{"nrhp_refnum":"72001176","name":"Woodland Terrace","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"501-519, 500-520 Woodland Ter.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Philadelphia","county":"Philadelphia","state":"PA","lat":39.94905009300004,"lon":-75.20483236899997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1972-03-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-block street of ten two-family semi-detached Italianate houses in West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, built as a speculative terrace in 1861. The houses are three-story stone or stucco villas with wooden verandas and bracketed cornices.","why_significant":"The terrace is significant for its architecture and urban planning. It was designed by Samuel Sloan, a major figure in American architecture, and is one of two remaining speculative terraces of its type in the area. The form notes that the street still retains its Victorian character.","narrative":"Woodland Terrace is a one-block street in West Philadelphia lined with ten two-family semi-detached houses, five on each side. Built in 1861 by the speculative builder Charles M.S. Leslie from a design by Samuel Sloan, the houses are three-story stone or stucco Italianate villas with wooden verandas, wide eaves, and bracketed cornices. Second-floor windows have shallow bracketed hoods, and third-floor windows are paired narrow arches. Each house differs in its bracket pattern, and a few have distinctive features such as a squat tower or a tripartite window opening onto a porch-roof deck. Sloan designed many such terraces for speculators in the 1850s, and this is one of two that survive, the other being nearby Hamilton Terrace. Woodland Terrace is valued for preserving the character of that building boom, even though most of the houses have been altered over time.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Samuel Sloan (architect); Charles M.S. Leslie (builder)","architectural_style":"Italianate","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"In good condition; none of the houses is unaltered, several have been converted to apartments, and some porches have been removed or fenestration changed.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:29.084097-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/72001176.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72001176/575321fdd4-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72001176/575321fdd4-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Jack Boucher","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WoodlandTerrace.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jack Boucher</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WoodlandTerrace.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"97001669","name":"West Philadelphia Streetcar Suburb Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/pennsylvania/west-philadelphia-streetcar-suburb-historic-district-97001669/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71997426","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodland_Terrace,_Philadelphia","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8032889"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia/woodland-terrace-72001176/"}