Friends Select School
Clock at Friends School
That part nearest 16th Street houses offices. The 17th Street side is occupied by the Friends Select School (founded 1689). At one time the entire block between 16th and 17th, the Parkway and Race Street, was occupied by the school and its grounds. Just inside the door of the school stands a grandfather's clock made by John Child of Philadelphia. A brass plate on the clock tells us that the school first came into possession of it in 1839. For many years it had belonged to the Friends School at 4th and Chestnut Street and was used in regulating the clock in the tower of Independence Hall.
Benjamin Franklin Parkway
- Welcome to The Benjamin Franklin Parkway Tour
- LOVE Park
- Henry Moore Sculpture
- Prophet
- Friends Select School
- Statue of Copernicus
- Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul
- Parkway Sculptures
- Swann Fountain (Logan Circle)
- Free Library of Philadelphia
- Raemisch Sculptures
- Rodin Museum
- Eakins Oval
- Museum of Art
- Franklin Institute
- St. Clement's Episcopal Church
- Academy of Natural Sciences
- Mace's Crossing
- Sculpture to the Martyrs
- Thaddeus Kosciuszko
