{"nrhp_refnum":"72001171","name":"South Front Street Historic District","other_names":["Southwark:See Also:Irish,Nathaniel,House","Moore,Capt.Thomas,H"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"700-712 S. Front St., W side Bainbridge St. to Kenilworth St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Philadelphia","county":"Philadelphia","state":"PA","lat":39.939770742000064,"lon":-75.14452330399996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1972-04-25","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A group of late eighteenth-century brick houses on South Front Street in Southwark, Philadelphia, forming a historic district. The houses are two and a half to three and a half stories high with Philadelphia-style brick facades and original interior woodwork.","why_significant":"The houses are the earliest remaining on Front Street and reflect the port-related commercial and maritime life of the area. They were built by master craftsmen, including members of the Carpenters' Company, and use building methods and details matching houses in central Philadelphia and Germantown. One house served as a tavern hosting community gatherings, and the group retains much original woodwork.","narrative":"Built of hand-made brick in Flemish bond, the houses on South Front Street in Southwark stand two and a half to three and a half stories high, with steep gable or gambrel roofs, dormers front and back, and two rooms deep with a kitchen wing behind. Most were completed before 1769, and the group includes the earliest surviving houses on Front Street, a road that ran parallel to the Delaware River and served a port economy of commercial and maritime trades. Number 708 and number 712 date from about 1740, while numbers 700 through 706 were built between 1760 and 1769. Daniel Harrison, a carpenter and member of the Carpenters' Company, built 708, and Samuel Smith, a shipwright, built 710 and 712. Nathaniel Irish, also a Carpenters' Company member, built 700 through 706. Eighteenth-century interiors survive, including paneled chimney walls, fireplaces with original moulding, and close newel stairs. The corner house at 700 was the Widow Mallaby's tavern, and 706 was also a tavern.","period_of_significance":"1740-1769","architect_builder":"Daniel Harrison (carpenter); Samuel Smith (shipwright); Nathaniel Irish (house carpenter)","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Original site; the door and window openings are mostly original and some original cornices remain.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:30.709035-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/72001171.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72001171/886101e057-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72001171/886101e057-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:700-704_S_Front_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:700-704_S_Front_Philly.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"72001172","name":"Southwark District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/pennsylvania/southwark-district-72001172/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71996918","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Front_Street_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7567321"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia/south-front-street-historic-district-72001171/"}