The isolated little neighborhood included its own swimming pool, which was filled in circa 1985, leaving no trace above ground.

[4] Eighteen (originally nineteen) one-story single-family homes are arranged in a heavily wooded cul de sac on Longford Street off Holme Avenue, surrounded on three sides by Pennypack Park.

"[4] The original residents included Milgram himself;[3] Robert N.C. Nix, Sr., the first African American to represent Pennsylvania in Congress;[3] Pulitzer Prize–winning African-American playwright Charles Fuller, who grew up here;[4] the Rev.

Leon Sullivan, the civil rights activist who developed the Sullivan Principles and hastened the end of apartheid in South Africa;[3] Fire Captain Roosevelt Barlow, a civil rights activist who was one of a group of African-American firefighters to integrate the Philadelphia Fire Department;[4][5] and Beverly Glenn-Copeland, a celebrated new age folk-jazz musician.

Including the 5 detached garages, a studio, and the 2-acre community park that was part of the original neighborhood design, there are 26 resources: 22 contributing buildings and 1 contributing site (park), 2 non-contributing buildings and 1 non-contributing site (Lot #17).