Henry O. Tanner House
The Henry O. Tanner House is a historic house at 2908 West Diamond Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. It was from 1872 to 1888 the childhood home of Henry Ossawa Tanner, an African-American artist who was the first of his race to be elected to National Academy of Design.Photo: Jack Boucher, Public domain.
- Type: Historic house
- Description: historic house in Philadelphia
- Also known as: “Henry O. Tanner Homesite”, “Henry Ossawa Tanner House”, and “Tanner House”
- Address: 2908 Diamond Street, Philadelphia, PA
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Strawberry Mansion High School and Woodford.
Strawberry Mansion High School
School
Strawberry Mansion High School is a public high school in the Strawberry Mansion section of Philadelphia. It is part of the School District of Philadelphia. Strawberry Mansion High School is situated 1,300 feet northwest of Henry O. Tanner House.
Woodford
Museum
Woodford is a historic mansion at Ford Road and Greenland Drive in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Built c. 1756, it is the first of Philadelphia's great colonial Georgian mansion houses to be built, and exemplifies the opulence of such houses. Woodford is situated 2,700 feet northwest of Henry O. Tanner House.
Rudolph Walton School
Historic building
Photo: Smallbones, Public domain.
The Rudolph Walton School is a historic school building located in the Strawberry Mansion neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. Rudolph Walton School is situated 3,100 feet northeast of Henry O. Tanner House.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Strawberry Mansion and Northwest Philadelphia.
Strawberry Mansion
Neighborhood
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Strawberry Mansion is a neighborhood in the U.S. city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, located east of Fairmount Park in North Philadelphia. The neighborhood is bounded by 33rd Street to the west, 29th Street to the east, Lehigh Avenue to the north, and Oxford Street to the south.
Northwest Philadelphia
Photo: ChristineFisher, CC BY 2.0.
Philadelphia's Northwest district is a huge area north of Lehigh Ave and west of Front St. This isn't the most visited part of town, but nonetheless there are plenty of interesting neighborhoods to explore.
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.
Henry O. Tanner House
- Categories: house, building, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Region, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
39.98774° or 39° 59′ 16″ northLongitude
-75.18117° or 75° 10′ 52″ westHeight
32 feet (9.8 metres)Open location code
87F6XRQ9+3GOpenStreetMap ID
way 812651526OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
historic=houseWikidata ID
Q5726475
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In Other Languages
“Henry O. Tanner House” goes by many names.
- French: “Henry O. Tanner House”
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