Rittenhouse Town
Rittenhouse Town is a memorial in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Rittenhouse Town is situated nearby to the museum Rittenhouse Homestead, as well as near the historic building Enoch House.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Historic Rittenhouse Town and Oaks Cloister.
Historic Rittenhouse Town
Protected area
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Historic RittenhouseTown, sometimes referred to as Rittenhouse Historic District, encompasses the remains of an early industrial community which was the site of the first paper mill in British North America.
Oaks Cloister
Historic building
Photo: KLOTZPLATE, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Oaks Cloister is a historic mansion in the Germantown section of Philadelphia. It was built in 1900 by the architect Joseph Miller Huston. Huston, who was the architect of the Pennsylvania Capitol, built Oaks Cloister as his home and studio. Oaks Cloister is situated 1,600 feet east of Rittenhouse Town.
Tulpehocken station
Railway station
Photo: Adam Moss, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Tulpehocken station is a SEPTA Regional Rail station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Located at 333 West Tulpehocken Street in the Germantown neighborhood, it serves the Chestnut Hill West Line. Tulpehocken station is situated 2,400 feet northeast of Rittenhouse Town.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include East Falls and Germantown.
East Falls
Neighborhood
East Falls is a neighborhood in Lower Northwest, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It lies on the east bank of the "Falls of the Schuylkill," cataracts submerged in 1822 by the Schuylkill Canal and Fairmount Water Works projects.
Germantown
Neighborhood
Photo: Jack Boucher, Public domain.
Germantown is an area in Northwest Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded by Palatine, Quaker, and Mennonite families in 1683 as an independent borough, it was absorbed into Philadelphia in 1854.
Wissahickon
Neighborhood
Photo: Kmdevoe, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Wissahickon is a neighborhood in the section of Lower Northwest Philadelphia in the state of Pennsylvania, United States. Wissahickon is located adjacent to the neighborhoods of Roxborough and Manayunk, and it is bounded by the Wissahickon Valley Park, Ridge Avenue, Hermit Street, and Henry Avenue.
Rittenhouse Town
- Type: Memorial
- Category: historic site
- Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.02921° or 40° 1′ 45″ northLongitude
-75.19018° or 75° 11′ 25″ westOpen location code
87G62RH5+MWOpenStreetMap ID
node 13015930262OpenStreetMap feature
historic=memorial
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