Locust Street
Locust Street is a major historic street in Center City Philadelphia. The street is the location of several prominent Philadelphia-based buildings, historic sights, and high-rise residential locations. It is an east–west street throughout Center City Philadelphia and runs largely parallel to Chestnut Street, another major Center City Philadelphia street.
 12–13th & Locust station on Locust Street in April 2017 | |
| Maintained by | PennDOT and City of Philadelphia |
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| Coordinates | 39.56545532°N 75.1079104°W |
Locust Street is one of several Philadelphia streets bordering Rittenhouse Square, one of the five original parks established by the city's founder, William Penn.
History
Locust Street is now a hybrid of commercial and residential buildings. It historically was exclusively a residential street with mansions and home to many of the city's most affluent residents. The street includes historical building structures designed by some of the Gilded Age's preeminent architects, including a Horace Trumbauer-designed Beaux-Arts limestone building at 1629 Locust Street, a Georgian Revival set of buildings designed by Cope and Stewardson at 1631 and 1633 Locust Streets, a Frank Miles Day-designed Medieval mansion at 17th and Locust Streets, and several John Notman-designed houses and a St. Mark’s Church on the 1600 block of Locust Street.[1]
Locust Street locations
Locust Street is the location of several major Philadelphia-based non-profit and historical organizations, including:
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the primary historical society for Pennsylvania, is located at 1300 Locust Street.[2]
- Jefferson Health, a major Philadelphia healthcare network, maintains one of its primary outpatient facilities at 1020 Locust Street.[3]
- Library Company of Philadelphia, the nation's oldest library founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1731, is located at 1314 Locust Street. It houses approximately 500,000 books and 70,000 other items, including 2,150 items that once belonged to Franklin, the Mayflower Compact, major Revolutionary-era documents, and the first editions of two American literary classics, Moby-Dick by Herman Melville and Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman.[4]
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