J. Peter Lesley House
- Style
- Greek Revival
- City
- Philadelphia, PA
This 3½-story brick rowhouse at 1008 Clinton Street in Washington Square West was the home of John Peter Lesley, a leading American geologist and longtime State Geologist of Pennsylvania, who rented the house from 1869 to 1897. Built in the Greek Revival style, it remains a private residence and is a National Historic Landmark.
the building
Federal-style entrance. The house is three bays wide with a gabled roof, a gabled dormer, flanking chimneys, and an entrance in the rightmost bay topped by a Federal-style half-round transom window.
the style
The house carries Greek Revival massing and proportions, though its entrance retains an earlier Federal-style transom detail.
More on Greek Revivalsignificance
Designated a National Historic Landmark for its association with John Peter Lesley; the interior still retains many of its later nineteenth-century features despite a period of conversion to multiunit residences and back to single-family use.
nearby
- Portico Row
- Wilson Eyre House
- Pennsylvania Hospital
- William Strickland Row
- Church of St. Luke and The Epiphany (Philadelphia)
- Walnut Street Theatre