{"nrhp_refnum":"80003613","name":"Leidy, Dr. Joseph, House","other_names":["Poor Richard Club"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1319 Locust St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Philadelphia","county":"Philadelphia","state":"PA","lat":39.94794456000005,"lon":-75.16350509799997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-12-04","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Education","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A city townhouse at 1319 Locust Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, designed by Wilson Eyre, Jr. for Dr. Joseph Leidy, Jr. after its 1893 purchase of the lot. It later served as the Poor Richard Club.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is an early and important example of the colonial revival in an urban setting by a major Philadelphia architect. It is described as Eyre's highest expression of urban design alongside the neighboring Clarence Moore house. The building is also tied to the Poor Richard Club and its Charles Morris Price School of Advertising and Journalism.","narrative":"Built on Locust Street in Philadelphia in 1893 to a design by Wilson Eyre, Jr., this red brick townhouse with brownstone trim was commissioned by Dr. Joseph Leidy, Jr., nephew of the naturalist Joseph Leidy, who used it as a medical practice and family home for about three decades. Eyre chose the Georgian idiom, with symmetrical facade, quoins, and rusticated brownstone around the arched doorway, making it one of the earliest urban colonial revival houses in the city. Its restrained composition differs from the Venetian Revival neighboring house Eyre designed for Clarence Moore. The house was remodeled in 1925 by G. Edwin Brumbaugh when the Poor Richard Club, an advertising and public relations fraternity, acquired it. The club sponsored the Charles Morris Price School of Advertising and Journalism. The original oval dining room survives largely intact.","period_of_significance":"1893-1930","architect_builder":"Wilson Eyre, Jr. (architect); G. Edwin Brumbaugh (1925 alterations)","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Occupied by the Poor Richard Club and later by District 1199C, which planned to use the Club facilities for meetings and cultural events.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:33.439959-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/80003613.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80003613/d21b1810d7-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80003613/d21b1810d7-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Beyond My Ken","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dr._Joseph_Leidy_House_1319_Locust_Street_from_west.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Beyond My Ken</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dr._Joseph_Leidy_House_1319_Locust_Street_from_west.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71996930","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Joseph_Leidy_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5304215"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia/leidy-dr-joseph-house-80003613/"}