Rittenhouse Square
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Rittenhouse Square is a public park in Center City Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that is the center of the eponymous Rittenhouse neighborhood. The square is one of the five original open-space parks plan
Rittenhouse Square in October 2010
An early 20th century postcard of Rittenhouse Square looking towards 19th and Walnut streets
Lion with a Snake, a statue by Antoine-Louis Barye erected in 1832
Rittenhouse Square in April 2006
David Rittenhouse
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David Rittenhouse was an American astronomer, inventor, clockmaker, mathematician, surveyor, scientific instrument craftsman, and public official. Rittenhouse was a member of the American Philosophica
Rittenhouse Square
…by Rittenhouse Square at 18th Street and Rittenhouse Square West. Originally called Southwest Square, Rittenhouse Square was renamed in 1825 after David Rittenhouse, a descendant of the first paper-maker in Philadelphia, the German immigrant William Rittenhouse. William Rittenhouse's original paper-mill site is…
Portrait by Charles Willson Peale, 1796
Rittenhouse's home as it appeared in c. 1919; from this lawn, in 1769, Rittenhouse observed the transit of Venus.
Valley Forge Medical Center and Hospital
A diagram from Rittenhouse's observations of the 1769 transit of Venus