Philadelphia's architectural history dates back to Colonial times and includes a wide range of styles.

For much of Philadelphia's history, the typical home has been the row house.

The First Town Days festivals honors New Philadelphia's history as the first European settlement in Ohio.

In the first season of the CFL, the Ottawa Rough Riders and the Hamilton Tiger-Cats made history when they played the first regular season CFL game at Philadelphia's Franklin Field on August 23, 1958.

Schmidt started the season off by hitting twelve home runs in Philadelphia's first fifteen games, including four in one game on April 17, a feat accomplished only 16 times in the history of baseball.

He has since been inducted into the Big 5 Hall of Fame, which recognizes the best in Philadelphia's college basketball history.

The Philadelphia History Museum ( also known as the Philadelphia History Museum at the Atwater Kent ) was founded in 1938 as Philadelphia's city history museum.

A game that is now known as Black Sunday in Philadelphia's sports lore, Tampa Bay won on the road for the first time in playoff history, and in temperatures below 32 ° F ( 0 ° C ), in the last football game played at Veterans Stadium.

" Other notable instances included his closing argument as prosecutor in the 1876 murder trial of John Kehoe, vilified at the time as the " King of the Mollie Maguires ," in which he portrayed the murders and other crimes attributed to Mollies as being an evil unparalleled in all human history, and as not locally motivated, but driven by orders from other places — Pittsburgh, New York — even other lands — England, Ireland, Scotland ; and his three-hour argument in 1881 before a gathering of outraged stockholders of the bankrupt Reading Railroad, inside Philadelphia's Academy of Music, by which he turned open hostility into enthusiastic rounds of applause One twentieth-century commentator described Gowen's oratory skills thus:

Aside from its regular participation in school events, parades and on and off campus formations and other events, it has a storied history of appearances in Pennsylvania and New Jersey and has been assigned the honor of being the City of Philadelphia's honor guard for distinguished visitors to the city.

The Penn chapter has strong roots in Philadelphia's history, but was revived last year by an elite group of members graduating with the Class of 2011.

In 1938, Kent helped found the Atwater Kent Museum of Philadelphia, Philadelphia's city history museum by purchasing the original home of the Franklin Institute on So. 7th St. and donating it to the City of Philadelphia.

Fergus Falls Town Hall, modeled after Philadelphia's Independence Hall ( United States ) | Independence HallFergus Falls features many different parks ( tallgrass prairie and eastern woodlands ), stores, and other tourist attractions.

Though the origins of gangsta rap can be traced back to the mid-1980s style of Philadelphia's Schoolly D and the West Coast's Ice-T, the style broadened and came to apply to many different regions in the country, to rappers from New York, such as Notorious B. I. G and influential hip hop group Wu-Tang Clan, and to rappers on the West Coast, such as Too Short and N. W. A.

Philadelphia's pledge of religious tolerance attracted many other religions beside Quakers.

Nutter was instrumental in Philadelphia's Foreclosure Prevention Program, a program which has been copied by many cities throughout the country to stabilize their housing and retain residents in owned units.

The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia's foremost museum, did not bid on any of Cope's sales due to bad blood between Cope and the museum's leaders ; as a result, many of Cope's major finds left the city.

The rail line, from which the area affectionately got its name, was central to creating the Main Line communities which in the 19th century became home to many sprawling country estates built by Philadelphia's wealthiest families.

In recent years, an influx of immigrants from Latin America, mainly from Mexico, has significantly changed the Italian Market area and it is now also home to many stores and restaurants catering to Philadelphia's Hispanic population.

Arnold and his wife Terry helped pioneer many of the early Philadelphia progressive-rock groups such as The Nazz, American Dream, Stone Dawn, Woody's Truck Stop, Mandrake Memorial, Elizabeth, and The Legions, Stone Dawn, Almond Joy, The Driftwoods, by hosting the first " Be-IN " at Belmont Plateau in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park.

It can also be found in many local cafes and small businesses, and the dormitories of Philadelphia's many universities.

The stadium also received many seats from Philadelphia's old Shibe Park after Shibe's demolition.

The area continued to grow, becoming a vital part of Philadelphia's large industrial base and attracting immigrants from Italy, Ireland, Poland, and many other countries during the 19th and early 20th centuries, as well as Black American migrants from the southern United States during the Great Migration of the early 20th century.

Tyson has also spoken many times on Philadelphia's popular morning show, Preston and Steve, on 93. 3 WMMR.

The hospital has historically been associated with Philadelphia's Jefferson Medical College for many years.

Along with many of Philadelphia's major manufacturing concerns came the nearby estates of the wealthy industrialists who had founded them.

