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Bartram's Garden 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
Items in this collection are from the historic Bartram's Garden site, a National Historic Landmark House and Garden. Established in 1728 by acclaimed botanist John Bartram, and later maintained by his naturalist son William Bartram, the collection covers both the gardens and the house and building complex.
This collection includes maps, plans and drawings of Bartram's Garden and the Bartram House and building complex, including the seed house and barns. Items are in a variety of formats, including paper, linen and blueprint, as well as a variety of sizes. The majority of items are from between the 1920s and the 1970s. While the types of maps included are diverse, the collection is particularly strong in landscape and planting plans of the gardens, and restoration plans for the Bartram House complex.
This collection is divided into two series- Bartram's Garden and the Bartram House complex. Each series has been subdivided in order to promote more efficient and effective searching. The Bartram's Garden series has been arranged according to type of map or plan, while the Bartram House Complex has been divided according to document usability.
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- Fairmount Park Historic Resource Archives
- Finding Aid Author
- Finding aid prepared by Caity Tingo
- Finding Aid Date
- 7/12/2002
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This collection is open for research.
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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
Bartram's Garden. Colored pencil sketch of building at Bartram's Garden., August 1950.
Bartram's Garden. Plan of Bartram's Garden at park line with gate and fence details., 2 December 1982.
Bartram's Garden. Plan of Bartram's Garden tennis courts and ball field., 27 May 1935.
Bartram's Garden. Historic Bartram's Garden, Fairmount Park Commission GIS Cultural Resource Inventory: Site plan; Harley Avenue site. [2 unique sheets; 2 sheets total], 3 December 1999.
Bartram's Garden. Topographic plan of Bartram Park, with physical details. [1 unique sheet; 5 sheets total] [various sizes and formats], 6 January 1947.
Bartram's Garden. Proposed location of playground, Bartram Park., n.d.
Bartram's Garden. Bartram Park showing cross-sections through tennis courts, etc. and details of paths and steps., 23 January 1917.
Bartram's Garden. Plan of the renovation and restoration of Bartram Park. [fragile], n.d.
Bartram's Garden. Proposed rock storage area., 8 December 1958.
Bartram's Garden. Plan of Bartram's botanical garden prior to 1777. [1 unique sheet; 5 sheets total], April 1926.
Bartram's Garden. Map of Bartram's Garden and surrounding area, with geographic details and dimensions. [fragile] [fragment], n.d.
Bartram's Garden. Plan of Bartram's Garden, with plant list. [1 unique sheet; 5 sheets total], September 1970.
Bartram's Garden. Plan of Bartram Garden, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with plant list and biography notes on John Bartram and William Bartram., January 1969.
Bartram's Garden. Plan of Bartram's Garden (east side of the Reading Railroad) with plot key. [fragile], c. 1936.
Bartram's Garden. Corrected plan of Bartram's Garden (east side of the Reading Railroad) with plot key. [1 unique sheet; 2 sheets total][fragile], 1 July 1936.
Bartram's Garden. Planting plan of Bartram's Garden annex (west side of the Reading Railroad). [1 unique sheet; 2 sheets total] [fragile], 7 April 1937.
Bartram's Garden. Restoration of walks at Bartram's Garden. [fragile], n.d.
Bartram's Garden. Landscape plan of Bartram's Garden with estate and physical details., n.d.
Bartram's Garden. Planting plan of Bartram's Garden (east side of the Reading Railroad), with update on missing plants. [1 unique sheet; 1 inset sheet; 2 sheets total], April 1954.
Bartram's Garden. Planting plan of Bartram's Garden (east side of the Reading Railroad). [fragile], 27 April 1937.
Batrtram's Garden. Planting plan of Bartram's Gardens (west side of Reading Railroad)., n.d.
Bartram's Garden. Plan of property made for Department of Public Property., 7 February 1980.
Bartram's Garden. Compilation of plan of the revisions of lines and grades upon a portion of City Plan no. 246 bounded by Woodland Avenue, 52nd Street, Schuylkill River, and 56th Street. [oversized], 19 July 1960.
Bartram's Garden. Plan showing proposed 10 feet wide right-of-way through land of the city of Philadelphia (Bartram Park) made for Colonial Pipeline Company., 1 July 1965.
