Naval Hospital Philadelphia, Convalescent Ward, South side of Jackman ...
Significance: Building 54 is one among a connected complex of 12 Convalescent Ward buildings (47-58) that were constructed in 1945 to house convalescent wards and specialized therapeutic facilities for injured ... More
Marks-Dunbar House, 849 South Front Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia...
Survey number: HABS PA-1597 Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Marks-Dunbar House, 849 South Front Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia...
Survey number: HABS PA-1597 Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Christ Church, 22-26 North Second Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia C...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-294 Survey number: HABS PA-1071 Building/structure dates: 1744 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1834 Subsequent Work Building/stru... More
Christ Church, 22-26 North Second Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia C...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-294 Survey number: HABS PA-1071 Building/structure dates: 1744 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1834 Subsequent Work Building/stru... More
Christ Church, 22-26 North Second Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia C...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-294 Survey number: HABS PA-1071 Building/structure dates: 1744 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1834 Subsequent Work Building/stru... More
Christ Church, 22-26 North Second Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia C...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-294 Survey number: HABS PA-1071 Building/structure dates: 1744 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1834 Subsequent Work Building/stru... More
Christ Church, 22-26 North Second Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia C...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-294 Survey number: HABS PA-1071 Building/structure dates: 1744 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1834 Subsequent Work Building/stru... More
Christ Church, 22-26 North Second Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia C...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-294 Survey number: HABS PA-1071 Building/structure dates: 1744 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1834 Subsequent Work Building/stru... More
Christ Church, 22-26 North Second Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia C...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-294 Survey number: HABS PA-1071 Building/structure dates: 1744 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1834 Subsequent Work Building/stru... More
Christ Church, 22-26 North Second Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia C...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-294 Survey number: HABS PA-1071 Building/structure dates: 1744 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1834 Subsequent Work Building/stru... More
Frankford Arsenal, Building No. 240, Northeast corner Hagner Road & Cl...
Significance: The earliest portions of Building 240 were constructed in the 1860s as a powder magazine. The building is thus associated with one of the most basic functions of Frankford Arsenal, the production... More
Gloria Dei (Church), Rectory, 929 South Water Street, Philadelphia, Ph...
Survey number: HABS PA-120-A Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Second Bank of the United States, 420 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, P...
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Second Bank of the United States, 420 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, P...
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Second Bank of the United States, 420 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, P...
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Second Bank of the United States, 420 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, P...
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Second Bank of the United States, 420 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, P...
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Overbrook Railroad Station, City Avenue at Sixty-third Street, Philade...
Survey number: HABS PA-6143 Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Overbrook Railroad Station, City Avenue at Sixty-third Street, Philade...
Survey number: HABS PA-6143 Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Vernon, Germantown Avenue, Vernon Park, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Cou...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-2, FN-3 Survey number: HABS PA-7-2 Building/structure dates: 17h1 Initial Construction
Vernon, Germantown Avenue, Vernon Park, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Cou...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-2, FN-3 Survey number: HABS PA-7-2 Building/structure dates: 17h1 Initial Construction
Naval Base Philadelphia-Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, Dry Dock No. 4, B...
Significance: This rectangular drydock has a vertical concrete wall and a flat concrete floor formed on steel pilings. It is an example of a large WWII era drydock built using the tremie method developed by F.R... More
Naval Base Philadelphia-Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, Dry Dock No. 4, B...
Significance: This rectangular drydock has a vertical concrete wall and a flat concrete floor formed on steel pilings. It is an example of a large WWII era drydock built using the tremie method developed by F.R... More
Market Street Elevated Railway, Allison Substation, Intersection of Ma...
Significance: It is one of approximately 10 electrical conversion-and-distribution stations built in Philadelphia between 1903-08 by and for the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company. Located on the north side of ... More
University of Pennsylvania, Dental Hall, 3300 Smith Walk, Philadelphia...
