Park Towne Place
Park Towne Place Apartment Homes | |
 Park Towne Place Apartments, January 2012 | |
| Location | 2200 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
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| Coordinates | 39°57′40″N 75°10′39″W / 39.96111°N 75.17750°W |
| Area | 10 acres (4.0 ha) |
| Built | 1958 |
| Architect | Milton Schwartz; Louis I. Kahn; Edmund Bacon; |
| Architectural style | International style |
| NRHP reference No. | 11000926[1] |
| Added to NRHP | December 15, 2011 |
Park Towne Place is a historic apartment complex located in the Logan Square neighborhood of Philadelphia. The complex consists of four eighteen-story buildings (with floors numbered one through nineteen with no thirteen), a one-story office area, an underground parking garage, and a pool and spa complex. It was designed by Milton Schwartz in the International style, using reinforced concrete with limestone-tan brick, white marble, and bright aluminum trim and glass. It was constructed in 1958. The apartment buildings are in the shape of rectangular cuboids[broken anchor].[2]
Park Towne Place is owned by Aimco, a publicly traded real estate investment trust. In 2014, Aimco selected Tryba Architects of Denver to renovate the complex.
Park Towne Place was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2011, and receives a significant tax abatement as a consequence.[1]
In September 2021, all four towers were evacuated following flooding caused by Tropical Storm Ida. [3]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "National Register of Historic Places Listings". Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties: 12/12/11 through 12/16/11. National Park Service. 23 December 2011.
- ^ "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania" (Searchable database). CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Note: This includes George E. Thomas (April 2011). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Park Towne Place" (PDF). Retrieved 22 July 2012.
- ^ @kristenjohanson (2 September 2021). "Register" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
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