Sharswood is a small neighborhood in the
North Philadelphia
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section of the city of
Philadelphia
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,
Pennsylvania
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. It is located to the east of
Brewerytown, north of
Girard College
Girard College is an independent college preparatory five-day boarding school located on a 43-acre campus in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The school was founded and permanently endowed from the shipping and banking fortune of Stephen Girard upon h ...
, west of Ridge Avenue, and south of the Norman Blumberg apartment towers.
It is often grouped with Brewerytown, as in the Brewerytown-Sharswood Community Civic Association, and the Brewerytown-Sharswood NTI Planning Area.
References
Neighborhoods in Philadelphia
Lower North Philadelphia
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