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West Philadelphia Friends Meeting House 3500 Lancaster Avenue Former buildings: Girard Avenue Meeting House 17th Street and Girard Avenue Built 1862 Discontinued 1934 Demolished Greater Friends Meeting House SW corner 2nd and Market Streets Built 1755. Dismantled 1812, used to build Twelfth Street Meeting House. Orange Street Friends Meeting House
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Center City in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map.
Grumblethorpe was built as a summer residence in 1744 by Philadelphia merchant and wine importer John Wister, when Germantown was a semi-rural area outside the city of Philadelphia. It eventually became the family's year-round residence when they withdrew from the city during the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 .
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.
May 11, 1976 (North Philadelphia Eastern banks of the Schuylkill River: Fairmount Park: First municipal waterworks in the United States. Designed in 1812 by Frederick Graff and built between 1819 and 1822, it operated until 1909.
Malcolm X's Funeral was held in Harlem, New York City at Faith Temple Church Of God in Christ. [57] In 1965, during the March to Selma, a young COGIC minister Charles E. Blake, (previous COGIC Presiding Bishop) was studying at the Interdenominational Theological Center (ITC) in Atlanta, GA. He led a group of students to participate in the March ...
The preservation effort resulted in the first formal historic district for a historically African-American neighborhood in the city of Philadelphia. [7] [8] The Christian Street Historic District was listed on the City of Philadelphia's Register of Historic Buildings on July 8, 2022. [9] [3]
"The City of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania North America; as it appeared in the Year 1800" Frontispiece Plate 2 "The City & Port of Philadelphia, on the River Delaware from Kensington." Taken from about 2 miles north of the city. The spire left of center is Christ Church.