Cedar Park, Philadelphia

Cedar Park is a neighbourhood, neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Located in the larger West Philadelphia 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 suburbWest Philadelphia Streetcar Suburb Historic District
UCHS
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It is racially and ethnically diverse, and much of the historic Queen Anne style architecture in the United States, Queen Anne-style architecture still stands.

Since about 2000, the neighborhood has been undergoing gentrification stimulated by the University of Pennsylvania's redevelopment plan for West Philadelphia. There is a distinct progressive-politics mien to the neighborhood and a sizable Ethnic groups of Africa, African immigrant community located along and near Baltimore Avenue between 46th and 49th Streets. Cedar Park's residents are predominantly Jamaican American, Jamaican/Caribbean and African immigration to the United States, African 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 Pike, Baltimore Avenue

See also

* St. Francis de Sales Roman Catholic Church (Philadelphia), St. Francis de Sales Church

External links

Cedar Park Neighborhood Association

References

{{West Philadelphia

Neighborhoods in Philadelphia
Streetcar suburbs
University City, Philadelphia