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Fairmount Park is the largest municipal park in Philadelphia and the historic name for a group of parks located throughout the city. [4] [5] Fairmount Park consists of two park sections named East Park and West Park, divided by the Schuylkill River, with the two sections together totalling 2,052 acres (830 ha). [3]
Fairmount Park Conservancy – capital projects and historic preservation efforts; merged with the Preservation Trust in 2015; Fairmount Park Trail Master Plan – includes a summary of mansions and houses; Map of historic sites and buildings in Fairmount Park; The mansions of Fairmount Park – article at philly.com
Strawberry Mansion is a neighborhood in the U.S. city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, located east of Fairmount Park in North Philadelphia. The neighborhood is bounded by 33rd Street to the west, 29th Street to the east, Lehigh Avenue to the north, and Oxford Street to the south. As of the 2000 census, the neighborhood had a population of 22,562.
Fairmount Park, 33rd Street near Girard Avenue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Coordinates 39°58′33″N 75°11′18″W / 39.97583°N 75.18833°W / 39.97583; -75
Fairmount is a neighborhood within Lower North Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. [1] Its boundaries are north of Fairmount Avenue, west of Corinthian Avenue, south of Girard Avenue and east of The Schuylkill River. [2] [3] While this may be the most accurate demarcation, the area's boundaries fluctuate depending how the neighborhood is ...
Located in Fairmount Park, the bridge also spans Martin Luther King, Jr., Drive, and Kelly Drive. The name Philadelphia & Reading Railroad (P&R) was later shortened to Reading Company. The current bridge replaced an adjacent P&R bridge, built of wood.
Memorial Hall is a Beaux-Arts style building in the Centennial District of West Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.Built as the art gallery for the 1876 Centennial Exposition, it is the only major structure from that exhibition to survive.
Smith Memorial Playground & Playhouse is a free young children's playground near North 33rd Street and Oxford Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, within the borders of Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [1] Philadelphia magazine awarded it Best Playground of Philly in 2006 and 2008, calling it "a city treasure."