Spring Garden Street Bridge

Spring Garden Street Bridge is a highway bridge in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It crosses the Schuylkill River below Fairmount Dam and connects West Philadelphia to the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Benjamin Franklin Parkway.

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Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Philadelphia Museum of Art and Rocky Steps.

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Museum

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The Philadelphia Museum of Art is an art museum originally chartered in 1876 for the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. The main museum building was completed in 1928 on Fairmount, a hill located at the northwest end of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway at Eakins Oval. Philadelphia Museum of Art is situated 1,200 feet northeast of Spring Garden Street Bridge.

Rocky Steps

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The Rocky Steps is an informal name to the 72 stone steps leading up to the East entrance of the Philadelphia Museum of Art in Philadelphia that gained global fame after being featured in a notable scene from the 1976 film Rocky. Rocky Steps is situated 1,400 feet east of Spring Garden Street Bridge.

MLK Drive Bridge

Bridge

The MLK Drive Bridge is a steel girder bridge built in 1966 over the Schuylkill River on Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation owns and maintains the bridge. MLK Drive Bridge is situated 390 feet northeast of Spring Garden Street Bridge.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mantua and Powelton Village.

Mantua

Neighborhood

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Mantua is a neighborhood in the West Philadelphia section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is located north of Spring Garden Street, east of 40th Street, south of Mantua Avenue, and west of 31st Street.

Powelton Village

Neighborhood

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Powelton Village is a neighborhood in the West Philadelphia section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It consists of mostly Victorian and twin style homes.

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.

Spring Garden Street Bridge

Type: Bridge
Description: bridge in United States of America
Categories: road bridge and transportation
Location: Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Region, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

39.96396° or 39° 57′ 50″ north

Longitude

-75.18476° or 75° 11′ 5″ west

Open location code

87F6XR78+H3

OpenStreetMap ID

way 654871937

OpenStreetMap feature

man_made=bridge

Wikidata ID

Q7580516

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In Other Languages

“Spring Garden Street Bridge” goes by many names.

Dutch: “Spring Garden Street Bridge”

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