Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #3 in Philadelphia, United States

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Tour Facts

Number of sights 20 sights
Distance 9.3 km
Ascend 213 m
Descend 200 m

Explore Philadelphia in United States with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.

Individual Sights in Philadelphia

Sight 1: Newkirk Monument

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Newkirk Monument

The Newkirk Viaduct Monument is a 15-foot (4.6 m) white marble obelisk in the West Philadelphia neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was installed in 1839 to mark the completion of the Newkirk Viaduct, the first permanent railroad bridge over the Schuylkill River. It is inscribed with the names of 51 railroad builders and executives, among other information.

Wikipedia: Newkirk Viaduct Monument (EN)

1374 meters / 16 minutes

Sight 2: Universal Alcorn Charter Elementary School

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Universal Alcorn Charter Elementary School

The Universal Alcorn Charter Elementary School is an American charter school that is located in the Grays Ferry neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Wikipedia: Universal Alcorn Charter Elementary School (EN)

1913 meters / 23 minutes

Sight 3: U.S. Naval Home

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Naval Square is a gated community within the Graduate Hospital neighborhood of Philadelphia that served as the first United States Naval Academy from 1834 to 1845, when the Naval Academy formed in Annapolis. It continued as a retirement home for sailors and marines and was called the Naval Home until 1976, when the facility was relocated to Mississippi.

Wikipedia: Philadelphia Naval Asylum (EN), Heritage Website

622 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 4: Fitler Square

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Fitler Square

Fitler Square is a 0.5 acre public park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States and a surrounding neighborhood of the same name. The square is bounded on the east by 23rd Street, on the west by 24th Street, on the north by Panama Street, and on the south by Pine Street. The neighborhood encompasses much of southwest Center City west of Rittenhouse Square and east of the Schuylkill River.

Wikipedia: Fitler Square (EN), Website

338 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 5: Schuylkill River Park

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Schuylkill River Park is a swath of land owned by the Philadelphia Department of Parks and Recreation in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It encompasses most of the area bordered by 25th Street and the Schuylkill River between Manning and Delancey Streets and the area bordered by the Schuylkill River and 26th Street between Delancey and Pine Streets. Some of this land was held by the Department of Recreation prior to its recent merger with the Fairmount Park. In addition, the merged Department of Parks and Recreation owns the land from Taney Street to the Schuylkill River between Pine and the end of Schuylkill Pocket Veterans Memorial Field as well as O'Connor Pool. It also encompasses the Schuylkill River Park Community Garden, which is on land owned by the Department of Parks and Recreation and managed by the Center City Residents' Association. The area connects with the Schuylkill River Trail via a pedestrian bridge, which was completed in October 2012.

Wikipedia: Schuylkill River Park (EN), Website

177 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 6: Schuylkill River Park Community Garden

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The Schuylkill River Park Community Garden (SRPCG) is a unique approximately 70 plot community garden located at 25th and Manning Streets in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Garden is one of only a very few located on Fairmount Park land, part of Philadelphia's Park System.

Wikipedia: Schuylkill River Park Community Garden (EN), Website

628 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 7: Thomas Hockley House

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Thomas Hockley House

The Thomas Hockley House (1875) is a Victorian city house in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, designed by architect Frank Furness. Located west of Rittenhouse Square, it is a contributing property in the Walnut–Chancellor Historic District.

Wikipedia: Thomas Hockley House (EN)

431 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 8: Lion Crushing a Serpent

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Lion with a Snake is an 1832 sculpture by Antoine-Louis Barye. It measures 1.35 by 1.78 by 0.96 metres.

Wikipedia: Lion with a Snake (EN), Website

42 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 9: Rittenhouse Square

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Rittenhouse Square

Rittenhouse Square is a neighborhood, including a public park, in Center City Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Rittenhouse Square often specifically refers to the park, while the neighborhood as a whole is referred to simply as Rittenhouse. The park is one of the five original open-space parks planned by William Penn and his surveyor Thomas Holme during the late 17th century.

