Elkins Park Substation
Elkins Park Substation is an electrical substation in Cheltenham Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Elkins Park Substation is situated nearby to the museum Richard Wall house, as well as near Elkins Park Post Office.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Richard Wall house and Beth Sholom Synagogue.
Richard Wall house
Museum
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The Richard Wall house is a historic home in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, built in 1682. It was owned by the Wall family for 165 years. It is listed in the National Register of Historic Places as Wall House and is also sometimes referred to as The Ivy. Richard Wall house is situated 500 feet northwest of Elkins Park Substation.
Beth Sholom Synagogue
Synagogue
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Beth Sholom Synagogue is a Conservative Jewish synagogue at 8231 Old York Road in Elkins Park, a suburb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. The main synagogue building, completed in 1959, was the only Jewish house of worship designed by Frank Lloyd Wright; it consists of a hexagonal base topped by a tetrahedron-shaped pyramidal roof. Beth Sholom Synagogue is situated 1,600 feet north of Elkins Park Substation.
Elkins Park station
Railway station
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Elkins Park station is a SEPTA Regional Rail station located in the Elkins Park neighborhood of Cheltenham Township in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Elkins Park station is situated 2,300 feet south of Elkins Park Substation.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Elkins Park and McKinley.
Elkins Park
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Elkins Park is an unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is split between Cheltenham and Abington Townships in the northern suburbs outside of Philadelphia, which it borders along Cheltenham Avenue roughly 7 miles from Center City.
McKinley
Hamlet
McKinley is a census-designated place, in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States. Almost all of it is in Abington Township, while some blocks are in Cheltenham Township.
La Mott
Hamlet
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La Mott is an unincorporated community located within Cheltenham Township, Pennsylvania, United States. Its name honors the leading 19th Century abolitionist and suffragist, Lucretia Mott, who resided in the neighborhood.
Elkins Park Substation
- Type: Electrical substation
- Category: industry
- Location: Cheltenham Township, Montgomery County, Philadelphia Region, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.07763° or 40° 4′ 40″ northLongitude
-75.12719° or 75° 7′ 38″ westOperator
PECO Energy CompanyOpen location code
87G63VHF+34OpenStreetMap ID
way 225568098
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Highlights include Elkins Park Post Office and Old York Road Rink.
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