Naval Square, Philadelphia
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.
The Naval Square gated neighborhood behind wall on Grays Ferry Avenue
Naval Asylum Building
Bainbridge Street outside view of Naval Square gated community
U S Naval Asylum 1838, John Caspar Wild,
Southwest Center City Philadelphia
Southwest Center City (SWCC), also known as Graduate Hospital, is a neighborhood that is located in South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, bordering Center City Philadelphia. The neighborhood is bordered on the north by South Street, on the south by Washington Avenue, on the west by the Schuylkill River, and on the east by Broad Street.
Naval Square
Marian Anderson House on Martin Street
The Roberts Center for Pediatric Research is at the right.
CHOP plans to build on these 2 properties, with the JFK Vocational School (in the back) and Springfield Beer Distributor in the front.
