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Happy Memorial Day. I hope you all had a good weekend.
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Stay kool out there. Nice like twin in West Philly.
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For this week's Philly Phriday Pheature the epic Hewitt Bros. designed 420 row in West Philly.
Here's some information on the row from the WHYY Plan Philly website from 2017:
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At the January 13 historical commission meeting, McDaniel, who is the head of the University of Pennsylvania’s religious studies department, broke that logjam when the Historic Commission approved his nomination of the “420 Row District.” The proposal only covered eight houses on the west side of 42nd Street—the self-dubbed “420 Row”—where it meets Baltimore Avenue.
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The row is an impressively preserved example of suburban-style development that grew along streetcar lines, designed by the Hewitt Brothers, a famed Philadelphia architectural firm that designed the Bourse and the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel. The redbrick buildings are an impressive sight. Most of them are studded with stepped gables, turrets, and massive corbeled chimneys connected by alley archways that aren’t found anywhere else in the city. Even in the Spruce Hill neighborhood, which hosts one of the largest collections of Victorian-era houses in America, the row of majestic red brick Queen Anne-style houses stand out.
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