Friends Hospital
Friends Hospital is a psychiatric hospital located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded in 1813 by Quakers as The Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason, the institution was later renamed the Frankford Asylum for the Insane.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Opening hours: 24/7
- Type: Hospital
- Description: psychiatric hospital in Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Address: 4641 Roosevelt Boulevard, Philadelphia, 19124
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Greenwood Cemetery and Olney station.
Greenwood Cemetery
Cemetery
Photo: BillFlis, Public domain.
Greenwood Cemetery is a historic cemetery in the Frankford neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It was established in 1869, is 43 acres in size and contains approximately 20,000 graves. Greenwood Cemetery is situated 2,200 feet southeast of Friends Hospital.
Olney station
Railway station
Photo: Curtbookworm88, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Olney station is a SEPTA Regional Rail station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Located at Mascher Street and Tabor Road in the Olney neighborhood, it serves the Fox Chase Line. Olney station is situated 1¼ miles northwest of Friends Hospital.
Philadelphia Charter School for Arts and Sciences
School
The Philadelphia Charter School for Arts and Sciences at H.R. Edmunds is a charter school that is located in the Northwood neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia Charter School for Arts and Sciences is situated 1 mile east of Friends Hospital.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Northwood and Frankford.
Northwood
Neighborhood
Northwood, an area of the Frankford section of Philadelphia, is bounded on the north by Roosevelt Boulevard, on the northeast by Cheltenham Avenue, on the west by Oakland Cemetery and Greenwood Cemetery, Juniata Park and Frankford Creek, and on the southeast by Frankford Avenue.
Frankford
Neighborhood
Frankford is a neighborhood in the Northeast section of Philadelphia situated about six miles northeast of Center City. Although its borders are vaguely defined, the neighborhood is bounded roughly by the original course of Frankford Creek on the south…
Crescentville
Neighborhood
Photo: Marburg79, Public domain.
Crescentville is a neighborhood in Northeast Philadelphia, United States. It is located in the vicinity of Adams, Rising Sun, and Tabor Avenues. The name Crescentville is thought to be derived from the Crescentville Rope Factory that once stood along the Tookany Creek watershed.
Friends Hospital
- Categories: psychiatric hospital and health care
- Location: Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Region, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
40.02654° or 40° 1′ 36″ northLongitude
-75.10211° or 75° 6′ 8″ westElevation
102 feet (31 metres)Open location code
87G62VGX+J5OpenStreetMap ID
way 555876059OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=hospitalOpenStreetMap feature
healthcare=hospitalGeoNames ID
5190580Wikidata ID
Q5504177
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Spanish—“Friends Hospital” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Friends Hospital”
- French: “Friends Hospital”
- German: “Friends Hospital”
- Italian: “Friends Hospital”
- Spanish: “Friends Hospital”
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