Callowhill Industrial Historic District

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"Welcome to the Eraserhood!" The Callowhill Industrial Historic District includes this, the abandoned Willow Street Steam Plant. Photo posted by Andy Carvin.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2010, the Callowhill Industrial Historic District is a national historic district located in the Callowhill neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It encompasses 31 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 1 contributing structure. The commercial and industrial buildings were mostly built from the 1890s through the 1930s. They range from 4 to 14-stories in height and the exteriors are of brick, concrete, terra cotta, and stone. Most of the buildings are characterized as box-shaped, mid-rise loft buildings with flat roofs. Also in the district are 11, 2 12-story brick rowhouses, with the earliest dated to the 1830s.

Notable buildings include the:

• Rebman Building (1903).
• Stewart Cracker Building (c. 1900).
• U.S. Tire Company Building (1911).
• Lasher Building (1927).
• Philadelphia City Morgue (1928).
• Overland Motor Company Building (1910, c. 1940).

Located in the district and listed separately are the:

• Smaltz Building (1912).
• Terminal Commerce Building.
• Goodman Brothers and Hinlein Company.
• Packard Motor Corporation Building.

Note: The above descriptive information came from the district's Facebook page.