Rittenhouse Square
Philadelphia's gilded quarter — a world-class music conservatory, a legendary rare book collection, a Gothic Revival gem, and the nation's most remarkable medical museum.
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Rittenhouse Square
Bounded by Walnut, 18th, Rittenhouse Square S., and 19th Streets
Welcome to Rittenhouse Square — and welcome to Philadelphia's other park, the one that isn't about revolution or burial grounds but about the slower, quieter history of a city becoming comfortable…
Curtis Institute of Music
1726 Locust St (corner of 18th & Locust)
The building at the corner of 18th and Locust was, in its previous life, the home of George Childs Drexel, a Philadelphia banker of considerable wealth.
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St. Mark's Episcopal Church
1625 Locust St
St. Mark's Episcopal Church stands at 1625 Locust Street with the self-possession of a building that has no need to announce itself loudly.
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Rosenbach Museum & Library
2008–2010 Delancey Place
Delancey Place is one of the most beautiful residential streets in Philadelphia — a canopy of trees over a block of 19th-century brownstone and brick townhouses that has changed remarkably little in…
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Mütter Museum
19 S. 22nd St (College of Physicians of Philadelphia)
Our final stop on the Rittenhouse Square tour is deliberately unusual, and it is not for everyone.
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