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  2. Reading Terminal Market - Wikipedia

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    Bassett's Ice Cream at Reading Terminal Market Harry Ochs Original Harry Ochs meat stand. Open-air markets have flourished in Philadelphia since its founding. Growth of the city demanded more markets, and the string of open-air markets extending from the Delaware River ran for six blocks, or one full mile, prompting the main street (then called 'High Street') to be renamed 'Market Street' in ...

  3. Wanamaker's - Wikipedia

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    The Wanamaker's flagship store, with its famous organ and eagle from the St. Louis World's Fair, was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1978. In 1992, a nonprofit group, the Friends of the Wanamaker Organ , was founded to promote the preservation, restoration and presentation of the famous pipe organ.

  4. 1700 Market - Wikipedia

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    1700 Market is a 32-story, Class A trophy office building totaling 841,172 square feet located in the heart of Center City, Philadelphia. Sitting on 1.39 acres, the property also includes a five-story; seven hundred and thirty-five (735) space parking garage.

  5. National Register of Historic Places listings in Downtown and ...

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    formerly the St. Louis Mart and Terminal Warehouse 106: St. Louis News Company: St. Louis News Company: September 16, 2010 : 1008–1010 Locust St. 107: St. Louis Post-Dispatch Building: St. Louis Post-Dispatch Building

  6. New Market and Head House - Wikipedia

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    New Market, as it was originally known, and later also known as Head House (or Headhouse) Market and Second Street Market, is an historic street market which is located on South 2nd Street between Pine and Lombard Streets in the Society Hill neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. With a history dating to 1745, it is one of the oldest ...

  7. Reading Terminal - Wikipedia

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    In 1889, the Philadelphia and Reading Railway decided to build a train depot, passenger station, and company headquarters on the corner of 12th and Market Streets. The move came eight years after the Pennsylvania Railroad opened its Broad Street Station several blocks away at 15th and Market Streets, and one year after the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad opened its 24th Street Station at 24th and ...

  8. Timeline of Philadelphia - Wikipedia

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    Philadelphia Athletics win World Series over Chicago Cubs Uptown Theater opens. Rodin Museum dedicated. [48] 1930 – Population: 1,950,961. [48] Pat’s King of Steaks opens. Inventor/originator of cheese steaks; Philadelphia Athletics win World Series over St Louis Cardinals; 1931 Municipal Auditorium opens. [48] Girard Trust Building constructed

  9. Soulard Farmers Market - Wikipedia

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    In 1779, the market began at a flat meadow where farmers came to sell their goods. [1] [3] [4] It was the third public marketplace in St. Louis. [1]Antoine Soulard, who was born in 1766 in Rochefort, France, was an aristocrat and former French military officer who escaped France to avoid the consequences of the French Revolution.