Biberman Building

The story

Written by AI from this property's National Register nomination and the record above; every sentence is checked against its sources before it appears here. Corrections: privacy@treealive.com

The Biberman Building is an industrial building at 611-619 N. 15th St. in Philadelphia, built c. 1919-1920 in the Commercial Style. LeRoy Rothschild was its architect, and the Wark Co. served as builder.

Why it's listed

It was listed under criteria A and C, with local-level significance in industry; the nomination gives its period of significance as 1919 to 1955, reflecting its c. 1919-1920 construction.

Physical character

The building has brick walls on a limestone foundation, with limestone sills and decorative shields below a Classical Revival limestone entrance hood. Inside, the entrance lobby has marble walls, terrazzo floors and plaster molding, and round concrete columns with mushroom-shaped capitals carry the reinforced concrete structure. In 1962 its west and north elevations were infilled with stucco and glass block, and in the 1970s it was converted into a parking garage, with a ramp added and its top floor removed.

Historical context

Biberman Brothers, Inc. used the building as its corporate headquarters, design offices and manufacturing plant from 1920 to 1968, and the company was renamed L'Aiglon Apparel, Inc. in 1946. L'Aiglon Apparel went out of business in 1968; the building was then used as a tenant manufacturing building and parking garage through 2007, and was vacant when listed.