Philadelphia


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Landmarks

  • Old town: Independence Hall
  • Old town: Second Bank (1824) at 420 Chestnut
  • Old town: Christ Church (1727) at 2nd St & Market
  • Old town: Germantown (Green Tree Tavern, Wyck, Cliveden)
  • Old town: William Strickland's Merchants Exchange (1834)
  • Old town: Customs Building
  • City Hall: Academy of Arts at Broad & Cherry
  • City Hall at Market & Broad
  • City Hall: Savings Fund Society/ The PSFS Building, now known as the Loews Philadelphia Hotel at 1200 Market & 12th
  • City Hall: Oldenburg's "Clothespin" in Center Square (across from City Hall on Market St)
  • Arch/Market skyscrapers: 342-meter high Comcast Technology Center (1800 Arch Street)
  • Arch/Market skyscrapers: Murphy & Jann's Liberty Place (50 S. 16th Street)
  • North: Museum of Art (Van der Weyden's "Crucifixion", Van Eyck's "St Francis of Assisi" Rubens' “Prometheus Bound”, Renoir's “The Large Bathers,” VanGogh's “Sunflowers,” Cezanne's “The Large Bathers,” Duchamp's "Nude Descending a Staircase No 2", Duchamp's "Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors", Brancusi's “Kiss,” Picasso's “Three Musicians,” Klee's "Fish Magic" El Greco's "Pieta`", Toulouse-Lautrec's At the Moulin Rouge", Oldenburg's “Giant Three-Way Plug", Kiefer's "Nigredo", Cezanne's "Mont Sainte-Victoire", Dali's "Soft Construction with Boiled Beans")
  • North: Cathedral
  • North: Free Library
  • North: Fairmont Waterworks in Fairmount Park
  • UPenn: Archipenko's King Solomon in the campus of University of Pennsylvania (36th Street Walk, South of Walnut street)
  • UPenn: Kahn's Richards Medical Research Building (1964) on Hamilton Walk at Spruce & 38th
  • Freedom Sculpture by Zenos Frudakis outside the offices of GlaxoSmithKline


Pictures of Philadelphia

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