Rittenhouse Square
1683
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Rittenhouse Square is a public park in Center City Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that is the center of the eponymous Rittenhouse neighborhood. The square is one of the five original open-space parks planned by William Penn and his surveyor…
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- 1913
The Rittenhouse Square Improvement Association had Paul Philippe Cret redesign the six-acre square. Diagonal walks from the four corners meet at a central oval plaza with a reflecting pool, and classical entrances, railings and fountains…
Paul Philippe Cret
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- Daderot · Public domain
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