Significance: The Dental Hall was the first purpose-built school of dentistry in the United States. When the Dental School moved to a new building in 1915, it was converted to house the School of Architecture, ... More
Church of the Advocate, Northwest corner of Eighteenth & Diamond Stree...
Significance: It is the consummate example of French Gothic Revival architecture in America dating from late in the 19th century. While the sanctuary's unique form drawn from a variety of French sources is sign... More
Church of the Advocate, Northwest corner of Eighteenth & Diamond Stree...
Significance: It is the consummate example of French Gothic Revival architecture in America dating from late in the 19th century. While the sanctuary's unique form drawn from a variety of French sources is sign... More
Mount Pleasant, East Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County...
Survey number: HABS PA-1130 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000685
Mount Pleasant, East Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County...
Survey number: HABS PA-1130 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000685
Mount Pleasant, East Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County...
Survey number: HABS PA-1130 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000685
Mount Pleasant, East Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County...
Survey number: HABS PA-1130 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000685
Mount Pleasant, East Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County...
Survey number: HABS PA-1130 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000685
Mount Pleasant, East Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County...
Survey number: HABS PA-1130 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000685
Mount Pleasant, East Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County...
Survey number: HABS PA-1130 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000685
Paschall House, Spruce & Mattis Streets, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co...
Significance: This row house-with Stafford's Tavern next door-was built about 1760 and transferred from Michael Sisk, plasterer, to Benjamin Paschall, cordwainer, when new the half gambrel roof, shed dormer and... More
Henry Avenue Bridge, Spanning Wissahickon Creek & Lincoln Drive at Hen...
Significance: This single-span, two-ribbed reinforced concrete arch bridge soars high over the Wissahickon Creek in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park. It is a late example of a masonry-clad reinforced concrete arch... More
Girard Row (Houses), 326-334 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-240 Survey number: HABS PA-1330
St. Peter's Protestant Episcopal Church, Third & Pine Streets, Philade...
Significance: St. Peter's Church was built between 1758-1761 as a Chapel of Christ church and maintained until 1832 when a separation from the parent body was effected. Survey number: HABS PA-1118 Building/st... More
St. Peter's Protestant Episcopal Church, Third & Pine Streets, Philade...
Significance: St. Peter's Church was built between 1758-1761 as a Chapel of Christ church and maintained until 1832 when a separation from the parent body was effected. Survey number: HABS PA-1118 Building/st... More
Philadelphia National Cemetery, Haines Street & Limekiln Pike, Philade...
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John & James Dobson Carpet Mill (West Parcel), 4041-4055 Ridge Avenue,...
Significance: The John & James Dobson Carpet Mill is one of the most important industrial complexes surviving from the mid-to-late-19th-century manufacturing boom in Philadelpha. Begun in the 1850s, the mill's ... More
John & James Dobson Carpet Mill (West Parcel), 4041-4055 Ridge Avenue,...
Significance: The John & James Dobson Carpet Mill is one of the most important industrial complexes surviving from the mid-to-late-19th-century manufacturing boom in Philadelpha. Begun in the 1850s, the mill's ... More
John & James Dobson Carpet Mill (West Parcel), 4041-4055 Ridge Avenue,...
Significance: The John & James Dobson Carpet Mill is one of the most important industrial complexes surviving from the mid-to-late-19th-century manufacturing boom in Philadelpha. Begun in the 1850s, the mill's ... More
Philadelphia Trust, Safe Deposit & Insurance Company, 415 Chestnut Str...
Survey number: HABS PA-1181 Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Free Library of Philadelphia, Falls of Schuylkill Branch, 3501 Midvale...
Significance: Completed in 1913, the Falls of the Schuylkill Branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia was one of twenty-five branch libraries built through an endowment from industrialist-turned-philanthropis... More
Free Library of Philadelphia, Falls of Schuylkill Branch, 3501 Midvale...
Significance: Completed in 1913, the Falls of the Schuylkill Branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia was one of twenty-five branch libraries built through an endowment from industrialist-turned-philanthropis... More
Grumblethorpe Tenant House, 5269 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, Phil...
