{"nrhp_refnum":"80003617","name":"Princeton Club","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1221--1223 Locust St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Philadelphia","county":"Philadelphia","state":"PA","lat":39.94785725500003,"lon":-75.16151478599994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-12-04","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Two adjoining three-and-a-half story townhouses at 1221-23 Locust Street in Philadelphia, which together served as the Princeton Club of Philadelphia from 1915. The 1221 house is the western half of a pair originally built as residences in 1891.","why_significant":"The nomination argues that 1221 Locust is a well preserved and representative work by Frank Furness, Philadelphia's pre-eminent late nineteenth century architect, and that its contrast with the neighboring 1223 Locust makes the streetscape a valuable urban resource. It also cites the building's association with the Princeton Club, a long-standing social institution, and its role as an example of the residential development of the area in the 1890s.","narrative":"Two three-and-a-half story townhouses on Locust Street in Philadelphia were built in 1891 for the residential market of a fashionable district developed by the Real Estate Investment Corporation. The western house, 1221 Locust, was designed by Frank Furness, and its massive red sandstone segmental arches, rusticated basement, and broad red brick upper floors show his heavy, expressive handling of form. Its neighbor at 1223 Locust, designed by Lindley Johnson, takes a lighter, Northern European Gothic and Renaissance approach with orange glazed pompeian brick and a gabled front. The Princeton Club acquired 1223 Locust in 1915, had Magaziner & Potter remodel it into a clubhouse, and added 1221 in 1919, when William W. Potter combined the two properties internally. The pairing is regarded as a rare juxtaposition of two distinct architectural voices on one block.","period_of_significance":"1900-1919","architect_builder":"Lindley Johnson (architect, 1223 Locust); Frank Furness (architect, 1221 Locust); Magaziner & Potter (alterations, 1915); William W. Potter (interior changes, 1919)","architectural_style":null,"criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Housed the engineering firm of Joseph E. Gaudet and Associates at the time of the nomination, having recently been the Princeton Club.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:33.005826-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/80003617.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80003617/4c44ea1780-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80003617/4c44ea1780-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Princeton_Club_Philly.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Princeton_Club_Philly.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71997402","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princeton_Club_(Philadelphia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7244950"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia/princeton-club-80003617/"}