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Rittenhouse Square. Rittenhouse Square is a public park in Center City Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that is the center of the eponymous Rittenhouse neighborhood. The square is one of the five original open-space parks planned by William Penn and his surveyor Thomas Holme during the late 17th century. Together with Fitler Square, the Rittenhouse ...
April 8, 1991 [1] Historic RittenhouseTown, sometimes referred to as Rittenhouse Historic District, encompasses the remains of an early industrial community which was the site of the first paper mill in British North America. The mill was built in 1690 by William Rittenhouse and his son Nicholas on the north bank of Paper Mill Run (Monoshone ...
The Ramcat Historic District, also known as the Schuylkill Historic District, is a national historic district that is located in the Rittenhouse Square West neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The. Ramcat Historic District. , also known as the Schuylkill Historic District, is a national. historic district.
April 28, 1970 [1] The Philadelphia Art Alliance at University of the Arts was a multidisciplinary arts center located in the Rittenhouse Square section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was the oldest multidisciplinary arts center in the United States for visual, literary and performing arts. [2] In June 2024 the Alliance's parent institution ...
April 25, 1978. The Chateau Crillon Apartment House, also known as the Cohen Apartment House and the Rittenhouse 222 Apartments, is a historic high-rise building in the fashionable Rittenhouse Square section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. The 27-story building was designed by architect Horace Trumbauer in the Lombardic Romanesque ...
Walnut–Chancellor Historic District. / 39.95056°N 75.17583°W / 39.95056; -75.17583. The Walnut–Chancellor Historic District is a national historic district that is located in the Rittenhouse Square West neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania . It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
Columbus P. Knox (1923–1999) was a painter, muralist, illustrator and printmaker. He was a mainstay at the annual Rittenhouse Square Fine Arts Show in Philadelphia, the oldest outdoor art exhibition in the country. His works are in museums and private collections. Knox created his own style of painting: using brushstrokes that resembled a ...
39°58′28″N 75°09′33″W / 39.9744°N 75.1592°W / 39.9744; -75.1592 (Philadelphia School of Design for Women) Cabot. Edwin Forrest House, first home of the Philadelphia School of Design for Women, founded in 1848 by Sarah Peter, the only women's art and design college in the nation. 47. Edgar Allan Poe House.