Packard Motor Corporation Building

Packard Motor Corporation Building

(February 2010)
Location 317-321 N. Broad St.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Coordinates 39°57′31″N 75°9′45″W / 39.95861°N 75.16250°W / 39.95861; -75.16250Coordinates: 39°57′31″N 75°9′45″W / 39.95861°N 75.16250°W / 39.95861; -75.16250
Built 1910-1911
Architect Albert Kahn
Architectural style Chicago, skyscraper
NRHP Reference # 80003616[1]
Added to NRHP February 8, 1980

The Packard Motor Corporation Building, also known as the Press Building, is a historic office building located at 317-32 N. Broad Street between Pearl and Wood Streets in the Callowhill neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania was built in 1910-11 and was designed by Albert Kahn of the noted Detroit architectural firm of Kahn & Wilby. It is a seven-story, steel framed, reinforced concrete building – one of the first uses of that material in a commercial building. Clad in terra cotta and featuring an ornamented canopy and a prominent overhanging roof, the building housed a showroom and new car inventory space for the Packard Motor Car Company.[2][3] The showroom was remodeled in 1927 by Philip Tyre.[4] In November 1928, the building became the headquarters of the Philadelphia Record newspaper, which it remained until the Record folded in a 1947 strike.

The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.[1] It is a contributing property to the Callowhill Industrial Historic District. The building was renovated into condominiums in 1986 by Bower Lewis Thrower and John Milner Associates.[3]

The building's canopy

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  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania" (Searchable database). CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Note: This includes George E. Thomas (September 1979). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Packard Motor Corporation Building" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-06-16.
  3. 1 2 Gallery, John Andrew, ed. (2004), Philadelphia Architecture: A Guide to the City (2nd ed.), Philadelphia: Foundation for Architecture, ISBN 0962290815, p.97
  4. ↑ Teitelman, Edward & Longstreth, Richard W. (1981), Architecture in Philadelphia: A Guide, Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, ISBN 0262700212, p.136


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