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Drexel University's "Running Free Horses" sculpture (I walk by it sometimes). By Henry Mitchell (1915-1980); Location: Friel Athletic Education Center. You may spy a very little man under a heavy bronze hoof.
City Hall in Broad Street in the Center City area of Philadelphia, PA
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Four story staircase reminiscent of the classic "double helix" shape of DNA at Constantine N. Papdakis, Integrated Sciences Building, Drexel University, 33rd and Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia, PA
Taken from an American Airlines jet. This image includes a small portion of Philadelphia. Most of Center City and its skyscrapers are included. Also some of the vast swath of row homes in many neighborhoods on the left. Across the Schuylkill River is University City and the beginning of another large concentration of row homes.According to various sources, Philadelphia is generally considered to have over 100 distinct neighborhoods, with some estimates reaching well over 100, depending on how neighborhoods are defined and delineated. A few are included in the tags to this photo.
Philadelphia | PA | USA (where the American Declaration of Independence was signed)
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Benjamin Franklin Bridge | PA/NJ | PA | US
About the bridge:
The Benjamin Franklin Bridge, originally named the Delaware River Bridge, is a suspension bridge across the Delaware River connecting Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Camden, New Jersey.
Work began on January 6, 1922. At the peak of construction, 15 of the 1,300 workers died during its construction. The bridge opened to traffic on July 1, 1926 on the nation’s 150th anniversary. At completion, its 1,750-foot (533-meter) span was the world's longest for a suspension bridge, a distinction it held until the opening of the Ambassador Bridge in 1929.
The name was changed to "Benjamin Franklin Bridge" in 1955, as a second Delaware River suspension bridge connecting Philadelphia and New Jersey was under construction (Walt Whitman Bridge).
Total length: 2,917.86 meters (9,573 feet)
Clearance above: 5.12 meters (16.8 feet)
Clearance below: 41.19
Philadelphia | PA | USA
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Elstowe Manor | Melrose Park | PA | USA
Elstowe Manor was built in 1898 at the location where "Needles", the former family summer home of William L. Elkins had stood. Elkins, a prominent Philadelphia businessman, was integral in the formation of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and SEPTA. The 45 room Manor was built in the style of Italian High Renaissance. The estate contains seven buildings, the most notable being Elstowe Manor and Chelten House, both Horace Trumbauer designed mansions. With the mansion Trumbauer also designed the wrought iron gates at the entrance of the estate along with a small gatehouse, a powerhouse and an eight car garage.
In 1932 William H. Elkins, grandson of William L. Elkins, sold the Elstowe manor property to the Dominican Sisters of St. Catherine de' Ricci.
The Sisters operated both buildings (known as the Dominican Retreat House) as a women’s religious retreat and preserved the grounds and historical integrity of the buildings.
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Longwood Gardens | Kennet Square | PA | USA
What you you may not know about Longwood Gardens:
Longwood Gardens consists of over 1,077 acres of gardens, woodlands, and meadows in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, United States in the Brandywine Creek Valley.
Industrialist Pierre S. du Pont (1870–1954) purchased the property from the Peirce family in 1906 to save the arboretum from being sold for lumber. He made it his private estate, and from 1906 until the 1930s, du Pont added extensively to the property.
According to his will, he founded Longwood Foundation Inc. and left most of his estate "for the maintenance and improvement of the gardens." Upon du Pont's unexpected death April 5, 1954, Henry B. du Pont, president of the Longwood Foundation, announced, "There will be no change in our long-standing policy of opening the gardens and greenhouse to the public every day in the week."
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The Paul Peck Alumni Center, Drexel University, was originally designed by Frank Furness as the Centennial Bank
Drexel University. Bellet Building 1505 Race Street Philadelphia, PA 19102 #LetsGuide
That vintage feel of evening shuttering the doors with steam blowing across the body of a person passing by those unopened doors of this empty university while online advertisements ring in my ears of graduation incentives.
Philadelphia | PA | USA
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This is Philadelphia, PA.
In 1682 William Penn chose the left bank of the Schuylkill River upon which he founded the planned city of Philadelphia on lands purchased from the native Delaware nation. It is a designated Pennsylvania Scenic River, and its whole length was once part of the Delaware people's southern territories and the historic and economically impactful Schuylkill Canal
This is a tunnel that leads underneath Philadelphia's Art Museum.
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Spring Garden Tunnel
It used to be a trolley tunnel, and each side of the tunnel was used for one direction and one track. When the trolley route was abandoned and turned into a tunnel they used both sides for traffic in the same direction for awhile but eventually ended up with just one lane.
Legend has it, beneath the tunnel is a fully built and never used subway station. Also, there is a doorway about halfway through the tunnel that leads to a room beneath the fountain in Eakins Oval.
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This is an escalator on Temple University's Main Campus leading down into Cecil B. Moore subway station of the Broad Street Line in Philadelphia.
Philadelphia | PA | USA
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Philadelphia | PA | USA
Temple University Main Campus
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The Paul Peck Alumni Center at Drexel University was built in 1876 as Centennial National Bank. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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Philadelphia | PA | USA (Interior of City Hall)
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3 Great Facts about Philadelphia's City Hall
1.) Construction of City Hall took 30 years and cost nearly $25 million.
After years of political wrangling about the location, construction began on what was to become City Hall in 1871. But completion of the project stretched into the following century, and the political machine in the city led to numerous delays and cost overruns, with the price tag eventually reaching more than $24 million. The interior of the building was finally finished in 1901.
2.) It was (sort of) the tallest building in the world for a bit.
The designers of City Hall, including Scottish architect John McArthur, Jr., intended for the building to be the tallest in the world upon its completion. But its long gestation period allowed the 555-foot Washington Monument (which opened in 1886, then reopened in 1888) and the 984-foot Eiffel Tower (completed in 1889) to take the title. Once a massive, 37-foot statue of Penn was erected atop City Hall in 1894, however, it reached 548 feet tall and surpassed the Ulm Münster (530 feet) in Baden-Württemberg, Germany as the tallest occupied building in the world (although it wouldn’t officially count until opening in 1901). The 612-foot tall Singer Building in Manhattan debuted in 1908 and held the title for one year.
3.) It IS the tallest masonry building in the world
Constructed of brick, marble, and granite, with no steel or iron framing, City Hall is the tallest masonry building in the world and one of the largest overall. More than 88 million bricks were used in the building’s construction, and the walls of the tower are up to 22 feet thick near its base.
3537 Lancaster Ave
Philadelphia, PA
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3412 Race St
Philadelphia, PA
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