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The Philadelphia High School for Creative and Performing Arts, commonly known as CAPA, is a magnet school in South Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at the edge of the Christian Street Historic District. [2] It is a part of the School District of Philadelphia. Students major in one of seven areas: creative writing, instrumental music ...
Southwest Philadelphia (formerly Kingsessing Township) is a section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that can be described as extending from the western side of the Schuylkill River to the city line, with the northern border defined by the Philadelphia City Planning Commission as east from the city line along Baltimore Avenue moving south along ...
South Broad Street, looking towards Philadelphia City Hall, c. 1895 Armistice Day on Broad Street in 1918 Broad Street at night along the Avenue of the Arts in 2005 North Broad Street, looking towards City Hall in 2009 Broad Street's northern terminus on the border of Philadelphia and Cheltenham Township Philadelphia City Hall seen from North Broad Street in 2012 Broad Street in the Cecil B ...
There were as many as 84 A&P stores in the city, 20 being supermarkets and the others being cash and carry stores; this building is one of the last surviving of these, and it was among those which kept operating up until A&P entirely left the city in 1979–1980. [2]: 18 It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. [1]
211 S Columbus Blvd., Penn's Landing near Walnut St. pedestrian walkway and entrance to Independence Seaport Museum, Philadelphia 39°56′47″N 75°08′26″W / 39.94637°N 75.14065°W / 39.94637; -75.14065 ( Liberation of Jane John
A&P's first store outside New York City was opened just days after the disaster. The firm rapidly expanded; in 1875 A&P had stores in 16 cities. [12] In 1878, Gilman left the active management of the firm to Hartford. [13] By then, the firm operated 70 lavishly-equipped stores and a mail order business with combined annual sales of $1 million. [14]
The Divine Lorraine Hotel, also known as the Lorraine Apartments, stands at the corner of Broad Street and Fairmount Avenue in North Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.Designed by architect Willis G. Hale and built between 1892 and 1894, the building originally functioned as apartments, housing some of Philadelphia's wealthy residents.
The Fresh Grocer has locations on Chestnut Street and Broad Street in North Philadelphia. [3] [4] On August 1, 2013, The Fresh Grocer became a member of Wakefern. One of the stores was converted to the ShopRite name while the others retained the Fresh Grocer name. [5] The Fresh Grocer location in Wilmington, Delaware closed on December 9, 2019.