Elkins Park, Pennsylvania

Elkins Park, Pennsylvania
Ogontz, Shoemakertown
Unincorporated community
Beth Sholom Synagogue
Country	United States
State	Pennsylvania
County	Montgomery
Townships	Abington, Cheltenham
Elevation	157 ft (47.9 m)
Coordinates	40°04′37″N 75°07′37″W
Timezone	EST (UTC-5)
- summer (DST)	EDT (UTC-4)
Area code	215
Location of Elkins Park in Pennsylvania
Location of Pennsylvania in the United States

Elkins Park is an unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is split between Cheltenham and Abington Townships in the suburbs of Philadelphia, roughly 9 miles (14 km) from Center City, Philadelphia.

Points of interest

• Beth Sholom Synagogue, the only synagogue designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
• Lynnewood Hall, a 110-room, derelict Gilded Age mansion is in Elkins Park.
• Elkins Estate
• Richard Wall House, a house is listed on State and National Registers of Historic Places and had the distinction of being the oldest Pennsylvania house in continuous residence until rehabilitation work began.
• High School Park, an 11-acre park with four distinct ecosystems, was the original grounds of Cheltenham High School and became a township park in 1996 after the building burned down.

Schools

• Cedarbrook Middle School
• Cheltenham Elementary School
• Glenside Elementary School
• Wyncote Elementary School
• Elkins Park Middle School
• McKinley Elementary School
• Myers Elementary School
• Lynnwood Elementary School (now closed and converted into an Administrative Building). Served as an elementary school from February 1951 through ??.
• Pennsylvania College of Optometry
• Perelman Jewish Day School
• Robert Saligman Middle School
• Settlement Music School
• St. James Catholic School (shut down)
• Gratz College
• Salus University
• The former campus of the Tyler School of Art, the art school of Temple University

Transportation

Public Transportation

Elkins Park is served by SEPTA Regional Rail trains on the Warminster Line, West Trenton Line and Lansdale/Doylestown Line at the Elkins Park station. The Jenkintown, Melrose Park, and Ryers stations are also located close to the neighborhood of Elkins Park, and are served by the same regional rail lines (with the exception of Ryers, which is served by the Fox Chase Line).

SEPTA bus routes 28, 55, 70 and 77 also provide service to Elkins Park.

Road

Toward the western end of Elkins Park is Pennsylvania Route 611 (Old York Road). In Elkins Park, Pennsylvania Route 73 runs along Township Line Road, mostly marking the border between Cheltenham and Abington townships.

Prominent current or former residents

• Bill Cosby (comedian)
• Douglas Feith (former Under-Secretary of Defense)
• Marvin Harrison (NFL wide-receiver for the Indianapolis Colts)
• Mark Levin (radio talk show host)
• Edgar Lee Masters (poet—spent his final years in Elkins Park)
• Benjamin Netanyahu (Prime Minister of Israel)
• Yonatan Netanyahu (Famous Israeli War Hero)
• Ralph J. Roberts (co-founder of Comcast, father of current Comcast CEO, Brian Roberts)
• Jeffrey Solow (American virtuoso cellist)
• Peter A. B. Widener (head of a wealthy and historically prominent family)
• Harry Elkins Widener (grandson of Peter A. B. Widener and namesake of Widener Library at Harvard University, born in Elkins Park and died on the Titanic)

External links

• Abington Township Website
• Cheltenham Township Website
• School District of Abington Township Website
• School District of Cheltenham Township Website
• Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority Official Website