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    Children's Seashore House

    Children’s Seashore House, shown behind PGH’s remnant wrought-iron fence, moved to the site from New Jersey in 1990 and was purchased by CHOP in 1998. Seashore House treats children, both in-patients and out-patients, with developmental disabilities and chronic diseases.

    CHOP on Former PGH Grounds

    The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia opened a single hospital building on property located between PGH and HUP in 1974, three years prior to PGH’s closing. Following the closure in 1977, CHOP, a member institution of the PGH Development Corporation, expanded into the former PGH site with buildings that include the Wood Center for Pediatrics on the north side of Osler Circle. 

    PGH Remnant Fence

    This photo shows the wrought-iron fence with its marble and inlaid-brick globe columns that marked the eastern boundary of the Philadelphia General Hospital, today facing Civic Center Boulevard/Ronald G. Perelman Way. The fence, which extends for several city blocks, is the only surviving remnant of the sprawling institution that once stood on this site, spanning the years 1834–1977, serving first as the City’s almshouse for indigent poor, next as the City’s only public hospital. 

    An Abandoned House

    An abandoned house on the 3600 block of Fairmount Ave.

    Mantua Square
    Mantua Square

    Mantua Square, a Philadelphia Housing Authority redevelopment project at 35th St. and Fairmount Ave., constructed on the site where Mantua Hall once stood, an 18-storey high-rise apartment building that was demolished in 2008.

    Private Redevelopment in Mantua
    Private Redevelopment in Mantua

    Looking west along the 3800 block of Mellon St., where a private developer has renovated and painted existing brick townhouses

    Grace Lutheran Church
    Grace Lutheran Church

    Grace Lutheran Church, at 36th St. and Haverford Ave., where Herman Wrice hosted weekly community meetings 

    Rowhouses on the 3601 block of Spring Garden St.
    On Spring Garden Street

    Rowhouses on the 3601 block of Spring Garden St. 

    Changing Times

    This present-day photograph highlights the erstwhile D.B. Martin (later Wilson-Martin) slaughterhouse, radically repurposed for twenty-first century uses, with the Market Tavern the latest restaurant to hold the southwest corner of 30th and Market St. The billboard announces the Schuylkill Yards redevelopment district.

    Adjacencies: Past & Present Urban Architecture

    Looking north, this present-day photograph shows four buildings that dominate the urban landscape east of 32nd & Market streets to the Schuylkill (left to right):the former D.B. Martin building (1908), Cira Centre (2008), 30th St. Station (1933, now Amtrak & SEPTA), & US Post Office (1935, now IRS). This image shows the split-level structure of the old Martin building, as viewed from the south, with the basement and first floor appearing below street level.

    Once a Slaughterhouse

    The Cira Centre, “a 29-story, 437-foot (133 m) office high-rise,” located on a site that may have been part of the northwest corner of the Philadelphia Stockyards. A “silver glass curtain wall skyscraper” built in 2004–5 on a platform over rail tracks, the Cira Centre, which has space for retail and restaurant leases and a parking garage, is joined with 30th Street Station by a pedestrian bridge.

    Falls Bridge Location at East Falls of the Schuylkill

    This Google Map image shows the Falls Bridge. Red marks the spot. 

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