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Over a period of two weeks in June 1776, Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence in a boarding house, known as the Graff or Declaration House, once located at 700 Market Street at the corner of 7th and Market streets. The mansion of Robert Morris, financier of the American Revolution, was located near 6th and Market Streets.
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]
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
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.
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.
Christ Church Burial Ground in Philadelphia is an important early-American cemetery. It is the final resting place of Benjamin Franklin and his wife, Deborah . Four other signers of the Declaration of Independence are buried here, Benjamin Rush , Francis Hopkinson , Joseph Hewes , and George Ross .
"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.