Woodland Terrace
The National Park Service has not published a boundary polygon for this district; the map shows the listed properties inside it and the district's reference point.
Why it's listed
Woodland Terrace is a one-block street in West Philadelphia lined with ten two-family semi-detached houses, five on each side. Built in 1861 by the speculative builder Charles M.S. Leslie from a design by Samuel Sloan, the houses are three-story stone or stucco Italianate villas with wooden verandas, wide eaves, and bracketed cornices. Second-floor windows have shallow bracketed hoods, and third-floor windows are paired narrow arches. Each house differs in its bracket pattern, and a few have distinctive features such as a squat tower or a tripartite window opening onto a porch-roof deck. Sloan designed many such terraces for speculators in the 1850s, and this is one of two that survive, the other being nearby Hamilton Terrace. Woodland Terrace is valued for preserving the character of that building boom, even though most of the houses have been altered over time.
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| Styles | Italianate |
|---|---|
| Areas of significance | Community Planning and Development, Architecture |
| Acreage | 5.4 |
| Boundary source | not published |
| Full listing page | Woodland Terrace (property record) |
What listing means for this property
This is a historic district. Buildings within its boundary are either contributing (they add to the district's significance) or non-contributing. Owners of contributing income-producing buildings can claim the 20% federal rehabilitation tax credit; homeowners should look at state credits. National Register districts impose no design review by themselves; a local historic district ordinance, if one exists, does (the difference explained).
General information, not legal or tax advice. Rules change; confirm with your State Historic Preservation Office or a qualified adviser.