Identifier: randmcnallyphila00newyo (find matches)
Title: Rand McNally Philadelphia guide to the city and environs
Year: 1915 (1910s)
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Publisher: New York, Rand McNally
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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construction and main-tenance of handsome country homes and grounds of greatbeauty and extent. The miost beautiful of these suburbs maybe seen along the suburban section of the Main Line of thePennsylvania Railroad, and on the Germantown and ChestnutHill branches of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and Philadelphia& Reading Railway. Philadelphia has some 1,500 miies of paved streets and 500miles of well built roads in the suburban sections. As laid out by its founder, WilHam Penn, the city comprisedbut a small portion of the area it now covers, but in the citysexpansion, Penns street plan has been followed with but fewexceptions, notably in the continuation of old highways oftravel. Ridge Ave., Gennantown Ave., Frankford Ave., Ken-sington Ave., Passyunk Ave., Moyamensing Ave., LancasterAve , and Woodland Ave. are such old roads, which extenddiagonally through the otherwise rectangular network ofstreets. In Frankford, Germantown, Manayunk, and Kensington 6 RAND McNALLY PHILADELPHIA GUIDE
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Chestnut Looking West from 5th StreetPage 30 also, the regularity of the streets has been deviated from, butthroughout the greater part of the city the streets extendnorth and south from Market St., and west from the DelawareRiver, at almost equal distances apart. The east and weststreets, with but few exceptions, are named; the north and southstreets are numbered. First St., is known as Front St., andFourteenth St., as Broad St. Between the regular numberedstreets are many half-block and quarter-block streets whichare named. That part of the city lying above Market St. is termedNorth Philadelphia, and that below it South Philadelphia.The buildings fronting on the numerically named streets arenumbered in a rising scale both north and south from MarketSt., so that corresponding figures in these directions arefound at almost equal distances from Market St. Thus,No. 400 north and No. 400 south are four squares, or abouthalf a mile, above and below Market St. The blocksbetween the main in

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