{"nrhp_refnum":"72001175","name":"Widow Maloby's Tavern","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"700 S. Front St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Philadelphia","county":"Philadelphia","state":"PA","lat":39.93986054800007,"lon":-75.14475759599998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1972-03-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-and-a-half story brick house, built as a tavern, at 700 S. Front Street in the Southwark area of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is significant as one of seven adjoining brick buildings, called messuages, that form the 700 block of S. Front Street, an important commercial and residential area in the eighteenth century. It is also described as one of the few completely intact eighteenth-century blocks still remaining. The tavern was a long-running gathering point for community events, attested by many contemporary newspaper accounts.","narrative":"Built in 1764 at 700 S. Front Street in Southwark, Philadelphia, this three-and-a-half story brick house in Flemish bond was an eighteenth-century tavern known as Widow Maloby's Tavern, also called The Ship's Hero. It was listed in an insurance survey of 1774 and was occupied by the widow's heirs and later innkeepers for more than a century. The house has a gable roof with a dormer, a wide molding cornice carried across the gable to form a pediment, and a brick belt course between the second and third stories. Its first story was later altered, with the corner door and windows partly bricked over, and the interior has lost most of its original woodwork. It is one of seven adjoining buildings forming the 700 block of S. Front Street, which is regarded as one of the few completely intact eighteenth-century blocks. Many contemporary newspaper accounts describe the tavern as a gathering point for community events in the neighborhood.","period_of_significance":"1764","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Altered in its first story and window openings; interior largely gutted with few original elements remaining.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:30.747011-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/72001175.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72001175/886101e057-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72001175/886101e057-1600.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/71997044","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widow_Maloby%27s_Tavern","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7998802"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia/widow-malobys-tavern-72001175/"}