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Currently known as 1515 Market Street, this was the first of the modern Penn Center buildings. [9] Four Penn Center: 1600 JFK Boulevard 275 feet (89 m) 20 floors 1964 Completely renovated in 2001. [10] Five Penn Center: 1601 Market Street 490 feet (149 m) 36 floors 1970 Tallest Penn Center building before the completion of the Mellon Bank ...
In 1842, an ordinance “made it an offense to drive or take into Logan, Penn, or Rittenhouse squares any ‘horse, cow, cart, wagon, carriage or wheelbarrow, except by permission, or place any wood, coal, rubbish, carrion, or offensive matter within either [sic] of the squares, or to climb on the trees, fences or gates . . . or to dig up the ...
Center City at night in May 2007 Logan Circle in 2011 Philadelphia City Hall at night in December 2012. Among Center City's neighborhoods and districts are Penn's Landing, Old City, Society Hill, South Street, Washington Square West, Market East, Chinatown, Logan Square, the Museum District (located along the Benjamin Franklin Parkway), Rittenhouse Square, Fitler Square, the Avenue of the Arts ...
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Washington Square, originally designated in 1682 as Southeast Square, is a 6.4 acres (2.6 ha) open-space park in Center City, Philadelphia, The southeast quadrant and one of the five original planned squares laid out on the city grid by William Penn's surveyor, Thomas Holme. It is part of both the Washington Square West and Society Hill ...
Broad Street Station (demolished 1953), NW corner of Broad and Market Streets, before 1901; Philadelphia architect Frank Furness greatly expanded the station in 1893. A 1903 photograph of the train-shed wall on Market Street from 15th Street to 16th Street 1700 block of Market Street in the Penn Center area west of City Hall
First Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia (1820, demolished 1939), SE corner 7th Street & Washington Square, John Haviland, architect. The First Presbyterian Church in the City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is located on 21st and Walnut Streets, built in an array of architectural styles of leading Philadelphia architects. The First ...
Logan Square is a neighborhood in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.Bounded by Market Street on the south, Spring Garden Street on the north, Broad Street on the east, and the Schuylkill River on the west, it occupies the northwestern quadrant of Center City.