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Broad Street is a major arterial street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.The street runs for approximately 13 miles (21 km), beginning at the intersection of Cheltenham Avenue on the border of Cheltenham Township and the West/East Oak Lane neighborhoods of North Philadelphia to the Philadelphia Navy Yard in South Philadelphia.
The Broad Street Historic District is a historic district in Center City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It is bounded roughly by Juniper, Cherry, 15th, and Pine Streets, covering an area about one block on either side of Broad Street. [2] The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
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. Lorraine ...
In 1890, John Wanamaker built a warehouse at Broad and Carpenter to hold his goods, and ten years later he commissioned the monumental six-story factory at Broad and Washington that obliterated the earlier buildings. Five years earlier Caleb Milne built the largest of all, a 376 foot long factory that stretched from 10th to 11th Streets.
The Uptown Theater is an Art Deco building built in 1927. It is situated in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.Designed by the Philadelphia-based architectural firm of Magaziner, Eberhard & Harris, the theatre is located on 2240 N. Broad Street.
Broad Street Station at Broad & Market streets was the primary passenger terminal for the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) in Philadelphia from early December 1881 [1] to the 1950s. Located directly west of Philadelphia City Hall , the site is now occupied by the northwest section of Dilworth Park and the office towers of Penn Center .
HABS No. PA-5958, "North Philadelphia Station, 2900 North Broad Street, on northwest corner of Broad Street & Glenwood Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA", 72 photos, 16 data pages, 9 photo caption pages; HABS No. PA-5958-A, "North Philadelphia Station, Street Car Waiting House", 7 photos, 3 data pages, 2 photo caption pages
Former names: Philadelphia Opera House (1908-10) Metropolitan Opera House (1910-84) Philadelphia Evangelistic Center (1984-88): Address: 858 N Broad St Philadelphia, PA 19130-2234 ...