Philadelphia - Society Hill Historic District

The South Street Antiques Market is the city's only indoor market with 25 dealers selling everything from jewelry, furniture, pottery, toys to clothing.

The Anthenaeum of Philadelphia is a three-story Italianate Revival building named after Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom. Founded in 1814, the special colelctions include changing exhibits on American fine and decorative arts from the early to mid 1800s.

Head House Square has been a street market since 1745.

Physick House was the home of the "Father of American Surgery", Dr. Philip Syng Physick. It is the only free-standing house in Society Hill and is fully restored containing Federal furniture. The doctor lived here from 1815 until his death in 1837, and his descendants lived here until 1941.

A room honoring Dr. Physick and his many surgical inventions is also on the second floor. On display are a 19th-century garden, silver and porcelain.

The Polish American Cultural Center has displays of Polish history, culture and paintings of notable Poles, a pictorial display of Poland at Arms with WWII photographs from 1939-1944.

The Georgian-style Powel House at 244 South 3rd Street was built in 1765 by Samuel Powel, a popular mayor of Philadelphia. South-east of this is the Trouble Tavern (1759).

The house features eighteenth-century art, furniture, porcelain and silver.

South Street is an entertainment area of more than 75 restaurants, 150 shops, and numberous nightclubs and theaters.

St. Peter's Church in Philadelphia is a colonial Episcopal Church that was built in 1761. The spire was designed by William Strickland in 1842 while the church's bells came from the Whitechapel Foundry in London where the Liberty Bell was made. The interior features the original organ case, box pews, including number 41 where Washington sat. Buried in the churchyard are several national and local historical figures.

Theaddeus Kosciuszko was a Polish military engineer who fought for the American cause during the Revolutionary War. He lived here from 1797-8 and this house serves as a memorial to him. Surrounding the house are many eighteenth-century homes and churches.

The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is the only tomb in America erected to the memory of the unknown Revolutionary War soldiers. In 1976, an eternal flame was installed.

South-east of Independence Hall, in Washington Square, once the burial-place of those who died in the fight for independence, is the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier of the Revolution, with an eternal flame.