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The River Wards is a section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States located along the Delaware River to the northeast of Center City Philadelphia. 'River Wards' is the commonly used name for an area including several neighborhoods, such as Fishtown, Kensington, Port Richmond and Olde Richmond.
Central Kensington, or "the Heart of Kensington" as it is called in a recent Impact Services neighborhood plan, [8] stretches along Kensington Avenue from Tusculum and Somerset Streets to Tioga Street (see Impact Services plan [8] for a more accurate map). The area is known as the center of Kensington and was historically the commercial center ...
Harrowgate is a neighborhood in the River Wards section [1] of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, located immediately northeast of Kensington adjacent to Kensington Avenue. It is bordered by Feltonville, Juniata and Frankford to the north, Fairhill to the west, West Kensington and Kensington to the south, and Port Richmond and ...
A view north along the esplanade on Kensington. Kensington Boulevard extends a further five blocks north from East State, where it merges into Lawndale Drive; these block are not encompassed by the historic district at present. This portion of the boulevard was developed separately from the portions south of State Street, and lacks the ...
Captain Anthony Palmer originally laid out Kensington as a town in the 1730s. Palmer, an English merchant by way of Barbados, had come to colonial Pennsylvania about 1704, investing in land while continuing his mercantile business interests. He eventually turned to politics and was invited to join the Pennsylvania Council, which he did by 1710.
Several Friends meetings were founded in Pennsylvania in the early 1680s. [ a ] The Merion Friends Meeting House is the only surviving meeting house constructed before 1700. [ 3 ] Thirty-two surviving Pennsylvania meeting houses were constructed before 1800, and are listed individually on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) or as ...
HAMPTON — “Vibrant,” was the term used for the recently revealed conceptual design for the town’s proposed Hub community center. Its $18.8 million price tag appeared to be equally ...
This district encompasses 143 contributing buildings that are located in the central business district and surrounding residential areas of New Kensington. Built roughly between 1891 and 1947, they are a mix of residential, commercial, institutional, and industrial properties that were designed in a variety of popular architectural styles, including Art Deco, Beaux-Arts, and Colonial Revival.