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Avenue, North 64th Street between Lansdowne and Lebanon Avenues, or Nassau Road between North 61st and 63rd Streets. There are very few detached single-family homes in Overbrook. Single homes typically pre-date the construction of most of Overbrook's housing or came into existence on select lots after the construction of most of the rowhouses and twin houses. For example, one will see a few single-family homes on Wynnewood Road near Columbia Avenue. A large stone home remains this intersection. This home once sat on acres of land that the owner(s) sold off to developers who then constructed twin houses and rowhouses. The vast majority of the single-family, detached homes in the Overbrook area are in the
67: 375:, began buying up agricultural land near Overbrook station. Working with the architects Herman Wendell and Walter Bassett Smith, they began the construction of what was billed as a "suburb deluxe" for middle to upper-class families hoping to leave the city. The neighborhood had its own water system, steam heat (from the Overbrook Steam Heat Company), and electricity (from the Overbrook Electric Company), and was well connected to the city with trains running every half hour. Overbrook Farms was designated a "historic district" in 2019 by the Philadelphia Historical Commission. 958: 133: 470: 972: 51: 513: 453:, present in a wide variety of styles. Built during the early twentieth century when trolley lines were allowing middle-class Philadelphians to move out from more crowded row house communities, Overbrook was a community of choice at that time. Outside of Overbrook Farms, most of the houses in the Overbrook area date from between 1915 and 1930, when the Great Depression halted new construction nationally and locally. 189: 389: 74: 456:
In addition to rowhouses, there are a number of twin (semi-detached) houses. These semi-detached homes have two or three floors and typically are over 2,000 square feet (190 m) in size. Prime examples of typical Overbrook twin houses are along Wynnewood Road from Haverford Avenue to Malvern
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who acquired land in the areas west of Philadelphia in the 1680s, establishing farms and mills. Several large farms owned by Welsh farmers in the Western Liberties would later become the neighborhood of Overbrook.
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to the west, Lansdowne Avenue to the south, 54th Street to the east, and the city limit at City Line Avenue to the north. Any definition places the neighborhood in close proximity to
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are often considered to be part of Overbrook, but in many city documents they are considered separate from the neighborhood proper, which in a 2004 map from the
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in Montgomery County close to the station and flows underground through the center of the neighborhood and beyond before emptying into the
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Overbrook, while overwhelmingly residential in character, does have several notable landmark buildings and institutions.
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The area's housing ranges from large, old homes to rowhouses to three- and four-story apartment buildings.
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Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic School and Church – 63rd and Lancaster, historic grade school where actor
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The first residential development in the Overbrook area was the construction of the planned suburb of
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was narrowly defined as bounded by North 63rd Street to the west, Lansdowne Avenue to the south, and
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The land that would become Overbrook, along with the rest of Philadelphia, made up part of the vast
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The neighborhood gets its name from Overbrook station, where the tracks run "over the brook" of
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Overbrook developed in various stages between 1900 and 1960. The dominant housing type is the
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from the 1890s through the 1920s. In 1892, the investment bank Drexel & Company, led by
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at the corner of Lancaster Avenue and City Avenue, first constructed in 1889
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The agricultural lands near Indian and Mill Creek in 1704 became part of
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focused on changes in the Overbrook area watershed and natural landscape
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runs primarily above ground through Morris Park before emptying into
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was opened and named after Mill Creek, which the tracks ran over.
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places the boundaries of the neighborhood at the west branch of
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regional rail tracks to the northeast. A map produced by the
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Overbrook, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Neighborhood of Philadelphia
House in Overbrook Farms
Overbrook is located in Philadelphia
39°59′17″N 75°15′00″W / 39.988°N 75.250°W / 39.988; -75.250
United States
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia County
Philadelphia
Area code(s)
215, 267, and 445

Overbrook High School
neighborhood
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
West Philadelphia
West Philadelphia
Wynnefield
Carroll Park
Montgomery County
Overbrook Farms
Morris Park
Overbrook Park
Philadelphia City Planning Commission
SEPTA's
Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Indian Creek
Overbrook High School

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