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The Tulpehocken Station Historic District is a historic area in the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.Large suburban houses were built in the area from about 1850 to 1900 in a variety of styles including Carpenter Gothic, Italianate, and Bracketed as part of the Picturesque Movement of architecture.
A 501(c)(3) organization, it is located in the Frankford neighborhood of Northeast Philadelphia. It was a founding member of the Pennsylvania Federation of Historical Societies . The society was organized in 1905, and chartered in 1920, for the purpose of promoting historical study, especially the social history and traditions of Frankford and ...
Interior view of Philadelphia Mills, 2016. Franklin Mall is designed in the shape of a thunderbolt in commemoration of Benjamin Franklin's kite-and-key experiment. The mall's former logo, when it was called Franklin Mills, included a red kite with a lightning bolt on the right side and the string ending on the letter "A" of "FRANKLIN".
Independence National Historical Park is a federally protected historic district in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that preserves several sites associated with the American Revolution and the nation's founding history. Administered by the National Park Service, the 55-acre (22 ha) [1] park comprises many of Philadelphia's most-visited historic ...
The Historical Society of Pennsylvania is a historical society founded in 1824. Membership was regulated by the statutory of the association. Article IV of the statute states that, "the members of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania shall be deemed qualified voters at the meetings and elections, who have subscribed to the Constitution, and who have paid all their dues to the Society".
In March 1905, a shop at 34 Deptford High Street was the scene of a double murder, which led to the first murder trial in Britain where fingerprint evidence played a crucial part. Brothers Albert and Alfred Stratton killed Thomas and Anna Farrow, an elderly couple who tended George Chapman's oil and colour shop (today a newsagent) during a robbery.
The Centennial District is a 700-acre section of West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States that contains the Philadelphia Zoo, the Please Touch Museum and the Mann Music Center. [1] The neighborhood sits on a section of town that was the location of the 1876 Centennial Exposition , which was 100 years after the founding of the United ...
The Ohio House, or the Ohio State Building, is an historic, American building that is located in west Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. It is listed on the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places [1] and is an inventoried structure within the Fairmount Park Historic District entry on the National Register of Historic Places. [2] [3]