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The Philadelphia Historic Neighborhood Consortium is a group of more than 40 cultural institutions, museums, historic houses of worship and historic sites located within walking distance of the Liberty Bell and Independence Hall.
 The African American Museum in Philadelphia American Philosophical Society Philosophical Hall: 104 S. 5th Street Library Hall: 105 S. 5th Street www.amphilsoc.org 215-440-3400 Mon-Fri 9-5 by appointment Free Arch Street Meetinghouse 4th & Arch Streets www.archstreetfriends.org 215-627-2667 Tours: Mon-Sat 10-4 Services: Sun 10:30 am; Thu 10 am Bookstore The Athenaeum of Philadelphia Atwater Kent Museum (History Museum of Philadelphia) Betsy Ross House 239 Arch Street www.betsyrosshouse.org 215-686-1252 Tue-Sun 10-5 Open Mondays: Memorial Day thru Labor Day & most holidays 10-5 Free, donation welcome.   Note: restroom and gift shop are handicapped accesible, the house is not Bishop White House Carpenters' Hall Chemical Heritage Foundation Christ Church (Episcopal) 2nd Street above Market Street www.oldchristchurch.org 215-922-1695 Tours: Daily 9-5 Services: Sun 9 & 11 am; Wed noon Free Christ Church Burial Ground 5th & Arch Streets www.oldchristchurch.org/burial 215-574-0560 Guided tours: Mon-Sat 10-4; Sun noon-4 (weather permitting) Donation requested Congregation Mikveh Israel 44 N. 4th Street www.mikvehisrael.org 215-922-5446 Mon-Thu 10-5, Sun noon-5 Services: Sat 9 am; call for times of other services Cruiser Olympia (Independence Seaport Museum) Penn's Landing, Pier 40, at the foot of Spruce Street www.phillyseaport.org 215-925-5439 Daily 10-5, closed New Year's Day, Thanksgiving & Christmas  Declaration House (Graff House) The Elfreth's Alley Museum Off 2nd Street between Race & Arch Streets www.elfrethsalley.org 215-574-0560 Feb-Dec: Tue-Sat 10-4, Sun 12-4 Jan: Sat 10-4, Sun 12-4  Fireman's Hall Museum 147 N. 2nd Street www.ushistory.org/tour/tour_fireman.htm 215-923-1438 Tue-Sat 9-4:30, Closed major holidays Free Franklin Court Free Quaker Meetinghouse Friends of Independence National Historical Park Historic Philadelphia, Inc. Independence Branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia Independence Hall Chestnut Street between 5th & 6th www.nps.gov/inde 215-597-8974 Daily 9-5 Free (tickets at Independence Visitor Center) Independence Hall Association Independence National Historical Park See also Independence Hall, Liberty Bell Center, and individual sites www.nps.gov/inde 215-597-8974 Free Independence Seaport Museum Penn's Landing at Walnut Street www.phillyseaport.org 215-925-5439 Daily 10-5; Closed New Year's Day, Thanksgiving & Christmas Independence Visitor Center 6th & Market Streets, Independence Mall www.independencevisitorcenter.com 215-925-7676 Daily 8:30-5; Summer: 9-7 Free Liberty Bell Center Lights of Liberty Show PECO Liberty Center at 6th & Chestnut Streets www.lightsofliberty.org 215-542-3789 (215-LIBERTY) 1-hour outdoor shows begin after dusk Apr-Memorial Day: Thu-Sat Memorial Day-Labor Day: Tue-Sat Labor Day-Oct 28: Thu-Sat Mikveh Israel Cemetery Spruce Street, west of 8th Street www.mikvehisrael.org 215-922-5446 Visible through gates; Call for more extensive visit free Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church 419 S. 6th Street www.motherbethel.org 215-925-0616 Tours: Tue-Sat 10-3, and after Sunday services Services: Sun 8 & 10:45 am National Constitution Center National Liberty Museum National Museum of American Jewish History 55 N. 5th Street, Independence Mall East www.nmajh.org 215-923-3811 Mon-Thu 10-5, Fri 10-3, Sun noon-5; Closed Jewish Holidays National Park Service, Northeast Region New Hall Military Museum Old First Reformed Church (Congregationalist) 4th & Race Streets www.oldfirstucc.org 215-922-4566 Tours by appointment and after Sunday services Services: Sun 11 am; Summer 10 am Old Pine Street Church (Presbyterian) Old St. Joseph's Church (Roman Catholic) 321 Willings Alley (4th Street south of Walnut Street) www.oldstjoseph.org 215-923-1733 Open by appointment Services: Daily 12:15 pm; Sat 5:30 pm; Sun 7:30, 9:30 & 11:30 am Old St. Mary's Church (Roman Catholic) 252 S. 4th Street www.stmaryholytrinity.org 215-923-7930 Daily 9-5 Services: Sat 5 pm, Sun 9 & 10:30 am, 12 noon Services in convent chapel, 5th & Locust Streets: Mon-Sat 7:25 am Penn's Landing Pennsylvania Hospital 800 Spruce Street www.uphs.upenn.edu/pahosp 215-829-5434 Self-guided tours Mon-Fri 8:30-5; Group tours by appointment Free Physick House 321 S. 4th Street www.PhilaLandmarks.org 215-925-7866 Hourly tours: Sept-May: Thu-Sat 11-2; June-Aug: Thu-Sat 12-4, Sun 1-4; call to confirm Polish American Cultural Center Museum Powel House Presbyterian Historical Society Second Bank of the United States / Portrait Gallery Society Hill Synagogue 418 Spruce Street www.societyhillsynagogue.org 215-922-6590 Services: Fri 8 pm (Labor Day-Memorial Day) Sat 9:15 am St. Augustine's Church (Roman Catholic) 4th & Vine Streets st-augustinechurch.com 215-627-1838 Services: Sun 8 & 11 Mon-Fri 7:30 am, 12 noon Sat 5:15 pm St. George's Church (Methodist) 235 N. 4th Street www.historicstgeorges.org 215-925-7788 Tours: Mon-Fri 10-3; Sat morning by appointment, and after Sunday services Services: Sun 11 am St. Peter's Church (Episcopal) 3rd & Pine Streets www.stpetersphila.org Tours: Sat 11-3, Sun 1-3 Services: Sun 9 & 11 am Daily 9-4 215-925-5968 Submarine Becuna (Independence Seaport Museum) Penn's Landing, Pier 40, at the foot of Spruce Street www.phillyseaport.org 215-925-5439 Daily 10-5; closed New Year's Day, Thanksgiving & Christmas Thaddeus Kosciuszko National Memorial Washington Square / Tomb of the Unknown Soldier Copyright ©2004-2008 Philadelphia Historic Neighborhood Consortium
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