Francisville
Francisville is a neighborhood in North Philadelphia, a section of the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Its boundaries are Fairmount Avenue to the south, Girard Avenue to the north, Broad Street to the east, and Corinthian Avenue to the west.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Neighborhood
- Description: human settlement in Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Also known as: “Francisville, Pennsylvania” and “Francisville, Philadelphia”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Eastern State Penitentiary and Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Eastern State Penitentiary
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Eastern State Penitentiary is a former American prison in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is located in the Fairmount section of the city, and was operational from 1829 until 1971.
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Philadelphia Museum of Art is an art museum originally chartered in 1876 for the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. The main museum building was completed in 1928 on Fairmount, a hill located at the northwest end of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway at Eakins Oval.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Spring Garden and Sharswood.
Spring Garden
Neighborhood
Photo: Smallbones, Public domain.
Spring Garden is a neighborhood in North Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, bordering Center City on the north. Spring Garden is a neighborhood that combines diverse residential neighborhoods and significant cultural attractions.
Sharswood
Neighborhood
Photo: Evrik, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sharswood is a small neighborhood in the North Philadelphia section of the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the United States. It is located to the east of Brewerytown, north of Girard College, west of Ridge Avenue, east of 24th Street and south of Cecil B.
Fairmount
Neighborhood
Photo: goosegoddesss, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Fairmount is a neighborhood within Lower North Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Its boundaries are north of Fairmount Avenue, west of Corinthian Avenue, south of Girard Avenue and east of The Schuylkill River.
Francisville
- Category: locality
- Location: Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Region, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
39.97011° or 39° 58′ 12″ northLongitude
-75.16907° or 75° 10′ 9″ westElevation
102 feet (31 metres)Open location code
87F6XRCJ+29OpenStreetMap ID
node 158253476OpenStreetMap feature
place=neighbourhood
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Turkish—“Francisville” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “法蘭西斯維爾”
- Dutch: “Francisville”
- French: “Francisville”
- Spanish: “Francisville”
- Turkish: “Francisville”
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