Dr. Joseph Leidy House

Historic house in Pennsylvania, United States

United States historic place


Dr. Joseph Leidy House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

The Dr. Joseph Leidy House on Locust Street in Philadelphia in 2013
39°56′52″N 75°9′50″W / 39.94778°N 75.16389°W / 39.94778; -75.16389
Built	1893
Architect	Wilson Eyre, Jr. G. Edwin Brumbaugh
Architectural style	Colonial Revival
NRHP reference No.	80003613^[1]
Added to NRHP	December 04, 1980

The Dr. Joseph Leidy House is a historic residence located at 1319 Locust Street between S. 13th and S. Juniper Streets in the Washington Square West neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1893 and 1894 and was designed in the Georgian style^[2] by architect Wilson Eyre to be the home of Joseph Leidy, Jr., the nephew of Joseph Leidy (1823–1891), a noted American paleontologist. The house is next door to the Clarence B. Moore House, which was designed by Eyre in 1890.

From 1925 to 1979, the Leidy House served as the clubhouse of the now-defunct Poor Richard Club, whose members worked in advertising,^[3] and with the Moore House next door, was part of the Charles Morris Price School of Advertising and Journalism.^[4] Currently, it is the headquarters of District 1199C, the National Union of Hospital and Health Care Employees.^[4]

The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
^ Gallery, John Andrew, ed. (2004), Philadelphia Architecture: A Guide to the City (2nd ed.), Philadelphia: Foundation for Architecture, ISBN 0962290815, p.79
^ "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania". CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Archived from the original (Searchable database) on 2007-07-21. Retrieved 2012-06-16. Note: This includes George E. Thomas and David Fair (July 1980). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Dr. Joseph Leidy House" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-06-16.
^ ^a ^b Historical marker on building

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Dr. Joseph Leidy House.

Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. PA-1515, "Joseph Leidy, Jr. House", 1 photo, 1 photo caption page
Leidy Residence data from the Philadelphia Architects and Buildings (PAB) project of the Athenaeum of Philadelphia

US National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania

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