Clinton Street Historic District

Clinton Street in downtown Philadelphia is a two-block row of attached houses, most of them three and a half or four stories tall and built of pressed brick with marble or stone sills, doorways, water tables and steps. All of the houses on the street were erected between 1835 and 1850. Many had shutters with panels on the first story and louvers above, and several share a doorway lintel with the neighboring house. Decorative details include cast and wrought iron stair railings, iron grilles on cellar windows, a painted iron spike sundial, fan lights, and fluted pilasters. The street was the fashionable address of its day, and residents included prominent Philadelphians such as Charles Biddle, Edward Wetherill and Henry J. Morris. The architect Addison Hutton lived at number 916 in the 1870s. Although many houses now hold multiple apartments, their facades remain much as they were, preserving the street's quiet 19th century character.