Mount Airy, Philadelphia
On the west side is the Wissahickon Gorge, which is also part of Fairmount Park, beyond which lies Roxborough and Manayunk.[2] The special relationship linking the two has its roots in the time before the Act of Consolidation, when Germantown was a borough separate from the City of Philadelphia, and its rural environs were what is now Mount Airy.[5] It was a section of the township that was allotted to a group of original Germantown settlers who acquired rights to land either directly or indirectly from William Penn.The name is derived from a town known today as Kriegsheim in the Palatine in Germany which was the hometown of a few German Quaker families who had settled in Germantown in the 1680s.Throughout much of the 18th century, this area of Germantown Township was known in the land and tax records as simply Cresheim or Cresham.An account published in 1770 states that the area received its name as a result of its first resident's begging for money to build his house, which later became the home of the Germantown Church of the Brethren.The name for this area disappeared by the late 19th century, and it was sometimes called Pelham, Germantown, or Mount Airy.Much of modern Mount Airy was developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, spreading out from Germantown Avenue and two railroad lines.Large three-story, gray-stone Victorian, colonial revival, and Norman and Cotswold-style houses and mansions, with stained glass windows and slate roofs, are situated on many of the area's tree-lined streets.[8][9] Mount Airy residents organized to resist blockbusting, panic selling, and redlining, especially during the period from the late 1950s to the early 1970s when those practices were prevalent.[21] The Sedgwick Theater, notable for its art deco style, has been a cultural center in the past, and now houses the Quintessence Theatre Group.
Mount AiryNeighborhood of PhiladelphiaDaniel Billmeyer HousePennsylvaniaPhiladelphia CountyPhiladelphiaArea code(s)215, 267, and 445neighborhoodNorthwest PhiladelphiaU.S. stateCresheim ValleyFairmount ParkChestnut HillWissahickon GorgeRoxboroughManayunkGermantownCedarbrookWest Oak LaneZIP CodesGerman TownshipBattle of GermantownAct of ConsolidationWilliam AllenProvince of PennsylvaniaBeggarstownGermantown TownshipChurch of the BrethrenGermantown Avenuecivil rightsintegratedblockbustingpanic sellingredliningOprah WinfreyO magazineU.S. News & World ReportSchool District of PhiladelphiaRoxborough High SchoolGermantown High SchoolMartin Luther King High SchoolGermantown Friends SchoolWilliam Penn Charter SchoolGreene Street Friends SchoolPennsylvania School for the DeafArcadia UniversityChestnut Hill CollegeLa Salle UniversityLutheran Theological Seminary at PhiladelphiaThomas Jefferson UniversitySaint Joseph's UniversityFree Library of PhiladelphiaMount Airy stationChestnut Hill East LineNational Register of Historic PlacesSEPTA Regional RailCenter CityChestnut Hill West LineCarpenterAllen LaneSedgwickStentonSedgwick TheaterArt DecoThe New York TimesCNNMoneySam KatzGermantown Jewish CentreChabadHare Krishnagastropubfarmers' marketsWeavers Way Co-opco-op grocery storeSadie Tanner Mossell AlexanderUniversity of PennsylvaniaTruman administrationMark BaltinNew York UniversityEric BazilianChiddy BangJesse BiddleSandra BoyntonDan BricklinDavid L. CohenComcastEd RendellLinda CreedThom BellCharles DarrowMonopolyJoel FaglianoEmma GarrettElizabeth Shippen GreenJohn Wesley HardingA. Leon Higginbotham Jr.Amy IgnatowThe Popularity PapersKhan JamalMat JohnsonJack JonesConnie MackJohn McWhorterViolet OakleyEric OwensHolly Robinson PeeteSaul PerlmutterLouis H. PollakYale Law SchoolUniversity of Pennsylvania Law SchoolKurt RosenwinkelBob SagetSantigoldZalman Schachter-ShalomiDenise Scott BrownJessie Willcox SmithBrianna TaylorHoward Martin TeminNobel PrizePaul F. TompkinsC. Delores TuckerRobert VenturiKurt VileGrover Washington Jr.Evangelical Lutheran Church in America