Survey number: HABS PA-7-6 Building/structure dates: 18t1 Subsequent Work
John B. Stetson Company, Germantown & Columbia Avenues, Philadelphia, ...
Significance: The significance of the Stetson site lies in its association with the manufacture of the Stetson hats and with the paternalistic humanitarianism of John B. Stetson, a progressive industrialist of ... More
John & James Dobson Carpet Mill (West Parcel), Building No. 22, 4041-4...
Significance: Significant as a document of the first large scale expansion of the Dobsons' mill following the Civil War. The building was built as the principle building for Mill No. 1 and displays the oldest v... More
John Bartram House & Garden, Greenhouse, 54th Street & LIndbergh Boule...
Significance: The greenhouse at Bartram's Garden was constructed by John Bartram (1699-1777), the well-known early American botanist and explorer, in 1760-1761. Despite its later incorporation into a larger st... More
St. Charles Borromeo Roman Catholic Church, 900 South Twentieth Street...
Survey number: HABS PA-1546 Public domain photograph of a Roman Catholic church building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Laurel Hill Cemetery, 3822 Ridge Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co...
Significance: Philadelphia's Laurel Hill Cemetery constitutes the second major rural cemetery in the United States. Begun in 1836, it is the earliest known work of John Notman, an important nineteenth-century a... More
Laurel Hill Cemetery, 3822 Ridge Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co...
Significance: Philadelphia's Laurel Hill Cemetery constitutes the second major rural cemetery in the United States. Begun in 1836, it is the earliest known work of John Notman, an important nineteenth-century a... More
Laurel Hill Cemetery, 3822 Ridge Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co...
Significance: Philadelphia's Laurel Hill Cemetery constitutes the second major rural cemetery in the United States. Begun in 1836, it is the earliest known work of John Notman, an important nineteenth-century a... More
Laurel Hill Cemetery, 3822 Ridge Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co...
Significance: Philadelphia's Laurel Hill Cemetery constitutes the second major rural cemetery in the United States. Begun in 1836, it is the earliest known work of John Notman, an important nineteenth-century a... More
Laurel Hill Cemetery, 3822 Ridge Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co...
Significance: Philadelphia's Laurel Hill Cemetery constitutes the second major rural cemetery in the United States. Begun in 1836, it is the earliest known work of John Notman, an important nineteenth-century a... More
Laurel Hill Cemetery, 3822 Ridge Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co...
Significance: Philadelphia's Laurel Hill Cemetery constitutes the second major rural cemetery in the United States. Begun in 1836, it is the earliest known work of John Notman, an important nineteenth-century a... More
Laurel Hill Cemetery, 3822 Ridge Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co...
Significance: Philadelphia's Laurel Hill Cemetery constitutes the second major rural cemetery in the United States. Begun in 1836, it is the earliest known work of John Notman, an important nineteenth-century a... More
Laurel Hill Cemetery, 3822 Ridge Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co...
Significance: Philadelphia's Laurel Hill Cemetery constitutes the second major rural cemetery in the United States. Begun in 1836, it is the earliest known work of John Notman, an important nineteenth-century a... More
Daniel F. Waters Germantown Dye Works, Building E, 37-55 East Wister S...
Significance: Building E is the last building William Mills erected. Along with Buildings C and D, Building E forms a nucleus of older industrial buildings associated with William Mills. Survey number: HAER P... More
William Stiles House, 310 Cypress Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia C...
Survey number: HABS PA-1371 Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Thomas Picklands House, 307 South Third Street, Philadelphia, Philadel...
Survey number: HABS PA-1357 Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
John Coltrane House, 1511 North Thirty-third Street, Philadelphia, Phi...
Significance: It has cultural significance as the long-time residence of John W. Coltrane, the groundbreaking and innovative African-American jazz musician (1926-1967). Additionally, the building is a superlati... More
North Front Street Area Study, 2-66 North Front Street (Commercial Bui...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Brick Arch Culvert over Master Street, Spanning dirt slope of Master S...
