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The Broad Street Historic District is a historic district in
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District Map
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission * NRHP Inventory Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission {{Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania Beaux-Arts architecture in Pennsylvania Victorian architecture in Pennsylvania Historic districts in Philadelphia Center City, Philadelphia Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania National Register of Historic Places in Philadelphia
Center City, Philadelphia
Center City includes the central business district and central neighborhoods of Philadelphia. It comprises the area that made up the City of Philadelphia prior to the Act of Consolidation, 1854, which extended the city borders to be coterminous wi ...
, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania (; ( Pennsylvania Dutch: )), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States. It borders Delaware to its southeast, ...
. It is bounded roughly by Juniper, Cherry, 15th, and Pine Streets, covering an area about one block on either side of Broad Street.
The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic ...
in 1984.
Contributing properties
*Academy of Music (Philadelphia)
The Academy of Music, also known as American Academy of Music, is a concert hall and opera house located at 240 S. Broad Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Its location is between Locust and Manning Streets in the Avenue of the Arts area of ...
* Land Title Building
* Masonic Temple
*Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) is a museum and private art school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
*Philadelphia City Hall
Philadelphia City Hall is the seat of the municipal government of the City of Philadelphia. Built in the ornate Second Empire style, City Hall houses the chambers of the Philadelphia City Council and the offices of the Mayor of Philadelphia. ...
* Philadelphia National Bank Building
*Philadelphia Stock Exchange
Philadelphia Stock Exchange (PHLX), now known as Nasdaq PHLX, is the first stock exchange established in the United States and the oldest stock exchange in the nation. The exchange is owned by Nasdaq, which acquired it in 2007 for $652 million, a ...
*Philadelphia College of Art
Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the sixth-largest city in the U.S., the second-largest city in both the Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic regions after New York City. Since 1 ...
*Union League of Philadelphia
The Union League of Philadelphia is a private club founded in 1862 by the Old Philadelphians as a patriotic society to support the policies of Abraham Lincoln. As of 2022, the club has over 4,000 members. Its main building was built in 1865 and ...
See also
*Broad Street (Philadelphia)
upright=1.2, The Northern terminus of Broad Street on the border of Philadelphia and Cheltenham Township
Broad Street is a major arterial street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The street runs for approximately , beginning at the interse ...
References
External links
District Map
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission * NRHP Inventory Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission {{Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania Beaux-Arts architecture in Pennsylvania Victorian architecture in Pennsylvania Historic districts in Philadelphia Center City, Philadelphia Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania National Register of Historic Places in Philadelphia