2136-2142 E. Dauphin St., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. County/parish: Philadelphia.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places July 12, 1984. NRIS 84003550.
1 contributing building.
The 26th District Police and Patrol Station is a historic police station in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was designed by architect John T. Windrim (1866-1934) and built in 1896. It and is a three-story, "L"-plan, brownstone and brick building in the Renaissance style. It features a monumental arched entrance with terra cotta decorative elements, curved corner, copper entablature, wide frieze, and pitched roof. It housed a police station until 1969.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
It currently (Sep 2017) houses a branch of The Philadelphia Federal Credit Union.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71997358