Helpful Hints for Tourists to the Philadelphia Area

• Philadelphia and Its Countryside - Official Visitor Site for Greater Philadelphia
• Philadelphia Convention and Visitors Bureau
• Philadelphia Museum of Art - a few hundred yards from Boathouse Row
• Fairmount Water Works - just downstream of Boathouse Row
• Calderwood Gallery - Calderwood Gallery specializes in French Art Deco furniture, French Art Nouveau furniture, fine 20th Century objects, vintage photography and Glamour Age Hollywood photography. Calderwood's inventory is the most extensive anywhere - more than 800 pieces of furniture - by the designers whose names are the very hallmarks of high-style furniture from the first half of the 20th Century.
• Edgar Allen Poe National Historical Site
• Independence National Historical Park
• Bartram's Garden
• SEPTA - Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority
• Amtrak
• More Philly links - museums and libraries, Schuylkill River, Fairmount, and other miscellaneous local sites