At the time, many of Philadelphia's big employers ' leases, including Comcast's, were set to expire, and the employers were considering the possibility of moving out of the city and state.

To tourists, it is best known as the site of Independence Hall and its encompassing Independence National Historical Park, Elfreth's Alley, the Betsy Ross House, and many of Philadelphia's other historic sites.

He also played organ at Philadelphia's Christ Church and composed or edited a number of hymns and psalms including: " A Collection of Psalm Tunes with a few Anthems and Hymns Some of them Entirely New, for the Use of the United Churches of Christ Church and St. Peter's Church in Philadelphia " ( 1763 ), " A psalm of thanksgiving, Adapted to the Solemnity of Easter: To be performed on Sunday, the 30th of March, 1766, at Christ Church, Philadelphia " ( 1766 ), and " The Psalms of David, with the Ten Commandments, Creed, Lord's Prayer, & c. in Metre " ( 1767 ).

This tolerance, far more than afforded by most other colonies, led to better relations with the local Native tribes and fostered Philadelphia's rapid growth into America's most important city.

Iverson was named Rookie of the Year, but Philadelphia's overall improvement was minimal, as they finished with a 22 – 60 record.

The teams alternated wins in the first four games, with Iverson scoring 54 points in Philadelphia's Game Two victory.

Andre Iguodala, Philadelphia's first-round pick in the 2004 NBA Draft, was named to the All-Rookie First Team, and the 76ers returned to the postseason with a 43 – 39 record.

In December 1866, Campbell suggested to Philadelphia's mayor that the United States Centennial be celebrated with an exposition in Philadelphia.

He made a series of long unissued recordings with the Philadelphia Orchestra for RCA Victor in Philadelphia's Academy of Music in 1941 and 1942.

Media coverage of the first April 22 Earth Day included a One-Hour Prime-time CBS News Special Report called " Earth Day: A Question of Survival ," with correspondents reporting from a dozen major cities across the country, and narrated by Walter Cronkite ( whose backdrop was the Earth Week Committee of Philadelphia's logo ).

Pennsylvania also produced successful bands, with Harrisburg's Poison and Philadelphia's Cinderella releasing their multi-platinum début albums, respectively Look What the Cat Dragged In and Night Songs in 1986.

In February 2010, Philadelphia's WMMR announced that Fuel, " re-grouped with original singer Brett Scallions ", will be performing at their annual MMR * B * Q concert.

He also appointed Philadelphia's first ever Latino deputy mayors, with the naming of Benjamin Ramos and Manuel Ortiz.

Mouradian wasted little time in shaping the 2012 season by trading Athan Ianucci to the Edmonton Rush with teammates Alex Turner and Brodie McDonald, along with Philadelphia's first round draft picks in 2012, 2013 and 2014.

Brown maintained a well-informed interest in these sorts of reformist institutions and since the early 1790s had regularly visited new, pioneering hospitals and prisons ( such as Philadelphia's Walnut Street Prison or Pennsylvania Hospital ) with friends from his New York circle.

Philadelphia's management saw Bradley as a major project with huge long-term potential.

American locations such as Fairfield County, Connecticut, Litchfield County, Connecticut, Westchester County, New York, Long Island's Gold Coast, the Upper East Side of Manhattan, Boston's Back Bay and Beacon Hill, Weston, MA, Newport, RI, Grosse Pointe, MI, and Philadelphia's Main Line are associated with old money.

She took Gian Carlo with her, and in 1928 she enrolled him at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music, but she returned to Italy.

Opened in 1881, the station was dramatically expanded in the early 1890s by famed Philadelphia architect Frank Furness, and for most of its existence served with City Hall as arguably one of the crown jewels of Philadelphia's architecture, and for thirty years had the largest train shed in the world ( a 91 m span ).

Within a month of its publication, Poe was accused of conspiring with the prize committee by Philadelphia's Daily Forum.

The act passed on February 2, making Philadelphia's borders coterminous with Philadelphia County, and incorporating various districts, boroughs, townships, and any other unincorporated communities within the county.

Philadelphia's Italian population grew from around 300 in 1870 to around 18, 000 in 1900, with the majority settling in South Philadelphia.

While immigrants moved into the city, Philadelphia's rich left for newer housing in the suburbs, with commuting made easy by newly constructed railroads.

Probably the closest present day trolley line resembling a 1920s interurban – with city to countryside to village, side-of-road, " hill and dale " operation – is the present-day broad gauge Upper Darby to Media 100-year-old former Red Arrow line of Philadelphia's SEPTA system.