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This historic marker memorializes the Permanent Market Street Bridge from its opening in 1805, through two replacement bridges, up to 1932, when the present version was erected; maintained with improvements over the past century.
Today the old stone arch Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Bridge carries rail traffic over Martin Luther King Jr Dr. in West Philadelphia and under the Twin Bridges and U.S. Hwy. 1.
Looking west, the third version of the Girard Ave. Bridge was completed in 1972.
This historic marker memorializes the first Girard Ave. Bridge, which opened in 1855 and closed in 1872.
A statue of William Penn commemorates the Quaker proprietor’s 1682 treaty with the Lenape. The treaty site is on the Delaware River. The Benjamin Franklin Bridge is seen in the distance to the south.
City Line Bridge, barrel arch bridge constructed in 1913, which crosses the East Branch of Indian Creek in Overbrook Farms; National Register of Historic Places
Richards and Goddard Laboratories, a National Historic Landmark, University of Pennsylvania campus; Louis Kahn, architect (1957-61)
Houses on Cobbs Creek Parkway near 61st Street, across from Cobbs Creek Park, part of Cobbs Creek Automobile Suburb Historic District
Iconic Overbrook Farms house, Wissahickon schist foundation, Overbrook Drive between Upland Way and 59th Street.
UCHS students worked in the half-acre organic garden and harvested the vegetables they marketed in local venues, notably Clark Park. Their innovative program was part of the Penn–School District Agatston Urban Nutrition Initiative (AUNI).
The PW&B replaced the Newkirk Viaduct with PW&B No. 1, a railroad bridge constructed beside the new Gray’s Ferry Bridge.
The Hewitt Brothers designed this beautiful row of Queen Anne houses at 4210–4020 Spruce Street, ca. 1885. Their builder was William Kimball.