Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow

Built 1697.

There Goes the Neighborhood

A View of Rome

Philadelphia may not be known for adopting good ideas from other cities, but some good things from the outside world do find their way here. When the Pennsylvania Railroad destroyed New York's magnificent Penn Station in 1963 to make way for the banal Madison Square Garden complex, most of the elegant architectural elements of the Beaux-Arts structure wound up in a scrap heap in Secaucas, New Jersey. But four proud Eagles from its facade were brought to Philadelphia and perched at the corners of the Market Street Bridge, as if to guard the nearby 30th Street Station.

Independence Hall

From beneath the tower.

Large hall upstairs.

Detail from one of the maps on display on the second floor.

Fairmount Park Houses: Woodford

Woodford was once home to George Clymer a signer of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

Original pine floorboards in the 1758 portion

Toleware above a hearth in the 1770's addition

Side chair made in Chester County, circa 1730

A bowl upstairs

Woodford from the side

Fairmount Park Houses: Mount Pleasant

Mount Pleasant was built by a wealthy Scot in 1762 in the high Georgian style

The central hall on second story

A conservator's woodworking tools are upstairs

Sunlight streams onto floor of main parlor

Keystone and Lintel

They don't make them like they used to

Adaptive Reuse