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12 unusual facts about Chestnut Hill


2009 Emerald Bowl

USC had won both games in the series, a 23–17 victory in Los Angeles in 1987 and a 34–7 win in Chestnut Hill in 1988.

Al Skinner

The half hour program was hosted by Ted Sarandis and was taped before a live audience at the Metropolitan Club in Chestnut Hill and aired each Thursday.

Boston College Eagles men's basketball

The Boston College Eagles are a Division I college basketball program that represents Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, United States.

Boston College–UMass football rivalry

After 22 years, the rivalry was renewed as UMass traveled to Chestnut Hill, MA to play Boston College once again.

Catherine Steiner-Adair

She has a private psychotherapy practice in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts where she works with adolescents, adults, couples, and families.

Eddie Pellagrini Diamond at John Shea Field

Eddie Pellagrini Diamond at John Shea Field is a baseball stadium in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.

Lonergan Institute

The Lonergan Institute is a center of research at Boston College (a private university in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts), specialising in the work of Canadian philosopher Bernard Lonergan.

Natasha Friend

Friend also served as director of the Brimmer and May Summer Camp in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.

Pearl Van Sciver

Pearl was born in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia in 1896, the only child of parents Arnold Aiman and Emma G. Rorer.

Robert P. Imbelli

Currently, Father Imbelli is an associate professor of Theology at Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.

Roberts Center

Roberts Center was a 4,400-seat multi-purpose arena in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.

Steve Krug

Steve Krug is an information architect and user experience professional based in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.


Alexander Lawton Mackall

Alexander Lawton Mackall (Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 23, 1888 — West New Brighton, Staten Island, New York, 1968) was an author, journalist and gastronomy expert and critic.

Chair of Death

The Chair of Death is a "cursed" two-hundred-year-old blue upholstered wing chair in the Blue Room of Baleroy Mansion in the Chestnut Hill section of Philadelphia.

Edmund Gilchrist

Architects G. W. & W. D. Hewitt designed more than 100 houses in the Chestnut Hill section of Philadelphia for developer Henry H. Houston in the 1880s and 1890s.

J. Presper Eckert

During elementary school, he was driven by chauffeur to William Penn Charter School, and in high school joined the Engineer's Club of Philadelphia and spent afternoons at the electronics laboratory of television inventor Philo Farnsworth in Chestnut Hill.

James Skillen

He received a Bachelor of Divinity from the Westminster Theological Seminary, Chestnut Hill, outside Philadelphia.

Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania

Lafayette Hill is located just west of Philadelphia's Chestnut Hill neighborhood, and south of Plymouth Meeting.

Sophie Drinker

Sophie Lewis Drinker (born Sophie Lewis Hutchinson, 24 August 1888 in Haverford, Pennsylvania, died 6 September 1967 in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia) was an American amateur musician and musicologist.

Ten Mile Loop

From here, it would head northeast through Montgomery County, bypassing the Chestnut Hill section of Philadelphia to the northwest.