8-12 N. Preston St., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. County/parish: Philadelphia.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places March 20, 2002. NRIS 02000227.
1 contributing building.Also known as:
Bell Telephone Exchange Building, also known as the Preston Telephone Exchange, is a historic telephone exchange located in the Powelton Village neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was built about 1900, by the Bell Telephone Company. It is a three-story, five-bay, brick building on a raised basement and once set within a set of rowhouses. It is in the Georgian Revival style. It features an arched entrance and decorative cornice above the second story. It was used as a telephone exchange until 1928.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71997446