Spring Garden is a neighborhood in central Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, bordering Center City on the north.

The neighborhood is composed mostly of brick and brownstone three-story townhouses built during the mid-to-late 19th century.

The houses include townhouses in the Italianate style, Second Empire, Queen Anne, and Venetian Gothic.

[2] The residential areas to the south are dominated by taller, multi-family buildings built during the 20th century.

Finkel[6] defines Spring Garden as "North of Benjamin Franklin Parkway to Fairmount Avenue, Broad Street to Schuylkill River."

[citation needed] The Spring Garden Civic Association limits its purview to only the northern half of the above definition, as "between Spring Garden Street and Fairmount Avenue and between Broad Street and Pennsylvania Avenue/Fairmount Park.

The neighborhood's main arterial road is Spring Garden Street, running east to west.

[citation needed] Spring Garden is within the 19130 ZIP Code, which also includes Fairmount and Francisville.

[9] The racial composition of Spring Garden was 60% white, 30% African American, 3% Asian, and 7% Hispanic.

[2][12] It was originally part of a manor (named Spingettsbury Farm) established by William Penn.

[2] In the early 1800s, the estates were subdivided, and from 1850 to 1876, housing was developed in alignment with the city grid that had originally been established by William Penn.

On March 21, 1827, the district was enlarged by adding; that part of Penn Township beginning at the middle of Sixth Street to a point 210 feet north of the north side of Poplar Lane; thence northwest, parallel to the lane, at a distance of 200 feet from the latter, to the middle of Broad Street; thence parallel with Vine Street to the Schuylkill River.

At the time of consolidation the area of the district was estimated to be 1100 acres (4.5 km2).The former diagonal street York Avenue, a short section of which survives in Center City, formerly ran from Spring Garden to Fifth Street near Market Street and during the mid 19th century served as a major commuter route for residents of the Spring Garden District who worked in what was then the central business district of Philadelphia.

[17] Generally, the southern part of Spring Garden (the portion in the 8th Ward) is in the 182d State House District.

[21] The Civic Association performs neighborhood maintenance services, such as occasional street sweeping and tree planting.

The Philadelphia and Reading right-of-way, cut down below street level, is abandoned to woods in one portion and serves as parking in another.

[27] The 33 returns, running west along John F. Kennedy Boulevard and north through the Spring Garden neighborhood on 20th Street.

[28] The 2 bus route returns north from South Philadelphia, through Center City, on 16th Street.

Northbound, the 48 travels through the neighborhood on 22nd, crossing Spring Garden Street and Fairmount Avenue.

Eastbound, the bus takes Spring Garden to Front Street and Delaware Avenue (near the Festival Pier).

[38] For boys, the Roman Catholic High School is just outside the neighborhood, on the east side of Broad Street.

[39] Spring Garden is also the home of the St. Francis Xavier School, a Catholic lower- and middle-school.