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Third St.<br /><a href="/wiki/Philadelphia" title="Philadelphia">Philadelphia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pennsylvania" title="Pennsylvania">Pennsylvania</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Geographic_coordinate_system" title="Geographic coordinate system">Coordinates</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="geo-inline"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Powel_House&params=39.94576_N_75.1468_W_type:landmark_globe:earth_region:US-PA"><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">39°56′45″N</span> <span class="longitude">75°08′48″W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">39.94576°N 75.1468°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">39.94576; -75.1468</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Type</th><td class="infobox-data">house museum</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Public transit access</th><td class="infobox-data"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Bus transport"><img alt="Bus transport" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Aiga_bus_trans.svg/12px-Aiga_bus_trans.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Aiga_bus_trans.svg/18px-Aiga_bus_trans.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Aiga_bus_trans.svg/24px-Aiga_bus_trans.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="367" data-file-height="442" /></span></span> <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/SEPTA" title="SEPTA"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/SEPTA.svg/16px-SEPTA.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/SEPTA.svg/24px-SEPTA.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/SEPTA.svg/32px-SEPTA.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="369" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/SEPTA" title="SEPTA">SEPTA</a> bus: <a href="/wiki/SEPTA_Route_12" class="mw-redirect" title="SEPTA Route 12">12</a>, <a href="/wiki/SEPTA_Route_21" class="mw-redirect" title="SEPTA Route 21">21</a>, <a href="/wiki/SEPTA_Route_42" class="mw-redirect" title="SEPTA Route 42">42</a>, <a href="/wiki/SEPTA_Route_57" class="mw-redirect" title="SEPTA Route 57">57</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="official-website"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.philalandmarks.org/powel-house">Official website</a></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>Powel House</b> is a historic house museum located at 244 South 3rd Street, between Willings Alley and Spruce Street, in the <a href="/wiki/Society_Hill" title="Society Hill">Society Hill</a> neighborhood of <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia" title="Philadelphia">Philadelphia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pennsylvania" title="Pennsylvania">Pennsylvania</a>. Built in 1765 in the <a href="/wiki/Georgian_architecture" title="Georgian architecture">Georgian style</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-philarchmit_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-philarchmit-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and embellished by second owner <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Powel" title="Samuel Powel">Samuel Powel</a> (1738–1793), it has been called "the finest Georgian row house in the city."<sup id="cite_ref-philarch_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-philarch-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As with other houses of this type, the exterior facade is understated and simple, but the interior was elaborately appointed.<sup id="cite_ref-philarchmit_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-philarchmit-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Powel_House&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The elegant brick city house was built for Charles Stedman, a merchant and shipmaster. Before he occupied it, Stedman fell into financial trouble – eventually winding up in <a href="/wiki/Debtors%27_prison" title="Debtors' prison">debtors' prison</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-philarch_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-philarch-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The house was purchased for £3,150 on August 2, 1769, by <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Powel" title="Samuel Powel">Samuel Powel</a>, who would become the last <a href="/wiki/Mayor_of_Philadelphia" title="Mayor of Philadelphia">mayor of Philadelphia</a> under British rule and the city's first mayor following independence. A <a href="/wiki/Quaker" class="mw-redirect" title="Quaker">Quaker</a> who converted to <a href="/wiki/Anglicanism" title="Anglicanism">Anglicanism</a>, he supported the <a href="/wiki/American_Revolution" title="American Revolution">American Revolution</a> and was dubbed the "Patriot Mayor."<sup id="cite_ref-philarch_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-philarch-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Third_Street_from_Spruce_Birch%27s_Views_Plate_18.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Third_Street_from_Spruce_Birch%27s_Views_Plate_18.jpg/250px-Third_Street_from_Spruce_Birch%27s_Views_Plate_18.