Joseph H. Brown Elementary School

Joseph H. Brown Elementary School is an elementary school on Frankford Avenue at Stanwood Street in Holmesburg, in the Northeast Philadelphia area of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, currently serving students from kindergarten to eighth grade.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Frankford Avenue Bridge and Saint Dominic Roman Catholic Church.

Frankford Avenue Bridge

Bridge

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The Frankford Avenue Bridge, also known as the Pennypack Creek Bridge, the Pennypack Bridge, the Holmesburg Bridge, and the King's Highway Bridge, erected in 1697 in the Holmesburg section of Northeast Philadelphia, in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, is the oldest surviving roadway bridge in the United States. Frankford Avenue Bridge is situated 1,100 feet east of Joseph H. Brown Elementary School.

Saint Dominic Roman Catholic Church

Church

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Saint Dominic Roman Catholic Church is situated 2,400 feet northeast of Joseph H. Brown Elementary School.

Father Judge High School

School

Father Judge High School is a Roman Catholic high school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. The Oblates of St. Francis de Sales provide ministerial leadership to the school community, which the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia established in 1954. Father Judge High School is situated 2,000 feet north of Joseph H. Brown Elementary School.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Holmesburg and Mayfair.

Holmesburg

Neighborhood

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Holmesburg is a neighborhood in the Northeast section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It began as a village within Lower Dublin Township, Pennsylvania, and was named in honor of Surveyor General of Pennsylvania Thomas Holme, a cartographer who devised the street plan for central Philadelphia.

Mayfair

Neighborhood

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Mayfair is a working class neighborhood in lower Northeast Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, centered on the intersection of Cottman and Frankford Avenues.

Upper Holmesburg

Neighborhood

Upper Holmesburg is a neighborhood in Northeast Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It is located along the Delaware River and Pennypack Creek, from Frankford Avenue to Willits Road.

Joseph H. Brown Elementary School

Type: School
Also known as: “Joseph H. Brown School”
Categories: school building and education
Location: Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Region, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

40.04332° or 40° 2′ 36″ north

Longitude

-75.02473° or 75° 1′ 29″ west

Open location code

87G62XVG+84

OpenStreetMap ID

way 963519636

OpenStreetMap feature

amenity=school

Wikidata ID

Q6283641

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In Other Languages

From Egyptian Arabic to French—“Joseph H. Brown Elementary School” goes by many names.

Egyptian Arabic: “مدرسة چوزيف ه. براون الابتدائية”
French: “Joseph H. Brown Elementary School”

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