Logan Square  



 

Logan Square is an open-space park in Center City Philadelphia's northwest quadrant and one of the five original planned squares laid out on the city grid. Originally called "Northwest Square," the park had a somewhat gruesome history as a site of public executions and burial plots until the early Nineteenth Century. In 1825, it was renamed Logan Square after Philadelphia statesman James Logan. Although the bounds of the square—18th Street to the east, 20th Street to the west, Race Street to the south and Vine Street to the north—are still intact, the park today is distinguished by its circle, constructed in the 1930s as a segment of Benjamin Franklin Parkway and centered around picturesque Swann Fountain. Among the sites in its immediate vicinity are the Free Library of Philadelphia, the Academy of Natural Sciences, the Franklin Institute and the Roman Catholic Cathedral-Basilica of Sts. Peter and Paul.

 

Neighborhood Profile

 

Landmarks:

     St. Peter St. Paul Cathedral Basilica

     Swann Fountain

Attractions:

     Logan Square

Schools:

     Drexel University

Supermarkets:

     Whole Foods

     20th and Calloway Street

Gyms:

     Sweat Gym

     200 South 24th Street

Movies:

     Roxy Theater

     2023 Sansom Street

Hospital:

     Hahnemann University

     1427 Vine Street 19102

     (215) 762 7000

Police Station:

     Philadelphia Police 6th District

     235 N. 11th Street 19107

     (215) 686 3060

 

 

 

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