Narbrook Park Historic District

The story

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Narbrook Park Historic District is a residential historic district along Narbrook Road and Windsor Avenue in Narberth, Montgomery County, with houses built from 1915 to 1938 in Colonial Revival, Arts and Crafts, Tudor Revival, Bungalow and German Ethnic Revival styles. It covers 14 acres and was listed in the National Register in 2003.

Why it's listed

The district was listed under criteria A and C, with state level significance in community planning and development, architecture and landscape architecture; its period of significance runs from 1915 to 1938, the years its houses were built.

Physical character

The houses have walls of stucco, stone or wood, foundations of stone, and roofs of slate, terra cotta or asphalt. Its site plan includes low stone walls, a terraced hillside, outdoor rooms, an amphitheater, service lanes and a stone gateway. Individual houses have sleeping porches and broad chimneys; round porch piers were removed from house fronts in the 1960s. The district includes 51 contributing buildings, a contributing site and a contributing structure, plus one noncontributing building.

Historical context

A 1914 study found the project practical, and its roads and paths were laid out on a plan recorded in 1915. Architects Robert Anderson Pope and George Burdett Ford worked on the community; in 1916 Pope sued the Narberth Civic Association. The Narbrook Park Improvement Association was founded in 1920, a year after the community's quota of 12 houses was reached in 1919.