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The district Strawberry Mansion of Philadelphia in Philadelphia County (Pennsylvania) is a district in United States about 124 mi north-east of Washington DC, the country's capital city.
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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
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PAINES SKATE PARK GRAND OPENING ON PHILADELPHIA'S BENJAMIN FRANKLIN PARKWAY
Philadelphia's newest skate park was opened to the public May 22nd, 2013. The skate park sits aside the historic Art Museum. Former Philadelphia Mayor and Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell gave.
Terror Behind the Walls at Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia - Unravel Travel TV
Terror Behind the Walls, America's largest haunted house, is located inside the massive, castle-like walls of Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This extraordinary theatrical...
Philly Cowboy
The Frederick Remington cowboy statue overlooks the Schuylkill River bridge on Amtrak's Northeast Corridor line where it crosses the river in Fairmount Park in Philadelphia. Zoo tower interlocking...
Amtrak's Autumn Express on Reading City Branch
mow work on the former PRR High Line detoured Amtrak's 2014 Autumn Express to the opposite side of the Schuylkill where it emerges from the old City Branch t...
Lemon Hill Trip
Footage of Building Boys to Men Inc. members volunteering at Tilden Middle School's annual Lemon HIll trip. Put together by Officer Warfield, the annual event brings all male students together...
Head Of The Schuylkill Regatta 2013 Ocean City Boy's Varsity 8+
Race 26A: Men's High School First & Second Varsity Eights (Under 19) Final @ HOSR in Philadelphia, PA. Results @ http://www.hosr.org/Race26A.pdf.
Head Of The Schuylkill Regatta 2013 Ocean City Boy's Varsity 4+
Event 19A: Men's High School Fours w/Cox (Under 19) @ HOSR in Philadelphia, PA. Ocean City NJ Boys Varsity Four Results @ http://www.hosr.org/race19a.pdf.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Colony of Pennsylvania, United States, North America
Philadelphia is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the second largest city on the East Coast of the United States, and the fifth-most-populous city in the United States....
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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.
Philadelphia Museum of Art
The Philadelphia Museum of Art is among the largest art museums in the United States. It has collections of more than 227,000 objects that include "world-class holdings of European and American paintings, prints, drawings and decorative arts. " The Main Building is visited by more than 800,000 people annually, and is located at the west end of Philadelphia's Benjamin Franklin Parkway.
Philadelphia Zoo
The Philadelphia Zoo, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on the west bank of the Schuylkill River, was the first zoo in the United States. Chartered by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on March 21, 1859, its opening was delayed by the American Civil War until July 1, 1874. It opened with 1,000 animals and an admission price of 25 cents.
Columbia Park
For other places known as Columbia Park, see Columbia Park (disambiguation) Columbia Park 230pxColumbia Park in 1907. Location 2900 Cecil B.
Girard College
Girard College is an independent boarding school on a 43-acre campus in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the United States. Girard is for academically capable students, grades one through 12, and awards a full scholarship with a yearly value of approximately $42,000 to every child admitted to the school. The scholarship covers most of the costs of attending Girard, including tuition, room and board, books, and school uniforms. The scholarship is renewable yearly until high-school graduation.
Jefferson Street Grounds
Jefferson Street Grounds was a baseball field located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was also known as Jefferson Park and Athletics Park. It was home to the Philadelphia Athletics from 1871 to 1876, five seasons in the National Association and one in the National League of Base Ball Clubs. From 1873 to 1875, the Athletics shared it with the White Stockings, also in the National Association.
Centennial Grounds
Centennial Grounds was a baseball ground in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was home to the Philadelphia Centennials baseball club of the National Association during the 1875 season, so it is considered a major league ballpark by those who count the NA as a major league.
Recreation Park (Philadelphia)
Recreation Park was a baseball park in Philadelphia. 32x28px Philadelphia portal The ballpark was the first home of the Philadelphia Phillies of the National League during the years 1883-1886, prior to the opening of the arena that became known as Baker Bowl. The park was bounded by 24th Street, Ridge Avenue, 25th Street and Columbia Avenue (which in 1987 was renamed Cecil B. Moore Avenue after the civil-rights leader).
Strawberry Mansion, Philadelphia
Strawberry Mansion is a neighborhood in the United States city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, located east of Fairmount Park in North Philadelphia. It has a large and predominantly African-American population. The neighborhood is bounded by 33rd Street to the west, 29th Street to the east, Lehigh Avenue to the north, and Oxford Street to the south. As of the 2000 census, the neighborhood had a population of 22,562.
Boathouse Row
Boathouse Row is a historic site located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on the east bank of the Schuylkill River, just north of the Fairmount Water Works and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. It consists of a row of 15 boathouses housing social and rowing clubs and their racing shells. Each of the boathouses has its own history, and all have addresses on both Boathouse Row and Kelly Drive (named after famous Philadelphia oarsman John B. Kelly, Jr.).
Northwest Philadelphia
Northwest Philadelphia is a section of the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The official boundary is Stenton Avenue and Cheltenham Avenue to the north, the Schuylkill river to the southwest, Northwest Avenue to the northwest, Roosevelt Boulevard to the south, and with the eastern border being made up of many different streets, though less defined. The area is divided by Wissahickon Creek into two subsections.
