Poth and Schmidt Development Houses, Historic Queen Anne houses in Powelton Village, Philadelphia, United States.
Poth and Schmidt Development Houses are a row of six double residences on Arch Street made of red brick. Each building has three stories, projecting bay windows on the facade, wide porches, and mansard roofs topped with terra cotta shingles.
This row was designed in 1890 by architect A.W. Dilks and later listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. The project represents an important phase in Philadelphia's residential building from the Queen Anne style period.
These houses show the style that well-to-do families in Philadelphia preferred around 1890. You can see in the details how people wanted to live back then: with bay windows for looking out at the street and porches for sitting outside.
The houses are located on Arch Street in the Powelton Village neighborhood and are easy to view from the street. The site is walkable and the exterior can be visited anytime, though the buildings are private residences today.
All six houses were planned and built as a single development project, not constructed separately at different times. This makes them a rare example of a cohesive residential group that has kept its original form intact.
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