Rosemont is a neighborhood in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania on the Philadelphia Main Line. It is located in Lower Merion Township, Montgomery County. It is best known as the home of Rosemont College.
Rosemont, Pennsylvania | |
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Coordinates: 40°01′24″N 75°19′51″W | |
Country | United States |
State | Pennsylvania |
Counties | Montgomery |
Townships | Lower Merion |
Elevation | 341 ft (104 m) |
Time zone | UTC-5 (EST) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC-4 (EDT) |
ZIP Code | 19010 |
Area code | 610 |
Rosemont is served by its own stops on both the Paoli/Thorndale Line of SEPTA Regional Rail and the Norristown High Speed Line.
The community of Garrett Hill is in Radnor Township and in the Rosemont section.
The Joseph Sinnott Mansion was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.[1]
The neighborhood of "Beaupre" in Rosemont was once the 200-acre estate of the same name, built for Alexander Cassatt's son, Robert. The original mansion now is part of The Mansion at Rosemont, a highly rated Life Plan Community that is part of the non-profit organization Human Good.The original French iron gates flank entrances from Conestoga Road and South Ithan Avenue.
Pupils living in the Radnor Township portion of Rosemont attend schools in Radnor Township School District, while students in the Lower Merion Township portion attend schools in the Lower Merion School District.
Until 1980, the Radnor Township, Delaware County portion of the community was served by Rosemont Elementary School, located in the Garret Hill neighborhood of the town. The Rosemont Business Campus now stands on the former elementary school site. Children in these neighborhoods are now bused to the Radnor Elementary School.
Holy Child School at Rosemont (formerly Rosemont School of the Holy Child), located in Rosemont and in Lower Merion Township, is neither affiliated with nor governed by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia. The school is adjacent to Rosemont College.
The Agnes Irwin School is located on Ithan Avenue in Rosemont. It is an all-girl, non-sectarian, day school for PreK-Grade 12 founded by Miss Agnes Irwin and her sister Sofie.
The Roman Catholic Saint Thomas of Villanova Parish run by the Augustinian Order also ran a parochial school, which closed in the 1980s, adjacent to their Rosemont chapel and serving the Rosemont community.
Rosemont College is in Rosemont on Montgomery Avenue at Curwen Road.
Rosemont is home to the following parks:
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Footnotes | ‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent township or townships *The census-designated place is entirely in Lower Merion Township, but there are adjacent areas not in the CDP, with "Bryn Mawr, PA" postal addresses, in adjacent townships |
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This list is incomplete. * There are areas with Bryn Mawr postal addresses, but the Bryn Mawr census-designated place does not extend into the township. Armenian Sisters Academy has a "Radnor, PA" postal address but is in Upper Merion Township |
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