{"nrhp_refnum":"86000314","name":"Garden Court Historic District (Boundary Increase)","other_names":["See Also:Garden Court Historic District"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"4526--4534 and 4537--4539 Osage Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Philadelphia","county":"Philadelphia","state":"PA","lat":39.95146004150007,"lon":-75.21688331711972,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-02-25","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Two three-story limestone-trimmed tan Traymore brick apartment houses, the \"Arvilla\" and the \"Elvista,\" located at 46th Street and Osage Avenue on the east edge of Clarence Siegel's Garden Court garden suburb in West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the two apartment buildings share the materials, scale and development history of the Garden Court district, having been built in the 1920s on undeveloped land as the district's houses and apartments were. Their Regency Revival style distinguishes them from the surrounding late-Victorian neighborhood while linking them to Garden Court. Their designers, Stetler and Deysher and E.A. Wilson, also worked within Garden Court, so the buildings are presented as part of the district's original development that was overlooked in the initial nomination.","narrative":"Two three-story apartment houses at 46th Street and Osage Avenue, on the eastern edge of Clarence Siegel's Garden Court development in West Philadelphia, were built in the 1920s. Both are faced in tan Traymore brick with limestone trim and show the Regency Revival style, which sets them apart from the late-Victorian houses around them while matching the scale and materials of the district. The Arvilla, designed in 1923 for developer B.F. Goldman by the firm Stetler and Deysher, has its name cut in stone below the entablature of its main entrance. Stetler and Deysher also designed the Larchwood apartments on 47th Street in 1924. The Elvista was executed in 1922 by E.A. Wilson for developer Samuel Cohen, and Wilson later designed another tan brick Regency Revival building at 4720-40 Pine Street. Both buildings reflect the 1920s apartment boom that followed Siegel's plan for the garden suburb, and they were added to the district as a boundary increase.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Stetler and Deysher (Arvilla); E.A. Wilson (Elvista)","architectural_style":"Regency Revival","criteria":["A","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 17:11:34.329617-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/86000314.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"97001669","name":"West Philadelphia Streetcar Suburb Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/pennsylvania/west-philadelphia-streetcar-suburb-historic-district-97001669/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71997208","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia/garden-court-historic-district-boundary-increase-86000314/"}