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The five-story building, which was built in 1907 from the designs of architect John T. Windrim, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. It was added to the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places on February 8, 1995. [2] The building is now occupied by luxury department clothing store Boyds Philadelphia.
John Timoney (1948–2016), Philadelphia police commissioner and Miami police chief; Gregory Tony (born 1978), Sheriff of Broward County, Florida [38] C. Delores Tucker (1927–2005), civil rights activist and Pennsylvania Secretary of State; Anna C. Verna (1931–2021), Philadelphia City Council member and president
John Drew (1827–1862), stage actor and theatre manager; John Drew, Jr. (1853–1927), stage actor; Louisa Lane Drew (1820–1897), actress and theatre owner; Louise Drew (1882–1954), stage actress; Sidney Drew (1863–1913), member of the Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Drew comedy team; Sidney Rankin Drew (1891–1918), actor and film director
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Greenwood Cemetery. The cemetery was established on December 9, 1869 [1] on 43 acres (170,000 m 2) on the estate of Commodore Stephen Decatur, Sr. known as "Mount Airy".The cemetery was founded by George Chandler Paul [3] of the fraternal organization, Knights of Pythias, for the interment of its members and others. [4]
Holy Sepulchre Cemetery is a Catholic cemetery owned by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia and located in Cheltenham Township, Pennsylvania. [1] It has a Philadelphia mailing address, 3301 West Cheltenham Avenue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, [2] but the grounds are in Cheltenham Township, Montgomery County. It was established in 1894 ...
The European forts and settlements in the Delaware River Valley, then known as New Sweden, c. 1650 A 1683 map of Philadelphia, which is believed to be the first city map created Philadelphia's seal in 1683 Penn's Treaty with the Indians, a 1772 portrait by Benjamin West now on display above the north door of the United States Capitol rotunda