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The Trocadero Theatre (opened as the Arch Street Opera House) is a historic theater located in Chinatown in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It offered musical comedies, vaudeville, opera, and burlesque. The Trocadero Theatre was refurbished for use as an art house cinema and fine arts theatre in 1970s, and by the 1990s had become an iconic venue ...
The street was called Mulberry Street in William Penn's original city grid, but it was renamed Arch in 1854. [1] [unreliable source?] Other parts of the street were once called Holme and Tioga streets. [citation needed] In the 1950s and 1960s, Arch from 6th to 11th Streets was known as Radio Row, after its extensive number of electronic goods ...
There are 600 properties and districts listed on the National Register in Philadelphia, including 67 National Historic Landmarks. Center City includes 147 of these properties and districts, including 34 National Historic Landmarks; the city's remaining properties and districts are listed elsewhere.
The house sits on Arch Street, several blocks from Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia. The front part of the building was built around 1740, in the Pennsylvania colonial style, with the stair hall and the rear section added 10 to 20 years later.
Arch Street Friends Meeting House. June 23, 2011 : Center City 302–338 Arch Street Independence Mall ... North Philadelphia 21st St. & Fairmount Ave.
3700 Chestnut Street HABS PA-1099: Tenth Presbyterian Church: 1700 Spruce Street Completed 1856, John McArthur Jr., architect Altered 1893, Frank Miles Day, architect Wooden spire removed 1912 Third Reformed Presbyterian: 3024 Byberry Road Union Tabernacle Presbyterian 2036–2038 East Cumberland Street HABS PA-6787: Wissahickon Presbyterian Church
The African American Museum in Philadelphia (AAMP) is notable as the first museum funded and built by a municipality to help preserve, interpret and exhibit the heritage of African Americans. Opened during the 1976 Bicentennial celebrations, the AAMP is located in historic Philadelphia on Arch Street, a few blocks away from the Liberty Bell. [3]
The Horwitz-Wasserman Holocaust Memorial Plaza is a Holocaust memorial park located at the intersection of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, 16th Street and Arch Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The plaza includes the Monument to the Six Million Jewish Martyrs, which was dedicated in 1964, [ 1 ] as well as several new elements that were added ...