Walnut Park Plaza Hotel

The story

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Walnut Park Plaza Hotel is a nine-story, E-shaped apartment hotel building at 6232-6250 Walnut St. in Philadelphia, built in 1928 in a mix of Classical Revival, Regency Revival and Tudor Revival styles, and listed in the National Register in 2005.

Why it's listed

It was listed under criterion C, with local-level significance in architecture dated to its 1928 construction; the nomination names Stetler & Deysher, Jesse Stetler and Harvey Deysher as architects, and Frederick McDonald Massiah as engineer.

Physical character

Brick walls rise on a brick foundation and reinforced concrete frame, faced with cast stone, under a flat roof with a brick parapet and cast stone piers. The 224-unit building kept its original bronze mail chute, and later changes added a 1955 granite-faced lobby and drive, kitchens in the 1970s, and c. 1990 aluminum windows.

Historical context

Strawbridge & Clothier bought the lot in 1908 and sold it to Louis M. Lifter in 1926; the Walnut Park Plaza opened as an apartment hotel in 1928, was renovated by new owners in 1955, became a senior citizens' residence in 1963, and was sold to its current owner in 1988.