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Breslyn Apartments

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Area
  
less than one acre

NRHP Reference #
  
82001544

Phone
  
+1 215-747-0322

Added to NRHP
  
14 November 1982

Built
  
1913

Opened
  
1913

Architectural style
  
Beaux-Arts architecture

Breslyn Apartments

Location
  
4624-4642 Walnut St., 201-213 S. 47th St., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Address
  
4640 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19139, USA

Similar
  
Philadelp Housing Authority, Vernon House Apartments, Campus Apartments, The Terrace Apartments, University Court

Breslyn Apartments is a historic apartment complex located in the Spruce Hill neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1913, and consists of five three-story, brick and granite buildings with terra cotta and galvanized-iron trim in the Beaux Arts-style. Each building measures 38 feet wide and 98 feet deep. The buildings features large open porch-balconies with Ionic order columns, segmental-arch windows, bow and bay windows, and terra cotta piers with Corinthian order caps.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

References

Breslyn Apartments Wikipedia