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The properties are distributed across all of Philadelphia's 12 planning districts. East/West Oak Lane, Olney, Upper North and Lower North are included as North Philadelphia. Kensington, Near Northeast and Far Northeast are part of Northeast Philadelphia. Roxborough/Manayunk and Germantown/Chestnut Hill are a part of Northwest 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. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map.
Near Northeast Philadelphia, is a section of the city of Philadelphia. When combined with the Far Northeast, to be " Northeast Philadelphia ", the 2000 Census shows that the combined area has a sizable percentage of the city's 1.547 million people [ 19 ] — a population of between 300,000 and 450,000, depending on how the area is defined.
Today Market East is a major shopping district and transportation hub for the city, as well as serving the convention district. The area remained relatively stable until the late 1940s and early 1950s, when shifts in demographics caused a decline in the area's business, due to increased suburbanization and the trend in the retail sector away from the inner city and more towards the suburban ...
Liberty Place is a skyscraper complex in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.The complex is composed of a 61-story, 945-foot (288 m) skyscraper called One Liberty Place, a 58-story, 848-foot (258 m) skyscraper called Two Liberty Place, a two-story shopping mall called the Shops at Liberty Place, and the 14-story Westin Philadelphia Hotel.
The Philadelphia History Museum was a public history museum located in Center City, Philadelphia from 1938 until 2018. From 1938 until 2010, the museum was known as the Atwater Kent Museum . The museum occupied architect John Haviland 's landmark Greek Revival structure built in 1824–1826 for the Franklin Institute . [ 2 ]
The One Liberty Observation Deck, also called Philly from the Top, opened to the public on November 28, 2015. [ 3 ] The observation deck is fully enclosed and offers 360 degree panoramic views of the city from 883 feet above street level, which was the highest public access level and the tallest standing building attraction in Philadelphia as ...
The Philadelphia skyline from the South Street Bridge, January 2020. Philadelphia (/ f ɪ l ə ˈ d ɛ l f i. ə / ⓘ), colloquially referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the sixth-most populous city in the United States, with a population of 1,603,797 in the 2020 census.