Elfreth's Alley, Philadelphia

                       




Elfreth's Alley — popularly known as "Our nation’s oldest residential street" – dates back to the first days of the eighteenth century. Twenty years after William Penn founded Pennsylvania and established Philadelphia as its capital, the town had grown into a thriving, prosperous mercantile center on the banks of the Delaware River.

Link: http://www.elfrethsalley.org/history
                                                       
                                                                   
                                                                 
Bladen's Court 3
                  
           
                Bladen’s Court is an alley within an alley and original provided access to the backs of several properties that faced Front Street.  Sometime between 1749 and 1753 the owners of the Front Street properties sectioned off a 9 foot path along the back of their lots and shared the cost of paving the small alley.

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Sometime between 1749 and 1753 the owners of the Front Street properties sectioned off a 9 foot path along the back of their lots and shared the cost of paving the small alley.  

Link: http://www.elfrethsalley.org/houses/bladens-court-3


             Elfreth's Alley Museum Shop


         Early American artisans and shopkeepers often lived and worked in the same structures. Families slept in the rooms on the second floors and third — or "garret" — level. The large rooms on their first floors housed busy shops, where passersby could glimpse shop goods inside the street-level windows.

Link: http://www.elfrethsalley.org/visiting/museum-shop