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Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 43 Collections and/or Records:

Fairmount Park: Penn's Green Country Town: Fairmount Park Study, 1972 November

 Item — Shelf 16
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection contains technical reports, studies, and project documentation related to Fairmount Park system properties and Philadelphia recreation facilities. Materials include historic structure reports, cultural landscape inventories, archaeological investigations, preservation and conservation evaluations, building condition assessments, master plans, environmental site assessments, engineering reports, project manuals and specifications, feasibility studies, maintenance and operation...
Dates: 1972 November

Fairmount Park System: History - essays by Halperin, Martha (1 of 2), 1983-2001

 File — Drawer 6-5
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The History Files collection contains research materials documenting parks, sites, structures, organizations, events, and individuals associated with the Fairmount Park System and Philadelphia Parks and Recreation. This collection compiles materials from diverse sources over time rather than representing the records of a single office or individual. Typical materials include correspondence, deeds, leases, newspaper clippings, photocopies of published articles and book excerpts, research...
Dates: 1983-2001

Fairmount Park: Technical Elements of the Fairmount Park Master Plan (binder) [SEE NOTES--some chapters are unique from "spiral bound" copy], 1983 December

 Item — Shelf 16
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection contains technical reports, studies, and project documentation related to Fairmount Park system properties and Philadelphia recreation facilities. Materials include historic structure reports, cultural landscape inventories, archaeological investigations, preservation and conservation evaluations, building condition assessments, master plans, environmental site assessments, engineering reports, project manuals and specifications, feasibility studies, maintenance and operation...
Dates: 1983 December

Fairmount Park: Technical Elements of the Fairmount Park Master Plan (spiral bound) [SEE NOTES--some chapters are unique from "binder" copy], 1983 December

 Item — Shelf 16
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection contains technical reports, studies, and project documentation related to Fairmount Park system properties and Philadelphia recreation facilities. Materials include historic structure reports, cultural landscape inventories, archaeological investigations, preservation and conservation evaluations, building condition assessments, master plans, environmental site assessments, engineering reports, project manuals and specifications, feasibility studies, maintenance and operation...
Dates: 1983 December

Fairmount Park: The New Fairmount Park, 2014 May

 Item — Shelf 16
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection contains technical reports, studies, and project documentation related to Fairmount Park system properties and Philadelphia recreation facilities. Materials include historic structure reports, cultural landscape inventories, archaeological investigations, preservation and conservation evaluations, building condition assessments, master plans, environmental site assessments, engineering reports, project manuals and specifications, feasibility studies, maintenance and operation...
Dates: 2014 May

Fairmount Park: The Park in the Region, c. 1980

 Item — Shelf 16
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection contains technical reports, studies, and project documentation related to Fairmount Park system properties and Philadelphia recreation facilities. Materials include historic structure reports, cultural landscape inventories, archaeological investigations, preservation and conservation evaluations, building condition assessments, master plans, environmental site assessments, engineering reports, project manuals and specifications, feasibility studies, maintenance and operation...
Dates: c. 1980

Fairmount Park: The Strategic Plan for the Fairmount Park Commission [Master Plan], 1995 October

 Item — Shelf 15
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection contains technical reports, studies, and project documentation related to Fairmount Park system properties and Philadelphia recreation facilities. Materials include historic structure reports, cultural landscape inventories, archaeological investigations, preservation and conservation evaluations, building condition assessments, master plans, environmental site assessments, engineering reports, project manuals and specifications, feasibility studies, maintenance and operation...
Dates: 1995 October

Historic Districts: National and local register nominations and boundaries, including Boathouse Row, Fairmount Park and Glen Foerd, 1972-2004

 Item — Shelf 17
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection contains technical reports, studies, and project documentation related to Fairmount Park system properties and Philadelphia recreation facilities. Materials include historic structure reports, cultural landscape inventories, archaeological investigations, preservation and conservation evaluations, building condition assessments, master plans, environmental site assessments, engineering reports, project manuals and specifications, feasibility studies, maintenance and operation...
Dates: 1972-2004

John Francis Hart sketch book, 1947

 Item — Drawer M-4
Scope and Contents

Sketchbook c. 1947 belonging to Philadelphia-born artist John Francis Hart.

Subjects of the sketchbook include: Blue Bell Hill (Germantown/West Mount Airy), Spring Mills, PA; Shady Lake, PA (Cumberland Township); New Jersey; Livezey Home Spring House (Wissahickon Creek); Cresheim Valley; Nassau, Bahamas; Port-au-Prince, Haiti; Pennsylvania Amish; and "Pulaskitown" in Germantown.

Dates: 1947

Philadelphia: 1983 Topo plans. 8 1/2 x 11 inch reproductions of topographical plans, including Fairmount Park, Wissahickon Valley Park, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Park (FDR), Franklin Square and Rittenhouse Square, 1983

 Item — Shelf 10
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection contains technical reports, studies, and project documentation related to Fairmount Park system properties and Philadelphia recreation facilities. Materials include historic structure reports, cultural landscape inventories, archaeological investigations, preservation and conservation evaluations, building condition assessments, master plans, environmental site assessments, engineering reports, project manuals and specifications, feasibility studies, maintenance and operation...
Dates: 1983