{"nrhp_refnum":"93001472","name":"Houses at 1907-1951 N. 32nd St.","other_names":["Mansion Court"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1907--1951 N. 32nd St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Philadelphia","county":"Philadelphia","state":"PA","lat":39.98656355300005,"lon":-75.18585204499993,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1994-01-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Social History","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A group of eleven pairs of late Victorian twin houses plus a surviving half of a twin (1907) on the east side of the 1900 block of North 32nd Street between Norris and Berks Streets in the Strawberry Mansion area of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The houses are three-story double houses in tan Pompeiian brick with pressed-metal ornament.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the houses are a distinct and unique group within a residential community of smaller red-brick rowhouses, reflecting the conspicuous-consumption architecture commissioned by North Philadelphia's upwardly mobile social groups. Their design by Angus Wade, who shaped the region's aesthetic of flamboyant historicist ornament, is presented as significant, as is their unified yet varied composition and the professional and industrial owners who first occupied them.","narrative":"Along the east side of the 1900 block of North 32nd Street, eleven pairs of three-story twin houses and a surviving half of a twin, dating from the 1890s, stand in tan Pompeiian brick. They were designed by the architect Angus Wade for developer Isaac Bleim and built as large double houses for professionals and industrialists who valued the nearby Fairmount Park and trolley lines to center city. The facades carry pressed-metal cornices, brackets and porch ceilings, and the pairs alternate between segmental and flat-arched porch openings and between bayed and unbayed fronts. Interiors were arranged with separate rooms in the manner of elite housing, with stairs, tiled fireplaces and machine-made lincrusta. The group was listed for its architecture and its association with the conspicuous-consumption era of North Philadelphia's development. Most interiors were later divided into apartments after World War II, though the exteriors remain largely intact.","period_of_significance":"1894-1943","architect_builder":"Wade, Angus","architectural_style":"Late Victorian; Eclectic \"Pre-Raphaelite\"","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The exteriors are in excellent condition; six houses were being rehabilitated at the time of the nomination, and the group was converted to apartments after World War II.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:13:36.805332-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/93001472.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93001472/c8e7ae12d0-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93001472/c8e7ae12d0-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:32nd_Street_Philly.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:32nd_Street_Philly.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"72001151","name":"Fairmount Park","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/pennsylvania/fairmount-park-72001151/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71997394","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houses_at_1907%E2%80%931951_N._32nd_St.","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5915937"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia/houses-at-1907-1951-n-32nd-st-93001472/"}