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Armour & Company's Stock Depot NOMINATION OF HISTORIC BUILDING, STRUCTURE, SITE, OR OBJECT PHILADELPHIA REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PHILADELPHIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION SUBMIT ALL ATTACHED MATERIALS ON PAPER AND IN ELECTRONIC FORM ON CD (MS WORD FORMAT) 1. ADDRESS OF HISTORIC RESOURCE (must comply with an Office of Property Assessment address) Street address: 909-31 Noble Street Postal code: 19123 Councilmanic District: 1 2. NAME OF HISTORIC RESOURCE Historic Name: Armour & Company’s Stock Depot Other Name: Armour & Co. 3. TYPE OF HISTORIC RESOURCE X Building Structure Site Object 4. PROPERTY INFORMATION Condition: excellent good fair poor ruins Occupancy: occupied vacant under construction unknown Current use: Warehouse 5. BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION Please attach a plot plan and written description of the boundary. SEE ATTACHED SHEET. 6. DESCRIPTION SEE ATTACHED SHEET. Please attach a description of the historic resource and supplement with current photographs. 7. SIGNIFICANCE Please attach the Statement of Significance. [See Attached Sheet] Period of Significance (from year to year): from 1906-1969 Date(s) of construction and/or alteration: c. 1906 Architect, engineer, and/or designer: Robert C. Clark Builder, contractor, and/or artisan: Unknown Original owner: J. Ogden Armour Other significant persons: NA CRITERIA FOR DESIGNATION: The historic resource satisfies the following criteria for designation (check all that apply): X (a) Has significant character, interest or value as part of the development, heritage or cultural characteristics of the City, Commonwealth or Nation or is associated with the life of a person significant in the past; or, (b) Is associated with an event of importance to the history of the City, Commonwealth or Nation; or X (c) Reflects the environment in an era characterized by a distinctive architectural style; or, X (d) Embodies distinguishing characteristics of an architectural style or engineering specimen; or, (e) Is the work of a designer, architect, landscape architect or designer, or engineer whose work has significantly influenced the historical, architectural, economic, social, or cultural development of the City, Commonwealth or Nation; or, (f) Contains elements of design, detail, materials or craftsmanship which represent a significant innovation; or, (g) Is part of or related to a square, park or other distinctive area which should be preserved according to an historic, cultural or architectural motif; or, (h) Owing to its unique location or singular physical characteristic, represents an established and familiar visual feature of the neighborhood, community or City; or, (i) Has yielded, or may be likely to yield, information important in pre-history or history; or X (j) Exemplifies the cultural, political, economic, social or historical heritage of the community. 8. MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Please attach a bibliography. SEE ATTACHED SHEET. 9. NOMINATOR Name with Title Oscar Beisert, Author Email [email protected] Organization Keeping Society of Philadelphia, LLC Date 11 July 2017 Street Address 1315 Walnut Street, Suite 320 Telephone (717) 602-5002 City, State, and Postal Code: Philadelphia, PA 19107 Nominators are not the property owners. PHC USE ONLY Date of Receipt: July 11, 2017 Correct-Complete Incorrect-Incomplete Date: September 18, 2017 Date of Notice Issuance: September 18, 2017 Property Owner at Time of Notice Name: NCL Realty LP Address: 401 N. 10th Street City: Philadelphia State: PA Postal Code: 19123 Date(s) Reviewed by the Committee on Historic Designation:____________________________________ Date(s) Reviewed by the Historical Commission:______________________________________________ Date of Final Action:____________________________________________________________________ Designated Rejected 4/11/13 Nomination for the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places Looking northwest. Source: Oscar Beisert. Armour & Company’s Philadelphia Stock Depot 909-31 Noble Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Armour & Company’s Philadelphia Stock Depot, 909-31 Noble Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Nomination to the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places, 2017–Page 1 5. BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION The boundary for the subject designation is delineated in red. Please note that only the yellow portion of the space within the delineation is subject to the standards of the proposed designation. The areas in pink and white may be subject to design review, but shall not be subject to any additional restrictions. Source: Philadelphia Water. BEGINNING at a point on the Northerly side of Noble Street at the distance of 40 feet 4-1/8 inches Eastwardly from the Easterly side of 10th Street thence extending Northwardly parallel with Percy Street the distance of 100 feet to a point; thence extending Eastwardly parallel with Noble Street, the distance of 54 feet to a point on the Westerly side of a former alley 5 feet wide, thence extending Northwardly along the said Westerly side of the former alley, parallel with Percy Street, the distance of 59 feet 3-5/8 inches