Wikipedia: Rittenhouse Square (EN)

0 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 10: Duck Girl

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Duck Girl

Duck Girl is a bronze sculpture by Paul Manship. It is located in Rittenhouse Square near 18th Street and Walnut Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Wikipedia: Duck Girl (Manship) (EN), Website

217 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 11: Philadelphia Art Alliance

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The Philadelphia Art Alliance at University of the Arts is a multidisciplinary arts center located in the Rittenhouse Square section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is the oldest multidisciplinary arts center in the United States for visual, literary and performing arts.

Wikipedia: Philadelphia Art Alliance (EN), Website

376 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 12: St. Mark's Church

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St. Mark's Church

Saint Mark's Episcopal Church is an Episcopal church located at 1625 Locust Street in Rittenhouse Square in Center City Philadelphia. It is part of the Diocese of Pennsylvania.

Wikipedia: St. Mark's Episcopal Church (Philadelphia) (EN), Website

292 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 13: Liberti Church

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First Baptist Church of Philadelphia is a Baptist church founded in 1698 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

Wikipedia: First Baptist Church (Philadelphia) (EN)

332 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 14: The Exchange Apartments

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The Exchange Apartments See below / CC BY-SA 3.0

Philadelphia Stock Exchange (PHLX), now known as Nasdaq PHLX, is the first stock exchange established in the United States and the oldest stock exchange in the nation. The exchange is owned by Nasdaq, which acquired it in 2007 for $652 million, and is headquartered in Philadelphia.

Wikipedia: Philadelphia Stock Exchange (EN)

318 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 15: Dr. Joseph Leidy House

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The Dr. Joseph Leidy House is a historic residence located at 1319 Locust Street between S. 13th and S. Juniper Streets in the Washington Square West neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1893 and 1894 and was designed in the Georgian style by architect Wilson Eyre to be the home of Joseph Leidy, Jr., the nephew of Joseph Leidy (1823–1891), a noted American paleontologist. The house is next door to the Clarence B. Moore House, which was designed by Eyre in 1890.

Wikipedia: Dr. Joseph Leidy House (EN)

2 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 16: Clarence B. Moore House

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Clarence B. Moore House

The Clarence B. Moore House is a historic home located at 1321 Locust Street at the corner of S. Juniper Street between S. 13th and S. Broad Streets in the Washington Square West section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Moore house was built in 1890 and was designed by architect Wilson Eyre as the home of the merchant, archaeologist, and writer Clarence Bloomfield Moore (1852-1936). It sits next to the Dr. Joseph Leidy House, which Eyre designed in 1893.

Wikipedia: Clarence B. Moore House (EN)

51 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 17: The Library Company

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293 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 18: The Church of Saint Luke and The Epiphany

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The Church of Saint Luke and The Epiphany is an Episcopal congregation located at 330 South 13th Street between Spruce and Pine Streets in the Center City neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is part of the Diocese of Pennsylvania. The church was formed in 1898 as a result of the merger of St. Luke's Church (1839) and The Church of The Epiphany (1834), which consolidated at St. Luke's location.

Wikipedia: Church of St. Luke and The Epiphany (Philadelphia) (EN), Website

1236 meters / 15 minutes

Sight 19: The Rosenbach Museum & Library

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The Rosenbach Museum & Library

The Rosenbach is a Philadelphia museum and library located within two 19th-century townhouses. Eestablished as a testamentary gift in 1954. The historic houses contain the donated collections of Philip Rosenbach and his younger brother Dr. Abraham Simon Wolf Rosenbach.

Wikipedia: Rosenbach Museum and Library (EN), Website

647 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 20: National Marian Anderson Museum

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National Marian Anderson Museum

The Marian Anderson House is a historic home located in the Southwest Center City neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Built circa 1870 in the same neighborhood where opera singer and civil rights advocate Marian Anderson was born 27 years later, this two-story, brick rowhouse dwelling was designed in the Italianate style. Purchased by Anderson in 1924, the same year she became the first African-American concert artist to record spirituals for a major American recording company, she continued to reside here until 1943. The house is currently home to the Marian Anderson Museum and Historical Society.

Wikipedia: Marian Anderson House (EN), Website

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