Greenbelt Knoll
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mars888
N 40° 03.367 W 075° 01.326
18T E 498115 N 4433986
A fascinating area. The Knoll is praised for the way the houses blend into a lovely park. It’s surrounded by parks & parkway. Nearby are the Historic Cemetery where lies Wm. Penn’s Surveyor, & fine views of Wooden Bridge Run from the bridges.
Waymark Code: WMJ3YB
Location: Pennsylvania, United States
Date Posted: 09/19/2013
Views: 4
Thomas Holme was William Penn's surveyor & laid out Philadelphia. He founded Holmesburg & nearby Harrisburg. He lays here in the Crispin Holme family plot.
A very old cemetery in very nice park. Lots of nearby history including 2 Pa. Historic Markers.
Greenbelt Knoll is "Eighteen (originally nineteen) one-story single-family homes are arranged in a heavily wooded cul de sac on Longford Street off Holme Avenue, surrounded on three sides by Pennypack Park. The simple wood-frame homes were designed in a Modernist style by the architectural firm of Montgomery & Bishop in consultation with architects Louis Kahn and Harry Duncan and landscape architect Margaret Lancaster Duncan.
Greenbelt Knoll won several awards for design excellence. For example, the American Institute of Architects, House and Home, Better Homes and Gardens, and the National Broadcasting Corporation bestowed its Homes for Better Living award on the development. Also, Philadelphia Mayor Richardson Dilworth, an ardent advocate of exceptional planning and design, conferred a City of Philadelphia Tribute on Montgomery & Bishop; he gave the tribute "for the design of Greenbelt Knoll Homes, which ... brought new standards of contemporary residential architecture to Philadelphia." " Wikipedia
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