Significance: This single-span skew arch culvert features brick ribs, semi-counsel squared stone masonry spandrel walls, and ashlar voussoirs. It was built to provide access to important water mains and is skew... More
Greater Straightaway Baptist Church, 1717 North Seventh Street, east s...
Significance: The Greater Straightaway Baptist Church underscores the movement of various ethnic and racial groups in and out of North Philadelphia throughout its history. The church was constructed as a Jewis... More
Frankford Arsenal, Building No. 211, Bridge & Tacony Streets, Philadel...
Significance: Established in 1816, the Frankford Arsenal served for three decades as a depot for the storage and repair of arms, accoutrements, and ammunition for the United States Army. From 1849 to 1976, the... More
Philadelphia County Prison, Debtors' Wing, Reed Street & Passyunk Aven...
Significance: The Debtors' Wing was one of the finest examples of Egyptian Revival architecture in America. It was modeled after the Temple of Amenophis III, on the Isle D' Elephantine on the Nile. It was desig... More
Philadelphia County Prison, Debtors' Wing, Reed Street & Passyunk Aven...
Significance: The Debtors' Wing was one of the finest examples of Egyptian Revival architecture in America. It was modeled after the Temple of Amenophis III, on the Isle D' Elephantine on the Nile. It was desig... More
Henry O. Tanner House, 2908 West Diamond Street, Philadelphia, Philade...
Significance: Henry Ossawa Tanner was an eminent black artist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The house is a National Historic Landmark. Survey number: HABS PA-1740 National Register of Historic P... More
Naval Hospital Philadelphia, Galley & Mess Hall, South side of Myers R...
Public domain photograph of industrial architecture, factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Hinckley Knitting Mills, Building B, 21-35 East Wister Street, Philade...
Significance: Built in 1876, Building B, a three-story brick and stone storehouse, is one of the two surviving industrial structures built within the mill complex's period of significance. Survey number: HAER ... More
Compton, Meadowbrook Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA
Significance: Compton was a summer home of the Morris family, who have long been associated with the Philadelphia society. The building, designed by the well-known architect, Theophilus Parsons Chandler, Jr., i... More
Free Library of Philadelphia, Cobbs Creek Branch, 5800 Cobbs Creek Par...
Significance: Completed in 1925, the Cobbs Creek Branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia was the next to last of twenty-five branch libraries built through an endowment from industrialist-turned-philanthropi... More
Frankford Arsenal, Building No. 40, South of Tacony Street between Bri...
Significance: Established in 1816, the Frankford Arsenal served for three decades as a depot for the storage and repair of arms, accoutrements, and ammunition for the United States Army. From 1849 to 1976, the... More
Frankford Arsenal, Building No. 40, South of Tacony Street between Bri...
Significance: Established in 1816, the Frankford Arsenal served for three decades as a depot for the storage and repair of arms, accoutrements, and ammunition for the United States Army. From 1849 to 1976, the... More
Philadelphia & Reading Railroad, Wissahickon Creek Viaduct, Spanning W...
Significance: The Wissahickon Creek Viaduct marks the beginning of a resurgence in major stone arch bridge construction on American railroads after the panic of 1873. Unprocessed Field note material exists for... More
Frankford Arsenal, Building No. 46, Bridge & Tacony Streets, Philadelp...
Significance: Building 46, constructed in 1915 as a tin shop, is associated with the large scale expansion of Frankford Arsenal that resulted from the United States' entry into World War I. Served as the instr... More
Workman Place, 742-746 South Front Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia ...
Significance: Workman Place is a group of tenement houses arranged around a court. 742-46 S. Front Street houses were built for John Workman, a lumber merchant. Seven smaller tenements (Tenements 1-7) at rear o... More
Frankford Arsenal, Building No. 66, North of Benet Road & east of Walb...
Significance: This small magazine is peripherally associated with the development and testing of ammunition and arms at Frankford Arsenal, the U.S. Army's principal manufacturer of small arms ammunition. Surve... More
Norris-Cadwalader House, 240 South Fourth Street, Philadelphia, Philad...
