La Blanche Apartments

	La Blanche Apartments
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	North elevation along Walnut Street
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Location	5100 Walnut St., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Coordinates	39°57′22″N 75°13′28″W / 39.95611°N 75.22444°WCoordinates: 39°57′22″N 75°13′28″W / 39.95611°N 75.22444°W
Area	0.2 acres (0.081 ha)
Built	1910
Architect	Anderson & Haupt
Architectural style	Colonial Revival, Georgian Revival
NRHP reference No.	85000470
Added to NRHP	March 07, 1985

The La Blanche Apartments is a historic building in West Philadelphia built in 1910 in the Georgian Revival style. It was part of the second wave of a housing boom in West Philadelphia that started with the completion of the Market Street Elevated line in 1907. The building is also one of the first large apartment buildings built in Philadelphia, and helped give the rising middle class better access to housing. Originally the four story building housed just 26 apartments, but as the neighborhood became less fashionable, the apartments were subdivided into a total of 49 units.^[2]

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View of the south and east sides of the building

Entrance on 51st Street

^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
^ H. Mather Lippincott, Jr., NRHP Nomination Form La Blanche Apartments, 1984

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.

[2] H. Mather Lippincott, Jr., NRHP Nomination Form La Blanche Apartments, 1984

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