Tulpehocken Station Historic District
The Tulpehocken Station Historic District is a historic area in the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Large suburban houses were built in the area from about 1850 to 1900 in a variety of styles including Carpenter Gothic, Italianate, and Bracketed as part of the Picturesque Movement of architecture. In the 1870s styles moved toward High Victorian and Second Empire. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985, and it covers about six square blocks, bounded by McCallum Street on the north, the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks on the south, Tulpehocken Street on the west, and Walnut Lane on the east. Thirty-seven buildings in the district are considered to be significant and 118 are considered to be contributing, with only 13 considered to be intrusions.Contributing properties
Among the district's 155 contributing properties are:
- , aka Charles Currie House, 50 West Walnut Lane, built 1899
- , 143 W. Walnut Lane, c. 1875
- Kimball House, 144 West Walnut Lane, built 1860
- , 6015 Wayne Ave., built 1887
- Ebenezer Maxwell House, 200 W. Tulpehocken St., built 1859
- Mitchell House, 200 W. Walnut Lane, built c. 1856
- , 131 W. Walnut Lane, c. 1853
- , 125 West Walnut Lane, 1852–54, altered 1893
- St. Peter's Episcopal Church of Germantown, 6000 Wayne Ave., built 1873
- Tulpehocken Station, 314 West Tulpehocken St., built 1878
- Van Dyke Residence, 150 West Walnut Lane, built c. 1860
