Delancey Place

2008–2010 Delancey Place) who played a central role in developing the most important collections of rare books in the United States, as well as presidents and CEOs of some of the largest companies in the city and country.

[2][3] Philadelphia expanded into the rural areas west of Broad Street during the nineteenth century, and especially during the middle decades (~1840–1870).

After a short pause in construction for several years, the rest of the 2000 block was completed by circa 1870 [17][18][19][20] and included some red brick houses, especially on the north side, with brownstone trim and bracketed window hoods, thus mixing Federal and Second Empire (Victorian) styles.

Several houses were faced in all white marble, including 2019 Delancey which was owned by Nobel Laureate Pearl S. Buck in the 1950s and 1960s.

Houses in the 2100 block, initially called ‘Walter Street’, were built during 1859–1865, starting with the north side.

The 2200 block was a large railroad yard with stables as late as 1875,[23] but was soon thereafter (circa 1879) developed by William Weightman.

[29] Each block has two styles of houses built at the same time and arranged in a symmetrical pattern down the block: one with a red brick facade lacking street-side bay windows and the other with a brownstone facade having stone-framed bay windows (engraved with ornamentation above).

[8] Although the Philadelphia city government recognizes "Delancey Place" on their official street map,[33] as does Google Maps, other businesses and agencies do not, including the United States Postal Service and major real-estate web-listing companies such as Zillow, Trulia, and Redfin, which still use ‘Delancey Street’ instead of ‘Delancey Place’, or a hybrid of the two names for the blocks between Seventeenth Street and Twenty-sixth Street Scenes from at least six movies and a television show were filmed on Delancey Place and all on the 2000 block, which is Philadelphia’s ‘most filmed residential block’.

In one scene, the Rolls-Royce carrying Billy Rae drives down the street, depicting the federal architecture (as seen from above) and pulls in front of the house.

In The Sixth Sense (1999), Bruce Willis plays a child psychologist, Malcolm Crowe, who was shot in his house, 2006 Delancey Place, by a former patient.

In one scene, Malcolm stands in front of the old, federal houses with arched doorways on the street, at night.

How Do You Know (2010) is a love triangle comedy that includes scenes filmed at Rittenhouse Square and on the 2000 block of Delancey Place,[3] although the exact location is not obvious.

The Best and the Brightest (2010), starring Neil Patrick Harris and Bonnie Somerville, is about a young couple’s efforts to place their daughter in an elite school.

Jimmy Smits’s character in the television show Outlaw (2010), a Supreme Court justice, lived at 2036 Delancey, which appears in the pilot episode.