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This cluster includes Philadelphia’s
Old City neighborhood, where you can see the
Revolutionary era landmarks that draw thousands of tourists to the city. As you search for the official Save America’s Treasures projects,
you’ll pass some of America’s
most iconic treasures, including Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell. Fun as it is to search out the lesser-known
treasures that we’ll be highlighting, be sure to include the famous sites on your Philadelphia itinerary as
well.
Centrally located on the Northeast corridor, Philadelphia can easily
be reached by plane, train, or automobile.
There are plenty of hotels, motels, inns, and B&Bs to accommodate
visitors, as well as many highly-rated restaurants. VisitPhilly.com is the official visitor
center for the Greater Philadelphia area and is an ideal site to visit to plan
the details of your stay in Philadelphia.
As for this particular cluster of Save America’s Treasures sites, you can easily compose a pleasant
walking tour passing all of them in a single afternoon. But that’s only for the non-adventurous,
content to catch a glance and check the site off a list. The real value of each site can only be
discovered by looking deeper.
In some cases, the specific Save America’s Treasures collection items are not currently
accessible to the public. This is
particularly the case with collection items stored at archives and
libraries. While the closest you may be
able to come to these objects is viewing an image on a website, most of these
sites do offer regular exhibits of choice materials from their
collections. We recommend simply
enjoying whatever is on display when you visit—be prepared to discover unexpected
treasures while touring Philadelphia.
© 2011 Lee Price
Don't forget Girard College, led by the inestimable Director of Historic Resources, Elizabeth Laurent! The roof of Founders Hall was an SAT project in 2005, the largest Pennsylvania grant in the history of the Save America's Treasures program (even bigger than Fallingwater's!). Maybe in Philadelphia Cluster #2...
ReplyDeleteFounders Hall at Girard College is indeed an awesome and underappreciated historic treasure! I'm looking forward to covering it. Philadelphia received so many of these SAT projects! I've settled for this cluster approach so we don't get too bogged down in one area for too long---we could spend two months in Philly covering all the SAT sites. So its 14 Philly sites for now--and I'll return for more (and Girard College) in due time.
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