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Title: University of Pennsylvania: its history, traditions, buildings and memorials: also a brief guide to Philadelphia
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Nitzsche, George Erasmus, 1874- (from old catalog) ed
Subjects: University of Pennsylvania
Publisher: Philadelphia, International printing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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in^AS, and a \aiioiis an<l \ei\ inlereslioK assendtiaKi f 263 objects ol art, statuary, ceramics, glassware, china and porcelain,and a collection belonging to the School of Industrial Art. Ad-mission is free. HOUTICULTURAL, HALL, just west of Memorial Hall, isanother of the old Centennial buildings, and has a collec-tion of magnificent tree ferns, palms, foreign and native plants andflowers. The conservatory is 230 by 80 feet and is 55 feet high. Take the Park trolley at Forty-fourth Street and Parkside Ave-nue Station. It should here be mentioned that opposite the sta-tion is a terminal of city trolley lines, where cars may be takenfor any part of the city. The Park trolley skirts the outerboundaries of the Park and runs partly through it. The charmof the scenery must be felt, it cannot be described. The first stop should be Georges Hill, at Fifty-second Street.The hill is 210 feet high and from its summit a wide landscapemay be surveyed. There are band concerts at Georges Hill on
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Photo by Rau. BICNKDICT ARNOLD MANSKJN, FAIKMCKJNT PARK. Monday afternoon and evening. Proceed to Belmont Mansion, onan eminence which gives a most attractive view of the river andthe city. The mansion was built about 1743 and was the countryseat of Judge Richard Peters, Revolutionary Secretary of War.Washington, Lafayette, Jefferson and other eminent generals andstatesmen were frequent guests here. There are band concertsat Belmont on Wednesday and Saturday afternoons and evenings.Change at Greenland for Strawberry Mansion, a large old-fashioned country residence; from its rear lawn is a view of the up- 264 per reaches of the rixer, Laurel Hill, a famous cemetery; and FallsVillage, one of the most charming vistas in the park. There areband concerts at Strawberry Mansion on Tuesday and Friday af-ternoons and evenings. Return to Greenland and change to theForty-fourth Street line. Skirting the banks of the river the prin-cipal stations are at Chamounix, a miniature lake ; Woodside Park

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