{"nrhp_refnum":"04000438","name":"Glendside Memorial Hall","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"185 Keswick Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cheltenham","county":"Montgomery County","state":"PA","lat":40.09760251400007,"lon":-75.15289196099997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2004-05-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-and-a-half story brick, T-shaped Colonial Revival community hall at the northeast corner of Keswick Avenue and Waverly Road in Glenside, Cheltenham Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1926 as a memorial hall for veterans of World War I.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is locally significant under Criterion C as a good example of Colonial Revival institutional architecture. It is presented as a representative public building of the 1920s, with its brick and limestone detailing, symmetrical plan and large assembly hall. Its community and veterans' purposes are part of the reasons it is regarded as important.","narrative":"Built in 1926 in Glenside, Cheltenham Township, the two-and-a-half story brick hall has a slate hip roof, limestone trim and a T-shaped plan with a large assembly hall in the rear wing. Its north front features a Palladian-style portico with Doric columns and a limestone inscription reading Glenside Memorial Hall. Philadelphia architects Frank Seeburger and Charles Folk Rabenold designed it, and contractor Alfred Zellfelder built it. The building was funded through a campaign led by the Glenside War Memorial Association, which bought land in 1920 and 1922 and later leased a corner of the park to the association. It was dedicated to World War I veterans in 1927 and rededicated in 1944 to veterans of all U.S. wars. The Glenside Library used it briefly in 1928. The hall's assembly room held up to 500 people, and its Colonial Revival interior includes a stage, balcony and original chandeliers.","period_of_significance":"1926","architect_builder":"Seeburger, Frank; Rabenold, Charles Folk (architects); Zellfelder, Alfred (builder)","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"The building remains an active community hall hosting public and private events, with only minor exterior and interior alterations since construction.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:37.20769-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/04000438.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04000438/73aa3ab34b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04000438/73aa3ab34b-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Glenside_Memorial_Hall_Montco_PA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Glenside_Memorial_Hall_Montco_PA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71995011","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenside_Memorial_Hall","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5569342"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/montgomery-county/glendside-memorial-hall-04000438/"}