{"nrhp_refnum":"02001567","name":"Suffolk Manor Apartments","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1414-1450 Clearview St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Philadelphia","county":"Philadelphia","state":"PA","lat":40.040140079000025,"lon":-75.14496918599997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2002-12-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Suffolk Manor is a six-story, 138-unit brick apartment building in the Olney section of Philadelphia, at the southeast corner of Clearview and North Fifteenth Streets. It was completed in 1930 and designed by Philadelphia architect Karl F. Otto.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is a distinctive example of Tudor Revival architecture adapted to a large apartment building, and a representative example of late 1920s and early 1930s apartment design. Its H-plan layout, courtyards, false half-timbering, crenellated parapets and stone trim are cited as typical of both the style and the building type. It is regarded as locally significant under Criterion C.","narrative":"Built in 1930 on Clearview Street in Philadelphia's Olney section, Suffolk Manor is a six-story brick apartment building with 138 units, designed by architect Karl F. Otto and built by John Loughran's Sons. It was one of two mirror-image buildings across the street, the other being Norfolk Manor, which was demolished around 1995. The building is an H-plan design with courtyards on the north side, and it features false half-timbering with stucco infill, crenellated parapets, patterned brick corbelling, and copper-clad false half-timbering. Its main entrance has an Elizabethan arch and heavy oak doors. The building is regarded as locally significant as a distinctive example of Tudor Revival architecture adapted to a large apartment building. It also represents apartment design from the late 1920s and early 1930s, a period when the Broad Street Subway spurred construction in the neighborhood. Its rents were well above the citywide median at the time.","period_of_significance":"1930","architect_builder":"Otto, Karl F., architect; John Loughran's Sons, Inc., contractor","architectural_style":"Tudor Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Continuously used as an apartment building since completion; retains most of its historic character-defining features apart from replacement of the original windows.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:35.920321-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/02001567.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02001567/dd47a9e5a8-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02001567/dd47a9e5a8-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Suffolk_Manor_Philly.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Suffolk_Manor_Philly.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71996978","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffolk_Manor_Apartments","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7634573"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia/suffolk-manor-apartments-02001567/"}