Allegheny West: North Philadelphia's Gilded Age Corner
Allegheny West is a small neighborhood in North Philadelphia, bounded roughly by Allegheny Avenue to the north, Lehigh Avenue to the south, Broad Street to the east, and 22nd Street to the west. The area was settled in the nineteenth century and developed as a fashionable address during the late 1800s, with large stone and brick townhouses along Glenwood Avenue and 20th Street housing some of the city's wealthiest industrial families. John Wanamaker, founder of the department store, lived in the neighborhood for part of his life.
The character of Allegheny West changed dramatically through the twentieth century. Deindustrialization and demographic shifts reshaped the surrounding areas, and much of the original Gilded Age housing stock was lost or subdivided. The neighborhood became predominantly African-American in the mid-twentieth century. Since the 1980s, community development efforts have preserved several significant historic buildings and a number of original mansions still stand.
Allegheny Avenue functions as the main east-west corridor through the neighborhood, with the SEPTA Broad Street Line's Allegheny station sitting at Broad and Allegheny for direct subway access into Center City. Along the rail corridor, several older industrial buildings have been converted to residential and commercial use in recent years. The combination of rapid transit access and the surviving nineteenth-century housing stock west of Broad Street continues to shape the area's identity.
Coverage of Allegheny West on Escortservice.com is limited to catalog entries for escort websites serving the area. Escortservice.com is a directory. Bookings, verifications, and mediation fall outside what the site does. A 21+ age gate applies to all users of the site.
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Allegheny West is a small neighborhood in North Philadelphia, bounded roughly by Allegheny Avenue to the north, Lehigh Avenue to the south, Broad Street to the east, and 22nd Street to the west. The area was settled in the nineteenth century and developed as a fashionable address during the late 1800s, with large stone and brick townhouses along Glenwood Avenue and 20th Street housing some of the city's wealthiest industrial families. John Wanamaker, founder of the department store, lived in the neighborhood for part of his life.
The character of Allegheny West changed dramatically through the twentieth century. Deindustrialization and demographic shifts reshaped the surrounding areas, and much of the original Gilded Age housing stock was lost or subdivided. The neighborhood became predominantly African-American in the mid-twentieth century. Since the 1980s, community development efforts have preserved several significant historic buildings and a number of original mansions still stand.
Allegheny Avenue functions as the main east-west corridor through the neighborhood, with the SEPTA Broad Street Line's Allegheny station sitting at Broad and Allegheny for direct subway access into Center City. Along the rail corridor, several older industrial buildings have been converted to residential and commercial use in recent years. The combination of rapid transit access and the surviving nineteenth-century housing stock west of Broad Street continues to shape the area's identity.
Coverage of Allegheny West on Escortservice.com is limited to catalog entries for escort websites serving the area. Escortservice.com is a directory. Bookings, verifications, and mediation fall outside what the site does. A 21+ age gate applies to all users of the site.
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