Marconi Plaza, Philadelphia the work. . The Plaza later served as the grand pre-entrance for the 1926 Sesquicentennial Exposition, leading visitors south along a tree lined Southern Boulevard Parkway (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) ( landscaped segment of South Broad Street) to the exhibition grounds that started at Packer Avenue and continued to League Island Park. This neighborhood twin park is mirrored on both sides of Broad Street and became property of the Fairmount Park system. It held the common name of Oregon Plaza until October 18, 1937 when it was officially named Marconi Plaza in honor of the Nobel Prize Laureate Guglielmo Marconi, the inventor
Enrico Marconi Council of State and where he became professor (1851-1858) at the Academy of Fine Arts. Enrico Marconi married a daughter of general Pac's gardener, Małgorzata () Heiton, who came from a Scottish family settled in Poland. One of their sons, Leandro Marconi, also became an architect. Enrico Marconi Enrico Marconi, known in Poland as Henryk Marconi (7 January 1792 in Rome – 21 February 1863 in Warsaw), was an Italian-Polish architect who spent most of his life in Congress Poland. Initially he was taught by his father Leander, later on, between 1806 and 1810, he studied both at the University