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Elfreth’s Alley, our nation’s oldest residential street, dates back to the first days of the eighteenth century.
What makes the street special is not just that it preserves 32 examples of Georgian and Federal architecture, but that it maintains working-class housing stock of colonial Philadelphia, as opposed to most residential historic preservation, which is focused on wealthier homes or neighborhoods.
According to Wikipedia, in the decade that gave birth to the United States one-third of the houses in the alley were headed by women. Were the men at war? Or living at the nearby Man Full of Trouble tavern?
Christian Carollo is a freelance photographer based in the suburbs of Philadelphia Pennsylvania. He has lived near Philadelphia his entire life and has a great appreciation for the culture, beauty, passion, and history the city has to offer.
