John C. Bell House

John C. Bell House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	229 S. 22nd St., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Coordinates	39°57′0″N 75°10′40″W / 39.95000°N 75.17778°WCoordinates: 39°57′0″N 75°10′40″W / 39.95000°N 75.17778°W
Area	0.1 acres (0.040 ha)
Built	1906
Architect	Trumbauer,Horace
Architectural style	Colonial Revival, Neo-Georgian
NRHP Reference #	82003807[1]
Added to NRHP	April 13, 1982

The John C. Bell House is a historic house located at 229 S. 22nd St. in the Rittenhouse Square neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was designed by architect Horace Trumbauer in the Colonial Revival style and built in 1906. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

The house was built for John C. Bell, who served as Attorney General of Pennsylvania. His sons, John C. Bell, Jr., who served as Lieutenant Governor and Governor of Pennsylvania as well as Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, and Bert Bell, co-founder of the Philadelphia Eagles and NFL Commissioner, lived in the house. In 1944 the house was sold by the Bell family and converted into apartments.^[2]

A top-floor balcony collapsed on January 11, 2014, leaving one person dead and two others seriously injured.^[3][4]

References

1. National Park Service (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
2. Elizabeth M. Dowling, Pennsylvania Historic Resources Survey: John C. Bell House. Harrisburg: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 1980. Accessed 2010-09-30. To access this file type "public" as your ID and "public" as your password.
3. Steele, Allison (January 12, 2014). "Man dead in Philadelphia fire escape collapse". Philadelphia Inquirer. Retrieved January 13, 2014.
4. "4th-floor balcony collapses at Philly home; 1 dead". Associated Press. January 12, 2014. Retrieved January 13, 2014.