Edward Drinker Cope House
- Style
- Second Empire
- City
- Philadelphia, PA
- Collection
- victorian philadelphia
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The Edward Drinker Cope House is a pair of Second Empire rowhouses at 2100-2102 Pine Street, built in 1880 and purchased shortly afterward by Edward Drinker Cope, one of the leading American natural scientists of the 19th century. Cope was a prolific geologist, paleontologist, and herpetologist who lived and worked here until his death in 1897, and the house was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1975.
the building
Two houses, one scientist. Cope initially used the two rowhouses separately, living at 2100 while turning 2102 into storage and a workroom. A poor investment brought financial reverses in 1886, forcing him to rent out 2100; he then moved into 2102 himself and stayed there until his death.
Green stone and a mansard roof. The 3.5-story rowhouses are clad on their fronts in rectangular-cut green stone laid in random courses, with plain brick on the side and rear walls. A mansard roof tops the pair, and the main facade features polygonal bays flanking a pair of arched entrances at its center.
the style
The Cope House is built in the Second Empire style, identifiable from the street by its mansard roof and the paired arched entrances set into polygonal bays at the center of the green-stone facade.
More on Second Empiresignificance
The house was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1975 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, recognized for its association with Cope's scientific career as much as for its architecture.
nearby
- Horace Jayne House
- John C. Bell House
- Church of the Holy Trinity, Philadelphia
- Marian Anderson House
- First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia
- Philadelphia Naval Asylum