Portico Row

Portico Row is a set of sixteen historic rowhouses located in the Washington Square West neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Portico Row
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Portico Row, February 2010
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Location	900–930 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Coordinates	39°56′45″N 75°9′29″W
Area	1.3 acres (0.53 ha)
Built	1831–1832
Architect	Thomas Ustick Walter
Architectural style	Greek Revival
NRHP reference No.	77001189[1]
Added to NRHP	December 16, 1977

History and architectural features

These brick houses were built between 1831 and 1832 and were designed by Philadelphia architect Thomas Ustick Walter (1804–1887). Created using the typical Philadelphia rowhouse plan with front building, piazza, and back building, they were designed in the Greek Revival style. Each of the eight mirror-image pairs shared a common entrance portico supported by Ionic order columns.^[2]

The houses were documented by the Historic American Buildings Survey in 1975^[3] and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.^[1]