&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:Cherry_Street_Philadelphia.jpg) Cherry Street in Chinatown with the Pennsylvania Convention Center in the back | |
| Maintained by | City of Philadelphia |
|---|---|
| Postal code | 19102, 19103, 1904 |
| North | Race Street |
| South | Arch Street |
| Construction | |
| Commissioned | 1682 |
Cherry Street is a minor east-west street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that runs parallel to Race Street to the north and Arch Street to the south. It was not one of William Penn's original gridded streets from the 1680s, and began as an alleyway, bridging from one numbered street to the next.[1] It is listed by name on the map in Birch's Views of Philadelphia (1800) – Race and Arch Streets are listed by their original names, "Sassafras" and "Mulberry." The earliest official use of the name Cherry Street was in 1809.[2]
- ^ Robert F. Looney, Old Philadelphia in Early Photographs, 1839–1913 (Courier, 2013).[1]
- ^ Alotta, Robert I. (1990). Mermaids, Monasteries, Cherokees, and Custer: The Stories Behind Philadelphia Street Names. Chicago, IL: Bonus Books, Inc. p. 52. ISBN 9780933893900.