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The Old Patent Office Building is a historic building in Washington, D.C. that covers an entire city block between F and G Streets and 7th and 9th Streets NW in the Penn Quarter section of Chinatown. Built 1836–1867 in the Greek Revival style, the building first served as one of the earliest U.S. Patent Office buildings.
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.
The Jayne Estate Building, which was located near the Delaware River waterfront in Old City Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was built in 1870 to house eight stores that were operated by the estate of Dr. David Jayne (1799-1866), who became a millionaire by selling patent medicine.
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.
Its school became the Morgan Building; its dormitory became the Music Building. The Morgan Building later housed the School of Nursing. The Music Building was renovated and expanded into the Lerner Center, 2010. PA-6177 PA-6177-A PA-6177-B: Phi Delta Theta (now Jaffe History of Art Building) 28 Oswin W. Shelly 1900 1924 alterations
Location Year Type Notes Lower Swedish Cabin: Upper Darby, Drexel Hill: c. 1640–50: Cabin Possibly oldest log cabin or wooden house in Pennsylvania. Built by Swedish Settlers. Boelson Cottage: Philadelphia, Fairmount Park: c. 1678–84: House Oldest structure in Fairmount Park; possibly the oldest extant house in Philadelphia Wall House ...
History of old Germantown: with a description of its settlement and some account of its important persons, buildings and places connected with its development. Vol. 1. Germantown, Philadelphia: H. F. McCann. p. 453. Pennypacker, Samuel (1899). The Settlement of Germantown Pennsylvania and the Beginning of German Emigration to North America.
The Old City special services district stretches from Front to Sixth Streets between Walnut and Vine. [3] The Philadelphia Almanac and Citizens' Manual gives a larger set of boundaries to the Old City area, defined as the area within Spring Garden Street, 4th Street, the Delaware River, and Walnut Street. The Old City Redevelopment Area is ...