Roberts Vaux Junior High School
The Promise Academy at Roberts Vaux High School is a historic American high school in the North Central neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Named for American jurist, abolitionist, and philanthropist Roberts Vaux, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.Photo: Smallbones, Public domain.
- Type: School building
- Description: high school in Pennsylvania, United States
- Also known as: “The Promise Academy at Roberts Vaux High School” and “Vaux Junior High School”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Philadelphia Museum of Art and Hebron Memorial Church.
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 mile southwest of Roberts Vaux Junior High School.
Hebron Memorial Church
Church
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Hebron Memorial Church is situated 850 feet west of Roberts Vaux Junior High School.
Eastern State Penitentiary
Museum
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The Eastern State Penitentiary is a former American prison in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is located in the Fairmount section of the city, and was operational from 1829 until 1971. Eastern State Penitentiary is situated 2,900 feet south of Roberts Vaux Junior High School.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sharswood and Brewerytown.
Sharswood
Neighborhood
Photo: Evrik, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sharswood is a small neighborhood in the North Philadelphia section of the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the United States. It is located to the east of Brewerytown, north of Girard College, west of Ridge Avenue, east of 24th Street and south of Cecil B.
Brewerytown
Neighborhood
Photo: Smallbones, Public domain.
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
Photo: goosegoddesss, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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.
Roberts Vaux Junior High School
- Categories: high school, building, historic site, historic building, and education
- Location: Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Region, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
39.97607° or 39° 58′ 34″ northLongitude
-75.17425° or 75° 10′ 27″ westElevation
98 feet (30 metres)Open location code
87F6XRGG+C8OpenStreetMap ID
way 789742755OpenStreetMap feature
building=schoolOpenStreetMap feature
historic=buildingWikidata ID
Q7352051
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In Other Languages
“Roberts Vaux Junior High School” goes by many names.
- French: “Roberts Vaux Junior High School”
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