Meet on the inbound side of Washington Lane Septa Station, Philadelphia PA 19138
September 14, 2025 at 2 pm
Awbury Arboretum
Member Tickets are $10 and the price will automatically be discounted at checkout for logged in members.
Awbury Arboretum offers 55 acres of green space in dense East Germantown. Originally created as a country estate for the family of Quaker shipping magnate, politician, and philanthropist, Thomas Pym Cope, successive generations of that family engaged important local architects to design their houses, including Thomas Ustick Walter, Addison Hutton, Cope & Stewardson, and Duhring Okie & Ziegler. To adapt the surrounding farmland into picturesque English gardens, they engaged a succession of noted local landscape designers. That surrounding landscape was entrusted to the public in 1915 with the founding of the Arboretum. The tour will feature both architecture and landscape history, and end at the Farm at Awbury, an active community hub for non-profits that focus on urban agriculture, including the Philly Goat Project, the Philadelphia Beekeepers Guild, and Food Moxie.
Meet on the inbound side of Washington Lane Septa Station, Philadelphia PA 19138 (map)
This tour will walk through grassy meadows and uneven terrain. Closed toe shoes are recommended.
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.
Email us at [email protected] for any questions or join the waitlist for a sold out tour!
