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Wister is a neighborhood in
Northwest Philadelphia Northwest Philadelphia is a section of the city of Philadelphia. The official boundary is Stenton Avenue to the north, the Schuylkill River to the southwest, Northwestern Avenue to the northwest, Roosevelt Boulevard to the south, and Wister Str ...
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Pennsylvania Pennsylvania, officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a U.S. state, state spanning the Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern United States, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes region, Great Lakes regions o ...
, United States. It is bounded by Chelten Avenue to the north, Germantown Avenue to the west, Belfield Avenue to the east, and Wister Street to the south. Wister is a section within Germantown. The
Clarkson-Watson House Clarkson-Watson House, also known as the Bank of Germantown and Germantown Historical Society, is a historic home located in the Wister neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was built between 1740 and 1750, and modified in the 1770s ...
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Fisher's Lane Fisher's Lane is a national historic district located on East Logan Street in the Wister neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. The district includes 12 contributing buildings and three contributing structures in a residential sectio ...
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Grumblethorpe Grumblethorpe was the home of the Wister family in the present-day Germantown section of Philadelphia, who lived there for over 160 years. It was built in 1744 as a summer residence, but it became the family's year-round residence in 1793. It ...
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Grumblethorpe Tenant House The Grumblethorpe Tenant House, also known as the Tenant House of Wister's Big House, is an historic home which is located in the Wister neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972, it ...
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Ivy Lodge The Ivy Lodge is an historic American home which is located in the Wister neighborhood of Germantown in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. History and architectural features It was ...
are listed on the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...
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