Rittenhouse Bake House

Rittenhouse Bake House is a historic building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania which is located on Wissahickon Avenue. Rittenhouse Bake House is situated nearby to the museum Rittenhouse Homestead, as well as near the historic site Rittenhouse Papermill.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Historic Rittenhouse Town and Oaks Cloister.

Historic Rittenhouse Town

Protected area

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

Historic RittenhouseTown, sometimes referred to as Rittenhouse Historic District, encompasses the remains of an early industrial community which was the site of the first paper mill in British North America.

Oaks Cloister

Historic building

Photo: KLOTZPLATE, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Oaks Cloister is a historic mansion in the Germantown section of Philadelphia. It was built in 1900 by the architect Joseph Miller Huston. Huston, who was the architect of the Pennsylvania Capitol, built Oaks Cloister as his home and studio. Oaks Cloister is situated 1,400 feet east of Rittenhouse Bake House.

Tulpehocken station

Railway station

Photo: Adam Moss, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Tulpehocken station is a SEPTA Regional Rail station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Located at 333 West Tulpehocken Street in the Germantown neighborhood, it serves the Chestnut Hill West Line. Tulpehocken station is situated 2,200 feet north of Rittenhouse Bake House.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include East Falls and Germantown.

East Falls

Neighborhood

East Falls is a neighborhood in Lower Northwest, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It lies on the east bank of the "Falls of the Schuylkill," cataracts submerged in 1822 by the Schuylkill Canal and Fairmount Water Works projects.

Germantown

Neighborhood

Photo: Jack Boucher, Public domain.

Germantown is an area in Northwest Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded by Palatine, Quaker, and Mennonite families in 1683 as an independent borough, it was absorbed into Philadelphia in 1854.

Wissahickon

Neighborhood

Photo: Kmdevoe, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Wissahickon is a neighborhood in the section of Lower Northwest Philadelphia in the state of Pennsylvania, United States. Wissahickon is located adjacent to the neighborhoods of Roxborough and Manayunk, and it is bounded by the Wissahickon Valley Park, Ridge Avenue, Hermit Street, and Henry Avenue.

Rittenhouse Bake House

Type: Historic building
Address: 5800 Wissahickon Avenue, Philadelphia, PA
Categories: building, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

40.02956° or 40° 1′ 46″ north

Longitude

-75.18957° or 75° 11′ 22″ west

Height

23 feet (7 metres)

Open location code

87G62RH6+R5

OpenStreetMap ID

way 766332804

OpenStreetMap feature

building=yes

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=building

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Rittenhouse Homestead and Rittenhouse Papermill.

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