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11th Street station (SEPTA) [videos]

11th Street station is a subway station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at the corner of 11th Street and Market Street in Center City. It is served by SEPTA's Market-Frankford Line and provides a connection to Jefferson Station. — Riders departing …

Station platform

Image: Philadelphia's 11th street subway station 2017 entrance

Masonic Temple (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) [videos]

The Masonic Temple is a historic Masonic building in Philadelphia. Located at 1 North Broad Street, directly across from Philadelphia City Hall, it serves as the headquarters of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania, Free and Accepted Masons. The Temple features the Masonic Library and Museum of …

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Old Federal Reserve Bank Building (Philadelphia) [videos]

The Old Federal Reserve Bank Building is a historic bank building located at 925 Chestnut Street on the corner of S. 10th Street in the Market East neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The main section was designed by architect Paul Philippe Cret in the Classical Revival style influenced by …

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Pennsylvania Convention Center [videos]

The Pennsylvania Convention Center is a multi-use public facility in the Market East section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, designed to accommodate conventions, exhibitions, conferences and other events. The "L"-shaped complex occupies four city blocks. — History — In the latter part of the 20th …

Grand Hall, 1993

The back side of the convention center as viewed from Camac Street

The new Broad Street facade of the Convention Center

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Philadelphia City Hall [videos]

Philadelphia City Hall is the seat of government for the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The building was constructed from 1871 to 1901 within Penn Square, in the middle of Center City. John McArthur Jr. and Thomas Ustick Walter designed the building in the Second Empire style. City Hall is a …

Northwest corner from JFK Plaza, 2012

Philadelphia City Hall c1899

William Penn statue on the ground

Image: Philadelphia City Hall at Night

Reading Terminal [videos]

The Reading Terminal is a complex of buildings that includes the former Reading Company main station located in the Market East section of Center City in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It is composed of the Reading Terminal Headhouse, Trainshed, and Market. — History …

"New Terminal Depot at Philadelphia, Reading Railroad System." Lithograph, circa 1891.

A Reading commuter train departs Reading Terminal in September 1964

Reading Terminal Market sign

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Reading Terminal Market [videos]

Reading Terminal Market is an enclosed public market located at 12th and Arch Streets in Center City Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It opened originally in 1893 under the elevated train shed of the Reading Railroad Company after the city of Philadelphia advocated to move public markets from the …

Center Court

Bassett's Ice Cream at Reading Terminal Market

Harry Ochs

Original Harry Ochs meat stand

Wanamaker Organ [videos]

The Wanamaker Grand Court Organ, in Philadelphia, is the largest fully functioning pipe organ in the world. The Wanamaker Organ is located within a spacious 7-story Grand Court at Macy's Center City and played twice a day Monday through Saturday. The organ …

The display pipes of the Wanamaker Organ. These pipes are decorative only. The pipes that sound are behind and above them. Store architect Daniel Hudson Burnham designed the organ casework.

The organ in its original home, the 1904 World's Fair.

The organ's six-manual console

The Wanamaker Organ in the Grand Court

Wanamaker's [videos]

John Wanamaker Department Store was one of the first department stores in the United States. Founded by John Wanamaker, it is known for its substantial effects on the development of the retail industry, such as being the first store to use price tags. At its zenith in the early 20th century …

The Grand Court

John Wanamaker's in 1876

The Grand Court in the Wanamaker Store, Philadelphia, showing the beautiful facade of the Organ at the South End, 1917

Wanamaker's from South Penn Square

Witherspoon Building [videos]

Witherspoon Building is a historic office building located in the Market East neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was designed by architect Joseph M. Huston and built between 1895 and 1897. It was built for the Presbyterian Board of Publications and Sabbath School Work. It is …

Witherspoon Building entrance, February 2010

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Jefferson Station (SEPTA) [videos]

Jefferson Station is an underground SEPTA Regional Rail station located on Market Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Its official SEPTA address is 12th and Filbert streets. It is the easternmost of the three Center City …

Image: Jefferson Station waiting area

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Image: Market East mural

Lit Brothers [videos]

Lit Brothers was a moderately-priced department store based in Philadelphia. Samuel and Jacob Lit opened the first store at North 8th and Market Streets in 1891. Lits positioned itself well as a more affordable alternate to competitors Strawbridge and Clothier, John Wanamaker, and Gimbels. The …

