Fairmount Avenue Historic District

Mixed-use streetscape of 75 contributing buildings in north central Philadelphia, built mostly between about 1850 and 1930 along Fairmount Avenue and its service streets Melon and North. Three-story brick rowhouses with ground-floor stores from the 1850s through 1870s stand alongside Queen Anne rowhouses with brownstone trim at 1631-1637 Fairmount Avenue, and a buff brick rowhouse at 678 North 15th Street designed by Henry Dagit in 1891. The Bernot dye works at 1642-1644 Fairmount Avenue, designed by Baker and Dallett in 1900-1901, has a rounded corner and terrazzo floors. Later factories and showrooms from the 1910s and 1920s, including reinforced concrete workshops by Werner Trumbower at 1615-1627 Melon Street and the Art Deco automobile dealership at 1501-1505 Fairmount Avenue, reflect the rise of the automobile trade. The district is regarded as an intact example of the close mix of homes, workshops and shops that once characterized industrial Philadelphia neighborhoods.