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Philadelphia History Museum
The Philadelphia History Museum at the Atwater Kent〔 at 15 South 7th Street between Market and Ranstead Streets in Center City, Philadelphia was founded in 1938 to be Philadelphia's city history museum. The museum occupies architect John Haviland's landmark Greek Revival structure built in 1824-26 for the Franklin Institute. The Museum operates as a city agency as part of Philadelphia's Department of Recreation.〔
The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 1, 1979.〔〔
==Founding==
The museum was established through the efforts of Philadelphia Mayor S. Davis Wilson, Frances Wistar, president of the Philadelphia Society for the Preservation of Landmarks, and A. Atwater Kent, radio pioneer and inventor. In 1938 Wilson and Wistar approached Kent to purchase the Franklin Institute building, which the Institute had vacated in 1933,〔, p.36〕 and create a history museum for the City of Philadelphia. They were joined in their efforts by the president of the University of Pennsylvania, the director of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and the president of the Franklin Institute. Kent agreed, and purchased the building as a gift for the city with three conditions: It was to be dedicated to the history of Philadelphia; was to named for Kent; and be open to the public free of charge. (In 1994, a City Ordinance allowed the museum to charge an admission fee.)〔Atwater Kent Museum. ("AKMP History" ) (ccessed December 5, 2007〕
After three years of renovations carried out by the Works Progress Administration, the Atwater Kent Museum was formally dedicated on April 19, 1941.〔
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