Lemon Hill

Lemon Hill is a Federal-style mansion in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, built from 1799 to 1800 by Philadelphia merchant Henry Pratt. The house is named after the citrus fruits that Pratt cultivated on the property in the early 19th century.

Photo: Brian W. Schaller, FAL.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Philadelphia Museum of Art and Turtle Rock Light.

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.

Turtle Rock Light

Lighthouse

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The Lighthouse on Turtle Rock is a lighthouse built in 1887 to aid traffic on the Schuylkill River near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The lighthouse was constructed by Frank Thurwanger at a cost of $2,663 on an area of land just west of Boathouse Row.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Fairmount and Brewerytown.

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.

Brewerytown

Neighborhood

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Brewerytown is a neighborhood in the North Philadelphia section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. An unofficial region, Brewerytown runs approximately between the Schuylkill River's eastern bank and 25th Street, bounded by Montgomery Avenue to the north and Parrish Street to the south.

Mantua

Neighborhood

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Mantua is a neighborhood in the West Philadelphia section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is located north of Spring Garden Street, east of 40th Street, south of Mantua Avenue, and west of 31st Street.

Lemon Hill

Type: Peak with an elevation of 85 feet
Description: building in Pennsylvania, United States
Categories: building and landform
Location: Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Region, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

39.97204° or 39° 58′ 19″ north

Longitude

-75.18848° or 75° 11′ 19″ west

Elevation

85 feet (26 metres)

Open location code

87F6XRC6+RJ

OpenStreetMap ID

node 13393721247

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=peak

GeoNames ID

4559167

Wikidata ID

Q6521316

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

“Lemon Hill” goes by many names.

Turkish: “Lemon Hill”

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Lemon Hill Fields and Lemon Hill Playground.

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