What is PhilaPlace?

PhilaPlace is a Web site that connects stories to places across time in specific Philadelphia neighborhoods. PhilaPlace invites individuals and community partners to experience and share memories through interactive mapping to contribute to an enduring record of Philadelphia’s history and culture.

PhilaPlace will launch in October 2009 with:

Stories and memories
Audio and video
Photographs
Primary documents
Historical and GIS maps
Neighborhood timelines
K-12 lessons

PhilaPlace

• uses the lens of place to chronicle history and culture
• uses the lens of place to chronicle the built environment
• links stories and memories to places in the landscape
• uses historical and contemporary images to link the past to the present
• uses historical documents and maps to show change over time
• uses maps to layer stories

PhilaPlace is more than a Web site. We also sponsor...

• Neighborhood events
• Trolley tours
• Printed neighborhood guides
• Teacher Workshops

PhilaPlace is a collaborative project of The Historical Society of Pennsylvania with:

City of Philadelphia Department of Records

University of Pennsylvania School of Design

other institutional and community partners

and

YOU to tell and share your stories of the neighborhoods

We hope you will share in the vision of PhilaPlace!

Click here to learn more

or contact

Joan Saverino, project director at jsaverino@hsp.org or 215.732-6200, ext. 246

Melissa Mandell, project coordinator at mmandell@hsp.org or 215-732-6200, ext. 227

PhilaPlace has been made possible by generous support from:

The Connelly Foundation

The Pew Center for Arts and Heritage, through the Heritage Philadelphia Program

Jointly by the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the National Endowment for the Humanities

The Pennsylvania Department of Education

The Pennsylvania Humanities Council, the Federal-State Partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities

The Samuel S. Fels Fund

Southwest Airlines

The Walter J. Miller Foundation