{{Use American English|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox settlement | background_color= <!--See Template:Infobox settlement for additional fields that may be available--> <!--See the Table at Infobox settlement for all fields and descriptions of usage--> <!-- Basic info ----------------> |image_skyline= |imagesize= |image_caption= |image_flag= |name=Ryers<!-- at least one of the first two fields must be filled in --> |settlement_type = [[List of Philadelphia neighborhoods|Neighborhood of Philadelphia]] <!--such as Town, Village, City, Borough etc.--> <!-- Location ------------------> |subdivision_type = Country |subdivision_name = {{USA}} |subdivision_type1 = State |subdivision_name1 = [[Pennsylvania]] |subdivision_type2 = County |subdivision_name2 = [[Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania|Philadelphia]] |subdivision_type3 = City |subdivision_name3 = [[Philadelphia]] <!-- General information ---------------> | mapsize = 300px | map_caption = | pushpin_map = Philadelphia | pushpin_label_position = | pushpin_map_caption = | pushpin_mapsize = | coordinates = {{Coord|40.064|-75.086|format=dms|display=title}} <!-- Area/postal codes & others --------> |postal_code_type= |postal_code= |area_codes=[[Area codes 215, 267, and 445|215, 267 and 445]] }} '''Ryers''' is a neighborhood in [[Northeast Philadelphia]], [[Pennsylvania]], United States. It is bounded by Cottman Avenue ([[Pennsylvania Route 73|PA 73]]) on the southwest and Fillmore Street on the northwest.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.phila.gov/phils/Docs/otherinfo/pname3.htm|title=Philadelphia Neighborhoods|website=www.phila.gov|access-date=22 April 2018}}</ref> Both of these highways separate Philadelphia from [[Cheltenham Township, Pennsylvania|Cheltenham]] and [[Rockledge, Pennsylvania|Rockledge]], [[Montgomery County, Pennsylvania|Montgomery County]].
The [[Fox Chase Line]] separates Ryers from [[Burholme]] and [[Fox Chase, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania|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.<ref>{{Cite web| title=Friends of Ryerss Museum and Library | url=http://www.ryerssmuseum.org/donation%20form.pdf | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081119082507/http://www.ryerssmuseum.org/donation%20form.pdf | archive-date=2008-11-19}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ryerssmuseum.org/history1.html|title=history1|website=ryerssmuseum.org|access-date=22 April 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://hiddencityphila.org/2013festival/2013prospectivesites/dossierryerss/|title=Hidden City Philadelphia - Dossier/Ryerss|website=hiddencityphila.org|access-date=22 April 2018}}</ref> Who later left it to the [[Free Library of Philadelphia]].
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{{Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania}}
[[Category:Neighborhoods in Philadelphia]] [[Category:Northeast Philadelphia]]