Bell Telephone Exchange Building
Pennsylvania, United States
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Located in Philadelphia's Powelton Village neighborhood, the Bell Telephone Exchange Building is a three-story brick structure built around 1900 by the Bell Telephone Company. Designed in the Georgian Revival style, the five-bay building sits on a raised basement and features a distinctive arched entrance and decorative cornice above the second story. Originally built within a row of rowhouses, it functioned as a telephone exchange until 1928. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.
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