Head House
The Head House, Georgian in design and built in 1803 for meetings of the commissioners, fire companies and citizens, dominates the market arcades behind. Sometime in the middle of the 18th century a pair of market houses was built in the center of 2nd Street. They were later enlarged and had grown to some 440 feet by 1811. These were probably the oldest public market houses in the country before they were torn down and the market itself, used by craftsmen today to display their wares, can probably claim the distinction of being the oldest American market still in continual use.
Head west to 3rd St. and then north to Pine St. to visit the former home of Thaddeus Kosciuszko
Society Hill
- Welcome to Society Hill
- Locust Street between 4th and 5th; Magnolia and Rose Gardens
- Old St. Joseph's
- Shippen-Wistar House
- Cadwalader House
- St. Mary's Church
- House of Joseph Hopkinson
- Wharton House
- Powel House
- John Penn's House
- St. Paul's Episcopal Church
- Davis-Lenox House
- Society Hill Towers Overlooking Abercrombie House
- A Man Full of Trouble Tavern
- Tun Tavern
- American Street
- Head House
- Thaddeus Kosciuszko House
- St. Peter's Church
- Old Pine
- Presbyterian Historical Society
- Kangaroo sculpture
- Society Hill Synagogue
- Physick House
