{"nrhp_refnum":"10000406","name":"Butterworth, H.W. and Sons Company Building","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"2410 E York St","address_restricted":false,"city":"Philadelphia","county":"Philadelphia","state":"PA","lat":39.97960032100008,"lon":-75.12422874899994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2010-06-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A complex of nine contiguous brick and reinforced-concrete sections at 2410 E. York Street in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia, built in phases from 1870 to c. 1925 for a textile machinery manufacturer.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the complex is significant under Criterion A for industry as the site of H.W. Butterworth and Sons Company, a prominent Philadelphia maker of textile finishing machinery. Its tinned sheet iron cylinders are described as cheaper and more effective than copper ones, and the company is said to have been the oldest operating machinery manufacturer in Philadelphia by 1922.","narrative":"Built in phases from 1870 to about 1925 on a city block in Kensington, this group of one-, two- and three-story brick and concrete buildings at 2410 E. York Street housed a textile machinery works. The earliest sections, designed in the Italianate style, contained a machine shop, a foundry and a blacksmith shop, while later additions of 1884, 1900, 1911 and about 1925 were built in the Commercial Style and held drafting, pattern, tinsmith and erecting shops, as well as storage. The H.W. Butterworth and Sons Company produced bleaching, printing, dyeing, drying and tentering machines, using cylinders of tinned sheet iron that the company made under patent. The business was run by the Butterworth family from its founding until a sale in 1955. The buildings are regarded as important for their link to Philadelphia's textile machinery industry, which the nomination describes as one of the city's leading manufacturing sectors in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The period of significance ends in 1942, when wartime production of anti-aircraft machine gun parts began.","period_of_significance":"1870-1942","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late Victorian Italianate; Commercial Style","criteria":["A"],"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 17:10:27.338027-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/10000406.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/10000406/83bc9cb950-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/10000406/83bc9cb950-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2410_York_Philly.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2410_York_Philly.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71997492","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.W._Butterworth_and_Sons_Company_Building","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5628022"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia/butterworth-h-w-and-sons-company-building-10000406/"}