Queen Village is the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania neighborhood of Philadelphia, located along the eastern edge of town, just south of Center City. It shares a boundary with Society Hill in the north, Bella Vista to the west and Pennsport to the south. Historically, this area was part of the old Southwark, the first suburb of Philadelphia, which was incorporated into the city in 1854 and remains the oldest residential neighborhood in the city. The border of the road is the southern side of Lombard Street to the north side of Washington Avenue, Delaware River to 6th Street, which includes two major commercial corridors, South Street and Fabric Row on 4th Street.
Queen Village is known for its large Irish immigrant population.
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History
Establishment
The earliest European settlement of the Queen Village is part of "New Sweden" in a region inhabited by native Lenni Lenapi who calls the area "Wiccaco", or "Exciting Place." Sweden Newly contested by Britain, the Netherlands and Sweden for decades before the great treaty came under British control as part of the 1681 land charter awarded to William Penn, who renamed Philadelphia's first suburban neighborhood from "Wiccaco" to "Southwark , "After the district in London. The most recognizable structures of this period are the Old Swedes' Church (Gloria Dei) on Christian Street and Columbus Boulevard. Originally built as a house-block against Lenape, the church was completed in 1700 and is now the oldest surviving building in Philadelphia.
Growth
Although Penn plans to arrange east-to-west cities, new residents tend to stay close to the Delaware River, preferring to divide many of the original Penn's or move just south or north of town rather than west beyond 4th Street. To meet the spill-over demand, the Queen Village builders built a house for a bargain price of wood, although this had been banned because of a fire within the city limits in 1796. Only some of the front wooden boards survived in the Queen Village along the 800 South block Hancock Street, 200 Christian Street, and 100 League Street. The village deviates from the colonial city in terms of culture as well. Since Quaker bans theaters within the city limits, Queen Village, which offers an easy-to-reach path for theater to operate, was home to the first permanent playhouse in 1766 on South Street.
Surrounded by the Bethlod African Methodist Episcopal Church at Sixth and Lombard, the "Cedar Street Corridor" (South Street and Lombard from Fifth to Seventh) was the center of the black community of free Philadelphia in the 18th and mid-19th centuries. The presence of free black churches and affordable housing encouraged African American settlements in the Queen Village so that in 1820 this area became home to nearly two-thirds of all black families of Philadelphia.
In 1830, the Queen Village as well as the southern part of Southwark contained a growing community of 20,000 who made their living as weavers, tailors, ship builders, sailors or as engineers and blacksmiths in iron smelting. Military industries are also present, including Shot Tower and US Naval Ship Yard, just south of Washington Avenue. Economic rivals clashed in the 1840s and 50s through unions, street gangs, and famous Southwark fires, most of which were based around Catharine and Queen Streets. After the district was officially consolidated into Philadelphia City in 1856, centralized and centralized police forces were mobilized to control the chaos that was largely due to economic competition.
In the 1890s, East European Jewish populations settled along the commercial corridors of South Street and 4th Street, the latter being Fabric Row in Philadelphia, and large numbers of Polish residents settled along the seashore as harbor workers; A large number of Italians began to arrive and settle in the Queen Village and South Philadelphia after 1910. The severe complications resulted in poor local housing conditions balanced by well-meaning housing reform efforts, including the active Octavia Hill Association.
In the first half of the 20th century, the Queen Village has grown into a racially and ethnically diverse neighborhood of merchants and laborers living in dense pockets, unlike the New York Lower East Side. The worst aspect of the environment among warfare is forever engraved in the hyperbolic novel noir slurry David Goodis.
Decline
After World War II, for the first time in the region's 300-year history, the Queen Village population began to decline as families fled the city for suburbs. Furthermore, in 1960, Edmund Bacon's central plan for Philadelphia severed the environment from its historical link to the river by riding I-95 through the environment, destroying about 300 historic structures in the process. Bacon also plans for the Crosstown Expressway, an east-to-west highway on South Street that will cut Queen's Village from the City Center, just as the toll road toll road has littered the settlements north of the heart of the city. Although the Expressway was successfully championed by a community reaction led by Denise Scott Brown, the impending threat from the highway caused the value of South Street property to decline, expelling old business and causing high vacancy and bucket bags in South Street almost from river to river. Around the same time, civil planners also experimented with disasters with federal housing projects to focus the attention of urban poor in high towers. The entire block between Christian Street and Washington Avenue was cleared to make the public housing project Southwark quickly become a refuge for drugs and violence. Although housing projects have been destroyed, the former location marks for years. For example, the intersection of Village of the Fifth Virgin and Carpenter Street is listed number nine in the list of ten drug city cities in 2007 according to an article by Steve Weekly reporter Steve Volk.
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The commercial awakening of South Street began with several business anchors such as Eye's Gallery, JC Dobbs, and The Theater of the Living Arts, which thrived through an intelligent punk phase into the existing restaurant/club/retail pastiche and spread the finger to Head House Square. and 4th Street. In 1972, the National Register of Historic Places designated Lombard for Catharine, 5th to Front Street with a clash from Front to Delaware between Catherine and Washington (where Old Swede Church is located) as a historic district. The city pioneers of the 1970s and 1980s have since joined the gentrifiers in the extensive rebuilding, rehabilitation and new construction throughout the Queen Village, which was renamed after the Queen of Sweden to recognize the early inhabitants of the neighborhood. Currently, the South Street-Head House District represents over 300 cafes, restaurants, entertainment venues and shops and Queen Village is home to about 7000 families whose median income and home value are the highest in the city. The district is served by the Queen Association's very well-organized Environmental Association.
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Historical structure
The 800 existing Queen Village buildings are listed at the Philadelphia Historical Register. Key highlights include:
- Some of the mid-18th century houses still survive on Front Street between South and Christian Streets, including Nathaniel Irish House at 704 South Front Street and George Mifflin House in block 100 of Pemberton Street
- Some research indicates that the Mason-Dixon line can be started in Front and South Streets.
- Sparks Shot Tower
The Nathaniel Irish House, Widow Maloby's Tavern, William M. Meredith School, Kapten Thomas Moore House, Robert Ralston School, dan South Front Street Historic District terdaftar di National Register of Historic Places. Gereja Gloria Dei (Old Swedes ') adalah National Historic Landmark.
Pendidikan
Philadelphia School District serves the area. William M. Meredith School in Queen Village and George W. Nebinger School in Bella Vista serve separate parts of the community. The area assigned to Meredith and Nebinger was assigned to Furness High School.
The Free Library of Philadelphia operates the Charles Santore Branch (formerly Southwark Branch), serving the Queen Village. In addition, the Independence Branch at Hill Society serves the Queen Village.
Other educational programs and resources:
- The Settlement Music School, 416 Queen Street
- Fleisher Art Memorial, 719 Catharine Street
- Queen Village Art Center, 514 Bainbridge Street
- InMovement Studio, 500 Kenilworth St
Transportation
Queen Village is served by bus routes 40, 57, and 64.
References
External links
- Neighbor's Neighbor Association
- World Workshop
- Preservation of the Walking Walking Alliance
- The Philadelphia History Society
- South Street Business District
- Philly History Site
- Philly Skyline Queen Village Tour
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