Society Hill
The neighborhood between Walnut, South, Front and 8th Streets. Bordering I-95, it is said to contain the largest concentration of original 18th and early 19th century architecture in the United States.
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717 South Columbus Boulevard Website Just south of Penn’s Landing, Dockside has 13 stories of apartments above a three-story parking garage. Dockside is built on Pier 30, supported by pilings embedded in the Delaware River…
1 South Street
Believed to be the first docking point of William Penn in 1682, this stretch of waterfront land represents Philadelphia’s largest attempt to develop a riverside park along the Delaware. Renowned…
The Independence Seaport Museum, then known as the Port of History Museum, opened its current building in 1978 as part of the newly constructed Penn’s Landing public waterfront space. Beyond…
These three 31-story condominium towers, which sit atop a five-acre hill, act as the anchor that stimulated Society Hill neighborhood revitalization, the landmark achievement of Philadelphia city planner Ed Bacon.…
Columbus Ave.
The proposed Riverwalk Casino site is an 11.5-acre vacant plot of land just north of Festival Pier at Penn’s Landing and south of the newly constructed Waterfront Square condominiums. The…
Moored off Dock Street from 1847-1851.
This mobile house of worship was built in Bordentown NJ in 1847, and towed to Philadelphia’s bustling Dock Street wharf. Believed to be the…
Most early settlers lived in houses to be sure, but records indicate that many chose to live in caves, a practice which persisted past the 1680s.
According to Watson’s Annals,…
The concept for John Fitch's paddle powered steamboat emanated from a dream.
There was once an island right off Center City where Philadelphians went to bathe and frolic.
Rising in the middle of the river, Smith’s Island was about a block wide…
One of two fortifications built in 1747, the Association Battery was located at the foot of Wharton Street, with 27 cannons aimed out over the Delaware River to stop any…
The “Man Full of Trouble,” as its name suggests, probably catered to a fairly rowdy crowd in the 18th and early 19th century. The building had numerous tenants; in the…
South Broad Street and Carpenter Street Website 
Idea submitted by Patricia Bullard; photo courtesy of Flickr (Cavalier92)
The Philadelphia High School for the Creative and Performing Arts is a magnet…
