Park Towne Place Apartment Homes is a historic apartment complex located in the Logan Square neighborhood of Philadelphia. The complex consists of four eighteen-story buildings (with floors numbered one through nineteen with no thirteen), a one-story office area, an underground, flood-prone, parking garage, and a pool and spa complex (under renovation as of 2014-15). It was designed by Milton Schwartz in the International style, using reinforced concrete with limestone-tan brick, white marble, and bright aluminum trim and glass. it was constructed between 1957 and 1959. The apartment buildings are in the shape of rectangular cuboids.
In 2014, Aimco selected Tryba Architects of Denver to renovate the historic apartments.Located in the Philadelphia Museum District, across from the Barnes Foundation and the Rodin Museum, the rejuvenated complex features contemporary artwork from prominent local and national artists both purchased and specially commissioned for the project and inclusion in the Aimco Permanent Collection.
Park Towne Place was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2011, and receives a significant tax abatement as a consequence.
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