Haddington Historic District

Two blocks of West Philadelphia near the 60th Street station of the Market-Frankford Elevated Line were built mainly between 1909 and 1915 by investor William C. Smith, with E. Allen Wilson as architect for most of the work. The district holds two- and three-story brick and masonry buildings in colonial revival and classical revival styles, including a row of shop fronts with pressed metal bays and Flemish bond brickwork on Market Street, a bank with a terra cotta facade and Tuscan columns, and the Von Louhr apartment house, which is in a Mission style with a tiled overhanging cornice. Commercial buildings sit near the station, apartment houses at the far corner, and row houses and large double houses along Chestnut Street, with service garages on Ludlow Street. This arrangement shielded residences from the noise and traffic of the shopping strip. The district is regarded as the most consistent surviving example of E. Allen Wilson's work and of the commercial and housing mix that grew up around the Elevated stations.