{"nrhp_refnum":"03000724","name":"Class and Nachod Brewery","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1801-1823 N. 10th St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Philadelphia","county":"Philadelphia","state":"PA","lat":39.97976801400006,"lon":-75.14999522999994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2003-07-31","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A five-story brewery building with attached two- and three-story sections at the northeast corner of N. 10th Street and W. Montgomery Avenue in North Philadelphia. It was constructed in 1911 for Class and Nachod, with additional sections built in 1912.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the brewery is significant under Industry for its association with an important Philadelphia brewing company and as an intact example of early 20th-century brewery design. It is also significant under Architecture as an early commission of architect Charles H. Caspar and as a Beaux Arts industrial building. The period of significance runs from 1911, when the main building was constructed, to 1941, when brewing ended.","narrative":"Built in 1911 at the northeast corner of N. 10th Street and Montgomery Avenue, the five-story red brick building was designed in the Beaux Arts style by Philadelphia architect Charles H. Caspar, early in his career. A two-story addition and two- and three-story sections followed in 1912, forming a U-shaped plan around a brick courtyard. The main brewery building has reinforced concrete construction, terra cotta trim, and a corbelled cornice with a datestone reading 1911. The company, Class and Nachod, operated here until 1936, and the building was used for brewing until 1941. It is valued as a largely intact example of an early twentieth-century brewery, with its interior floors, columns, and freight tracks still in place, and as one of Caspar's first brewery designs. Its layout reflects the modern brewing methods of the period, including separate cooper shop, engine room, and boiler house.","period_of_significance":"1911-1941","architect_builder":"Charles H. Caspar (architect)","architectural_style":"Beaux Arts","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Vacated by Temple University in spring 2002 in anticipation of future rehabilitation; boarded-up windows noted in the description.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:36.393327-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/03000724.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03000724/94b24a727a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03000724/94b24a727a-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Class_and_Nachod_Brewery.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Class_and_Nachod_Brewery.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71997504","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class_and_Nachod_Brewery","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5128012"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia/class-and-nachod-brewery-03000724/"}