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What is notable about Portico Row, a series of row houses on the 900 block of Spruce Street in Philadelphia?

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What is notable about Portico Row, a series of row houses on the 900 block of Spruce Street in Philadelphia?

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Thomas Walters designed these Greek Revival structures in 1831-33. It was the first time such grand design, with porticos supported by marble Ionic columns, was applied to row houses. Source: Philadelphia Preserved, 1981, p.141-142, Richard J. Webster, 720.