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="190" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Third_Street_from_Spruce_Birch%27s_Views_Plate_18.jpg/375px-Third_Street_from_Spruce_Birch%27s_Views_Plate_18.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Third_Street_from_Spruce_Birch%27s_Views_Plate_18.jpg/500px-Third_Street_from_Spruce_Birch%27s_Views_Plate_18.jpg 2x" data-file-width="719" data-file-height="546" /></a><figcaption><i>View in Third Street, from Spruce Street, Philadelphia</i> (1799) by <a href="/wiki/William_Birch_(painter)" title="William Birch (painter)">William Birch</a>. The Powel House is the building right of center. Note the 3-story half-turret addition.</figcaption></figure> <p>Design of the building is attributed to architect/builder <a href="/wiki/Robert_Smith_(architect)" title="Robert Smith (architect)">Robert Smith</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Powel and his wife <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Willing_Powel" title="Elizabeth Willing Powel">Elizabeth (née Willing)</a> lavishly redecorated, creating some of the most ornate interiors in the Colonies. The Rococo plastered ceilings are attributed to James Clow, and the architectural woodwork is attributed to carvers Hercules Courtnay and Martin Jugiez.<sup id="cite_ref-Powel_House_Room_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Powel_House_Room-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Powel House shared a party wall with the <a href="/wiki/John_Penn_(governor)" title="John Penn (governor)">Governor John Penn</a> house, next door. The governor's house was confiscated during the Revolutionary War, and <a href="/wiki/George_Washington" title="George Washington">George</a> and <a href="/wiki/Martha_Washington" title="Martha Washington">Martha Washington</a> occupied it for several months, following the October 1781 victory at <a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Yorktown" title="Siege of Yorktown">Yorktown</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Powels entertained the Washingtons, and other notable guests, such as <a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin" title="Benjamin Franklin">Benjamin Franklin</a>, <a href="/wiki/John_Adams" title="John Adams">John Adams</a>, <a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Rush" title="Benjamin Rush">Benjamin Rush</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Marquis_de_Lafayette" class="mw-redirect" title="Marquis de Lafayette">Marquis de Lafayette</a>. </p><p>Philadelphia served as temporary national capital from 1790 to 1800, and President Washington occupied a house on <a href="/wiki/Market_Street_(Philadelphia)" title="Market Street (Philadelphia)">Market Street</a> for more than six years. Prior to moving in, he built a two-story, semicircular "Bow Window" addition to the south wall of the <a href="/wiki/President%27s_House_(Philadelphia)" title="President's House (Philadelphia)">President's House</a>, enlarging the State Dining Room and the State Drawing Room above it. This may have inspired the Powels to build the three-story <a href="/wiki/Turret_(architecture)" title="Turret (architecture)">half-turret</a> addition to their city house. While its exterior was <a href="/wiki/Cant_(architecture)" title="Cant (architecture)">canted</a> (like a <a href="/wiki/Bay_window" title="Bay window">bay window</a>), the interior wall seems to have been bowed (curved),<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> enlarging the rear parlors on the first and second floors and the rear bedroom on the third,<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and adding windows overlooking the garden. The half-turret addition is visible in a 1799 print by <a href="/wiki/William_Birch_(painter)" title="William Birch (painter)">William Birch</a> and an 1817 print attributed to <a href="/wiki/William_Strickland_(architect)" title="William Strickland (architect)">William Strickland</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some time in the mid-19th century, the half-turret addition was demolished and the south wall of the Powel House became a party wall shared with a new building.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Samuel Powel died in the <a href="/wiki/Yellow_fever_epidemic_of_1793" class="mw-redirect" title="Yellow fever epidemic of 1793">1793 yellow fever epidemic</a> that killed about 10% of the city's population. After President-Elect John Adams passed on buying them, Mrs. Powel bought a number of items from soon-to-be-ex-President Washington in early 1797.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These included his presidential coach and horses (the coach is now at Mount Vernon),<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> his presidential desk (now at the <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_History_Museum" title="Philadelphia History Museum">Philadelphia History Museum</a>),<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and a pair of <a href="/wiki/Girandole" title="Girandole">girandole</a> mirrors (now at <a href="/wiki/Mount_Vernon" title="Mount Vernon">Mount Vernon</a>). Elizabeth Willing Powel sold this house in November 1798, to <a href="/wiki/William_Bingham" title="William Bingham">William Bingham</a>, the husband of her niece <a href="/wiki/Ann_Willing_Bingham" title="Ann Willing Bingham">Ann Willing Bingham</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Marquis de Lafayette gave the Powels a set of china that is on display in the Powel House.