{"nrhp_refnum":"93001611","name":"New Century Guild","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1307 Locust St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Philadelphia","county":"Philadelphia","state":"PA","lat":39.948220347000046,"lon":-75.16266805073784,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1993-11-04","is_nhl":true,"nhl_designated_date":"1993-11-04","areas_of_significance":["Social History"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A four-story brick rowhouse on a raised basement at 1307 Locust Street in Philadelphia, used as the headquarters of the New Century Guild, a women's club. The facade is regarded as typical of an upper-class mid-to-late 19th-century town house.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the Guild was one of the earliest, largest and most successful organizations formed in the nineteenth century to address employment problems of working women. It offered a combination of services, including a newspaper, research section, library, restaurant, classes and health insurance, that few comparable groups provided. The building is described as the only one of its kind still intact.","narrative":"Four stories on a raised basement, the brick rowhouse at 1307 Locust Street in Philadelphia was occupied by the New Century Guild in 1906 and has remained its home since. The facade has marble lintels and sills, and the interior retains late Victorian and Edwardian woodwork, including a library with Chippendale revival cabinets, an auditorium with a spindle-work valance and a fourth-floor billiard room. The Guild was founded in 1882 by Eliza Turner and grew to about 1,000 members by 1906. It offered working women a restaurant serving noonday meals, a large library with a full-time librarian, evening classes, guest rooms, a health insurance plan and a working women's newspaper founded in 1887. Its research section collected statistics on women workers and fed proposals for protective labor legislation. The building is significant for the social history of women's organizing and for its survival with a high degree of integrity from that period.","period_of_significance":"1906-1943","architect_builder":"Bunting and Shrigley (alterations for NCG)","architectural_style":"Mid-19th Century Italianate","criteria":["A","B"],"status_note":"The building has served as the Guild's location continuously from 1906 to the present.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:30.973607-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/93001611_NHL.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93001611/80227fcac3-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93001611/80227fcac3-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Davidt8","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:New_century_guild_building.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Davidt8</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:New_century_guild_building.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71994375","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Century_Guild","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9049714"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia/new-century-guild-93001611/"}