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The Centennial International Exhibition, officially the International Exhibition of Arts, Manufactures, and Products of the Soil and Mine, was held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from May 10 to November 10, 1876.
Memorial Hall is a Beaux-Arts style building in the Centennial District of West Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Built as the art gallery for the 1876 Centennial Exposition, it is the only major structure from that exhibition to survive. It subsequently housed the Pennsylvania Museum of Industrial Art (now the Philadelphia Museum of ...
The Sesqui-Centennial International Exposition of 1926 was a world's fair in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Its purpose was to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the signing of the United States Declaration of Independence , and the 50th anniversary of the 1876 Centennial Exposition .
The park was the site of the 1876 Centennial Exposition and the first zoo in the United States, the Philadelphia Zoo, and was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. Wissahickon Valley Park, located adjacent to the park's immediate northwest, was included in the Fairmount Park NRHP registration document.
The Centennial District is a 700-acre section of West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States that contains the Philadelphia Zoo, the Please Touch Museum and the Mann Music Center. [1] The neighborhood sits on a section of town that was the location of the 1876 Centennial Exposition , which was 100 years after the founding of the United ...
The Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) is an art museum originally chartered in 1876 for the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. [1] The main museum building was completed in 1928 [ 8 ] on Fairmount, a hill located at the northwest end of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway at Eakins Oval . [ 2 ]
1874 — First zoo, Philadelphia (chartered in 1859) [27] 1876 — First World's Fair in the United States, the Centennial Exposition, Philadelphia; 1877 — First department store opened, Wanamaker's, Philadelphia; 1879 — First non-reservation school for Native Americans, Carlisle, Carlisle Indian School
Main Exhibition Building at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia (1875–76, disassembled and sold 1881). In terms of total area enclosed, 21-1/2 acres, this was the largest building in the world. Broad Street Station in Philadelphia (1881, expanded 1893, demolished 1953) in 1903. The Wilson Brothers' 1881 station is the section at center.