Children at Play
Children at Play is a work of art in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Children at Play is situated nearby to the park Saylor’s Grove, as well as near the historic building Abraham Rittenhouse Home.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Oaks Cloister and Historic Rittenhouse Town.
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 760 feet east of Children at Play.
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.
Chelten Avenue station
Railway station
Photo: Adam Moss, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Chelten Avenue station is a SEPTA Regional Rail station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Located on West Chelten Avenue in the Germantown neighborhood, it serves the Chestnut Hill West Line. Chelten Avenue station is situated 1,700 feet east of Children at Play.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Germantown and East Falls.
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.
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.
Morton
Neighborhood
Photo: Smallbones, Public domain.
Morton is a neighborhood in Northwest Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It is located south of West Oak Lane, east of Mount Airy, and west of North Broad Street.
Children at Play
- Type: Work of art
- Artwork type: statue
- Category: tourism
- Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.03004° or 40° 1′ 48″ northLongitude
-75.18723° or 75° 11′ 14″ westOpen location code
87G62RJ7+24OpenStreetMap ID
node 6753238413OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=artworkOpenStreetMap attribute
artwork_type=statue
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