Tulpehocken Station Historic District
The Tulpehocken Station Historic District is a historic area in the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The Tulpehocken Station Historic District is a historic area in the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Large suburban houses were built in the area from about 1850 to 1900 in a variety of styles including Carpenter Gothic, Italianate, and Bracketed as part of the Picturesque Movement of architecture. In the 1870s styles moved toward High Victorian and Second Empire. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985, and it covers about six square blocks, bounded by McCallum Street on the north, the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks on the south, Tulpehocken Street on the west, and Walnut Lane on the east. Thirty-seven buildings in the district are considered to be significant and 118 are considered to be contributing, with only 13 considered to be intrusions.
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Worth seeing in and around Tulpehocken Station Historic District
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Thomas Jefferson University
Thomas Jefferson University is a private research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Established in its earliest form in 1824, the university officially combined with Philadelphia University in 2017.
2 km · private university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · Wikipedia - 02Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania
Founded in 1850, The Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, formally known as The Female Medical College of Pennsylvania, was the first American medical college dedicated to teaching women medicine and allowing them to earn the Doctor of Medicine degree. In 1867, the college was renamed the Woman's Medical College.
3 km · American medical school, now absorbed by Drexel University School of Medicine · Wikipedia - 03Free Library of Philadelphia
The Free Library of Philadelphia is the public library system that serves the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is the 16th-largest public library system in the United States.
3.4 km · public library system in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA · Wikipedia - 04La Salle University
La Salle University is a private Catholic university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. The university was founded in 1863 by the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools and named for St.
2.6 km · private university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States · Wikipedia - 05Chain Bridge at Falls of Schuylkill
Chain Bridge at Falls of Schuylkill was an 1808 iron-chain suspension bridge built across the Schuylkill River, north of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Designed by inventor James Finley, it became the model for his later chain suspension bridges.
3.7 km · bridge in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · Wikipedia - 06Drexel University College of Medicine
Drexel University College of Medicine is the medical school of Drexel University, a private research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The medical school represents the consolidation of two medical schools: Hahnemann Medical College, originally founded as the nation's first college of homeopathy, and the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, the first U.S. medical school for women, which became the Medical College of Pennsylvania when it admitted men in 1970; these institutions merged in 1993, became affiliated with Drexel University College of Medicine in 1998, and were fully absorbed into the university in 2002.
2.2 km · medical school of Drexel University · Wikipedia - 07Laurel Hill Cemetery
Laurel Hill Cemetery, also called Laurel Hill East to distinguish it from the affiliated West Laurel Hill Cemetery in Bala Cynwyd, is a historic rural cemetery in the East Falls neighborhood of Philadelphia. Founded in 1836, it was the second major rural cemetery in the United States after Mount Auburn Cemetery in Boston, Massachusetts.
3.9 km · cemetery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States · Wikipedia - 08Belfield
Belfield, also known as the Charles Willson Peale House, was the home of Charles Willson Peale from 1810 to 1826, and was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1965. The Belfield Estate was a 104-acre area of land in the Logan section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, much of which is now a part of La Salle University’s campus.
2.4 km · American house · Wikipedia - 09Springside Chestnut Hill Academy
Springside Chestnut Hill Academy is an independent school in Philadelphia.
3.3 km · private, day, college-prep school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States · Wikipedia - 10Cliveden
Cliveden, also known as the Benjamin Chew House or Chew House, is a historic mansion at 6401 Germantown Avenue in Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was the scene of some of the bloodiest fighting of the Battle of Germantown, fought in 1777 during the American Revolutionary War.
800 m · historic mansion built for Benjamin Chew in Germantown, Philadelphia · Wikipedia
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Getting to Tulpehocken Station Historic District
- Airports
- Philadelphia (PHL), 19 km · Newark Liberty (EWR), 112 km · John F. Kennedy (JFK), 136 km
- Stations
- Hunting Park, 3.8 km · Olney Transportation Center, 3.3 km · Sedgwick, 2.6 km · Stenton, 2.4 km · Allen Lane, 2.3 km
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Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Tulpehocken Station Historic District. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inAir charter companies such as Monarch Air Group and Mercury Jets fly a variety of private charter aircraft and jets, from charter luxury Gulfstream's down to economical piston twins for small groups and individuals.
- Get inThe RiverLink and Freedom Ferry services provide travel from Philadelphia to neighboring Camden, New Jersey, between April and September.
- Get inAccess to the other waterfront attractions, including an aquarium, is also provided by the ferry service.
- Get aroundThose rates are as follows: Lindenwold, Ashland & Woodcrest Stations and Philadelphia: $3.00 Haddonfield, Westmont & Collingswood Stations and Philadelphia: $2.60 Ferry Avenue (Camden) Station and Philadelphia: $2.25 Travel within Pennsylvania, between Broadway and City Hall (Camden), and between PA and those two stations: $1.40 Any other trip within New Jersey: $1.60 Note that PATCO is not operated by SEPTA and uses its own fare system.
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Next door to Tulpehocken Station Historic District
Tulpehocken Station Historic District is 10 km from Philadelphia, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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