Alden Park Manor

Alden Park Manor is an apartment complex located at School House Lane and Wissahickon Avenue in the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Alden Park apartments were begun in 1908 and built in the Jacobean Revival style. The complex has three sets of towers; The Manor, The Kenilworth and The Cambridge buildings. Designed by Edwyn Rorke and developed by Lawrence Jones, it was built in a park-like setting on thirty-eight acres that were the Justus C. Strawbridge estate. It was the first co-operative apartment complex in Philadelphia, although Alden Park apartments are now rental buildings. It is located next to and overlooking the Wissahickon Valley section of Fairmount Park, in the city's Germantown section. The buildings...