Meet at the parking lot next to Springside Chestnut Hill Academy, 500 W Willow Grove Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19118
June 22, 2025 at 2 pm
Chestnut Hill
Member Tickets are $10 and the price will automatically be discounted at checkout for logged in members.
Take a leisurely stroll through this bucolic “Garden City” neighborhood, a suburban setting within the city limits. Learn how the Pennsylvania Railroad extension to this area, spearheaded by Henry Howard Houston in the 1880s, created this style-conscious development and later, with his son-in-law, George Woodward, continued it into the 1920s. Explore this haven of late Victorian, Arts & Crafts, English Cotswolds and Modern residences and see how it emerged as a desirable and complete neighborhood.
Meet at the parking lot next to Springside Chestnut Hill Academy, 500 W Willow Grove Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19118 (map) Additional parking available in the lot across from St. Martins In the Fields Church.
Note: This tour will require some hills and walking on grassy areas.
Preservation Alliance walking tours utilize an audio system that transmits from a headset worn by the guide to earpieces worn by tour attendees. The equipment is thoroughly sanitized before and after each use. Tour attendees can also plug in their personal headsets or earbuds that use a standard headphone jack (Not compatible with Bluetooth or Apple earphones).
A limited number of $2 tickets are available for PA ACCESS or Art-Reach ACCESS card holders. Please email us at [email protected] for discount.
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