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Washington Square, originally designated in 1682 as Southeast Square, is a 6.4 acres (2.6 ha) open-space park in Center City, Philadelphia, The southeast quadrant and one of the five original planned squares laid out on the city grid by William Penn's surveyor, Thomas Holme. It is part of both the Washington Square West and Society Hill ...
In 1956, the Philadelphia Wanamaker's premiered a Christmas Light Show, a large musical and blinking light display several stories high, viewable from several levels of the building. Its popularity with Philadelphia parents and children, as well as tourists, ensured a continuous run, even after the building was sold to different business interests.
The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Philadelphia Philadelphia Continental Chapter of the SAR at a ceremony commemorating the birth of George Washington. The Tomb of the Unknown Revolutionary War Soldier, also known as the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier of the American Revolution, is a war memorial located within Washington Square in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Millions up and down the I-95 corridor awoke Tuesday morning to the perfect mood-setting Christmas Eve snow. Significant snow was expected across northern New England, and especially Maine, with ...
The Philadelphia television news crew members who died after their helicopter crashed in a southern New Jersey forest were returning from a trip to film a Christmas lights display, an investigator ...
Christmas lights in Verona, Italy. Trafalgar Square Christmas Tree with lights in London, England. Christmas lights (also known as fairy lights, festive lights or string lights) are lights often used for decoration in celebration of Christmas, often on display throughout the Christmas season including Advent and Christmastide.
Washington Square West is a neighborhood in Center City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.The neighborhood roughly corresponds to the area between 7th and Broad Streets and between Chestnut and South Streets, bordering on the Independence Mall tourist area directly northeast, Market East to the north, Old City and Society Hill to the East, Bella Vista directly south, Hawthorne to the ...
Washington Square West: Thomas U. Walter, architect 101: Princeton Club: Princeton Club: December 4, 1980 : 1221–1223 Locust Street: Washington Square West: Frank Furness, architect of 1223 Locust (1890). Lindley Johnson, architect of 1221 Locust (1891)