[1] The towers were designed by I. M. Pei and Associates and are constructed of cast-in-place concrete, with each apartment featuring floor-to-ceiling windows.

[2] Completed in 1964, the apartments were originally rental units but were converted to condominiums in 1979.

They relocated and demolished the Dock Street Market, setting aside 5 acres (20,000 m2) of land that would become the Society Hill Towers.

[3] In 1957, Edmund Bacon, the executive director of the Philadelphia City Planning Commission, awarded developer-architect firm Webb and Knapp the competition for the redevelopment of Society Hill.

[5] The buildings were listed on the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places on March 10, 1999.