Loading dock?

I think that’s a loading dock.

well, it’s adaptive reuse at least

     The relocated synagogue in the Northeast I believe was on Summerdale avenue and was in existence as the Dershutove congregation until 2009 when it was sold and now appears to be several rental units.

This is what the ancient babylonians referred to as “Death by Stucco.”

The guy who owns it , I think owns it with his brother and they fight non stop. So its stuck until one dies.

The original church on this spot was dedicated on January 1, 1818, and was later incorporated as the New Market Street Baptist Church in the Northern Liberties, Philadelphia County. The name changed to Fourth Baptist Church in 1853 and the existing structure was erected in 1854.  Its grounds provided space for an ample graveyard, which is long gone.
The building eventually became known as the Hebrew Church, as it hosted a succession of Jewish congregations, perhaps reflecting the increasingly Jewish population of NoLibs in the late 19th century.  Organized in 1872, the Anshe Emeth (Men of Truth) Congregation came to the building and refitted it for a synagogue.  The Sons of Halberstam then moved into the old church in 1886, after which Congregation D’rshe Tov took over the site in 1891.  The structure was showing its age by the 20th century, as the steeple was removed in 1907 because it was so rickety. It remained a synagogue for D’rshe Tov into the 1960s. 
Still soldiering on—though heavily abused and covered with coats of unsightly stucco—it is plainly a very old yet handsome church.  A painted sign on the wall indicates that the A. A. Fence Company occupies this building, since 1965.  The building narrowly missed demolition in the 1970s, as Interstate 95 runs in front of it.  Much of New Market Street in NoLibs was covered by the highway, from Vine Street to Poplar Street.

This entry revises the one below, and is from my book about Northern Liberties (Northern Liberties, Philadelphia: A Brief History), coming out form The History Press in 2013. Subsequent research reveals that this was NOT the precursor to the Fourth Baptist Church…:
   The old structure standing wearily at 926–28 New Market Street appears far from being a church, but this was yet another Baptist church in the Liberties. The history and even the name of this church are uncertain, though it seems to have been called the Hope Baptist Church. It had an ample graveyard, the bodies of which were moved to Ivy Hill Cemetery in 1870.
   The edifice became known as the “Hebrew Church” by the 1890s since it hosted a progression of Jewish congregations starting in the 1870s, indicating the rise of NoLibs’ Jewish population. The Anshe Emeth (Men of Truth) Congregation arrived in 1872 or 1873 and refitted the church as a synagogue. That group later combined with the Sons of Halberstam, after which Congregation D’rshe Tov took over the site in 1891. It remained a Jewish house of worship into the 1950s or 60s.
   Though heavily abused and covered with coats of hideous stucco, the old church soldiers on. The building narrowly missed being razed in the 1970s; Interstate 95 runs in front of it, across the street. It’s now for sale, having been owned by Ben’s Iron Works and the A. A. Fence Company since 1965, as a crudely painted sign on the façade indicates.

Ok… Now THIS entry revises the one below, and is the FINAL word about this building, as far as I can tell:
    The structure standing wearily at 926–28 New Market Street is related to the Second Baptist Church noted above. It is uncertain when it was built; maps show that a building was there since at least the 1850s. In any event, Second Baptist had purchased land on the west side of New Market—a block away from the church—for a cemetery in 1808. In 1871, the congregation sold portions of this property and moved some three hundred bodies to Ivy Hill Cemetery.
    The edifice on the site became known as the “Hebrew Church” since it hosted a progression of Jewish congregations starting in the 1870s, indicating the rise of NoLibs’ Jewish population. First, the Anshe Emeth (Men of Truth) Congregation arrived in 1872 or 1873 and refitted the church as a synagogue. Later, that group combined with the Sons of Halberstam. Congregation D’rshe Tov then took it over in 1891. The building remained a Jewish place of worship well into the twentieth century.
     Though heavily abused and covered with coats of hideous stucco, the old “Hebrew Church” soldiers on. The building narrowly missed being razed in the 1970s; Interstate 95 runs in front of it, across the street. It’s now for sale, having been owned by Ben’s Iron Works and the A.A. Fence Company since 1965, as a sign crudely painted on the stuccoed façade indicates.