Society Hill
Philadelphia's best-preserved 18th-century neighborhood — a living community of Georgian townhouses, historic churches, and intimate alleys stretching from the Delaware River to Washington Square.
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Old St. Joseph's Church
321 Willings Alley (off S. 4th St between Walnut & Chestnut)
Step into Willings Alley and follow it back from the noise of 4th Street. Notice how the alley narrows before it opens onto the courtyard of Old St. Joseph's. That narrowing was intentional. This is t
Powel House
244 S. 3rd St
Stand before 244 South 3rd Street and appreciate for a moment what you are looking at. The Powel House, built in 1765, is one of the finest Georgian townhouses in the United States. Its proportions ar
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Tun Tavern
Near Delaware Ave & Chestnut St (plaque marks original site, now beneath I-95)
You are standing near the original site of Tun Tavern — now buried beneath Interstate 95, which was built through this neighborhood in the 1960s with devastating indifference to what it displaced. A p
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Head House Square & Shambles
2nd St & Pine St
You've arrived at Head House Square, and the open-air market shed stretching along 2nd Street before you is the oldest surviving fire house and market in the United States. Its formal name is the New
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St. Peter's Church
313 Pine St (corner of 3rd & Pine)
The open space of St. Peter's churchyard is one of the great gifts of Society Hill — a full block of sky and trees and old stone in a neighborhood of tight rowhouses and narrow alleys. The church itse
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Physick House
321 S. 4th St
You've reached the southern anchor of Society Hill's historic core: the Physick House at 321 South 4th Street, the only freestanding house in a neighborhood of attached rowhouses, and one of the most
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