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Chestnut Hill

Metes and Bounds: Fairmount Park’s Cresheim Creek to the north; the Wissahickon Creek to the West; Northwestern Avenue on the north; Stenton Avenue to the east.

Chestnut Hill is a perfect place for those who want a more suburban living environment within the Philadelphia city limits just 20 minutes from Center City Philadelphia. Bordered on the north by Fairmount Park, the largest urban park in the U.S., Chestnut Hill is known for its impressive shopping and small downtown district that has something for everyone.

Apart from its unique shops and designer stores, Chestnut Hill also has a wide variety of eating establishments and things to see and do. Along its streets you’ll find bakeries, cafes’, markets, candy shops and ice cream parlors. On a lazy day you might choose to stroll through Pastorius Park or see a play at Stage Crafters. Chestnut Hill is also home to the Morris Arboretum, the official arboretum of the University of Pennsylvania. The arboretum features some of the city’s oldest, rarest and largest trees as well as 13,000 labeled plants from all over the world.

Chestnut Hill real estate includes quaint starter homes for first-time buyers as well as impressive stone estate homes built by some of Philadelphia’s wealthiest families in the 19th and 20th centuries. The average sale price in Chestnut Hill hovers around $400,000, the highest for any neighborhood within the Philadelphia city limits outside of Center City.

Access to Center City is available via mass transit buses and trains.

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