The Cliffs
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The Cliffs is a historic country house located near 33rd and Oxford Streets in East Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. It is a Registered Historic Place.
The Cliffs with graffiti (2017)
The Cliffs in 1931
The Cliffs, south view, 2007
The Cliffs, north view, 2017
Schuylkill River
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The Schuylkill River is a river in eastern Pennsylvania in the United States. It flows for 135 miles from Pottsville southeast to Philadelphia, the sixth-largest city in the US, where it joins the Del
The Cliffs
…Place. The Cliffs was built in 1753 by Philadelphia merchant Joshua Fisher (1707–1783), the great-grandfather of Joseph Wharton. It overlooks the Schuylkill River from the east, just north of the Girard Avenue Bridge and quite close to where Fountain Green Drive meets Kelly Drive along the river. It is a country…
The Schuylkill River with Center City, Philadelphia's skyline in the background, May 2024
The Strawberry Mansion Bridge in Fairmount Park at dusk
The Fairmount Water Works on the Schuylkill River were once the source of Philadelphia's water supply and are now an attraction in Fairmount Park.
An 1872 allegory of the Schuylkill River by William Rush now on display at the Philadelphia Museum of Art