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26th District Police and Patrol Station

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Area
  
<1 acre

NRHP Reference #
  
84003550

Architectural style
  
Renaissance architecture

Architect
  
John T. Windrim

Built
  
1896 (1896)

Opened
  
1896

Added to NRHP
  
12 July 1984

26th District Police and Patrol Station

Location
  
2136–2142 E. Dauphin St., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Similar
  
Citizens Bank Park, Tower Theater, Liacouras Center, Mütter Museum, National Museum of American

The 26th District Police and Patrol Station is a historic police station in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was designed by noted architect John T. Windrim (1866-1934) and built in 1896. It and is a three-story, "L"-plan, brownstone and brick building in the Renaissance style. It features a monumental arched entrance with terra cotta decorative elements, curved corner, copper entabulature, wide frieze, and pitched roof. It housed a police station until 1969.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

References

26th District Police and Patrol Station Wikipedia