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Neighborhood Park Maps, Plans and Drawings Collection
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Held at: Fairmount Park Historic Resource Archives [Contact Us]1515 Arch Street, 10th Floor, Philadelphia, PA
This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Fairmount Park Historic Resource Archives. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.
Overview and metadata sections
Of the 70+ parks within the Fairmount Park system, there is a disparate amount of material available in this collection. Major watershed parks (such as Fairmount Park and Wissahickon Park) are not covered in this collection, nor are significant indepedent parks such as FDR Park and Bartram's Garden. This collection is concentrated on neighborhood parks, particularly smaller parks and squares.
Some parks are undocumented, or have only one or two related items, while other parks have a wealth of material available. The collection is particularly strong in material related to Awbury Park. Burholme Park, Fernhill Park, Franklin Square, Eastwick Park, Hunting Park, Pastorius Park, Penn Treaty Park, and Washington Square. Specific areas of note include Awbury Arboretum, the Burholme Mansion, Logan House, and the Rittenhouse Square Guard House. Also included are documents relating to Roosevelt Boulevard and the Vine Street Expressway, as they are under the jurisdication of the Fairmount Park Commission.
Within the collection are variety of materials, roughly 99% of which are maps, drawings, or plans. There is a very limited number of correspondence directly relating to materials which have been arranged accordingly to preserve their relationship. The documents are largely printed on paper, mylar or linen, and range from pencil sketches to blueprints and bluelines. Size varies from legal-sized documents to large, oversized items.
This collection has been arranged into ten series, which divide the collection alphabetically by park or group of parks within the Fairmount Park system. These series have been further subdivided into files, continuing the alphabetical order. Parks which are particularly well-documented have their own folder or folders within a series, which may slightly affect alphabetical groupings. Additionally, certain parks are commonly paired with nearby park neighbors. In these cases- Delaware Avenue area parks, Fluehr Park and Eden Hall, Harpers Hollow and Kemble Park, and Wakefield Park and Wister Woods- priority has been given to their relationships over alphabetical order.
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Subject
- Rittenhouse Square (Philadelphia, Pa.)--Maps, Pictorial
- Washington Square (Philadelphia, Pa.)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Pictorial works
Place
- Awbury Arboretum (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Awbury Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Bainbridge Green (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Bradford Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Burholme Mansion
- Burholme Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Cloverly Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Delaware Avenue
- Eden Hall (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Fernhill Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Fisher Park
- Fluehr Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Foglietta Plaza
- Fox Chase Recreation Center (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Franklin Square (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Germany Hill (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Girard Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Harpers Hollow
- Hunting Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- I-95 Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- John F. Byrne Golf Course
- Kemble Park
- Krewstown Stables (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- La Noce Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- League Island Park
- Logan House (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Loudon Mansion (Philadelphia, Pa.0
- Loudoun Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Marconi Plaza (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Palmer Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Pastorius Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Penn Treaty Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Penn's Landing
- Poquessing Creek Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Pulaski Park
- Rittenhouse Square Guard House
- Roosevelt Boulevard (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Vine Street Expressway
- Wakefield Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Winston Park
- Wister's Woods Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Woodford Pines
- Franklin Square
- Publisher
- Fairmount Park Historic Resource Archives
- Finding Aid Author
- Finding aid prepared by Caity Tingo
- Finding Aid Date
- 10/1/2012
- Access Restrictions
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This collection is open for research.
- Use Restrictions
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Copyright restrictions may apply. Please contact the Archives with requests for copying and for authorization to publish, quote or reproduce the material.
Collection Inventory
The paper version of this document is available in Drawer N6.2, labeled under the same name.
The blueprint version of this document is available in Drawer N6.1, labeled under the same name.