Logan Circle (Philadelphia)
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 of the park is the Logan Circle, a circular area centered on a large water feature, bounded by a traffic circle carrying 19th Street and the Benjamin Franklin Parkway with connections to 18th and 20th streets to the east and west and Race and Vine Streets to the south and north.
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.
Center City, Philadelphia
Center City includes the central business district and central neighborhoods of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It comprises the area that made up the City of Philadelphia prior to the Act of Consolidation, 1854, which extended the city borders to be coterminous with Philadelphia County.
The Schuylkill River (foreground) and Center City Philadelphia (background) in July 2007
Eastbound
Westbound
Center City at night in May 2007