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Delve into Grays Ferry
The district Grays Ferry of Philadelphia in Philadelphia County (Pennsylvania) is a district located in United States about 122 mi north-east of Washington DC, the country's capital town.
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Local weather forecast
Todays Local Weather Conditions & Forecast: 13°C / 55 °F
Morning Temperature | 6°C / 43 °F |
Evening Temperature | 14°C / 56 °F |
Night Temperature | 11°C / 51 °F |
Chance of rainfall | 0% |
Air Humidity | 36% |
Air Pressure | 1019 hPa |
Wind Speed | Light breeze with 5 km/h (3 mph) from South-East |
Cloud Conditions | Broken clouds, covering 59% of sky |
General Conditions | Broken clouds |
Monday, 18th of November 2024
15°C (60 °F)
12°C (53 °F)
Few clouds, gentle breeze.
Tuesday, 19th of November 2024
13°C (56 °F)
14°C (57 °F)
Scattered clouds, light breeze.
Wednesday, 20th of November 2024
16°C (61 °F)
15°C (59 °F)
Sky is clear, gentle breeze, clear sky.
Hotels and Places to Stay
The Inn at Penn a Hilton Hotel
ROOST RITTENHOUSE
DoubleTree by Hilton Philadelphia Center City
ROOST Midtown
The Westin Philadelphia
Club Quarters in Philadelphia
Kimpton Hotel Palomar Philadelphia
Sonesta Philadelphia Downtown
Sofitel Philadelphia
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Philadelphia Zoo Giraffe (Stella) on a Rainy Day
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Philadelphia Zoo Hippos Out of and In Water
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Philadelphia Zoo Lions in the Snow
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Attractions and noteworthy things
Distances are based on the centre of the city/town and sightseeing location. This list contains brief abstracts about monuments, holiday activities, national parcs, museums, organisations and more from the area as well as interesting facts about the region itself. Where available, you'll find the corresponding homepage. Otherwise the related wikipedia article.
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, commonly called Penn Museum, is an archaeology and anthropology museum that is part of the University of Pennsylvania in the University City neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Franklin Field
Franklin Field is the University of Pennsylvania's stadium for football, field hockey, lacrosse, sprint football, and track and field. It is also used by Penn students for recreation, and for intramural and club sports, including touch football and cricket, and is the site of Penn's graduation exercises, weather permitting. It is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at the eastern edge of Penn's campus, across the Schuylkill River from Center City.
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) is one of the largest and oldest children's hospitals in the world. CHOP has been ranked as the best children's hospital in the United States by U.S. News & World Report and Parents Magazine in recent years. As of 2012, it was ranked number one in the nation by U.S. News for six out of ten specialties.
Philadelphia Convention Hall and Civic Center
The Philadelphia Convention Hall and Civic Center, more commonly known as the Philadelphia Civic Center and the Philadelphia Convention Center, was a complex of five or more buildings developed out of a series of buildings dedicated to expanding trade which began with the National Export Exhibition in 1899. There were two important buildings on the site. The Commercial Museum, built in 1899, was one of the original exposition buildings.
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
The Perelman School of Medicine, commonly known as Penn Med, is the medical school of the University of Pennsylvania. It is located in the University City section of Philadelphia. Founded in 1765, Penn Med is the oldest medical school in the United States. Today, the Perelman School of Medicine is a major center of biomedical research and education, and it is widely regarded as one of the country's top medical schools.
University City (SEPTA station)
University City is a railway station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, along the SEPTA Main Line. The station serves the area around the University of Pennsylvania, and is located at South Street & Convention Avenue. It serves the Airport, Wilmington/Newark, and Media/Elwyn Regional Rail Lines. The station is less than a block from the University of Pennsylvania's Franklin Field and the Palestra.
Point Breeze, Philadelphia
Point Breeze is a neighborhood in the South Philadelphia section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It is generally bound by 25th Street to the west, Washington Avenue to the north, Broad Street to the east, and Mifflin Street to the south, although the sections between 18th Street and Broad Street are coming into their own neighborhood as Newbold. Southwest Center City lies to its north, and Passyunk Square lies to its east.
Grays Ferry, Philadelphia
Grays Ferry, also known as Gray's Ferry, is a neighborhood in South Philadelphia bounded (roughly) by 25th Street on the east, the Schuylkill River on the west, Vare Avenue on the south, and Grays Ferry Avenue on the north. The section of this neighborhood west of 34th Street is also known as The Forgotten Bottom. Grays Ferry shares borders with Southwest Center City to the North, Point Breeze to the East, and Girard Estate to the South.
West Philadelphia Borough, Pennsylvania
West Philadelphia Borough, also known as West Philadelphia District, is a defunct borough that was located west of the Schuylkill River in Blockley Township, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. The borough ceased to exist and was incorporated into the City of Philadelphia following the passage of the Act of Consolidation, 1854.
