Spring Garden College
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Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Mount Airy station and Richard Allen Lane station.
Mount Airy station
Railway station
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Mount Airy station is a SEPTA Regional Rail station at 119 East Gowen Avenue between Devon and Sprague Streets, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The station building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and was built in 1875 with Frank Furness as the likely architect. Mount Airy station is situated 1,700 feet east of Spring Garden College.
Richard Allen Lane station
Railway station
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Richard Allen Lane station is a SEPTA Regional Rail station in Philadelphia. It is located at 200 West Allens Lane in the Mount Airy neighborhood and serves the Chestnut Hill West Line. Richard Allen Lane station is situated 2,400 feet south of Spring Garden College.
Vanna Venturi House
Historic building
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The Vanna Venturi House, one of the first prominent works of the postmodern architecture movement, is located in the neighborhood of Chestnut Hill in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Vanna Venturi House is situated 4,000 feet northwest of Spring Garden College.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mount Airy and Chestnut Hill.
Mount Airy
Neighborhood
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Mount Airy is a neighborhood of Northwest Philadelphia in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.
Chestnut Hill
Neighborhood
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Chestnut Hill is a neighborhood in the Northwest Philadelphia section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It is known for the high incomes of its residents and high real estate values, as well as its private schools.
Wyndmoor
Neighborhood
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Wyndmoor is a census-designated place in Springfield Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 5,853 at the 2020 census. Wyndmoor has the same ZIP code, 19038, as the towns of Glenside, North Hills, and Erdenheim.
Spring Garden College
- Type: School
- Also known as: “Pennsylvania School for the Deaf”
- Categories: school for the deaf and education
- Location: Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Region, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Esperanto to French—“Spring Garden College” goes by many names.
- Esperanto: “Pensilvania Lernejo por Surduloj”
- French: “Pennsylvania School for the Deaf”
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