(HABS, 1972-73)

The former Lit Brothers Building, looking west down Market Street from 7th Street (2013)

The entrance to Market Place East (2013)

Center for Architecture and Design [videos]

The Center for Architecture and Design is a 501 non-profit organization located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Center produces educational programs related to the topics of architecture, urban planning, and design, including talks, workshops, festivals, design competitions, and …

The AIA Bookstore at the Center 1218 Arch Street, Philadelphia

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PSFS Building [videos]

The PSFS Building, now known as the Loews Philadelphia Hotel, is a skyscraper in Center City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A National Historic Landmark, the building was the first International style skyscraper constructed in the United States. It was built for the Philadelphia Saving (later …

The PSFS Building in 1985.

The banking hall in 1985

PSFS building in 2006

Ben Franklin House [videos]

This article is about the historic hotel in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. For Benjamin Franklin's residence site in Philadelphia, see Franklin Court. For his London residence, see Benjamin Franklin House.The Ben Franklin House, formerly known as the Benjamin Franklin Hotel, is a historic hotel, now …

Lobby of the Ben Franklin House in 2014

Image: Benjamin Franklin Hotel, west side view

Fashion District Philadelphia [videos]

Fashion District Philadelphia is a revitalization zone to be anchored by a renovated mall at the former site of The Gallery at Market East. The area was originally planned to be an outlet mall to be called "Fashion Outlets of Philadelphia", but the plans were later changed to be a new "retail …

Fashion District construction showing former Gallery tenant K-Mart location on Filbert and 10th

Jefferson Station access to some former Gallery stores that are open during construction.

John Christian Bullitt (Boyle) [videos]

John Christian Bullitt is a bronze statue by John J. Boyle. It is located on the north plaza of Philadelphia City Hall, at Broad Street, and JFK Boulevard. — It was unveiled in July 1907.The inscription reads: — — JOHN J BOYLE, SC, 1907 — — ROMAN …

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Nix Federal Building [videos]

The Robert N. C. Nix Sr. Federal Building and United States Post Office, formerly known as the United States Court House and Post Office Building, is a historic building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Built in 1937–1941, it was designed by Harry Sternfeld in the Moderne style and features several …

Chestnut Street facade (2013)

Mail Delivery – West, a relief by Edmond Amateis, by the Ninth Street entrance nearest Market St.

Philadelphia Greyhound Terminal [videos]

The Philadelphia Greyhound Terminal is the primary intercity bus station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is located at 1001 Filbert Street in Center City Philadelphia, immediately north of The Gallery at Market East shopping mall and the SEPTA Regional Rail Jefferson Station, a few hundred feet …

Philadelphia Greyhound Terminal

Bus gates at Philadelphia Greyhound Terminal

Wells Fargo Building (Philadelphia) [videos]

The Wells Fargo Building, originally the Fidelity-Philadelphia Trust Company Building, is a skyscraper in Center City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Designed in the Beaux-Arts style by the architectural firm Simon & Simon, the building was erected for the Fidelity-Philadelphia Trust …

South entrance to the building (2014)

Image: Wells Fargo Building Broad Street Philadelphia

African American Museum in Philadelphia [videos]

The African American Museum in Philadelphia is notable as the first museum funded and built by a municipality to help preserve, interpret and exhibit the heritage of African Americans. Opened during the 1976 Bicentennial celebrations, the AAMP is located in historic Philadelphia, a few …

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University of the Arts (Philadelphia) [videos]

The University of the Arts is a university of visual and performing arts based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Its campus makes up part of the Avenue of the Arts in Center City, Philadelphia. Dating back to the 1870s, it is one of the oldest schools of art or music in the United States …

The Dorrance Hamilton Hall in 2013

East Center City Commercial Historic District [videos]

East Center City Commercial Historic District is a national historic district located in the Washington Square neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It encompasses 287 contributing buildings that includes a mix of large and small commercial buildings, banks, hotels, newspapers, clubs, and …

700 block Chestnut, East Center City Commercial Historic District, April 2010

The Fabric Workshop and Museum [videos]

