{"nrhp_refnum":"79002327","name":"Poth, Frederick A., Houses,","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"15, 3301--3311 Powelton Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Philadelphia","county":"Philadelphia","state":"PA","lat":39.96047321300006,"lon":-75.18987939099998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-04-19","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A group of seven German Gothic style brick row houses, arranged as three doubles and a half double, on the north side of Powelton Avenue west of Thirty-third Street in the Powelton Village section of Philadelphia. They were designed in 1890 by Otto Wolf for brewer and real estate developer Frederick A. Poth.","why_significant":"The houses are central to the streetscape of Powelton Village, a middle-class neighborhood developed in the later nineteenth century. They reflect Poth's personal taste and ethnic pride, and they illustrate the work of Otto Wolf, described as Philadelphia's chief brewery architect. The nomination notes they may be an important element of a potential historic district.","narrative":"Seven brick houses with brownstone trimmings stand on the north side of Powelton Avenue, west of Thirty-third Street in Philadelphia. Designed in 1890 by Otto Wolf for the brewer and real estate developer Frederick A. Poth, they are arranged as three doubles and a half double. Each facade is topped by a double-tiered shingled mansard roof with dormers in pyramidal and haystack-shaped caps. Spidery wooden porches with turned posts and spindlework stretch across the paired houses, and iron fences separate the doubles. Originally built as single-family dwellings, the houses were later converted to apartments, though much of the interior detailing survives, including Queen Anne stair newels and balustrades. Poth built the row across the street from his own home, and his family kept the houses until 1953. The grouping is valued for its role in the late nineteenth-century character of Powelton Village and for its link to Wolf's work for local breweries.","period_of_significance":"1890","architect_builder":"Otto Wolf (architect)","architectural_style":"German Gothic","criteria":[],"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 17:11:29.238789-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/79002327.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79002327/9bf71e03a2-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79002327/9bf71e03a2-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frederick_A_Poth_Houses.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frederick_A_Poth_Houses.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"72001151","name":"Fairmount Park","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/pennsylvania/fairmount-park-72001151/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71997238","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_A._Poth_Houses","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5497215"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia/poth-frederick-a-houses-79002327/"}