Ohio House
The Ohio House, or the Ohio State Building, is an historic, American building that is located in west Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. It is listed on the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places and is an inventoried structure within the Fairmount Park Historic District entry on the National Register of Historic Places.Photo: Brian W. Schaller, FAL.
- Type: Historic building
- Description: the Ohio state exhibit for the Centennial Exposition of 1876
- Also known as: “Ohio State Building”
- Address: 1700 Belmont Avenue, Philadelphia, PA
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Shofuso Japanese House and Garden and Fairmount Park Horticulture Center.
Shofuso Japanese House and Garden
Garden
Photo: Kandrews1967, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Shofuso, also known as Japanese House and Garden, is a 17th century-style Japanese house and garden exhibited originally in New York in 1954, designed by the famed modernist Japanese architect Junzō Yoshimura. Shofuso Japanese House and Garden is situated 1,600 feet southeast of Ohio House.
Fairmount Park Horticulture Center
Public building
The Horticultural Center in Philadelphia, USA, contains an arboretum, greenhouse, demonstration gardens, and an exhibition hall. It is located within Fairmount Park at the southeast corner of Belmont and Montgomery Drives. Fairmount Park Horticulture Center is situated 1,700 feet east of Ohio House.
Highmark Mann
Theater building
Photo: Adeceve, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Highmark Mann is a nonprofit performing arts center located in the Centennial District of Philadelphia's West Fairmount Park, built in 1976 as the summer home for the Philadelphia Orchestra. Highmark Mann is situated 2,000 feet west of Ohio House.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Parkside and Wynnefield.
Parkside
Neighborhood
Photo: Smallbones, Public domain.
Parkside is a neighborhood that is located in the West Philadelphia section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
Wynnefield
Neighborhood
Wynnefield is a diverse middle-class neighborhood in West Philadelphia. Its borders are 53rd Street at Jefferson to the south, Philadelphia's Fairmount Park to the east, City Avenue to the north and the Amtrak Philadelphia Main Line tracks to the west.
Carroll Park
Neighborhood
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Carroll Park is a neighborhood in West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It is bounded by Lansdowne Avenue to the north, West Girard Avenue to the south, North 63rd Street to the west, and North 52nd Street to the east.
Ohio House
- Categories: historic house, building, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
39.98498° or 39° 59′ 6″ northLongitude
-75.21618° or 75° 12′ 58″ westHeight
44 feet (13 metres)Open location code
87F6XQMM+XGOpenStreetMap ID
way 486980406OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
historic=buildingWikidata ID
Q46996432
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In Other Languages
“Ohio House” goes by many names.
- Ukrainian: “Огайо Хаус (Філадельфія)”
- Ukrainian: “Огайо Хаус”
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