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\nSunday, September 21, 2025 at 1:00 p.m.<\/p>\n
\nSunday, September 21, 2025 at 1:00 p.m.<\/p>\n
Preservation Alliance Executive Director Paul Steinke will lead a walking tour of his former neighborhood.<\/p>\n
The brainchild of developer Clarence Siegel, Garden Court took shape in the 1920s, occupying in a tiny sliver of undeveloped land in the midst of West Philadelphia\u2019s older streetcar suburbs. A planned community of detached, semi-detached and row homes rose up before the Great Depression, along with several distinctive multi-family apartment buildings. The neighborhood\u2019s tree-lined streets, front gardens and accommodations for the increasingly popular private automobile set it apart from the older neighborhoods surrounding Garden Court. The borders of the Garden Court neighborhood are from 46th to 52nd street between Locust Street and Cedar Avenue. This area also sometimes overlaps the\u201d Cedar Park\u201d neighborhood.<\/p>\n
ADVANCE REGISTRATION REQUIRED<\/strong><\/p>\n WE NEED FIVE MORE PEOPLE TO SIGN UP BY WEDNESDAY, SEPT 17 <\/strong>OR THE TOUR WILL HAVE TO BE CANCELLED<\/strong><\/p>\n $20 per person Sunday, September 21, 2025 at 1:00 p.m. Preservation Alliance Executive Director Paul Steinke will lead a walking tour of his former neighborhood. The brainchild of developer Clarence Siegel, Garden Court took shape in the 1920s, occupying in a tiny sliver of undeveloped land in the midst of West Philadelphia\u2019s older streetcar suburbs. A planned community […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[8,24,28],"class_list":["post-122846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chapter-programs","tag-architecture","tag-philadelphia","tag-preservation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8UMFt-vXo","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philachaptersah.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philachaptersah.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philachaptersah.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philachaptersah.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philachaptersah.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122846"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/philachaptersah.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122850,"href":"https:\/\/philachaptersah.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122846\/revisions\/122850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philachaptersah.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philachaptersah.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philachaptersah.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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