Bartram's Garden. Plan to place on the City Plan Eastwick Lane from Lindbergh Boulevard to Harley Street, City Plan no. 246. [1 unique sheet; 2 sheets total], 7 July 1952.
Bartram's Garden. Proposed 10 inch colonial pipeline, longitudinal occupation of property of Pennyslvania Railroad Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1160-PX-33); proposed 10 inch colonial pipeline longitudinal occupation of property of Reading Railroad Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1160-PX-34) (1 copy). [2 unique sheets; 3 sheets total] [oversized], n.d.
Bartram's Garden. Proposed 10 inch colonial pipeline crossing Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. [1 unique sheet; 2 sheets total], 14 August 1963.
Bartram's Garden. Intercepting sewer in Bartram Park and railroad right-of-way between 56th Street (sta. 155 + 23.46) and 53rd Street (sta. 169 + 24.45). [1 unique sheet; 2 sheets total] [fragile], 18 February 1963.
Bartram's Garden: Sewer plan. Plan no. 16, approximately bounded by the intersections of 58th Street and Windsor Street; 35th Street and Morris Street, 61st Street and Eastwick Road, and 56th Street and Paschall Road., October 1960.
Bartram's Garden. Profile of strata along bulkhead line of the Schuylkill River between land of Sherwood Brothers, Incorporated and 51st Street., n.d.
Bartram House. John Bartram House roof renovations: Roof plan; roofing section. [2 unique sheets; 3 sheets total], 4 March 1975.
Bartram House complex. Bartram Park shelter, roof framing and roof plan., 25 May 1970.
Bartram House complex. Bartram's Garden: Site/roof plan, site details (SP); floor plans, reflected ceiling plans, partition types (A1); elevations (A2); sections (A3); large scale plans, stair details (A4); interior elevations (A5); window schedule, window details, door schedule (A6); room finish schedule, cabinetry details (A7). [8 unique sheets; 8 sheets total], 24 July 1989.
Bartram House. Survey drawings: First floor and basement plan (2); second floor plan (3); third floor plan (4); east elevation (5); west elevation (6); north and south elevations and sections (7). [6 unique sheets; 6 sheets total], 13 December 1965.
Bartram House complex. Bartram House and Barns survey drawings: Site plan (1); Bartram Barns buildings no. 1 and 2 first floor plan (2); Bartram Barns buildings no. 1 and 2 left elevation and right elevation (3); Bartram Barns buildings no. 1 and 2 rear elevation (4); Bartram Barns buildings no. 1 and 2 front elevation (5); Bartram Barns buildings no. 3 first floor plan (6); Bartram Barns buildings no. 3 front elevation (7); Bartram Barns buildings no. 4 first floor and loft floor (8); Bartram Barns buildings no. 4 elevation (9). [9 unique sheets; 9 sheets total] [various sizes], n.d.
Bartram House complex. Bartram House complex: Cover sheet; site plan, fireplace detail, plan and elevations of seed house (A1); cellar and first floor plan and schedules (A2); second and third floor plans and schedules (A3); east and west elevations, door and shutter details (A4); north and south elevations, cross section, window schedule and details (A5); second and third floor plans, site plan and details (ME2). [6 unique sheets; 6 sheets total], 29 January 1978.
Bartram House complex. Bartram House complex schematic phase drawings: Site plan, plan and elevations of seed house (SCH-1); cellar and first floor plan (SCH-2); second and third floor plan (SCH-3); east and west elevations (SCH-4); north and south elevations (SCH-5). [5 unique sheets; 5 sheets total], 15 August 1978.
Bartram House complex. Lavatories for Bartram's Garden, scheme "B". [fragile], n.d.
Bartram House. The Bartram House: Basement plan (1); first floor (2); second floor (3); third floor (4); east elevation (5); west elevation (6); north elevation section and south elevation (7). [7 unique sheets; 7 sheets total] [fragile], n.d.
Bartram House. The Bartram House, Philadelphia, restoration: First floor plan (9); second floor plan (10); third floor plan (11); southeast elevation (12); northwest elevation (13); northeast elevation section and southwest elevation (14). [6 unique sheets; 6 sheets total] [fragile], March 1921.
Bartram house complex. Caretaker's House, Bartram's Garden, porch detail. [fragile], 1 December 1947.
Conceptual pencil sketch of Bartram's Garden., n.d.