{"nrhp_refnum":"86003571","name":"Pinehurst Apartments","other_names":["Pine Street Place","Pine Terrace"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"4511--4523 Pine and 324--334 S. Fourty-fifth Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Philadelphia","county":"Philadelphia","state":"PA","lat":39.95191891300004,"lon":-75.21280180299993,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1987-01-06","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Two apartment buildings on the northwest corner of Pine Street and 45th Street in the Spruce Hill neighborhood of west Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, built in 1914. The buildings are three and a half stories, constructed of brick, granite and reinforced concrete.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the complex is an outstanding example of transitional middle-class apartment housing in early twentieth-century Philadelphia. Its grand Neo-Classical colonnaded porches gave middle-class residents a monumental address while the apartments were built economically. It is described as one of the most monumental such apartment rows in west Philadelphia.","narrative":"Two three-and-a-half-story apartment buildings of brick, granite and reinforced concrete stand on the northwest corner of Pine and 45th Streets in Spruce Hill, west Philadelphia. Built in 1914 by Edwin L. Seeds, who acted as both builder and architect, the complex has monumental Neo-Classical colonnaded porches of Corinthian order on a heavily rusticated granite base. Apartment wings separated by lightwells extend behind the street facades, and each floor originally held one apartment with three exposures, a front living room opening onto the porch, two bedrooms and a bathroom. The buildings are significant as an outstanding example of transitional middle-class housing that appeared in Philadelphia in the early twentieth century. Developers designed them on a grand scale to attract residents moving west of the Schuylkill River, where access to downtown by trolley and elevated subway made commuting practical. Their design is closely linked to earlier row houses while anticipating later garden court apartments.","period_of_significance":"1914","architect_builder":"Edwin L. Seeds (builder/architect)","architectural_style":"Neo-Classical","criteria":[],"status_note":"The exteriors remain mostly unaltered and the buildings have good integrity; some apartments were subdivided into studios and one-bedroom units.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:33.589859-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/86003571.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86003571/e21c9ac1d8-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86003571/e21c9ac1d8-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pinehurst_apts_W_Philly.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pinehurst_apts_W_Philly.JPG"},"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/71997058","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinehurst_Apartments","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7195499"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia/pinehurst-apartments-86003571/"}