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Frankford Meeting House is also of interest for its unusual mix of building materials. A refined treatment of Flemish-bond brick with glazed headers was used in constructing the facades facing the street. The use of locally quarried rubble stone gives a more vernacular appearance to the two remaining facades, including the south front.
The central core of the Bond house was built in 1769 by Dr. Thomas Bond Sr., a prominent physician and founder of Pennsylvania Hospital, which was chartered in 1751. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] In 1824, a four-foot extension with a new facade was added to the west side, and in the 1830s to 1840s, the building was extended eastward at the rear.
South Street's reputation for entertainment extends to the turn of the twentieth century. However, in 1950 there was a major decline in real-estate value due to the proposal of a crosstown expressway that would have wiped out South Street. The Theatre of the Living Arts founding helped re-establish the street's entertainment culture and ushered ...
2139 East Cumberland Street, Kensington HABS PA-6793: Tacony Evangelical Lutheran Church 6816 Jackson Street HABS PA-6692-D: University Lutheran Church of the Incarnation: 3637 Chestnut Street Lutheran Church of the Holy Communion: 2110 Chestnut Street
Lower North Philadelphia is a section of Philadelphia that is immediately north of Center City and below Upper North Philadelphia and can be described as a section of Philadelphia that was designated as a "Model City" target, in hopes of overcoming poverty and blight through a federal funding program since 1966. Bounded by Spring Garden Street ...
Philadelphia portal; Official website; Trinity Church, Oxford data from the Philadelphia Architects and Buildings (PAB) project of the Athenaeum of Philadelphia; Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. PA-17, "Trinity Church, Oxford (Episcopal), 6900–6902 Oxford Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA", 5 photos, 1 color transparency, 7 measured drawings, 4 data pages, 2 photo ...
Oxford Circle, along with Castor Gardens, Mayfair, and Tacony, was originally part of Oxford Township and was one of the early suburbs of Philadelphia. [3] The area, which included waterways such as the Tacony Creek and Wissinoming Creek, had been mostly utilized for farming up until the time that the land was sold off to developers just prior to World War II. [4]
The emergency room entrance at Pennsylvania Hospital at 9th and Spruce streets. Pennsylvania Hospital is a private, non-profit, 515-bed teaching hospital located at 800 Spruce Street in Center City Philadelphia, The hospital was founded on May 11, 1751 by Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Bond, and was the second established public hospital (first was Bellevue) but had the first surgical ...