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Heralded as the most significant new residential building to be built in Philadelphia in decades, 10 Rittenhouse Square, designed by Robert A.M. Stern Architects will transform Philadelphia's celebrated skyline and provide a unique opportunity to redefine luxurious city living. The web cam on this page provides an intimate look at a monumental effort that is rarely shared with the public.
CONSTRUCTION CAM
From our camera high atop Freeman's Auction House, the 10 Rittenhouse Square site fronts on Walnut Street, the northern edge of Rittenhouse Square. Three historic buildings that together occupy the site's entire Walnut Street frontage will be preserved and restored as part of this project. Two of these, the Presbyterian Ministers Fund for Life Insurance Building, known as the Alison Building, at 1805 Walnut Street (Davis, Dunlap, and Barney Architects, 1928) and the Fell-Van Renssalaer House at 1801 Walnut Street (Peabody and Stearns Architects, 1896-98) will remain as they exist except for judicious facade restoration.
The third building occupying the site's Walnut Street frontage is the historic Rittenhouse Club of Philadelphia at 1811 Walnut Street (originally by Newman, Woodman, and Harris Architects, 1840, but subject to multiple later renovations). The façade of this building will be preserved while the original building's volume will be replaced by a new five-story building housing ground-floor retail with four full-floor residential condominiums above.
The proposed tower is set back behind these three buildings by approximately 110 feet and rises with a series of setbacks which provide roof terraces to a height of 396 feet. Entrances to the residential tower are located on Walnut Street, through the preserved Rittenhouse Club façade, and on 18th Street through an east-facing garden courtyard. Other than these two residential entrances, and enclosed loading docks and a parking entrance located on Sansom Street, the site's entire frontage on Walnut, 18th, and Sansom Streets opens to retail storefronts.
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