{"nrhp_refnum":"02000890","name":"Warburton House","other_names":["The Lucy Eaton Smith Residence"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1929 Sansom St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Philadelphia","county":"Philadelphia","state":"PA","lat":39.951443952000034,"lon":-75.17346447899996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2002-08-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A eleven-story brick former hotel at 1929 Sansom Street on the northeast corner of Sansom and South 20th Streets in central Philadelphia, built in 1926 for the Emergency Aid of Pennsylvania as a residential hotel for women.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is significant for its association with Philadelphia's early-twentieth-century hotel industry and with women's social history, and for its Italian Renaissance Revival architecture. It was designed by Arthur Loomis Harmon and retains much of its original features and décor.","narrative":"Built in 1926 on the northeast corner of Sansom and South 20th Streets in Philadelphia, this eleven-story brick hotel was designed by New York architect Arthur Loomis Harmon for the Emergency Aid of Pennsylvania, a relief organization that grew out of World War I aid work. It was built as a residential hotel for women, with a full-service restaurant, snack bar, ballroom and 150 guestrooms on the upper nine floors. The U-shaped building uses multicolored brick, cast stone and granite, with arched entrances, keystones, and a decorative parapet in the Italian Renaissance Revival manner. Its interior ballroom, lobby and tracery window survive. The building is significant for its architecture and for its role in Philadelphia's hotel trade and in the city's provision of housing for women living alone. After 1952 it was converted by the Dominican Sisters into a residence for single women.","period_of_significance":"1926-1952","architect_builder":"Arthur Loomis Harmon (architect)","architectural_style":"Italian Renaissance Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Operated as a hotel and later as the Lucy Eaton Smith Residence by the Dominican Sisters; sold in 2001 and under consideration for conversion to affordable apartments.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:37.539477-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/02000890.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02000890/a02cd99e3d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02000890/a02cd99e3d-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Warburton_House.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Warburton_House.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"87002203","name":"Center City West Commercial Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/pennsylvania/center-city-west-commercial-historic-district-87002203/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71997440","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warburton_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7968868"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia/warburton-house-02000890/"}