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And from the Wayne Junction Station, itвЂ™s an 8-minute walk to a place of history, books, and on the Fourth, free hot dogs and ice cream. Even better: itвЂ™s only two stops (about 10 minutes) from SEPTAвЂ™s Market East Station, the station nearest the Liberty Bell.

The nearby Wayne Junction Station (itself recently restored and listed on The National Register of Historic Places) serves five regional rail lines, two bus routes and a trackless trolley. ItвЂ™s free, and RSVPs are requested: call 21 or email been to вЂњStentonвЂќ? Getting to 18 th and Courtland is more convenient than youвЂ™d think. StentonвЂ™s Independence Day Celebration begins at 11:30 and continues to 1:30. This Friday, July 4 th, provides the opportunity. ThereвЂ™s nothing like a good book (or guidebook), especially at a place designed for reading, unless, of course, itвЂ™s a visit to the real thing. (Earlier this year, they issued a new and informative 64-page guidebook: Stenton: A VisitorвЂ™s Guide to the Site, History and Collections.) The 8-minute walk from SEPTAвЂ™s Wayne Junction Station (Google) Today, more than a century later, the Society still preserves and still interprets. In 1910, a City ordinance gave permanent вЂњcustody and controlвЂќ of вЂњStentonвЂќ to the Society of the Colonial DamesвЂќ who were to maintain the buildings вЂњin their original condition as historic object lessonsвЂќ-exactly what they had been doing over a decade of stewardship.

That might be a solution for the open space, but what would become of вЂњthe most perfect colonial building in AmericaвЂќ where the Dames had spent more than $2,500 (equal to more than $60,000 today) for restoration and had been committed to an additional $800 per year (more than $19,000 today) for ongoing maintenance? These small parks in neighborhoods, totaling about 130 acres, would offer breathing room for everyone, but especially, as advocates put it, for вЂњchildren who have no place except the dirty streets to roam inвЂ¦вЂќ (PhillyHistory)ДЄs one of two dozen green, open spaces remaining in the built-up sections of Philadelphia, the City Parks Association proposed that вЂњStentonвЂќ be included in a network of spaces and boulevards knitting the growing city together.

What would become of the house and grounds, which was now in the center of a fast growing neighborhood of rowhouses, mills and factories? Park Extension вЂ“ As Suggested in Comprehensive Plans, 1911, indicating Stenton Park. And this arrangement proved workable for a dozen years, before the family sold the house and property to the City. In 1899, the Logan family offered The Society of Colonial Dames вЂњthe privilege of restoring and preserving the fine old house as a historic memorialвЂќ if theyвЂ™d also cover the annual taxes. The place stayed in family hands for the better part of two centuries. In a retreat built in the 1720s, this вЂњ bookman extraordinary,вЂќ (he amassed a library of astronomy, mathematics, physics, linguistics, botany, history and the Greek and Latin classics) would get some serious time to read, to reflect and, finally, some peace and quiet.Дespite LoganвЂ™s Quaker restraint, вЂњStentonвЂќ would become one of the most genteel homes in the colonies. At forty, William PennвЂ™s secretary had grown вЂњheartily out of love with the world.вЂќ Planning his escape, Logan bought 500 acres five miles from the center of Philadelphia.

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