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Ryers, Philadelphia

Field	Value
name	Ryers
settlement_type	Neighborhood of Philadelphia
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name
subdivision_type1	State
subdivision_name1	Pennsylvania
subdivision_type2	County
subdivision_name2	Philadelphia
subdivision_type3	City
subdivision_name3	Philadelphia
mapsize	300px
pushpin_map	Philadelphia
coordinates
area_codes	215, 267 and 445

Ryers is a neighborhood in Northeast Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It is bounded by Cottman Avenue (PA 73) on the southwest and Fillmore Street on the northwest. Both of these highways separate Philadelphia from Cheltenham and Rockledge, Montgomery County.

The Fox Chase Line separates Ryers from Burholme and Fox Chase borders it via Hartel St. on the northeast. Ryers station is at Cottman and Rockwell Avenues.

History

The name Ryers was derived from the Ryerss Estate, which is located in Burholme Park along Central Avenue. The estate was owned by Joseph Waln Ryerss, who left it to his son Robert, a lawyer. Eight months before he died at the age of sixty-five, Robert Ryerss shocked Philadelphia society by marrying his housekeeper of many years, Mary Ann Reed. His will stipulated that upon Mary Ann’s death, the estate was to be turned over to the city of Philadelphia to be used as a park, library and museum "free to the public." Before she died, however, Mary Ann Ryerss remarried and then turned the property over to the city of Philadelphia in 1905. The Ryerss Museum and Library was opened to the public in 1910 under the administration of the Fairmount Park Commission. Who later left it to the Free Library of Philadelphia.

References

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