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A 1793 portrait of Mrs. Powel attributed to <a href="/wiki/Matthew_Pratt" title="Matthew Pratt">Matthew Pratt</a> is on long-term loan from the <a href="/wiki/Pennsylvania_Academy_of_the_Fine_Arts" title="Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts">Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Saved_from_demolition">Saved from demolition</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Powel_House&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Saved from demolition"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-More_citations_needed_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Refimprove" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>needs additional citations for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">verification</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Powel_House" title="Special:EditPage/Powel House">improve this article</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a> in this section. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">March 2020</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Chandelier_MET_DP223338.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Chandelier_MET_DP223338.jpg/220px-Chandelier_MET_DP223338.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="222" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Chandelier_MET_DP223338.jpg/330px-Chandelier_MET_DP223338.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Chandelier_MET_DP223338.jpg/440px-Chandelier_MET_DP223338.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1926" data-file-height="1944" /></a><figcaption>Powel House Parlor, as installed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.</figcaption></figure> <p>Early in the 20th century, the house served as a warehouse for a business that imported and exported Russian and Siberian horse hair and bristles. In 1918, the owners sold the second floor rear parlor's architectural woodwork to the <a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art" title="Metropolitan Museum of Art">Metropolitan Museum of Art</a>, where it is now a <a href="/wiki/Period_room" title="Period room">period room</a> in the American Wing.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The ballroom's plaster ceiling and architectural woodwork was sold to the <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_Museum_of_Art" title="Philadelphia Museum of Art">Philadelphia Museum of Art</a> in 1925.<sup id="cite_ref-Powel_House_Room_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Powel_House_Room-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By 1930, the Powel House was slated for demolition, with the property to be converted into a parking lot. </p><p>Antiquarian Frances Wister saved the house, forming the <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_Society_for_the_Preservation_of_Landmarks" title="Philadelphia Society for the Preservation of Landmarks">Philadelphia Society for the Preservation of Landmarks</a> and raising the funds to purchase the property in 1931. Over the next decade, Wister and the Society bought and demolished the 19th-century building that covered the east end of the walled garden, and hired architect <a href="/wiki/H._Louis_Duhring_Jr." title="H. Louis Duhring Jr.">H. Louis Duhring Jr.</a> to restore the house to its appearance during Powel's residency and re-create its lost interiors. The Society opened the restored house as a museum interpreting the daily lives of wealthy Philadelphians at the time of the American Revolution. </p><p>Today, the rich history of the Powel House may be seen in its decorative arts collection, its portraits of Powels and Willings, and its formal, walled garden so typical of Colonial Philadelphia. Its beautiful entryway, ballroom with bas-relief plasterwork, and mahogany wainscoting give the house its reputation as perhaps America's finest existing Georgian Colonial townhouse. </p><p>In more recent years, it has been alleged that the house is haunted by the ghost of <a href="/wiki/Peggy_Shippen" title="Peggy Shippen">Peggy Shippen</a>, Elizabeth Powel's second cousin and wife of <a href="/wiki/Benedict_Arnold" title="Benedict Arnold">Benedict Arnold</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 72–76">: 72–76 </span></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Gallery">Gallery</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Powel_House&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Gallery"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional center"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 285px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 280px; height: 305px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:ENTRANCE_DETAIL_-_Samuel_Powel_House,_244_South_Third_Street,_Philadelphia,_Philadelphia_County,_PA_HABS_PA,51-PHILA,25-4.tif" class="mw-file-description" title="Front door."><img alt="Front door." