LOCATION FILE
Hill-Physick-Keith House
FOLLOWPhiladelphia, PA
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A Federal-style Society Hill mansion, home to Dr. Philip Syng Physick, the pioneering surgeon known as the "Father of American Surgery"; it is one of the few freestanding Federal townhouses remaining in the city.
REPORTED ACTIVITY
Reports center on a cloaked, weeping woman said to be Physick's estranged wife Elizabeth, along with an elderly housekeeper on the first floor and a thin man on the upper floor.
VISITING
Open to the public for tours through the Philadelphia Society for the Preservation of Landmarks.
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