1600 block Locust St. and St. Mark’s Episcopal Church
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This block of Locust St. is one of the most architecturally distinguished in the district. In 1850, John Notman designed St. Mark’s Church with the advice of the English Ecclesiological Society on proper architectural settings for Anglican worship. The result is one of the finest examples of archaeologically correct Gothic Revival churches in the US. Set back from the street and nestled in a garden, St. Mark’s and its parish house evoke the atmosphere of an English country village. The houses on the western half of this block illustrate the wide-ranging architectural tastes of Philadelphia’s elite in the later-19th century, as realized by the city’s finest architects. The earliest is the Lea House (1622, c. 1855), a Renaissance Revival brownstone attributed to Notman. Also represented are Horace Trumbauer, who designed the white limestone Beaux Arts Knight House at 1629 (1900), Frank Miles Day, designer of the medieval-style Yarnall mansion at 1635 (1908), and Cope and Stewardson, architects of the Georgian Revival Markoe house at 1630 (1900).

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