Cedar Park is a
neighborhood
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of
Philadelphia
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,
Pennsylvania
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. Located in the larger
West Philadelphia
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district, it stretches north to Larchwood Ave., south to Kingsessing Ave., east to 46th Street, and west to 52nd Street.
Originally outlying farmland, Cedar Park was built between 1850 and 1910 as a
streetcar suburb
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West Philadelphia Streetcar Suburb Historic District
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UCHS
/ref> of Center City. Its development as a suburb accelerated with the installation of horsecar
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Summary
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s in the 1850s and again with the arrival of electric trolley lines in 1892.gentrification
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stimulated by the University of Pennsylvania
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's redevelopment plan for West Philadelphia. There is a distinct progressive-politics mien to the neighborhood and a sizable African
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immigrant community located along and near Baltimore Avenue
The Baltimore Pike was an auto trail connecting Baltimore, Maryland, with Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Today, parts of the road are signed as U.S. Route 1 (US 1), US 13, and a small portion of Pennsylvania Route 41 (PA 41). A section of the road ...
between 46th and 49th Streets. Cedar Park's residents are predominantly Jamaican/Caribbean and African
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immigrants, but many are African American (American-born blacks) or white.
Gallery
image:47th and baltimore.jpg, 47th Street and Baltimore Ave
image:cedar_park_rooftops.jpg, Queen Anne-style rooftops
image:cedar_park_porches.jpg, Houses on Baltimore Ave
Image:Row Houses, West Philly.jpg, Rowhouses on 48th Street between Cedar and Walton Streets
image:4500 Baltimore Avenue.jpg, SEPTA'S Route 34 trolley in the 4500 block of Baltimore Avenue
The Baltimore Pike was an auto trail connecting Baltimore, Maryland, with Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Today, parts of the road are signed as U.S. Route 1 (US 1), US 13, and a small portion of Pennsylvania Route 41 (PA 41). A section of the road ...
See also
* St. Francis de Sales Church
External links
Cedar Park Neighborhood Association
References
{{West Philadelphia
Neighborhoods in Philadelphia
Streetcar suburbs
University City, Philadelphia