Northwest Philadelphia
Philadelphia's Northwest district is a huge area north of Lehigh Ave and west of Front St. This isn't the most visited part of town, but nonetheless there are plenty of interesting neighborhoods to explore.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include John Coltrane House and Henry O. Tanner House.
John Coltrane House
Museum
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The John Coltrane House is a historic house at 1511 North 33rd Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. A National Historic Landmark, it was the home of American saxophonist and jazz pioneer John Coltrane from 1952 until 1958.
Henry O. Tanner House
Historic house
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The Henry O. Tanner House is a historic house at 2908 West Diamond Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. It was from 1872 to 1888 the childhood home of Henry Ossawa Tanner, an African-American artist who was the first of his race to be elected to National Academy of Design.
Mount Pleasant
Museum
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Mount Pleasant is a historic mansion in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, atop cliffs overlooking the Schuylkill River. It was built about 1761–62 in what was then the countryside outside the city by John Macpherson and his wife Margaret.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Strawberry Mansion and Brewerytown.
Strawberry Mansion
Neighborhood
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Strawberry Mansion is a neighborhood in the U.S. city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, located east of Fairmount Park in North Philadelphia. The neighborhood is bounded by 33rd Street to the west, 29th Street to the east, Lehigh Avenue to the north, and Oxford Street to the south.
Brewerytown
Neighborhood
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Brewerytown is a neighborhood in the North Philadelphia section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. An unofficial region, Brewerytown runs approximately between the Schuylkill River's eastern bank and 25th Street, bounded by Montgomery Avenue to the north and Parrish Street to the south.
Fairmount
Neighborhood
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Fairmount is a neighborhood within Lower North Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Its boundaries are north of Fairmount Avenue, west of Corinthian Avenue, south of Girard Avenue and east of The Schuylkill River.
Northwest Philadelphia
- Type: neighborhood with 170,000 residents
- Description: human settlement in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Location: Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Region, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
39.9834° or 39° 59′ 0″ northLongitude
-75.189° or 75° 11′ 20″ westPopulation
170,000Open location code
87F6XRM6+9CWikidata ID
Q7060161
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Satellite Map
Discover Northwest Philadelphia from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Dutch to Turkish—“Northwest Philadelphia” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Northwest Philadelphia”
- Esperanto: “Nordokcidenta Filadelfio”
- French: “Northwest Philadelphia”
- Hebrew: “פילדלפיה/צפון-מערב העיר”
- Italian: “Filadelfia nordovest”
- Persian: “شمال غربی فیلادلفیا”
- Turkish: “Northwest Philadelphia”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Northwest Philadelphia”. Photo: ChristineFisher, CC BY 2.0.