:36.586015-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/02000066.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02000066/5151fb17f9-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02000066/5151fb17f9-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fairmount_HD_16th_and_F.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fairmount_HD_16th_and_F.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71997508","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairmount_Avenue_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5430631"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia/fairmount-avenue-historic-district-02000066/"}