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Kensington Branch of the Philadelphia YWCA is a historic YWCA building located in the Hugh neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1911 and expanded in 1916. It is a six-story, brick with terracotta trim building in the Colonial Revival style. The original three-story section was built as the Hoffman Memorial wing. [2]
This list of museums in Pennsylvania encompasses museums defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
Within Kensington, various sub-neighborhoods including Harrowgate, Lower Kensington, West Kensington.Central Kensington, or "the Heart of Kensington" as it is called in a recent Impact Services neighborhood plan, [8] stretches along Kensington Avenue from Tusculum and Somerset Streets to Tioga Street (see Impact Services plan [8] for a more accurate map).
The Please Touch Museum is a children's museum located in the Centennial District of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. The museum focuses on teaching children through interactive exhibits and special events, [ 1 ] mostly aimed at children seven years old and younger.
The museum was opened in 1940, founded by Charles Knox Smith (1845–1916), an oil and mining businessman, in his will. Smith was born in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia and began his career as a grocer's boy and as an oil wagon driver. He rose to become a partner in that oil firm and subsequently invested in his own oil brokerage ...
The theater's design features 14 theater boxes over those levels. When it opened in 1999, there are seven resident companies at the theater: Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, Harrisburg Choral Society, Harrisburg Opera Association, Market Square Concerts, Susquehanna Chorale, Theatre Harrisburg and The Wednesday Club.
The Wagner Free Institute of Science is a natural history museum at 1700 West Montgomery Avenue in north Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.Founded in 1855, it is a rare surviving example of a Victorian era scientific society, with a museum, research center, library, and educational facilities.
This district encompasses 143 contributing buildings that are located in the central business district and surrounding residential areas of New Kensington. Built roughly between 1891 and 1947, they are a mix of residential, commercial, institutional, and industrial properties that were designed in a variety of popular architectural styles, including Art Deco, Beaux-Arts, and Colonial Revival.