Related PostsBuy Tickets for The Constitutional Walking Tour of Philadelphia – See 20+ Sites on a Primary Overview of Independence Park, including the Liberty Bell and Independence HallBelmont Mansion and the Underground RailroadLemon Hill MansionMount Pleasant MansionStrawberry Mansion is the largest of the Fairmount Park Historic Houses, and today its halls are adorned with antiques, fine… Read More
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Related PostsBuy Tickets for The Constitutional Walking Tour of Philadelphia – See 20+ Sites on a Primary Overview of Independence Park, including the Liberty Bell and Independence HallBelmont Mansion and the Underground RailroadLemon Hill MansionMount Pleasant MansionPlease Touch MuseumIn 1876, nearly 10 million people visited Philadelphia over the course of 6 months for the Centennial… Read More
Related PostsBuy Tickets for The Constitutional Walking Tour of Philadelphia – See 20+ Sites on a Primary Overview of Independence Park, including the Liberty Bell and Independence HallBelmont Mansion and the Underground RailroadLemon Hill MansionMount Pleasant MansionNamed for its juxtaposition between a forest around the house and a nearby ford in the Schuylkill River, Woodford Mansion… Read More
Related PostsBuy Tickets for The Constitutional Walking Tour of Philadelphia – See 20+ Sites on a Primary Overview of Independence Park, including the Liberty Bell and Independence HallBelmont Mansion and the Underground RailroadLemon Hill MansionMount Pleasant MansionAdjacent to Lemon Hill Mansion, the birthplace of Fairmount Park, is a modest but elegant edifice, an esoteric relic that is… Read More
Related PostsBuy Tickets for The Constitutional Walking Tour of Philadelphia – See 20+ Sites on a Primary Overview of Independence Park, including the Liberty Bell and Independence HallBelmont Mansion and the Underground RailroadLemon Hill MansionMount Pleasant MansionUntil the 20th Century, this small unassuming brick townhouse on Letitia Street (now relocated to Girard Avenue) was assumed… Read More
Related PostsBuy Tickets for The Constitutional Walking Tour of Philadelphia – See 20+ Sites on a Primary Overview of Independence Park, including the Liberty Bell and Independence HallBelmont Mansion and the Underground RailroadLemon Hill MansionMount Pleasant MansionThe Solitude House is the only remaining building in the United States that housed a member of the Penn family. Its presence… Read More
Related PostsBuy Tickets for The Constitutional Walking Tour of Philadelphia – See 20+ Sites on a Primary Overview of Independence Park, including the Liberty Bell and Independence HallBelmont Mansion and the Underground RailroadLemon Hill MansionMount Pleasant MansionAcquired in 1869 like many of the other Fairmount mansions, Ridgeland Mansion, also known as Mount Prospect, is one of the… Read More
Related PostsBuy Tickets for The Constitutional Walking Tour of Philadelphia – See 20+ Sites on a Primary Overview of Independence Park, including the Liberty Bell and Independence HallBelmont Mansion & The Underground Railroad MuseumFor centuries, Cedar Grove Mansion housed five generations of the joint Paschall-Morris families. Today this gives us an engaging lens to look back in time… Read More
Related PostsBuy Tickets for The Constitutional Walking Tour of Philadelphia – See 20+ Sites on a Primary Overview of Independence Park, including the Liberty Bell and Independence HallBelmont Mansion and the Underground RailroadLemon Hill MansionMount Pleasant MansionPlease Touch MuseumSince 1986, cream-colored ruins peek out above the trees near 33rd and Oxford, covered in graffiti. But… Read More
Related PostsBuy Tickets for The Constitutional Walking Tour of Philadelphia – See 20+ Sites on a Primary Overview of Independence Park, including the Liberty Bell and Independence HallThese historic homes were built in the 18th, and 19th Centuries as summer getaways for the wealthy and powerful of Philadelphia. In a time when the developed area of the city was largely concentrated miles… Read More
