NPS Form 10-900 OMB Na1024-0018 United States Departmenhe Interior National Park Service • National Register of Historic Places Registration Form This form is for use in nominating or requesting determinations for individual properties and districts. See instructions in National Register Bulletin, Hose to Complete the National Register of Historic Places Registration Form. If any item does not apply to the property being documented, enter 'N/A" for 'not applicable. For functions, architectural classification, materials, and areas of significance, enter only categories and subcategories from the instructions 1.Name of Property Historic name: Henry F. Ortlieb Company Bottling House Other names/site number: N/A Name of related multiple property listing: N/A 2. Location Street & number: 829-51 N. American Street City or town: Philadelphia State: Pennsylvania County: Philadelphia Not For Publication: Vicinity: 3.State/Federal Agency Certification As the designated authority under the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended, I hereby certify that this X nomination request for determination of eligibility meets the documentation standards for registering properties in the National Register of Historic Places and meets the procedural and professional requirements set forth in 36 CFR Part 60. In my opinion, the property _X_ meets does not meet the National Register Criteria. I recommend that this property be considered significant at the following level(s) of significance: _national _statewide Xlocal Applicable National Register Criteria: X B _C _D 6/18/2014 Signature of certifying officiallTitle: Date Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission State or Federal agency/bureau or Tribal Government In my opinion, the property meets does not meet the National Register criteria. Signature of commenting official: Date Title/State or Federal agency/bureau or Tribal Government 4.National Park Service Certification I hereby certify that this property is: entered in the National Register determined eligible for the National Register determined not eligible for the National Register -removed from the National Register -other (explain:) Signature of the Keeper Date of Action United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Henry F. Ortlieb Company Bottling House Philadelphia, PA Name of Property County and State ____________________________________________________________________________ 5.Classification Ownership of Property (Check as many boxes as apply.) Private: X Public – Local Public – State Public – Federal Category of Property (Check only one box.) Building(s) X District Site Structure Object Number of Resources within Property (Do not include previously listed resources in the count) Contributing Noncontributing _____1_______ _____________ buildings _____________ _____________ sites _____________ _____________ structures _____________ _____________ objects _____1_______ ______0______ Total Number of contributing resources previously listed in the National Register __0______ ____________________________________________________________________________ 6.Function or Use Historic Functions (Enter categories from instructions.) ___Industry/Processing/Extraction_ ___________________ Current Functions (Enter categories from instructions.) ___Work in Progress _ ___________________ Sections 1-6 page 2 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Henry F. Ortlieb Company Bottling House Philadelphia, PA Name of Property County and State _____________________________________________________________________________ 7.Description Architectural Classification (Enter categories from instructions.) Modern Movement: International Style_ Materials: (enter categories from instructions.) Principal exterior materials of the property: brick, concrete Narrative Description (Describe the historic and current physical appearance and condition of the property. Describe contributing and noncontributing resources if applicable. Begin with a summary paragraph that briefly describes the general characteristics of the property, such as its location, type, style, method of construction, setting, size, and significant features. Indicate whether the property has historic integrity.) ______________________________________________________________________________ Summary Paragraph The Henry F. Ortlieb Company Bottling House, attributed to William F. Koelle & Co. and built in 1948, constitutes the eastern portion of the former campus of a brewery that developed beginning in the post-Civil War period through the 1940s, and was one of the most important brewers in Philadelphia. The Bottling House is a two-story and basement, irregular plan, steel frame and reinforced concrete slab building running essentially north-south, with its main, western elevation facing N. American Street. Its International Style exterior features horizontal strip windows of multi-light, industrial sash and a stepped parapet on the ends of the gabled roof. The property includes a small open lot area on the northeast adjacent to the building. The interior features include heavy, poured-in-place concrete slab floors and an open plan. Historically, the interior walls were all tan glazed or red unglazed brick. Interior features such as an original cold storage area partition survive on the first floor. The second floor is a single, virtually uninterrupted clear span space that rises to steel trusses, a concrete plank roof, and two intact roof monitors. The Bottling House retains all of the distinctive design characteristics of post-World War II industrial buildings in the Philadelphia region, including its horizontal massing; asymmetrical organization; metal-frame ribbons of windows installed as strips across the façade; use of red brick with exposed concrete trim; and use of large-scale signage in a sans serif font. ______________________________________________________________________________ Narrative Description Introduction and Setting The Henry F. Ortlieb Company Bottling House (photos 1, 2), attributed to Richard C. Koelle of the firm of Willia m F. Koelle & Co. and built in 1948, constitutes the eastern portion of the former campus of the company (figures 1-5) that developed beginning in the post-Civil War period to the 1940s as one of the most important brewers in Philadelphia. The Bottling House is Section 7 page 3 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 Henry F. Ortlieb Company Bottling House Philadelphia, PA Name of Property County and State a two-story and basement, irregular plan building oriented essentially north-south, with its main, western elevation facing N. American Street, a narrow, north-south secondary street. The narrower, northern portion of the building fronts on Poplar Street. The eastern side of the building is located on the interior of the block and is largely hidden by other buildings. The southern side of the building faces adjacent buildings. The Bottling House is surrounded by the densely developed Northern Liberties neighborhood, which consists predominantly of low- and mid-rise, residential, institutional, and former industrial buildings that date from the early nineteenth century up until the 2010s. Like the Ortlieb’s Bottling House, the predominant exterior material of the buildings around it is brick and nearby streets mostly feature rowhouses interspersed with larger commercial buildings and some newer, mid-rise apartment buildings. Nineteenth-century, three-story rowhouses are found on Poplar and American streets to the north of the Bottling House in the immediate vicinity of the building (photo 3). To the south are a number of relatively new, mid-rise apartments in a variety of exterior materials. Until spring, 2014, when they were completely demolished, a complex of buildings of the Ortlieb’s brewery campus stood on the western side of N. American Street opposite the Bottling House, although portions of this part of the former brewery’s buildings had been demolished earlier, c.2005 (figures 3-5). In 2012-13, these remaining western buildings included the brick-faced Stock House (1946) and Brew House (1913-14 and 1946), the reinforced concrete 1950 Grain Bin, and a nineteenth-century former rowhouse to the south of the Stock House and fronting on N. 3rd Street. This building was acquired by the Ortlieb’s company sometime after 1910. The Bottling House is taller than its immediately neighboring buildings on the north, south and east, but does not exceed the height of buildings within its general surroundings. Exterior The Henry F. Ortlieb Company Bottling House, designed in the International Style with selected historicist features such as its stepped roof parapets, is clad in brick on the exterior and its structure is steel frame with heavy poured-in-place, concrete slab floors and stairs. The building is organized in two sections: on the west, a gabled, concrete plank roofed section features a high roof monitor running north-south the length of the building (photo 4). The small, eastern, flat- roofed section of the building roof is lit by a second, smaller roof monitor. The brick walls rise to parapets on all the elevations that are topped with a concrete coping on the western side of the gable and lapped terracotta tiles on the