If you want to live somewhere that used to be a factory, church or famous office building, Philadelphia is the right place for you. MainLine reBuild, a residential conversion company, which is known for transforming historic buildings into modern complex will turn the site of the former United Methodist Church of Narberth, Philadelphia into a contemporary condominium complex named Elm Hall. This
project will restore two buildings with new construction slated for a third property to create the 12-unit complex.
The first unit, Barrie House, was a single-family home from the 1890s that will be converted into three condo units. The old Narberth Methodist Church will be the site of the second unit, Elm Hall. “The Hall is a 27,000 -square-foot stone structure built in 1929,” adds Brehman. “It will become six units with lower-level parking and more.”
Rounding out Narberth Place is the new building, Vauclain Manor, which will house three condos with a design resembling a large, turn-of-the-century, single-family home. Prices begin at $495,000 at Barrie House, with one unit per floor; Elm Hall’s six condominiums range from $700,000 to $1.1 million; and the newly built Vauclain Manor’s three townhomes average $600,000.
The new community will gain modern amenities inside, but outside, the structures will remain the same. “With all of our projects involving the renovation of existing older structures, we place protective covenants on the exteriors of the structures, so the way one sees them today will be the way they will look in the future,” says Principal Scott Brehman.