Garrett Hill is a community in Radnor Township, Pennsylvania approximately 10 miles northwest of Philadelphia. The geographic area is located in the portion of the Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania zip code that comprises Rosemont. The community is (roughly) bounded by Lancaster Avenue, Conestoga Road, Garrett Avenue and Lowrys Lane. It is located in the Main Line. Philadelphia is a village located in Jefferson County, New York. ... Bryn Mawr is located in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania and Delaware County, Pennsylvania, just west of Philadelphia, along U.S. Highway Route 30 (Lancaster Avenue). ... Mr. ... Rosemont is a community in Pennsylvania on the Pennsylvania Main Line lying partly in Radnor Township, Pennsylvania and partly in Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania. ... United States Highway 30 is an east-west United States highway that traverses the United States. ... For the historic canal, see Pennsylvania Main Line of Public Works. ...

The community is served by its own stop on the Norristown High Speed Line. The Norristown High Speed Line (NHSL), operated by the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority as Route 100 of the Suburban Transit Division, is a hybrid between light rail and rapid transit operating between Norristown Transportation Center and 69th Street Terminal, running entirely on its own right of way, inherited from the...

Garrett Hill is mainly a residential community, but also includes a small commercial area (near the intersection of Conestoga Road and Garrett Avenue) consisting of a few bars and other small businesses that serve the community and the student population of nearby Villanova University. Villanova University is a Roman Catholic university in Villanova, part of Radnor Township, Pennsylvania, a suburb northwest of Philadelphia. ...

One of Garrett Hill's traditions is an annual community Fourth of July parade, followed by a free picnic with live music and other entertainment in Clem Macrone Park. These fireworks over the Washington Monument are typical of Fourth of July celebrations This page is about the American holiday. ...

Garrett Hill's housing stock consists largely of 19th century and early 20th century buildings, including Victorian single-family homes and twins, and brick rowhouses. The term Victorian architecture can refer to one of a number of architectural styles during the Victorian era: Neoclassicism Gothic Revival Italianate Second Empire Neo-Grec Romanesque Revival (Includes Richardsonian Revival) Renaissance Revival Queen Anne Jacobethan architecture (the precusor to the Queen Anne style) British Arts and Crafts movement painted... A street of British terraced housing In architecture and city planning, a terrace, rowhouse, or townhouse (United States) is a style of housing since the late 18th century where identical individual houses are cojoined into rows. ...

History

Originally called Garretville, the community originally consisted of residences of workers at a nearby stone quarry and at a brickyard (now both disappeared).