Elfreth's Alley

Often called the oldest continuously inhabited residential street in the United States, this narrow cobblestone lane in Old City Philadelphia dates to the early eighteenth century. Lined with over thirty preserved brick row houses built between the 1720s and 1830s, it offers an intact picture of a colonial and federal-era working neighborhood once home to artisans and tradespeople. Two of the houses form a small museum interpreting the alley's history.