Bell Telephone Exchange Building | |
Location: | 8-12 N. Preston St., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
Coordinates: | 39.9578°N -75.2042°W |
Built: | c. 1900 |
Architecture: | Georgian Revival |
Added: | March 20, 2002 |
Area: | less than one acre |
Refnum: | 02000227 |
Bell Telephone Exchange Building, also known as the Preston Telephone Exchange, is a historic telephone exchange located in the Powelton Village neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was built about 1900, by the Bell Telephone Company. It is a three-story, five-bay, brick building on a raised basement and once set within a set of rowhouses. It is in the Georgian Revival style. It features an arched entrance and decorative cornice above the second story. It was used as a telephone exchange until 1928.[1]
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.