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The view is from Mantua Hall, looking northeast across the rooftops of Mantua toward the tracks of the Pennsylvania Railroad, the Schuylkill River, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art (center-right). The Schuylkill River Expressway is hidden by the railroad tracks. 

This photo shows a Mantua Hall apartment shortly before the building opened for occupancy.

Mantua Hall was an 18-storey edifice built by the Philadelphia Housing Authority to accommodate 465 people. This photo shows the building in its final phase of development in 1960. It would open in 1961.

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

Implosion of the Mill Creek Homes tower apartments in 2003

Viewed from the south, the Mill Creek Homes tower apartments shortly before their demolition in 2003.

This photo shows the boarded-up low-rises on Aspen Street.  Sulzberger Middle School (formerly Junior High School, latterly Parkway West High School) at far left. 

This photo shows the greenspace in the low-rise complex. Mill Creek Homes had 100-percent African American occupancy.

This photo shows a courtyard of the low-rises when they were new.

This aerial photo highlights the high-rise apartment buildings in the Mill Creek Homes development.