The Centennial District is a 700-acre section of
West Philadelphia
West Philadelphia, nicknamed West Philly, is a section of the city of Philadelphia. Although there are no officially defined boundaries, it is generally considered to reach from the western shore of the Schuylkill River, to City Avenue to the n ...
,
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 that contains the
Philadelphia Zoo
The Philadelphia Zoo is a zoo located in the Centennial District of Philadelphia on the west bank of the Schuylkill River. It was the first true zoo in the United States; it was chartered by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on March 21, 1859 ...
, the
Please Touch Museum and the
Mann Music Center. The neighborhood sits on a section of town that was the location of the
1876 Centennial Exposition, which was 100 years after the founding of the United States with the signing of the
Declaration of Independence
A declaration of independence is an assertion by a polity in a defined territory that it is independent and constitutes a state. Such places are usually declared from part or all of the territory of another state or failed state, or are breaka ...
.
The area is part of a plan to incorporate parts of present-day
Fairmount Park to revitalize neighborhoods in the area for the year 2026.
Daniel Chester French
Daniel Chester French (April 20, 1850 – October 7, 1931) was an American sculpture, sculptor in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His works include ''The Minute Man'', an 1874 statue in Concord, Massachusetts, and his Statue of Abr ...
near the Mann Center
File:CentennialPhiladelphia.jpg, Centennial District signage
Transportation
Streetcar service along
Girard Avenue
Girard Avenue is a major commercial and residential street in Philadelphia. For most of its length it runs east–west, but at Frankford Avenue it makes a 135-degree turn north. Parts of the road are signed as U.S. Route 13 and U.S. Route 30.
...
is provided by
SEPTA
SEPTA, the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, is a regional public transportation authority that operates bus, rapid transit, commuter rail, light rail, and electric trolleybus services for nearly four million people througho ...
's
Route 15 trolley.
See also
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Parkside Historic District (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
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Ohio House (Philadelphia)
References
{{West Philadelphia
Neighborhoods in Philadelphia
West Philadelphia