{"nrhp_refnum":"77001183","name":"Eyre, Wilson, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1003 Spruce St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Philadelphia","county":"Philadelphia","state":"PA","lat":39.94614973300003,"lon":-75.15835008799996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1977-04-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story brick row house with a three-story back building at 1003 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, built between 1830 and 1835. It later served as the home and office of architect Wilson Eyre Jr.","why_significant":"The house is significant as the home and office of Philadelphia architect Wilson Eyre Jr., who bought it in 1909 and lived and worked there until his death in 1944. Eyre was known for residential work and for the University of Pennsylvania Museum and the T-Square Club. The nomination notes the house itself bears no resemblance to an Eyre design and is a typical 19th-century Philadelphia row house.","narrative":"This three-story brick row house at 1003 Spruce Street in Philadelphia was built between 1830 and 1835 and reflects the ordinary domestic architecture of its time. It has a fan-shaped window over the main door, shuttered sash windows, a stone-dressed base, a front dormer and a three-story back building joined to the main house by a piazza. Its importance comes from its later occupant, architect Wilson Eyre Jr. (1858-1944), who bought it in 1909, opened his office there in 1910 and made it his home in 1912. From 1913 the office also served his partnership with J. Gilbert McIlvaine. Eyre added a three-story brick rear addition and remodeled the interior but left the front facade alone, so the house looks much as it did when he lived there. Eyre was known for residential designs and for the University of Pennsylvania Museum and the T-Square Club. The interior has since been converted to apartments.","period_of_significance":"1910-1944","architect_builder":"Wilson Eyre, Jr. (architect of the 1909 rear addition and interior remodeling); original architect/builder unknown","architectural_style":"Federal elements","criteria":[],"status_note":"Interior altered into apartments; exterior remains virtually unchanged. Listed as occupied and used as an apartment building.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:59:02.241845-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/77001183.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/77001183/07bd46e7dc-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/77001183/07bd46e7dc-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"See below","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WTP_D26_AMP_1.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">See below</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WTP_D26_AMP_1.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"84003563","name":"Washington Square West Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/pennsylvania/washington-square-west-historic-district-84003563/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71997298","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilson_Eyre_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8023054"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia/eyre-wilson-house-77001183/"}