Kelly Drive
A kelly drive refers to a type of well drilling device on an oil or gas drilling rig that employs a section of pipe with a polygonal (three-, four-, six-, or eight-sided) or splined outer surface, which passes through the matching polygonal or splined kelly (mating) bushing and rotary table. This bushing is rotated via the rotary table and thus the pipe and the attached drill string turn while the polygonal pipe is free to slide vertically in the bushing as the bit digs the well deeper.
Philadelphia Aquarium
The Philadelphia Aquarium was one of the first aquariums in the United States, and was located on the shore of the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia’s decommissioned Fairmount Water Works buildings from 1911 to 1962 as part of Fairmount Park.
Turtle Rock Light
The Turtle Rock Light is a lighthouse built in 1887 to aid traffic on the Schuylkill River near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The lighthouse was constructed by Frank Thurwanger at a cost of $2,663 on an area of land just west of Boathouse Row. The lighthouse has a hexagonal lantern room with an octagonal walkway. Gas was first used to power the light, but in 1990, when the lighthouse was repainted and received a new wooden balustrade and newel posts, the beacon was electrified.
Strawberry Mansion Bridge
The Strawberry Mansion Bridge is a steel arch truss bridge across the Schuylkill River in Fairmount Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It was built in 1896–1897 by the Phoenix Bridge Company, Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, under private ownership by the Fairmount Park Transportation Company, which operated trolleys over the bridge, with pedestrian and carriage lanes on the north side.
Philadelphia Mennonite High School
Philadelphia Mennonite High School is a private Mennonite high school in the Fairmount neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The school has approximately 100 students in 9th through 12th grades, and focuses on college preparation.
Undine Barge Club
Undine Barge Club is an amateur rowing club located at #13 Boathouse Row in the historic Boathouse Row along the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The club was founded in 1856. Undine was not initially listed as a founder of the Schuylkill Navy, but is now considered a founder because an Undine member, Mr. B. F. Van dyke, was elected to represent the Club as secretary treasurer of the Navy from its birth in 1858.
Gillin Boat Club
Gillin Boat Club is the rowing program for St. Joseph's University Rowing and St. Joseph's Prep Rowing. It is situated at the 1,000-meter mark of the Schuylkill River in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Gillin Boat Club was admitted to the Schuylkill Navy in 2004, by a unanimous vote of the Navy's members. The club's state-of-the-art boathouse has the capacity for 42 eights, 14 fours (quads), and 14 small boats.
Girard Avenue Bridge
The Girard Avenue Bridge is an automobile and trolley bridge in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that carries Girard Avenue over the Schuylkill River. It connects the east and west sections of Fairmount Park, and the Brewerytown neighborhood with the Philadelphia Zoo. The current bridge is the third built on the site.
Pennsylvania Railroad, Connecting Railway Bridge
Pennsylvania Railroad, Connecting Railway Bridge is a stone arch bridge in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that carries Amtrak Northeast Corridor and SEPTA commuter rail lines over the Schuylkill River. It is located in Fairmount Park, just upstream from the Girard Avenue Bridge. It is also known as Pennsylvania Railroad, New York Division, Bridge No. 69.
Odd Fellows Cemetery (Philadelphia)
Odd Fellows Cemetery was a historic cemetery at 24th and Diamond Streets in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, established in 1849. The gatehouse was designed by architect Stephen Decatur Button. It included the grave of author George Lippard. The cemetery property was acquired by the Philadelphia Housing Authority in 1950 for construction of a housing project.
Thorfinn Karlsefni (Jonsson)
Thorfinn Karlsefni is a bronze statue by Icelandic sculptor Einar Jónsson. The first casting of it is located in Fairmount Park on Kelly Drive, at the North end of Boathouse Row, Philadelphia.
Stone Age in America
Stone Age in America is a bronze statue by John J. Boyle. It is located in Fairmount Park, on Kelly Drive, near Boathouse Row. It was completed in 1887, and displayed at the American Art Association. In 1888, it was exhibited in Philadelphia. It was temporarily shown at 9th & Chestnut Streets. It was at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition.
The Medicine Man (Dallin)
The Medicine Man is a bronze equestrian statue by Cyrus E. Dallin. It is located in Fairmount Park, Dauphin Street, west of 33rd Street, Philadelphia.
Abraham Lincoln (Rogers)
Abraham Lincoln is a bronze statue by Randolph Rogers. It is located in Fairmount Park, Kelly Drive at Sedgely Drive, Philadelphia. In 1866, $22,000, was raised for a statue, and Randolph Rogers was commissioned. The work was dedicated on September 22, 1871. In 2001, the monument was relocated from a traffic island to east of the road.
James Garfield Memorial, Philadelphia
James Garfield Memorial is an outdoor sculpture of James Garfield by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, located in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park on Kelly Drive below the Girard Avenue Bridge. It is the second monument to be commissioned by the Association for Public Art (formerly the Fairmount Park Art Association). The Fairmount Park Art Association initiated a fund in 1881 for the creation of the memorial following the assassination of President James A.