Garden Court Historic District (Boundary Increase)

Two three-story apartment houses at 46th Street and Osage Avenue, on the eastern edge of Clarence Siegel's Garden Court development in West Philadelphia, were built in the 1920s. Both are faced in tan Traymore brick with limestone trim and show the Regency Revival style, which sets them apart from the late-Victorian houses around them while matching the scale and materials of the district. The Arvilla, designed in 1923 for developer B.F. Goldman by the firm Stetler and Deysher, has its name cut in stone below the entablature of its main entrance. Stetler and Deysher also designed the Larchwood apartments on 47th Street in 1924. The Elvista was executed in 1922 by E.A. Wilson for developer Samuel Cohen, and Wilson later designed another tan brick Regency Revival building at 4720-40 Pine Street. Both buildings reflect the 1920s apartment boom that followed Siegel's plan for the garden suburb, and they were added to the district as a boundary increase.