{"nrhp_refnum":"84003550","name":"26th District Police and Patrol Station","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"2136-2142 E. Dauphin St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Philadelphia","county":"Philadelphia","state":"PA","lat":39.98087421200006,"lon":-75.12926726299997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-07-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story former police and patrol station in an L-shaped plan at the northwest corner of East Dauphin Street and Trenton Avenue in the Kensington section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1896 and is now vacant.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is architecturally significant as a rare surviving work from the early public commissions of John T. Windrim, and as a record of the reorganized Philadelphia police and patrol system of the 1890s. It is described as the only brick and terra cotta interpretation of its kind remaining in the city and as Philadelphia's only surviving record of a combined police and patrol station type.","narrative":"Built in 1896 at the corner of East Dauphin Street and Trenton Avenue in Philadelphia's Kensington section, this three-story station house combines a police station with a patrol house. Its L-shaped plan encloses a yard where mounted police kept their horses and patrol wagons unloaded detainees. Architect John T. Windrim, working while his father was Director of Public Works, designed it with an iron post-and-beam frame and a palazzo-style facade of brownstone, brick and terra cotta, with a copper cornice and an arched Trenton Avenue entrance. The building was tied to the reorganization of police and fire services under Mayor Edwin H. Fitler, and it housed officers on the upper floors and served the public on the first floor. Its combined police and patrol use is considered rare for the nineteenth century. Part of the building later housed a food production operation. It is regarded as an important example of Windrim's early public work.","period_of_significance":"1896","architect_builder":"John T. Windrim, Architect; Doyle and Doak, Builders","architectural_style":"Renaissance Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Now vacant; previously used as a food preparation and storage center from 1975 to 1980.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:33.173374-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/84003550.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84003550/ac8f78ad65-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84003550/ac8f78ad65-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"Eli Pousson","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:26th_District_Police_and_Patrol_Station.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Eli Pousson</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:26th_District_Police_and_Patrol_Station.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71997358","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/26th_District_Police_and_Patrol_Station","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4632426"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia/26th-district-police-and-patrol-station-84003550/"}