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We start off in Manayunk, where plenty of historic streets line the neighborhood along the Schuylkill River. Gates is a dead end, red brick street that’s sandwiched by a city parking lot and a residential building. It’s not to be confused with the nearby 300 block of Gates Street, which is a tad more picturesque and lined with yellow brick.

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Just off Manayunk’s Main Street, you’ll find the historic Ring Street hiding between a restaurant and a nail salon. The 0.02-mile street is lined with granite block.

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This historic block of a street is lined with charming two-story rowhomes and ends right on the edge of Boon Park. According to public records, the street was opened and paved with red brick in 1924.

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In Francisville, you’ll find this short granite block street set between a row of homes and a small triangular park.

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From this tiny granite block street in Logan Square, one has a perfect view of the 32-story Alexander rising across the street. Otherwise, Pearl Street simply functions as an alley behind Hahnemann University Hospital.

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Just a couple of blocks from the restaurant hub of East Passyunk Avenue is S. Darien Street, another dead end street that’s lined with buildings covered in colorful murals. The 0.03-mile stretch is paved with orange brick.

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Society Hill is filled with plenty of historic streets, but the 200 block of S. Randolph Street is one of the shortest. Paved with granite block, S. Randolph Street dead ends with St. James Place and is lined with the low-rise St. James Court homes.

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The 300 block of S. Reese Street in Society Hill has undergone a number of cosmetic changes over its history, but today it features red and yellow brick and granite block. It meets up with the stately Delancey Street on one end and the equally picturesque Cypress Street—also lined with granite block—on the other.

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Also in Society Hill is this short street paved with red brick. You can enter this dead end street via Locust. The short walk will take you past brick rowhomes and a couple of carriage houses and garages.

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Perhaps the most-visited street on this list, N. American Street juts up against the historic Christ Church in Old City. The granite block street also meets up with Cuthbert Street. It’s easy to imagine the country’s founding fathers walking up and down this thoroughfare on their way to church.

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Also in Old City is N. Bread Street, which was repaved with granite block in 1916. Today, it’s lined with large brick warehouses-turned-condos and apartments, and meets up with the Ben Franklin Bridge.

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Romain Street in Frankford rounds out this list of the shortest historic streets in Philly. It’s not known what the street was originally paved with, but today it’s lined with red brick.