The Fabric Workshop and Museum, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, is a non-profit arts organization devoted to creating new work in new materials and new media in collaboration with emerging, nationally, and internationally recognized artists. — Founded in 1977, the Fabric …

The Fabric Workshop and Museum

Federal Detention Center, Philadelphia [videos]

The Federal Detention Center is a United States Federal prison in Center City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania which holds male and female inmates prior to or during court proceedings, as well as inmates serving brief sentences. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a …

Image: Federal Detention Center Philadelphia

Jefferson Health [videos]

Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals Inc, branded as Jefferson Health, is a multi-state non-profit health system whose flagship hospital is Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Center City, Philadelphia. The health system's hospitals serve as the teaching hospitals of Thomas Jefferson …

Entrance to Thomas Jefferson University Hospital on South 11th Street.

Land Title Building [videos]

The Land Title Building and Annex is a historic early skyscraper located at 1400 Chestnut Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. — It was built for the oldest title insurance company in the world, the Land Title Bank and Trust Company. The two-building complex, joined at the first floor, was built in …

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New York Mutual Life Insurance Company Building [videos]

New York Mutual Life Insurance Company Building, also known as the Victory Building, is a historic office building located in the Market East neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Henry Fernbach and Phillip W. Roos are credited as the building's architects. It was built in 1873, and is a …

New York Mutual Life Insurance Company Building, HABS photo, 1975

Philadelphia History Museum [videos]

The Philadelphia History Museum at the Atwater Kent at 15 South 7th Street between Market and Ranstead Streets in Center City, Philadelphia was founded in 1938 to be Philadelphia's city history museum. The museum occupies architect John Haviland's landmark Greek Revival structure built in 1824–26 …

Image: Philadelphia History Museum at the Atwater Kent from south

Rohm and Haas Corporate Headquarters [videos]

The Rohm and Haas Corporate Headquarters in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States was built as the headquarters for the former chemical manufacturing company Rohm and Haas. Completed in 1964, the building was the first private investment for the urban renewal of the Independence Mall area. Only …

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St. Stephen's Episcopal Church (Philadelphia) [videos]

St. Stephen's Episcopal Church is a historic parish of the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania, founded in 1823 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and located at 19 South Tenth Street, on the corner of Tenth Street and Ludlow Street. St. Stephen's was designed by William Strickland in the Gothic revival …

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Samuel Gross (Calder) [videos]

Samuel Gross is a bronze statue by Alexander Stirling Calder as a tribute to Samuel D. Gross, an American surgeon. — It is located in Sidney and Ethal Lubert Plaza, on the North side of Locust Street, East of 11th Street, Philadelphia.It was completed in 1897, and dedicated by president William …

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Battle of Hastings [videos]

The Battle of Hastings was fought on 14 October 1066 between the Norman-French army of William, the Duke of Normandy, and an English army under the Anglo-Saxon King Harold Godwinson, beginning the Norman conquest of England. It took place approximately 7 miles northwest of Hastings …

The location of the Battle of Stamford Bridge

Interior ruins at Pevensey Castle, some of which date to shortly after the Battle of Hastings

Norman knights and archers at the Battle of Hastings depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry

The battlefield from the north side

Iraq War [videos]

The Iraq War was a protracted armed conflict that began in 2003 with the invasion of Iraq by a United States-led coalition that overthrew the government of Saddam Hussein. The conflict continued for much of the next decade as an insurgency emerged to oppose the occupying forces and the …

A UN weapons inspector in Iraq, 2002

United States Secretary of State Colin Powell holding a model vial of anthrax while giving a presentation to the United Nations Security Council

From the left: French President Jacques Chirac, U.S. President George W. Bush, UK Prime Minister Tony Blair and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Chirac was against the invasion, the other three leaders were in favor.

Anti-war protest in London, September 2002. Organised by the British Stop the War Coalition, up to 400,000 took part in the protest.

Laurence Fishburne [videos]

Laurence John Fishburne III is an American actor, playwright, producer, screenwriter, and film director. He is known for playing Morpheus in The Matrix trilogy, Jason "Furious" Styles in the 1991 drama film Boyz n the Hood and Tyrone "Mr. Clean" Miller in the 1979 war film …

Fishburne in 2017

Fishburne in 1995

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