Elfreth's Alley Free Cellphone Tours

Explore three hundred years of history with the Elfreth's Alley's cell phone tour. Because Elfreth's Alley tells a variety of stories, we offer several themed tours:

• Walk in the footsteps of Philadelphia's "best craftsmen," eighteenth-century cabinetmaker Daniel Trotter, in "Elfreth's Alley in the Eighteenth-Century: A Community of Artisans."
• Hear about Elfreth's Alley's famed mantuamakers in "Women and Community in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia," a women's history tour that discusses the everyday lives of Alley residents.
• Learn about the experiences of the nineteenth-century Irish, German, and Eastern European immigrants who settled along the Alley and worked in the neighborhood's factories in "Elfreth's Alley in the Nineteenth Century: A Community of Immigrants."
• Find out why Elfreth's Alley is Philadelphia's only intact eighteenth-century streetscape with "The Preservation of Elfreth's Alley."
• While admiring the Alley's houses, listen to "The Architecture of Elfreth's Alley" and identify the changes that occurred along Elfreth's Alley from the 1720s through the 1830s.

Begin your tour by dialing 585-627-4152. At the prompt, enter an access code (listed below) for one of the tour themes or key in a three digit house number (visible on each house front door) to learn about a specific house. After each stop, you will be prompted to continue your tour and given a two-digit access code to proceed to the next stop.

Thematic Tour Access Codes
80 – Elfreth's Alley in the Eighteenth Century:" A Community of Artisans
70 – Elfreth's Alley in the Nineteenth Century: A Community of Immigrants
50 – Women and Community in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia
60 – The Architecture of Elfreth's Alley
90 – The Preservation of Elfreth's Alley

Elfreth's Alley's cellphone tour is provided by OnCell Systems, Inc. with the generous support of the Samuel S. Fels Fund and the Dolfinger-McMahon Foundation.