Laurel Hill Cemetery

Laurel Hill Cemetery, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is the second major garden or rural cemetery in the United States. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1998, one of only a few cemeteries to receive the distinction.

The cemetery has spectacular vistas and thousands of 19th- and 20th-century marble and granite funerary monuments on 74 acres (300,000 m²) terraced above the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia's East Falls section. Obelisks dot the rolling terrain, which is highlighted by elaborately sculpted hillside tombs and mausoleums. Overall, Laurel Hill contains more than 33,000 monuments and more than 11,000 family lots.  Reference

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Lenfest Plaza at Night

Lenfest Plaza is a new plaza completed last year, it is a beautiful connector from Convention Center to the Parkway. It contains two pieces of beautiful public art. At one end is the Paint Torch by Claes Oldenburg, and the other is the Grumman Greenhouse.

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Fairmount House Tour

Laurel Hill

Ormiston

Rockland

Mount Pleasant

Lemon Hill

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Statues Near the Art Museum

There are a total of 9 statues on the back side of the Art Museum. I was only able to capture 8 of them because the other one was covered up to be renovated.

1. Stephen Girard

Peter Muhlenberg


John Marshall

Casimir Pulaski

Friedrich Von Steuben

Nathaniel Greene

Richard Montgomery

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Lemon Hill and Sedgeley Drive

Most Philadelphians don't realize that there is part of Fairmount Park above the Boathouse Row that offer a great view of the city as well as home to some of the most interesting trees in the city. I decided to revisit this area of the park by driving up Lemon Hill Drive and Sedgeley drive to resnap some photos I took last winter.

Lemon Hill Mansion is a Federal-style mansion in the Fairmount Park that is now owned by the City of Philadelphia. It is now operated as a museum by the Colonial Dames of America. Named for the many lemons in Morris's greenhouse, this mansion is designed and built by Henry Pratt in 1799 and he continued to live there until 1838.

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View of Center City from Drexel Park

The view of Center City from Drexel Park at 32nd and Baring is almost unobstructed except for the few rail wires.

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