Spruce Hill, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Spruce Hill, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Spruce Hill is a neighborhood located in the West Philadelphia section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is located between 40th and 46th streets, and it stretches from Market Street south to Woodland Avenue. It has a population of over 16,000. It was built as a streetcar suburb [West Philadelphia Streetcar Suburb Historic District, [http://www.uchs.net/HistoricDistricts/wpsshd.html UCHS] ] for Center City between 1850 and 1910. It is a racially and ethnically diverse part of the city, where much historic architecture is preserved.
Spruce Hill is considered to be within the boundaries of University City.
A statue of Charles Dickens, cast in 1891 by Francis Edwin Elwell, is located in the neighborhood's Clark Park; it is the world's only life-size bronze of the author. [ [http://www2.cruzio.com/~varese/dickens/statue.html The Dickens Statue ] ]
ee also
*University of Pennsylvania
*Saint Mary's Church, Hamilton Village
External links
* [http://sprucehill.uchs.net Spruce Hill Historic District]
* [http://www.sprucehillca.org Spruce Hill Community Association]
* [http://westphillydata.library.upenn.edu/infoR_Neigh_Sprucehill.htm West Philadelphia Data and Information Resources] - University of Pennsylvania
References
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