Library Company of Philadelphia
The Library Company of Philadelphia (LCP) is a non-profit organization based on Locust Street in Center City Philadelphia. Founded as a library in 1731 by Benjamin Franklin, the Library Company of Philadelphia has accumulated one of the most significant collections of historically valuable manuscripts and printed material in the United States.
Library Company of Philadelphia
Library and Surgeon's Hall, Fifth-street an 1800 engraving by William Russell Birch
The former Ridgway Library at 901 South Broad Street, built in 1873–1878, is now occupied since 1997 by the Philadelphia High School for the Creative and Performing Arts.
The Ridgway Library, opened in 1966, home of the Library Company of Philadelphia, at 1314 Locust Street in Philadelphia
Locust Street is a major historic street in Center City Philadelphia. The street is the location of several prominent Philadelphia-based buildings, historic sights, and high-rise residential locations. It is an east–west street throughout Center City Philadelphia and runs largely parallel to Chestnut Street, another major Center City Philadelphia street.
12–13th & Locust station on Locust Street in April 2017
Musical Fund Hall at 808 Locust Street, where the first Republican nominating convention for president and vice president was held from June 17 to 19, 1856
Curtis Institute of Music at 1726 Locust Street, one of the nation's most elite conservatories
