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
Built 1910-1911
Architect Albert Kahn
Architectural style Chicago, skyscraper
Governing body private
NRHP Reference # 80003616[1]
Added to NRHP February 8, 1980
The building's canopy

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]

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]

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2010-07-09.
  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. ↑ 3.0 3.1 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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