Survey number: HABS PA-1352 Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Twelfth Street Meeting House, 20 South Twelfth Street, Philadelphia, P...
Significance: Typical of early Quaker meeting houses, the Twelfth Street Meeting House reused parts of the 1755 Greater Meeting House. It was in continuous use until its dismantling in 1972 and reconstruction a... More
Twelfth Street Meeting House, 20 South Twelfth Street, Philadelphia, P...
Significance: Typical of early Quaker meeting houses, the Twelfth Street Meeting House reused parts of the 1755 Greater Meeting House. It was in continuous use until its dismantling in 1972 and reconstruction a... More
Twelfth Street Meeting House, 20 South Twelfth Street, Philadelphia, P...
Significance: Typical of early Quaker meeting houses, the Twelfth Street Meeting House reused parts of the 1755 Greater Meeting House. It was in continuous use until its dismantling in 1972 and reconstruction a... More
Twelfth Street Meeting House, 20 South Twelfth Street, Philadelphia, P...
Significance: Typical of early Quaker meeting houses, the Twelfth Street Meeting House reused parts of the 1755 Greater Meeting House. It was in continuous use until its dismantling in 1972 and reconstruction a... More
Twelfth Street Meeting House, 20 South Twelfth Street, Philadelphia, P...
Significance: Typical of early Quaker meeting houses, the Twelfth Street Meeting House reused parts of the 1755 Greater Meeting House. It was in continuous use until its dismantling in 1972 and reconstruction a... More
Twelfth Street Meeting House, 20 South Twelfth Street, Philadelphia, P...
Significance: Typical of early Quaker meeting houses, the Twelfth Street Meeting House reused parts of the 1755 Greater Meeting House. It was in continuous use until its dismantling in 1972 and reconstruction a... More
Twelfth Street Meeting House, 20 South Twelfth Street, Philadelphia, P...
Significance: Typical of early Quaker meeting houses, the Twelfth Street Meeting House reused parts of the 1755 Greater Meeting House. It was in continuous use until its dismantling in 1972 and reconstruction a... More
Bank Row, 407-431 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, ...
Survey number: HABS PA-1667 Public domain photograph - historic landmark, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Naval Hospital Philadelphia, Obstetrics Ward, South side of Park Avenu...
Significance: Building 43, the Obstetrics Ward, dating to 1946, is part of a connected complex of six Dependent Hospital Unit buildings (40-45) constructed in 1945 and 1946 to house medical services and patient... More
Frankford Arsenal, Building No. 35, South of Tacony Street between Bri...
Significance: Established in 1816, the Frankford Arsenal served for three decades as a depot for the storage and repair of arms, accoutrements, and ammunition for the United States Army. From 1849 to 1976, the... More
The New Public Buildings, Penn Square, Broad & Market Streets, Philade...
Survey number: HABS PA-1530 Building/structure dates: 1877 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1901 Subsequent Work
The New Public Buildings, Penn Square, Broad & Market Streets, Philade...
Survey number: HABS PA-1530 Building/structure dates: 1877 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1901 Subsequent Work
The New Public Buildings, Penn Square, Broad & Market Streets, Philade...
Survey number: HABS PA-1530 Building/structure dates: 1877 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1901 Subsequent Work
The New Public Buildings, Penn Square, Broad & Market Streets, Philade...
Survey number: HABS PA-1530 Building/structure dates: 1877 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1901 Subsequent Work
International Exhibition of 1876, St. George's House, State's Drive, P...
Significance: St. George's House, one of three structures erected at the foot of George's Hill by the British Government for the 1876 Centennial, was used as offices and as a residence by the English commission... More
Church of the Gesu (Roman Catholic), Eighteenth & Thompson Streets, Ph...
Survey number: HABS PA-1724 Public domain photograph of a Roman Catholic church building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Mennonite Meeting House, 6119 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, Philade...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Mennonite Meeting House, 6119 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, Philade...
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