Girard Avenue & Ridge Avenue

Girard Avenue & Ridge Avenue is a tram stop in Philadelphia, Philadelphia Region, Pennsylvania. Girard Avenue & Ridge Avenue is situated nearby to Smith Chapel Baptist Church, as well as near St. Joseph’s Preparatory School.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Church of the Gesú and Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Church of the Gesú

Church

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The Church of the Gesú is a Roman Catholic chapel and former parish church located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1868 by Burchard Villiger, the church was the center of several Jesuit educational institutions, including St. Joseph's Preparatory School, St. Church of the Gesú is situated 530 feet northeast of Girard Avenue & Ridge Avenue.

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 1 mile southwest of Girard Avenue & Ridge Avenue.

St. Joseph’s Preparatory School

School

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St. Joseph's Preparatory School, commonly known as St. Joe's Prep or simply "The Prep", is an urban, private, Catholic, college preparatory school run by the Society of Jesus in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. St. Joseph’s Preparatory School is situated 470 feet northeast of Girard Avenue & Ridge Avenue.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Francisville and Sharswood.

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.

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.

Spring Garden

Neighborhood

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Spring Garden is a neighborhood in North Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, bordering Center City on the north. Spring Garden is a neighborhood that combines diverse residential neighborhoods and significant cultural attractions.

Girard Avenue & Ridge Avenue

Type: Tram stop
Also known as: “Girard & Ridge”
Categories: railway stop, transport stop, and transportation
Location: Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Region, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

39.97237° or 39° 58′ 21″ north

Longitude

-75.16627° or 75° 9′ 59″ west

Operator

Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority

Network

Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority

Open location code

87F6XRCM+WF

OpenStreetMap ID

node 6598207233

OpenStreetMap feature

public_transport=stop_position

OpenStreetMap feature

railway=tram_stop

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Highlights include Smith Chapel Baptist Church and Second Unity Baptist Church.

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