Philadelphia Historic Places

Center City and Independence National Park

Congress Hall double stair vestibule

Congress Hall was once the seat of the United States Senate when the Nation’s Capital was in Philadelphia.

Fairmount Park Houses

Fairmount Historic Houses Map
Fairmount Historic Houses Map

Tour through Fairmount Park to see dozens of historic homes and buildings that were first constructed when Philadelphia was the most populous city in America. 

Germantown, Philadelphia

Historic Vernon-Wister House, Germantown, Philadelphia PA
Vernon-Wister House

Germantown is a neighborhood to the north of Center City Philadelphia with a history of houses that existed during the Battle of Germantown (1777) in the American Revolutionary War.