Glendside Memorial Hall

The story

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Glendside Memorial Hall is a Colonial Revival building at 185 Keswick Ave. in Cheltenham, Montgomery County, built in 1926 and listed in the National Register in 2004. Frank Seeburger and Charles Folk Rabenold, working as Seeburger and Rabenold, designed it, and Alfred Zellfelder built it.

Why it's listed

It was listed under criterion C, with local-level significance in architecture, reflecting its 1926 construction, given as its period of significance.

Physical character

Brick walls rise from a raised stone foundation trimmed with limestone, under a slate roof combining hip, gambrel, and flat sections. Its T-shaped plan has a central rear wing, two brick chimneys, a parapet wall, and a projecting portico with a Palladian window and a tripartite Doric-columned opening, plus 6/6 sashes and Roman-arched openings elsewhere. Inside is a raised platform stage, and a ramp and doorway added in 1926 gave it accessible entry.

Historical context

The Glenside War Memorial Association, formed in 1922, raised funds for a community hall in 1923, and the Township of Cheltenham bought the land in 1926. It was dedicated in 1927 to veterans of the First World War and rededicated in 1944 to veterans of all U.S. wars, and the Glenside Library used it for its first quarters in 1928.