Built 1906 NRHP Reference # 82003807 Area 400 m² | Architect Trumbauer,Horace Opened 1906 Added to NRHP 13 April 1982 | |
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Location 229 S. 22nd St., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Architectural style Colonial Revival, Neo-Georgian | ||
The John C. Bell House is a historic house located at 229 S. 22nd St. in the Rittenhouse Square neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was designed by architect Horace Trumbauer in the Colonial Revival style and built in 1906. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
The house was built for John C. Bell, who served as Attorney General of Pennsylvania. His sons, John C. Bell, Jr., who served as Lieutenant Governor and Governor of Pennsylvania as well as Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, and Bert Bell, co-founder of the Philadelphia Eagles and NFL Commissioner, lived in the house. In 1944 the house was sold by the Bell family and converted into apartments.
A top-floor balcony collapsed on January 11, 2014, leaving one person dead and two others seriously injured.