This photo of 6134 Cedar Ave. shows the original stone façade of the structure’s east side. The distinctive architectural element here is the A-frame roof line that forms an arrow with the house’s foundation; this element marks the house as turn of the twentieth century. It begs comparison with the red brick arrow of the building’s east side.
This photo of 6134 Cedar Ave. shows the elegant stone façade of a house likely built at the turn of the last century. Today the building is owned by Church of Christian Compassion, whose headquarters building is 6121 Cedar Ave.
This close-up of the roofline of 6120 Cedar Ave., an abandoned house, shows original architectural elements—wooden roof cornice and ornamental supports—that mark it as structure built at the turn of the twentieth century.
The Martin Plan, as illustrated by this map from the original report, proposed expanding the University of Pennsylvania campus over portions of Woodland Avenue.
In the 1950s, the City facilitated Penn’s plans to create its modern pedestrian campus by putting the Penn trolleys underground and deeding the footprint of Woodland Avenue to the University.
In the first half of the twentieth century, two campus plans—the Cret Report of 1913 and the Martin Report of 1948—called for the creation of a pedestrian campus free of urban congestion.