Blockley Almshouse
The Blockley Almshouse, later known as Philadelphia General Hospital, was a charity hospital and poorhouse located in West Philadelphia. It originally opened in 1732/33 in a different part of the city as the Philadelphia Almshouse (not to be confused with the Friends' Almshouse, established in 1713). Philadelphia General Hospital closed in 1977.
Devil's Pocket, Philadelphia
Devil's Pocket is a neighborhood in the South Philadelphia section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is south of Lombard Street, east of 27th Street and north of Washington Avenue, on the western edge of Southwest Center City. Devil's Pocket is a very small neighborhood of rowhouses tucked near an industrial landscape along the banks of the river. It has historically been heavily Irish-American.
Irvine Auditorium
Irvine Auditorium is a performance venue at 3401 Spruce Street on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was designed by the firm of prominent architect Horace Trumbauer and built 1926–1932. Irvine Auditorium is notable for its nearly 11,000-pipe Curtis Organ, the world's 22nd-largest pipe organ (by ranks), originally built for the Sesquicentennial Exposition of 1926 and donated to the university in 1928. The building was opened in May, 1929.
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP) is a hospital affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania Health System located in the University City section of West Philadelphia. The hospital was founded at its current location in 1874 by the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, making it the oldest university-owned teaching hospital in the country. For 2010, U.S. News & World Report ranked HUP as #8 on its list of the best hospitals in the nation.
University of the State of Pennsylvania
The University of the State of Pennsylvania, was a charitable school founded in 1740, one-hundred and four years after Harvard and thirty-nine years after Yale in 1765. The state soon acquired the name "university" because the school had formed two sections: a medical section and a college section ran by a group of founders that would later become the board of trustees.
University Avenue Bridge
The University Avenue Bridge is a double-leaf bascule bridge crossing the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The four-lane bridge links University Avenue in West Philadelphia with South 34th Street in the Grays Ferry section of South Philadelphia. It measures 536 feet long, 100 feet wide, and clears the water by 30 feet . Built in 1930, the bridge was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 26, 1994.
University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing
The University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing (also known as SON) is an undergraduate and graduate institution at the University of Pennsylvania located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Since its establishment in 1935, the School of Nursing at Penn is currently the top-ranked private nursing institution in the nation. Penn Nursing sets a higher intellectual standard which is reinforced through an emphasis on science and research.
Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine
The Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine is located at 34th and Civic Center Blvd, on the former site of the Philadelphia Civic Center, on the campus of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. The $302-million project was designed by Rafael Viñoly Architects and completed in 2008. It is the largest capital project ever undertaken by the University of Pennsylvania Health System.
Meiklejohn Stadium
Meiklejohn Stadium is a ballpark in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is on the University of Pennsylvania campus and is the home field for the University of Pennsylvania Quakers varsity baseball team. The field is near Franklin Field along the eastern edge of the university's campus, along the Schuylkill River. The ballpark is tucked away near the intersection of the Schuylkill Expressway and University Avenue.
National Register of Historic Places listings in South Philadelphia
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in South Philadelphia. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below may be seen in a Google map.
Center for Applied Genomics
The Center for Applied Genomics (CAG) is a Center of Emphasis at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia with the primary goal of discovering and translating basic research findings into medical innovations. The Center is one of the world’s largest genetics research and analytical facilities. It is the primary center at a pediatric hospital with access to state-of-the-art high-throughput genotyping technology, and has processed genetic samples from over 100,000 people.
B&O Railroad Bridge
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Schuylkill Arsenal Railroad Bridge
Schuylkill Arsenal Railroad Bridge was built in 1885–86 by the Pennsylvania Railroad as a formerly electrified, wrought iron, two-track, deck truss, (fixed shut) swing bridge across the Schuylkill River in the University City neighborhood in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The name comes from the Schuylkill Arsenal, which functioned from 1799 to 1926, located near the eastern approaches to this bridge. The University of Pennsylvania's Meiklejohn Stadium is next to the western approach to the bridge.
Weave Bridge
The Weave Bridge is a 145 ft bridge at The University of Pennsylvania, USA which was conceptualized by Cecil Balmond and engineered by Ammann & Whitney. It was commissioned by the University in 2007, and opened in June 2009. The bridge creates a pedestrian passage over the Amtrak train tracks that currently separate the main campus from athletic fields along the Schuylkill River. The design features a "braided rope" structure consisting of six steel strands.
Graduate Group in the Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
The Graduate Group in the Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World (AAMW) is an interdisciplinary program for research and teaching of archaeology, particularly archaeology and art of the ancient Mediterranean, Egypt, Anatolia, and the Near East, based in the Penn Museum of the University of Pennsylvania.
Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad Bridge No. 1
Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad Bridge No. 1 is a swing steel through truss that spans the Schuylkill River between Philadelphia, Pennsylvania's Kingsessing and Grays Ferry neighborhoods. Abandoned in 1976, the bridge is part of a long line of ferry and bridge crossings that linked Philadelphia to points south. It was built in 1901 by the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad and was constructed by American Bridge Company.