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/ENTRANCE_DETAIL_-_Samuel_Powel_House%2C_244_South_Third_Street%2C_Philadelphia%2C_Philadelphia_County%2C_PA_HABS_PA%2C51-PHILA%2C25-4.tif/lossy-page1-217px-ENTRANCE_DETAIL_-_Samuel_Powel_House%2C_244_South_Third_Street%2C_Philadelphia%2C_Philadelphia_County%2C_PA_HABS_PA%2C51-PHILA%2C25-4.tif.jpg" decoding="async" width="217" height="275" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/ENTRANCE_DETAIL_-_Samuel_Powel_House%2C_244_South_Third_Street%2C_Philadelphia%2C_Philadelphia_County%2C_PA_HABS_PA%2C51-PHILA%2C25-4.tif/lossy-page1-326px-ENTRANCE_DETAIL_-_Samuel_Powel_House%2C_244_South_Third_Street%2C_Philadelphia%2C_Philadelphia_County%2C_PA_HABS_PA%2C51-PHILA%2C25-4.tif.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/ENTRANCE_DETAIL_-_Samuel_Powel_House%2C_244_South_Third_Street%2C_Philadelphia%2C_Philadelphia_County%2C_PA_HABS_PA%2C51-PHILA%2C25-4.tif/lossy-page1-434px-ENTRANCE_DETAIL_-_Samuel_Powel_House%2C_244_South_Third_Street%2C_Philadelphia%2C_Philadelphia_County%2C_PA_HABS_PA%2C51-PHILA%2C25-4.tif.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3668" data-file-height="4651" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Front door.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 285px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 280px; height: 305px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:HALL_AND_STAIL,_LOOKING_WEST_FROM_ENTRANCE_DOOR_(1962)_-_Samuel_Powel_House,_244_South_Third_Street,_Philadelphia,_Philadelphia_County,_PA_HABS_PA,51-PHILA,25-6.tif" class="mw-file-description" title="Entrance hall."><img alt="Entrance hall." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/HALL_AND_STAIL%2C_LOOKING_WEST_FROM_ENTRANCE_DOOR_%281962%29_-_Samuel_Powel_House%2C_244_South_Third_Street%2C_Philadelphia%2C_Philadelphia_County%2C_PA_HABS_PA%2C51-PHILA%2C25-6.tif/lossy-page1-215px-thumbnail.tif.jpg" decoding="async" width="215" height="275" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/HALL_AND_STAIL%2C_LOOKING_WEST_FROM_ENTRANCE_DOOR_%281962%29_-_Samuel_Powel_House%2C_244_South_Third_Street%2C_Philadelphia%2C_Philadelphia_County%2C_PA_HABS_PA%2C51-PHILA%2C25-6.tif/lossy-page1-323px-thumbnail.tif.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/HALL_AND_STAIL%2C_LOOKING_WEST_FROM_ENTRANCE_DOOR_%281962%29_-_Samuel_Powel_House%2C_244_South_Third_Street%2C_Philadelphia%2C_Philadelphia_County%2C_PA_HABS_PA%2C51-PHILA%2C25-6.tif/lossy-page1-430px-thumbnail.tif.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3612" data-file-height="4622" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Entrance hall.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 285px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 280px; height: 305px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:STAIR_DETAIL,_LOOKING_NORTHEAST_(1967)_-_Samuel_Powel_House,_244_South_Third_Street,_Philadelphia,_Philadelphia_County,_PA_HABS_PA,51-PHILA,25-9.tif" class="mw-file-description" title="Mahogany staircase."><img alt="Mahogany staircase." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/STAIR_DETAIL%2C_LOOKING_NORTHEAST_%281967%29_-_Samuel_Powel_House%2C_244_South_Third_Street%2C_Philadelphia%2C_Philadelphia_County%2C_PA_HABS_PA%2C51-PHILA%2C25-9.tif/lossy-page1-215px-STAIR_DETAIL%2C_LOOKING_NORTHEAST_%281967%29_-_Samuel_Powel_House%2C_244_South_Third_Street%2C_Philadelphia%2C_Philadelphia_County%2C_PA_HABS_PA%2C51-PHILA%2C25-9.tif.jpg" decoding="async" width="215" height="275" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/STAIR_DETAIL%2C_LOOKING_NORTHEAST_%281967%29_-_Samuel_Powel_House%2C_244_South_Third_Street%2C_Philadelphia%2C_Philadelphia_County%2C_PA_HABS_PA%2C51-PHILA%2C25-9.tif/lossy-page1-324px-STAIR_DETAIL%2C_LOOKING_NORTHEAST_%281967%29_-_Samuel_Powel_House%2C_244_South_Third_Street%2C_Philadelphia%2C_Philadelphia_County%2C_PA_HABS_PA%2C51-PHILA%2C25-9.tif.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/STAIR_DETAIL%2C_LOOKING_NORTHEAST_%281967%29_-_Samuel_Powel_House%2C_244_South_Third_Street%2C_Philadelphia%2C_Philadelphia_County%2C_PA_HABS_PA%2C51-PHILA%2C25-9.tif/lossy-page1-431px-STAIR_DETAIL%2C_LOOKING_NORTHEAST_%281967%29_-_Samuel_Powel_House%2C_244_South_Third_Street%2C_Philadelphia%2C_Philadelphia_County%2C_PA_HABS_PA%2C51-PHILA%2C25-9.tif.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3659" data-file-height="4668" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Mahogany staircase.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 285px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 280px; height: 305px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:PARLOR_(OR_DRAWING_ROOM),_LOOKING_NORTHWEST_(1967)_-_Samuel_Powel_House,_244_South_Third_Street,_Philadelphia,_Philadelphia_County,_PA_HABS_PA,51-PHILA,25-7.tif" class="mw-file-description" title="First floor front parlor."><img alt="First floor front parlor." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/PARLOR_%28OR_DRAWING_ROOM%29%2C_LOOKING_NORTHWEST_%281967%29_-_Samuel_Powel_House%2C_244_South_Third_Street%2C_Philadelphia%2C_Philadelphia_County%2C_PA_HABS_PA%2C51-PHILA%2C25-7.tif/lossy-page1-250px-PARLOR_%28OR_DRAWING_ROOM%29%2C_LOOKING_NORTHWEST_%281967%29_-_Samuel_Powel_House%2C_244_South_Third_Street%2C_Philadelphia%2C_Philadelphia_County%2C_PA_HABS_PA%2C51-PHILA%2C25-7.tif.