Mint House Philadelphia – Queen Village

Philadelphia – Queen Village

As Philadelphia’s first residential neighborhood, Queen Village has lived many lives in its nearly 400-year history. From its early days as part of “New Sweden,” to being the center of Philadelphia’s free black community in the 18th and mid-19th centuries, to a bustling industrial age centered around the textile, iron and ship building industries followed by a century of decline and urban renewal, you can find remnants of the neighborhood’s past on every street.