Edwin Forrest House
Philadelphia, United States
Open to visitors
The interior is normally open, possibly ticketed.
Strollie cannot guarantee access — always check before you travel.
The Edwin Forrest House, also known as the Gaul-Forrest House, is an Italianate building at 1346 North Broad Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Designed by Stephen Decatur Button and built between 1853 and 1854, it served from 1880 until 1960 as home to the Philadelphia School of Design for Women, once one of the nation's largest art schools for women. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1993.
Movement
- Built
- Type
- theatre building, school building, single-family detached home
- Heritage
- National Register of Historic Places listed place, National Historic Landmark
- Place
- Philadelphia, United States
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