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="195" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/PARLOR_%28OR_DRAWING_ROOM%29%2C_LOOKING_NORTHWEST_%281967%29_-_Samuel_Powel_House%2C_244_South_Third_Street%2C_Philadelphia%2C_Philadelphia_County%2C_PA_HABS_PA%2C51-PHILA%2C25-7.tif/lossy-page1-375px-PARLOR_%28OR_DRAWING_ROOM%29%2C_LOOKING_NORTHWEST_%281967%29_-_Samuel_Powel_House%2C_244_South_Third_Street%2C_Philadelphia%2C_Philadelphia_County%2C_PA_HABS_PA%2C51-PHILA%2C25-7.tif.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/PARLOR_%28OR_DRAWING_ROOM%29%2C_LOOKING_NORTHWEST_%281967%29_-_Samuel_Powel_House%2C_244_South_Third_Street%2C_Philadelphia%2C_Philadelphia_County%2C_PA_HABS_PA%2C51-PHILA%2C25-7.tif/lossy-page1-500px-PARLOR_%28OR_DRAWING_ROOM%29%2C_LOOKING_NORTHWEST_%281967%29_-_Samuel_Powel_House%2C_244_South_Third_Street%2C_Philadelphia%2C_Philadelphia_County%2C_PA_HABS_PA%2C51-PHILA%2C25-7.tif.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4664" data-file-height="3636" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">First floor front parlor.</div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_popular_culture">In popular culture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Powel_House&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: In popular culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The 1986 <a href="/wiki/CBS" title="CBS">CBS</a> miniseries <i><a href="/wiki/George_Washington_(miniseries)" title="George Washington (miniseries)">George Washington II: The Making of a Nation</a></i> used the Powel House garden as a stand-in for the garden of the <a href="/wiki/President%27s_House_(Philadelphia,_Pennsylvania)" class="mw-redirect" title="President's House (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)">President's House in Philadelphia</a>.</li> <li>In <a href="/wiki/Harry_Turtledove" title="Harry Turtledove">Harry Turtledove</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Alternate_history" title="Alternate history">alternate history</a> <a href="/wiki/Southern_Victory_Series" class="mw-redirect" title="Southern Victory Series"><i>Southern Victory</i> Series</a> novels, Philadelphia becomes the <i>de facto</i> capital of the United States in the 1880s and the Powel House, the executive mansion. During a 1942 Confederate bombing raid of Philadelphia, President <a href="/wiki/Al_Smith" title="Al Smith">Al Smith</a> is killed at the house.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Powel_House&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239009302">.mw-parser-output .portalbox{padding:0;margin:0.5em 0;display:table;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:175px;list-style:none}.mw-parser-output .portalborder{border:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);padding:0.1em;background:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa)}.mw-parser-output .portalbox-entry{display:table-row;font-size:85%;line-height:110%;height:1.9em;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output 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href="#cite_ref-philarchmit_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon 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.citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFTeitelmanLongstreth1981" class="citation cs2">Teitelman, Edward & Longstreth, Richard W. (1981), <i>Architecture in Philadelphia: A Guide</i>, Cambridge, Massachusetts: <a href="/wiki/MIT_Press" title="MIT Press">MIT Press</a>, <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0262700212" title="Special:BookSources/0262700212"><bdi>0262700212</bdi></a></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Architecture+in+Philadelphia%3A+A+Guide&rft.place=Cambridge%2C+Massachusetts&rft.pub=MIT+Press&rft.date=1981&rft.isbn=0262700212&rft.aulast=Teitelman&rft.aufirst=Edward&rft.au=Longstreth%2C+Richard+W.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APowel+House" class="Z3988"></span>, p.46</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-philarch-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-philarch_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-philarch_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-philarch_2-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGallery2004" class="citation cs2">Gallery, John Andrew, ed. (2004), <i>Philadelphia Architecture: A Guide to the City</i> (2nd ed.), Philadelphia: Foundation for Architecture, <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0962290815" title="Special:BookSources/0962290815"><bdi>0962290815</bdi></a></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Philadelphia+Architecture%3A+A+Guide+to+the+City&rft.place=Philadelphia&rft.edition=2nd&rft.pub=Foundation+for+Architecture&rft.date=2004&rft.isbn=0962290815&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APowel+House" class="Z3988"></span>, p.28</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Historic marker on site</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Powel_House_Room-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Powel_House_Room_4-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Powel_House_Room_4-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/144115.html">Powel House Room</a>, from Philadelphia Museum of Art.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://digitallibrary.hsp.org/index.php/Detail/Object/Show/object_id/1203">"Residence of Ex. Mayor Powell,"</a> from Historical Society of Pennsylvania.