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Sansom Row is a row of historic houses located at 3402 to 3436 Sansom Street in the University City neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. History and architectural features [ edit ]
The block of row houses is an important example of Philadelphia’s architectural and developmental history. [3] Sansom erected the buildings on what was then the outskirts of Philadelphia. To attract tenants he paved Sansom Street at his own expense. He then hired Benjamin Latrobe to design another row on the 700 block of Walnut Street. A ...
Along Walnut Street Sansom built Union Row and along Sansom Street Thomas Carstairs built Carstairs Row. The rows, now part of Jewelers' Row, were block long rows of houses similar to row houses in the United Kingdom. The row houses were new to the United States as well and when built elsewhere in the country were called "Philadelphia rows". [22]
Location of Center City in Philadelphia. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Center City, Philadelphia.. 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.
Though statewide row offices don't generate the buzz of a presidential or gubernatorial race, time and again they've served as proving grounds. What history tells us about Pa. row offices, and why ...
Sansom Row; Slate Roof House; Solomon House (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) Spring Garden, Philadelphia; T. Henry O. Tanner House; Dolley Todd House; Trinity house ...
Clancey Cornell, archival projects manager at Skid Row History Museum & Archive . Clancey Cornell LA POVERTY DEPARTMENT for IMAGE Magazine, May 2024. Photographer: Nichelle Dailey.
For more than 100 years, single-room occupancy hotels have housed thousands of people in Skid Row. Now, L.A. leaders are saying their time has passed. Some fear losing them will displace their ...