{"nrhp_refnum":"78002453","name":"Ringgold Place","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1900 block Waverly St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Philadelphia","county":"Philadelphia","state":"PA","lat":39.94612729000005,"lon":-75.17397781799997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1978-08-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Ringgold Place is a row of twenty-six very small houses on a narrow street running perpendicular to Nineteenth Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The houses were erected during the Civil War, probably c. 1862, by Walter Allison, a house carpenter who owned the property.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the houses are significant as an expression of how the Civil War affected the housing market in a major American city, as a rare surviving Civil War era row by an identifiable carpenter builder, and for the architectural sensitivity of the later alterations and street facade by Tilden, Register and Pepper. It also notes that George Howe, architect of the Philadelphia Savings Fund Society building, used the houses as his office and that they offer an example of intimate, human-scaled urban housing.","narrative":"Built around 1862 by Walter Allison, a house carpenter who owned the land, these twenty-six tiny houses line a narrow street that runs off Nineteenth Street. Each measures roughly fourteen by twenty feet and follows the earlier eighteenth-century pattern of one room per level, with a basement kitchen and a high marble stoop. Allison planned townhouses but changed course when wartime shortages disrupted building materials and the housing market. In 1925 the Nineteenth Street facades were remodeled by the Philadelphia firm Tilden, Register and Pepper, whose restrained colonial-style treatment, including a giant central window with blind lunette and flanking shutters, gives the street elevation unusual sophistication. The row is valued as a surviving Civil War era example of working-class housing, and as the office of the architect George Howe during the years he designed the Philadelphia Savings Fund Society building.","period_of_significance":"c. 1862; 1925-26","architect_builder":"Walter Allison (builder, 1862); Tilden, Register & Pepper (architects, 1925)","architectural_style":null,"criteria":["C"],"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 17:13:05.190777-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/78002453.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78002453/2dd7e453f5-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78002453/2dd7e453f5-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ringgold_Philly.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ringgold_Philly.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"83002277","name":"Rittenhouse Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/pennsylvania/rittenhouse-historic-district-83002277/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71997216","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringgold_Place","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7334884"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia/ringgold-place-78002453/"}