La Blanche Apartments

La Blanche Apartments
North elevation along Walnut Street
Location 5100 Walnut St., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Coordinates 39°57′22″N 75°13′28″W / 39.95611°N 75.22444°W / 39.95611; -75.22444Coordinates: 39°57′22″N 75°13′28″W / 39.95611°N 75.22444°W / 39.95611; -75.22444
Area 0.2 acres (0.081 ha)
Built 1910
Architect Anderson & Haupt
Architectural style Colonial Revival, Georgian Revival
NRHP reference # 85000470[1]
Added to NRHP March 07, 1985

The La Blanche Apartments is a historic building in West Philadelphia built in 1910 in the Georgian Revival style. It was part of the second wave of a housing boom in West Philadelphia that started with the completion of the Market Street Elevated line in 1907. The building is also one of the first large apartment buildings built in Philadelphia, and helped give the rising middle class better access to housing. Originally the four story building housed just 26 apartments, but as the neighborhood became less fashionable, the apartments were subdivided into a total of 49 units.[2]

References

View of the south and east sides of the building
Entrance on 51st Street
  1. ↑ National Park Service (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ H. Mather Lippincott, Jr., NRHP Nomination Form La Blanche Apartments, 1984


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