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Area
  
less than one acre

NRHP Reference #
  
77001192

Built
  
c. 1815

Added to NRHP
  
14 September 1977

William Strickland Row

Location
  
215-227 S. 9th St., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Architectural style
  
Greek Revival architecture

William Strickland Row was a set of seven historic rowhouses, four of which survive. The row was designated a national historic district which is located in the Washington Square West neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The brick houses were built about 1815, and measure between 16 feet, 6 inches, and 20 feet wide and 35 feet deep. They are each designed in the typical Philadelphia rowhouse plan of the period with front building, piazza, and back building. The exhibit Greek Revival style design details.

Noted Philadelphia architect William Strickland (1788–1854) resided at 219 S. 9th Street from 1823 to 1829.

The row was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

References

William Strickland Row Wikipedia


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