Smaltz Building

The story

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The Smaltz Building is a 10-story industrial building at 315 N. 12th St. in Philadelphia, built in 1911. It was designed by the architecture firm Ballinger & Perrot in the Commercial Style, with Classical Revival details, and was listed in the National Register in 2005.

Why it's listed

It was listed under criteria A and C and Criteria Consideration G, with local-level significance in architecture and industry. The nomination gives its period of significance as 1911 to 1933, reflecting the building's 1911 construction and Smaltz-Goodwin's occupancy until it vacated in 1933.

Physical character

It has a rectangular, block-shaped footprint and a reinforced concrete frame, built by Turner Concrete Steel Construction. The foundation and walls are concrete, trimmed with terra cotta and brick, with concrete belt courses and pediments beneath the parapet. Surviving original features include triple-hung wood windows and black marble wainscot. Glass block filled the first-floor windows in the 1960s, and second entrances were cut into the first floor and west elevation in the 1950s.

Historical context

Developer Isaac H. Goodman built it in 1911; the Smaltz-Goodwin Company moved in the following year, made shoes there until vacating in 1933, and was succeeded by other manufacturers, including Keystone Coat & Apron Company and Pioneer Suspender Co.