{"nrhp_refnum":"11000198","name":"Anderson, Marian, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"762 S Martin St","address_restricted":false,"city":"Philadelphia","county":"Philadelphia","state":"PA","lat":39.94430636100003,"lon":-75.17458190799994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2011-04-14","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Performing Arts","Black"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick rowhouse at 762 South Martin Street (also known as Marian Anderson Way) in the Southwest Center City area of south Philadelphia. It was built c. 1870 and substantially renovated between 1928 and 1940.","why_significant":"The house was the home and business base of contralto Marian Anderson from 1924 to 1943, when her career reached its most successful period. It was used as her residence, rehearsal space and management office. The nomination links the property to her career and to her role in the civil rights movement, including the 1939 Lincoln Memorial concert.","narrative":"A two-story brick rowhouse in the Southwest Center City area of south Philadelphia, the house was built around 1870 and renovated between 1928 and 1940. It has an ell-plan footprint, a flat roof and a bracketed Italianate wood cornice. Anna Anderson bought it on March 28, 1924, and her daughter Marian Anderson, the contralto, lived there and used it as her primary residence and business office. Marian paid toward the purchase and the renovations, and a rehearsal room was built above the kitchen. The house was the base for her management company and for her touring career. In 1938 Marian bought the house for one dollar, and architect Orpheus Hodge Fisher designed its interior panelling and a new brick façade. The property is regarded as significant for its connection to Anderson's concert career and her role in the civil rights movement.","period_of_significance":"1924-1943","architect_builder":"Orpheus Hodge Fisher (architect)","architectural_style":"Late Victorian / Italianate","criteria":["B"],"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 17:10:27.130296-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/11000198.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/11000198/c9a8458a56-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/11000198/c9a8458a56-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:M_Anderson_House_Philly.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:M_Anderson_House_Philly.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/71997532","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Anderson_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2949230"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia/anderson-marian-house-11000198/"}