James B. Markoe House

James B. Markoe House

James B. Markoe House Photo by Andrew Hope
1901, Cope and Stewardson. S. 17th and Locust sts.

Cope and Stewardson's version of Colonial Revival is characteristic of the style in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Philadelphia. Trim that in the eighteenth century would have been made of wood is here carved in limestone, including the dentiled and bracketed cornices and the jack-arch trim above the windows. Walls are of Flemish bond with the dark headers and red stretchers of the mid-eighteenth century. The same architects also designed the elegant pair of Colonial Revival houses at 1631–1633 Locust Street for A. C. Harrison (1899).

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