Bartram Village, Philadelphia

Name: Bartram Village
Address: Philadelphia, United States

#911 among attractions in Philadelphia

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Facts and practical information

Bartram Village is a small neighborhood in Southwest Philadelphia. It is located in the vicinity of South 56th Street and Lindbergh Boulevard. Bartram village borders Southwest Schuylkill to northeast, Elmwood Park to the west, Kingsessing to the north and the Schuylkill River to the southeast. The neighborhood takes its name from noted botanist John Bartram, whose historical home and gardens, Bartram's Garden, are located nearby. Bartram's Garden, also known as the John Bartram House, is a National Historic Landmark. ()

Coordinates: 39°55'51"N, 75°13'3"W

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Southwest PhiladelphiaPhiladelphia United States

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Bartram Village – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Mount Moriah Cemetery, The Woodlands, St. Francis de Sales Roman Catholic Church, Calvary United Methodist Church.

1 miW
Cemetery
Mount Moriah Cemetery, Philadelphia
27 min walk • Mount Moriah Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery that spans the border between Southwest Philadelphia and Yeadon, Pennsylvania. It was established in 1855 and is the largest cemetery in Pennsylvania. It is 200 acres in size and contains 150,000 burials.
1.4 miNE
Cemetery
The Woodlands, Philadelphia
35 min walk • The Woodlands is a National Historic Landmark District on the west bank of the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia. It includes a Federal-style mansion, a matching carriage house and stable, and a garden landscape that in 1840 was transformed into a Victorian rural cemetery with an arboretum of over 1,000 trees.
1.1 miN
Church
St. Francis de Sales Roman Catholic Church, Philadelphia
30 min walk • St. Francis de Sales Roman Catholic Church, founded in 1890, is a Catholic church at 4625 Springfield Avenue in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, part of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia.
1.2 miN
Church, Gothic Revival architecture
Calvary United Methodist Church, Philadelphia
31 min walk • Calvary United Methodist Church is located at 801 48th Street, on the southeast corner of 48th Street & Baltimore Avenue, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
0.9 miNE
Bridge
Gray's Ferry Bridge, Philadelphia
24 min walk • Gray's Ferry Bridge has been the formal or informal name of several floating bridges and four permanent ones that have carried highway and rail traffic over the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia.
1.2 miSE
Bridge
Passyunk Avenue Bridge, Philadelphia
31 min walk • The Passyunk Avenue Bridge is a double leaf bascule bridge spanning the Schuylkill River between South Philadelphia and the Southwest Philadelphia sections of Philadelphia. The current bridge was completed in 1983.
0.7 miNE
Monuments and statues
Newkirk Viaduct Monument, Philadelphia
18 min walk • The Newkirk Viaduct Monument is a 15-foot white marble obelisk in the West Philadelphia neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Installed in 1839, it is inscribed with the names of 51 railroad builders and executives, among other information.
0.7 miNE
Bridge
B&O Railroad Bridge, Philadelphia
18 min walk • The B&O Railroad Bridge is a 1910 swing bridge across the Schuylkill River from Bartram's Garden on the west bank to the east bank Grays Ferry neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1.3 miNE
Bridge
University Avenue Bridge, Philadelphia
34 min walk • The University Avenue Bridge is a double-leaf bascule bridge crossing the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The four-lane bridge links University Avenue in West Philadelphia with South 34th Street in the Grays Ferry section of South Philadelphia.
1.3 miNE
Bridge
South Street Bridge, Philadelphia
33 min walk • The South Street Bridge is a bridge that was reconstructed in 2010 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
~1300 ftSW
Temple, Buddhist architecture
Wat Khmer Palelai Monastery, Philadelphia
7 min walk • Wat Khmer Palelai Monastery is a Cambodian Theravada Buddhist temple located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The monastery was founded in 1986 in a South Philadelphia row house. In 2010, the community acquired a 238,000-square-foot plot of land, where the current temple stands.

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Which popular attractions are close to Bartram Village?

Nearby attractions include Wat Khmer Palelai Monastery, Philadelphia (7 min walk), Bartram's Garden, Philadelphia (7 min walk), S. Weir Mitchell School, Philadelphia (14 min walk), Kingsessing, Philadelphia (16 min walk).

How to get to Bartram Village by public transport?

The nearest stations to Bartram Village:

Tram

Elmwood Avenue & 56th Street • Lines: 36 (1 min walk)
Lindbergh Boulevard & 54th Street • Lines: 36 (6 min walk)

Train

49th Street (23 min walk)
Angora (38 min walk)