Riverside Correctional Facility and Dorms

Riverside Correctional Facility and Dorms is a prison in Philadelphia, Philadelphia Region, Pennsylvania. Riverside Correctional Facility and Dorms is situated nearby to the public building Alternative & Special Detention, as well as near Philadelphia Department of Prisons House of Corrections.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Holmesburg Junction station and Frankford Avenue Bridge.

Holmesburg Junction station

Railway station

Photo: Mitchazenia, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Holmesburg Junction station is a SEPTA Regional Rail station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Located at Rhawn and Decatur Streets in the Holmesburg neighborhood of Northeast Philadelphia, it serves the Trenton Line. Holmesburg Junction station is situated 2,300 feet northwest of Riverside Correctional Facility and Dorms.

Frankford Avenue Bridge

Bridge

Photo: Coemgenus, Public domain.

The Frankford Avenue Bridge, also known as the Pennypack Creek Bridge, the Pennypack Bridge, the Holmesburg Bridge, and the King's Highway Bridge, erected in 1697 in the Holmesburg section of Northeast Philadelphia, in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, is the oldest surviving roadway bridge in the United States. Frankford Avenue Bridge is situated 1 mile north of Riverside Correctional Facility and Dorms.

Tacony station

Railway station

Photo: Mitchazenia, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Tacony station is a SEPTA Regional Rail station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Located at Disston and Keystone Streets in the Tacony neighborhood of Northeast Philadelphia, it serves the Trenton Line. Tacony station is situated 1¼ miles west of Riverside Correctional Facility and Dorms.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mayfair and Holmesburg.

Mayfair

Neighborhood

Photo: Coemgenus, Public domain.

Mayfair is a working class neighborhood in lower Northeast Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, centered on the intersection of Cottman and Frankford Avenues.

Holmesburg

Neighborhood

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Holmesburg is a neighborhood in the Northeast section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It began as a village within Lower Dublin Township, Pennsylvania, and was named in honor of Surveyor General of Pennsylvania Thomas Holme, a cartographer who devised the street plan for central Philadelphia.

Upper Holmesburg

Neighborhood

Upper Holmesburg is a neighborhood in Northeast Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It is located along the Delaware River and Pennypack Creek, from Frankford Avenue to Willits Road.

Riverside Correctional Facility and Dorms

Type: Prison
Category: government building
Location: Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Region, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

40.02932° or 40° 1′ 46″ north

Longitude

-75.01692° or 75° 1′ 1″ west

Operator

Philadelphia Department of Prisons

Open location code

87G62XHM+P6

OpenStreetMap ID

node 7435627110

OpenStreetMap feature

amenity=prison

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