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    Architecture Walking Tour: Post-Industrial City: Callowhill West District

    Architecture Walking Tour: Post-Industrial City: Callowhill West District

    Presented by Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia

    August 29, 2012


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    Meet at Starbucks at 20th & Callowhill Sts.

    This 1.5-mile tour focuses on a four-block-wide swath of the city between Vine and Spring Garden Streets from 20th St. to Broad. The considerable history of this part of the city going back to the early 1700s will be discussed. Learn how this neighborhood—a country estate in the early 18th century -- played an important part in the Yellow Fever epidemic of 1793 and later became the center of American locomotive production, as well as home of the third Philadelphia Mint, The Philadelphia Inquirer and the Community College of Philadelphia. Major national figures who lived and worked here include William Penn, Andrew Hamilton (the original "Philadelphia Lawyer"), President John Adams, merchant/mariner/millionaire Stephen Girard, plus industrialists Matthias Baldwin, William Sellers & Asa Whitney. Numerous aspects of the industrial infrastructure, including bridges and abandoned railroad facilities, will be seen along the way.


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      • Venue Info

        Architecture Walking Tour: Post-Industrial City: Callowhill West District

        Meet at Starbucks at 20th & Callowhill Sts.
        Philadelphia, PA 19130

        Full map and directions

      • Admission Info

        Tickets:

        $10 (Adult)
        $8 (Student with ID)
        $5 (Member with ID)
        FREE! (Child 10 or under with Adult)

        Reservations are not taken for tours unless otherwise indicated. Tour group size limited to the first 25 people to arrive. Go to the designated tour meeting place and pay your tour guide (cash or check payable to Preservation Alliance)

        Info Phone: 215-546-1146, ext. 3

      • Dates & Times

        Dates:
        August 29, 2012

        Times:

        6 pm

      • Accessibility Info

          Currently, no accessibility information is available for this event.