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Guild House, under construction
- Neighborhood
- Northern Liberties
- Related Story
- Guild House
- Street Address
- 711 Spring Garden St
- Creator Name
- Sonnee Gottlieb
- Date Created
- 1966
- Description
- View of Guild House, under construction, from across the street; cars. Architects: Venturi, Scott Brown & Associates. From Venturi, Scott Brown & Associates website:
The program required 91 apartments of varying types with a common recreation room, to house elderly people who want to remain in their old neighborhood. Local zoning limited the building height to six stories.
- Contributing Institution
- Temple University Urban Archives
- Collection
- Temple University Urban Archives: George D. McDowell Philadelphia Evening Bulletin Newsclipping Collection (No call #)
- Tags
- Apartment houses, Automobiles, Charities (nonprofit organizations), Friends Neighborhood Guild, Guild House, Housing developments, Public housing, Quakers, Retirement homes, Streets, Venturi Scott Brown and Associates
- Topics
- Landscape & Architecture, Social Reform & Philanthropy
- Purchase This Image
- http://library.temple.edu/collections/urbana/phorep.jsp?bhcp=1
