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Larkin–Belber Building

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Architectural style
  
Early Commercial

Area
  
4,000 m²

NRHP Reference #
  
03000077

Added to NRHP
  
27 February 2003

Larkin–Belber Building

Location
  
2200-2218 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Architect
  
Heckman, C.J.; Rothschild, Leroy B.

Larkin–Belber Building, also known as the Larkin Building and Belber Trunk & Bag Company Building, is a historic light manufacturing loft building located in the Logan Square neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1912-1913, and is a 12-story, reinforced concrete building. The building has 295,360 square feet of floor space.

In 1920 Belber purchases the building. The company hired local architect Leroy Berman Rothschild to place Belber's own stamp on the building. Rothshild designed large rooftop signs placed along the sides of the building. In its architecture as well as its integration of manufacturing, office work, and retail functions, the Belber Building represented a "landmark of twentieth century commerce and industry."

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

References

Larkin–Belber Building Wikipedia


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