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The Philadelphia Naval Hospital was the first high-rise hospital building constructed by the United States Navy. At its 1935 opening it represented a state-of-the-art facility for the Navy with 650 beds and a total floor space of 352,000 square feet (32,700 m 2 ).
Philadelphia Hospital Library [3] Philadelphia Library Association of Colored Brethren [2] Philadelphia Maritime Exchange [3] Philadelphia Museum library [4] Philadelphia Public Library (est.1892), administered by the city Board of Education. Also called City Library [14] Branch no.1: Montgomery Ave. and 17th St. [5] Branch no.2: Broad and ...
Pages in category "National Register of Historic Places in Philadelphia" The following 111 pages are in this category, out of 111 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The properties are distributed across all of Philadelphia's 12 planning districts. East/West Oak Lane, Olney, Upper North and Lower North are included as North Philadelphia. Kensington, Near Northeast and Far Northeast are part of Northeast Philadelphia. Roxborough/Manayunk and Germantown/Chestnut Hill are a part of Northwest Philadelphia.
The first private psychiatric hospital in the U.S., founded in 1813 by the Quakers. Designed and/or influenced by William Tuke, York Retreat, and Thomas Scattergood. 23: Furness Library, School of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania: Furness Library, School of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania
Pages in category "History of Philadelphia" ... List of libraries in 19th-century Philadelphia; Library Company of Philadelphia ... Naval Hospital Philadelphia; Naval ...
The first national veterans' home in the United States was the United States Naval Home approved in 1811 but not opened until 1834 in the Philadelphia Naval Yard. The Naval Home was moved to Gulfport, Mississippi in 1976. [11] It was subsequently opened to veterans of other services and is now the Gulfport Campus of the Armed Forces Retirement ...
Parkway Central Library; Penn Mutual; Pennsylvania Hospital; Pennsylvania Railroad, Connecting Railway Bridge; Pennsylvania School for the Deaf; Philadelphia Bourse; Philadelphia City Hall; Philadelphia Contributionship; Philadelphia History Museum; Philadelphia Mint; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Philadelphia Quartermaster Depot; Philadelphia ...