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Historian David Dashiell discovered references to a "Bow room" in the Powel papers. He believes this to have been the 2nd floor rear parlor (the room now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art). See Edward Lawler Jr. (2002), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ushistory.org/presidentshouse/plans/pmhb/ph1.htm"><i>The President's House in Philadelphia</i>.</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://hsp.org/sites/default/files/img_5311_0.jpg">Re-created 2nd floor rear parlor</a>, from Historical Society of Pennsylvania. The south wall (where the bookcase now stands) would have thrust out in a semicircular or semi-oval "Bow."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchdetail.cfm?trg=1&strucID=118394&imageID=54517&word=col_id%3A190&s=1&notword=&d=&c=&f=&k=4&lWord=&lField=&sScope=images&sLevel=&sLabel=Picturing%20America%2C%201497-1899%3A%20Prints%2C%20Maps...&sort=&total=2007&num=120&imgs=20&pNum=&pos=125">Washington Hall, Philadelphia</a>, from New York Public Library.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Plate 7 of Heximer & Locher's <i>Maps of the City of Philadelphia</i> (1862) shows the new building occupying the 3rd Street frontage of the walled garden.<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/hlatlas/1/7sne.jpg">[1]</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://digitallibrary.hsp.org/index.php/Detail/Object/Show/object_id/1203">"Residence of Ex. Mayor Powell,"</a> from Historical Society of Pennsylvania. The Kennedy watercolor is undated, but part of a group painted circa 1870.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.mountvernon.org/research-collections/digital-encyclopedia/article/elizabeth-willing-powel/">Elizabeth Willing Powel</a>, from George Washington's Mount Vernon.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://chrisoncars.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Washingtons-Coach.jpg">Washington's coach</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"As the Coach would be lonesome without the horses– and the horses might repine for want of their Coach (having been wedded together Seven years) you had better take both." — George Washington to Elizabeth Powel, February 6, 1797.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ushistory.org/presidentshouse/images/gwdesk2.jpg">Washington's presidential desk</a>, from Independence Hall Association.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Powel Family Papers (#1582) from Historical Society of Pennsylvania.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/investigation/lafayette-china/">Lafayette China</a>, from History Detectives.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.pafa.org/collection/mrs-samuel-powel">Portrait of Elizabeth Willing Powel (1793) by Matthew Pratt</a>, from Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/18.87.1-.4">Room from the Powel House</a>, from Metropolitan Museum of Art.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFOordt2015" class="citation book cs1">Oordt, Darcy (2015). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/hauntedphiladelp0000oord/page/276/mode/2up"><i>Haunted Philadelphia: Famous Phantoms, Sinister Sites, and Lingering Legends</i></a>. <a href="/wiki/Rowman_%26_Littlefield" title="Rowman & Littlefield">Rowman & Littlefield</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781493015795" title="Special:BookSources/9781493015795"><bdi>9781493015795</bdi></a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">September 9,</span> 2023</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Haunted+Philadelphia%3A+Famous+Phantoms%2C+Sinister+Sites%2C+and+Lingering+Legends&rft.pub=Rowman+%26+Littlefield&rft.date=2015&rft.isbn=9781493015795&rft.aulast=Oordt&rft.aufirst=Darcy&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fhauntedphiladelp0000oord%2Fpage%2F276%2Fmode%2F2up&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APowel+House" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <p><b>Further reading</b> </p> <ul><li>Eberlein, H.D. and Lippincott, H.M., <i>The Colonial Homes of Philadelphia and Its Neighborhoods</i>, J.B. Lippincott Co., Phila. and London, 1912.</li> <li>Tatum, George B., <i>Philadelphia Georgian: The City House of Samuel Powel and Some of Its 18th Century Neighbors</i>, Wesleyan, 1976. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0819560445" title="Special:BookSources/978-0819560445">978-0819560445</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Powel_House&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235681985">.mw-parser-output .side-box{margin:4px 0;box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid 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Lippincott & Co.">The Lippincott</a></li> <li>Dilworth House</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thaddeus_Kosciuszko_National_Memorial" title="Thaddeus Kosciuszko National Memorial">Thaddeus Kosciuszko National Memorial</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_Contributionship" title="Philadelphia Contributionship">Philadelphia Contributionship</a></li> <li>Shippen-Wistar House</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Northeast<br />Quadrant</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Parks</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_Korean_War_Memorial" title="Philadelphia Korean War Memorial">Korean War Memorial</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Congregations</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Old_St._Joseph%27s_Church" title="Old St. Joseph's Church">Old St. Joseph's Church</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St._Mary%27s_Roman_Catholic_Church_(Philadelphia)" title="St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church (Philadelphia)">Old St. Mary's Church</a></li> <li>St. Paul's Church</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other landmarks</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Society_Hill_Towers" title="Society Hill Towers">Society Hill Towers</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Powel House</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dolley_Todd_House" title="Dolley Todd House">Dolley Todd House</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dock_Creek" title="Dock Creek">Dock Creek</a></li> <li>Bathsheba's spring and bower</li> <li>Benjamin Loxley house</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dock_Street_Market" title="Dock Street Market">Dock Street Market</a></li> <li>Polish American Cultural Center</li> <li>The Willings</li> <li>Bell's Court</li> <li>Davis-Lenox House</li> <li>John Penn's House</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Southwest<br />Quadrant</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Parks</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Starr Garden Park</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Congregations</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Society_Hill_Synagogue" title="Society Hill Synagogue">Society Hill Synagogue</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Congregation_Kesher_Israel_(Philadelphia)" title="Congregation Kesher Israel (Philadelphia)">Congregation Kesher Israel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historic_Congregation_B%27nai_Abraham" title="Historic Congregation B'nai Abraham">B'nai Abraham Synagogue</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mother_Bethel_A.M.E._Church" title="Mother Bethel A.M.E. 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McCall School">McCall School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Sully_Residence" title="Thomas Sully Residence">Thomas Sully Residence</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Southeast<br />Quadrant</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Parks</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Delancey Park</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Congregations</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/St._Peter%27s_Episcopal_Church,_Society_Hill,_Philadelphia" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Society Hill, Philadelphia">St. Peter's Church</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other landmarks</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Head_House_Square" class="mw-redirect" title="Head House Square">Head House Square</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Market_and_Head_House" title="New Market and Head House">New Market and Head House</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St._Peter%27s_School,_Philadelphia" title="St. Peter's School, Philadelphia">St. Peter's School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Drinker%27s_Court" title="Drinker's Court">Drinker's Court</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thaddeus_Kosciuszko_National_Memorial" title="Thaddeus Kosciuszko National Memorial">Thaddeus Kosciuszko National Memorial</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cassey_House" title="Cassey House">Cassey House</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hill%E2%80%93Physick%E2%80%93Keith_House" title="Hill–Physick–Keith House">Hill–Physick–Keith House</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div>Quadrants are divided along Fourth and Spruce streets. 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Garden">Bartram's Garden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Belmont_Mansion_(Philadelphia)" title="Belmont Mansion (Philadelphia)">Belmont Mansion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Betsy_Ross_House" title="Betsy Ross House">Betsy Ross House</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Civil_War_Museum_of_Philadelphia" title="Civil War Museum of Philadelphia">Civil War Museum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cliveden_(Benjamin_Chew_House)" title="Cliveden (Benjamin Chew House)">Cliveden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eastern_State_Penitentiary" title="Eastern State Penitentiary">Eastern State Penitentiary</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ebenezer_Maxwell_House" title="Ebenezer Maxwell House">Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edgar_Allan_Poe_National_Historic_Site" title="Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site">Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elfreth%27s_Alley" title="Elfreth's Alley">Elfreth's Alley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Fabric_Workshop_and_Museum" title="The Fabric 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