Logan Circle (Philadelphia)
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Logan Circle, also known as Logan Square, is an open-space park in Center City Philadelphia's northwest quadrant and one of the five original planned squares laid out on the city grid. The centerpiece
Swann Memorial Fountain in Logan Circle
Parkway Central Library and Philadelphia's Family Court Building
Both buildings were modeled after the Hôtel de Crillon, and the Hôtel de la Marine Place de la Concorde in Paris
Great Sanitary Fair, June 1864.
James Logan (statesman)
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James Logan was a Scots-Irish colonial American statesman, administrator, and scholar who served as the fourteenth mayor of Philadelphia and held a number of other public offices.
Logan Circle (Philadelphia)
…referring to the park. Originally "Northwest Square" in William Penn's 1684 plan for the city, the square was renamed in 1825 after Philadelphia statesman James Logan. The park is the focal point of the eponymous neighborhood. Logan Square was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1981…
An illustration of Logan and his signature, c. 1740
A present-day plaque honoring Logan in the city of his birth, in Lurgan, in Northern Ireland
James Logan, engraving