The Acorn Club at fifteen nineteen Locust Street stands as the oldest club for women in the United States. You can identify the building by its institutional facade, designed by architect Sydney Martin and occupied by the organization…
Rittenhouse Square Mansions
This stroll highlights the majestic Gilded Age mansions, private clubs, and elegant public park of Philadelphia's nineteenth-century elite. It is a perfect way to experience the quiet grandeur and historic brownstones of the city's premier neighborhood.
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1. The Acorn Club
2. Saint Mark's Church
Saint Mark's Church is identifiable by its dark, irregular brownstone walls and a soaring bell tower that rises above the buildings on Locust Street. Completed between eighteen forty-seven and eighteen forty-nine, the church was designed…
3. Curtis Institute of Music
The Curtis Institute of Music occupies a collection of historic mansions at the corner of eighteenth and Locust Streets, identifiable by their grand, residential architecture that anchors this corner near Rittenhouse Square. Founded in…
4. Philadelphia Art Alliance at University of the Arts
The Philadelphia Art Alliance occupies the Samuel Price Wetherill mansion, an Italian Renaissance-style residence of brick and stone facing the southeast side of Rittenhouse Square. Built in nineteen oh six, the mansion became the home of…
5. The Barclay
The Barclay stands at the southeast corner of Rittenhouse Square, identifiable by its grand, stately architecture that rises twenty-two stories above the park. Opened in October nineteen twenty-nine, the building was designed by the firm…
6. Rittenhouse Square
Rittenhouse Square is defined by its ornate iron fence, which encloses six acres of green space arranged in a maze-like pattern of diagonal crosswalks. Originally designated as Southwest Square in William Penn’s sixteen eighty-one plan for…
7. Anthropologie
This building on the corner of Eighteenth and Walnut streets rises as a Beaux-Arts mansion, distinguished by the Louis Comfort Tiffany stained glass dome tucked within its upper reaches. Built in eighteen ninety-eight, it began as the…
8. The Rosenbach
The Rosenbach occupies two nineteenth-century townhouses on Delancey Place, distinguishable by their brick facades and the quiet, residential character of the block. These houses once belonged to brothers Philip and Doctor Abraham Simon…