226-28 Vine St are a pair of 3 1/2 story Georgian houses from c.1770, made with Flemish bond brick.
In 1920, 228 Vine housed a baker, Israel Feldman, who was accused by the PA Dept of Agriculture of selling sponge cake that contained coal tar dye.
226 Vine, in the 1920's, housed S Twitchell Co., manufacturers of soda water apparatus. In the early 1990's, 226 Vine housed Club Caribe, an after hours nightclub, which became a neighborhood nuisance to the point that the neighbors got their liquor license revoked and a moratorium on liquor licenses in old city, N of Market St. Konak Turkish restaurant was there from 2007 - 2012.
Moto, an architecture firm, now occupies both buildings, which were added to the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places in 1984.
1960 1972 2012
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