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- 229 S. 22nd St.,, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
The John C. Bell House is a historic house located at 229 S. 22nd St. in the Rittenhouse Square neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was designed by architect Horace Trumbauer in the Colonial Revival style and built in 1906. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. The house was built for John C. Bell, who served as Attorney General of Pennsylvania. His sons, John C. Bell, Jr., who served as Lieutenant Governor and Governor of Pennsylvania as well as Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, and Bert Bell, co-founder of the Philadelphia Eagles and NFL Commissioner, lived in the house. In 1944 the house was sold by the Bell family and converted into apartments.
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