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Bell Telephone Exchange Building (Powelton Village, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)

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Area
  
less than one acre

NRHP Reference #
  
02000227

Built
  
c. 1900

Added to NRHP
  
20 March 2002

Bell Telephone Exchange Building (Powelton Village, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)

Location
  
8-12 N. Preston St., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Architectural style
  
Colonial Revival architecture

Bell Telephone Exchange Building, also known as the Preston Telephone Exchange, is a historic telephone exchange located in the Powelton Village neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was built about 1900, by the Bell Telephone Company. It is a three-story, five bay, brick building on a raised basement and once set within a set of rowhouses. It is in the Georgian Revival style. It features an arched entrance and decorative cornice above the second story. It was used as a telephone exchange until 1928.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

References

Bell Telephone Exchange Building (Powelton Village, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) Wikipedia