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 his death in 1831.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Philadelphia Museum of Art and Eastern State Penitentiary.
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Museum
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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. Philadelphia Museum of Art is situated 3,800 feet southwest of Girard College.
Eastern State Penitentiary
Museum
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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. Eastern State Penitentiary is situated 2,000 feet south of Girard College.
Hebron Memorial Church
Church
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Hebron Memorial Church is situated 1,400 feet northwest of Girard College.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sharswood and Francisville.
Sharswood
Neighborhood
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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.
Francisville
Neighborhood
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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.
Fairmount
Neighborhood
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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.
Girard College
- Type: School
- Description: independent college preparatory boarding school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Category: education
- Location: Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Region, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
39.97378° or 39° 58′ 26″ northLongitude
-75.17259° or 75° 10′ 21″ westElevation
98 feet (30 metres)Open location code
87F6XRFG+GXOpenStreetMap ID
way 134555732OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=school
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Swedish—“Girard College” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “իրարդի Քոլեջ”
- Catalan: “Girard College”
- Chinese: “吉拉德学院”
- Dutch: “Girard College”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كليه جيرارد”
- French: “Girard College”
- Italian: “Girard College”
- Swedish: “Girard College”
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