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Welcome Park
Welcome Park
Venturi, Scott Brown (and Rauch),
1982
* Tribute to William Penn
* big
map,
standing person
wearing a hat,
house
* Welcome Park is laid out on a giant map of the original street plan, with miniature representations of two objects related to William Penn - the City Hall statue and his original slate-roof house. The Park itself sits on the site of the house. Two walls around the park contain a biography of Penn, and his farewell address to the city is on the back of the base of the model of the statue. At the time Welcome Park was built, the firm was named Venturi, Rauch and Scott Brown.
* The original City Hall statue: William Penn
* inscription:
house:
This model design was created
from available knowledge of the
SLATE ROOF HOUSE
ground:
Of all the many places I have seen
in the world, I remember not one
better seated: so that it seems to me
to have been appointed for a town.
The names of the streets are mostly
from the things that grow in
the country, as Vine Street, Mulberry
Street, Chestnut Street, and the like.
* Plaza.
East side of Second Street between Chestnut and Walnut.
* 39.947300,-75.143975 [map] [nearby]
* On the Penn's Landing tour
* Exhibits: Religious
* See also:
+ushistory.org page for this piece
+wikipedia.org's William Penn page