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Stenton, also known as the James Logan Home, was the country home of James Logan, the first Mayor of Philadelphia and Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court during the colonial-era governance of the Province of Pennsylvania. The home is located at 4601 North 18th Street in the Logan neighborhood of North Philadelphia.
James Logan (20 October 1674 – 31 October 1751) was a Scots-Irish colonial American statesman, administrator, and scholar who served as the fourteenth mayor of Philadelphia and held a number of other public offices. Logan was born in the town of Lurgan in County Armagh, Ireland to Ulster Scots Quakers.
James Logan (trustee) (1864–1931), American school official; James Logan (writer) (1797–1872), Scottish author on Gaelic culture; James C. Logan (1914–1997), Grand Prytanis of Tau Kappa Epsilon from 1953 to 1957; James Harvey Logan (1841–1928), American horticulturist; James Richardson Logan (1819–1869), British lawyer and amateur ...
The area was once part of the plantation of James Logan, adviser to William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania.Modern transportation formed the community: the Broad Street subway, which opened in 1928, and a thriving network of streetcar and bus routes, allowed development of what was then considered one of the earliest suburban communities in Philadelphia, though the area is considered urban today.
It was designed by Jacques Gréber, a French landscape architect who converted Logan Square into a circle similar to the oval of the Place de la Concorde in Paris. [9] Philadelphia even modeled its Free Library and Family Court Building after the twin buildings of the Hôtel de Crillon and the Hôtel de la Marine in Paris.
James Logan (March 11, 1791 – December 6, 1859) was an early settler, politician, slaveowner and United States Indian agent in western Arkansas. Logan County was named for him in 1875. [ 1 ]
The Palace of Westminster, meeting place of the House of Commons and the House of Lords President of the United States Ronald Reagan addressing Parliament, 8 June 1982. This is a list of people who have addressed both Houses of the United Kingdom Parliament at the same time.
Logan Circle is a historic roundabout park and neighborhood of Washington, D.C., located in Northwest D.C. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The majority of Logan Circle is primarily residential, except for the highly-commercialized 14th Street corridor that passes through the western part of the neighborhood.