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Tulpehocken Station Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
Location in Philadelphia Show map of Philadelphia Location in Pennsylvania Show map of Pennsylvania Location in the United States Show map of the United States
Location	Roughly bounded by McCallum St., W. Walnut Ln., Penn Central RR tracks, and W. Tulpehocken St., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Area	80 acres (32 ha)
Architect	Multiple
Architectural style	Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals, Late Victorian
NRHP reference No.	85003564
Added to NRHP	November 26, 1985

The Tulpehocken Station Historic District is a historic area in the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Large suburban houses were built in the area from about 1850 to 1900 in a variety of styles including Carpenter Gothic, Italianate, and Bracketed as part of the Picturesque Movement of architecture. In the 1870s styles moved toward High Victorian and Second Empire. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985, and it covers about six square blocks, bounded by McCallum Street on the north, the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks on the south, Tulpehocken Street on the west, and Walnut Lane on the east. Thirty-seven buildings in the district are considered to be significant and 118 are considered to be contributing, with only 13 considered to be intrusions.

Contributing properties

Among the 80-acre (320,000 m²) district's 155 contributing properties are:

• Kimball House, 144 West Walnut Lane, built 1860
• Ebenezer Maxwell House, 200 W. Tulpehocken St., built 1859
• Mitchell House, 200 W. Walnut Lane, built c. 1856
• St. Peter's Episcopal Church of Germantown, 6000 Wayne Ave., built 1873
• Tulpehocken Station, 314 West Tulpehocken St., built 1878
• Van Dyke Residence, 150 West Walnut Lane, built c. 1860

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  Comawaben, 50 West Walnut Lane

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  Van Dyke Residence, 150 West Walnut Lane

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  Lister Townsend House, 6015 Wayne Avenue

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  6135 Wayne Avenue

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  Maxwell House, 200 W. Tulpehocken

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  Tulpehocken Station

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  St. Peter's Episcopal Church of Germantown