11 Facts About Merion Pennsylvania

Merion Pennsylvania Station is known for its grand mansions and for the wealth of its residents.

Merion Pennsylvania Station is contiguous to the Overbrook and Overbrook Park neighborhoods of Philadelphia and is bordered by Lower Merion Pennsylvania Township's unincorporated communities of Wynnewood and Bala Cynwyd, and the borough of Narberth.

Merion Pennsylvania Meeting House was built at the present intersection of Montgomery Avenue and Meetinghouse Lane in 1695 by Welsh settlers.

General Wayne Inn and Merion Pennsylvania Friends Meeting House are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The Merion Pennsylvania Friends Meeting House is a National Historic Landmark.

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Institution for which Merion Station was singularly world-renowned was the Barnes Foundation, an important art collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings amassed by drug entrepreneur Albert C Barnes that since the 1920s had been housed in a granite mansion with gardens on Latches Lane.

The Barnes Foundation Merion Pennsylvania grounds remain open to the public as the Arboretum at the Barnes Foundation.

Merion Pennsylvania Station has a comparatively large Jewish population and serves as home to Temple Adath Israel of the Main Line, a Conservative Jewish congregation.

Reform Jews in Merion Pennsylvania are likely to travel a mile west up Montgomery Avenue to Main Line Reform Temple-Beth Elohim, to Gladwyne's Beth David Congregation, or to Congregation Rodeph Shalom on North Broad Street in Center City.

Main commercial area of Merion Pennsylvania Station is located along Montgomery Avenue east and west of its intersection with Old Lancaster Road and extends into neighboring Bala Cynwyd, officially known as the Merion Pennsylvania-Cynwyd Commercial District.

Merion Pennsylvania Station is served by Lankenau Medical Center which is part of the larger Main Line Health Systemwhich includes Bryn Mawr Hospital and Paoli Hospital.