to a point on the Southerly side of Hamilton Street, thence extending Eastwardly along the Southerly side of Hamilton Street and crossing the Northerly end of the said former alley, the distance of 132 feet 2 inches to a point, thence extending Southwardly partly passing through the center of a party wall of the building erected on this lot and the building erected on the lot adjoining to the East 89 feet 2-3/8 inches to a point, thence extending Eastwardly partly passing through the center of a party wall of the building erected on this lot and the building erected on the lot adjoining to the North 20 feet 4 inches to a point, thence extending Southwardly partly passing through the center of a party wall of the building erected on this lot and the building erected on the lot adjoining to the East 69 feet 10 inches to a point on the Northerly side of Noble Street, thence Westwardly along the said Northerly side of Noble Street the distance of 206 feet 5-7/8 inches to the first mentioned point and place of beginning. Armour & Company’s Philadelphia Stock Depot, 909-31 Noble Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Nomination to the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places, 2017–Page 2 6. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION Conceived in 1900 and eventually realized in 1906, Armour & Company’s Stock Depot at 909-31 Noble Street is a rectangular-shaped four-story building of reinforced concrete and masonry construction designed in the Italian Renaissance Revival style showing influences of the Chicago School, or Commercial style. The building is finely constructed of warm yellow Roman brick in a well-balanced composition at the primary elevation. South Elevation South elevation. Courtesy Oscar Beisert. With a row of five loading bays anchored by arched openings, the primary elevation on Noble Street features classically inspired architectural details and rigorous symmetry. Its width being slightly greater than its height, the masonry façade is divided into three vertical bays. The center bay features three levels of seven rectangular window openings above three ground level loading docks. These three openings each contain a metal, overhead door and are divided by two cast iron columns; an entry door with cast stone surround is to the west of the three center docks. At ground level, the two outer bays each contain a loading bay with metal, overhead doors, both taller than the center bay openings and each is capped by an arch with an articulated keystone; at the two levels above each arch are double rectangular windows. The brick elevation is wrapped horizontally at three points: an entablature at the brick cornice line with corbeling in lightly profiled dentils; at the center point by a cast stone belt course with dentils that meets the top of the keystones; and at the point of alignment of the sills of the center bay windows and the spring-points of the outer bay arches. Above the center belt course, the three bays are divided by brick pilasters. Two downspouts are located at each pilaster, falling from scuppers in the cornice corbeling that indicates that the brick entablature is a parapet for a flat roof beyond. All openings above ground level except for the two arches have hidden lintels, slender sills, and are currently infilled with scored plywood. Armour & Company’s Philadelphia Stock Depot, 909-31 Noble Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Nomination to the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places, 2017–Page 3 At the central loading bay, there is a sign above the openings that reads “Center City Grocery & Produce.” At the inner corners of the opening, on either side, are two rounded granite plinths that may serve as decorative bumpers for any vehicular traffic. Extending out from the building at the east arch are train tracks; they appear briefly above the concrete paving but are delineated by two parallel, curving cracks in the pavement that extend to the complex across Noble Street. The two cast iron columns are painted gray and feature stylized capitals and plinths in a Rational style that stand in contrast to the classicism of the remainder of the façade. South elevation details. Courtesy Oscar Beisert Armour & Company’s Philadelphia Stock Depot, 909-31 Noble Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Nomination to the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places, 2017–Page 4 West Elevation The west elevation of the building consists of exposed red brick with a roofline form that expresses a long span truss system at the interior of the building. There are only a few window openings at this elevation, in addition to the ghosts of painted signs and adjacent structures. A painted sign for Lipoff’s Center City Grocery Co. remains. Adjacent to the east elevation is a parking lot surrounded by a tall, chain link fence. A gantry appears beyond a thatch of vegetation at the northwest corner of the site indicating the direct proximity of the elevated Reading Viaduct. West elevation. Source: Cyclomedia, 2017. North Elevation The north elevation of the building meets the public right of way at Hamilton Street and features yellow brick with the same corbeled cornice entablature as at the primary elevation.
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