The many neighborhoods west of the Schuylkill River across from
William Penn's "Quaker City" were distinctly rural until 1860, when
horsecar lines first crossed the river. The area soon became home
to wealthy businessmen who built elegant mansions and villas in
University City and Powelton Village. West Philadelphia's growth
accelerated northward into Belmont and Parkside-Girard after the
1876 Centennial Exposition and westward into Cedar Park, Spruce
Hill, and Walnut Hill in the 1890s with the introduction of
electric trolley lines. West Philadelphia: University City to 52nd
Street is the first photographic history of the area in the last
one hundred years. Images of the typical, modest West Philadelphia
row houses, which slowly took over the open farmland after the
Market Street Elevated opened in 1907, tell the story of how
Philadelphia became known as the "City of Homes." Countless, rarely
seen photographs of the streets where people lived and worked fill
this extraordinary history.
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