Wister's Woods Park
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Wisters Woods Park
Found in 42 Collections and/or Records:
Plan of the residue of "Belfield" [reproduction], 1922 December 8
Item — Drawer N10: Series 10, Folder: 2.1
Identifier: 10
Scope and Contents Note
From the Collection:
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...
Dates:
1922 December 8
Plan of the revision of the lines and grades of the portion of City Plan no. 178 bounded by Olney Avenue, Ogontz Avenue, Somerville Avenue, Ellicott Road and 20th Street and to strike from City Plan Peale Road from 20th Street and Ellicott Road to Rodman Road and to widen Rodman Road from the north house line of Peale Road as now upon City Plan, to Somerville Avenue, from 50 feet to 60 feet, 1927 May 16
Item — Drawer N10: Series 10, Folder: 2.1
Identifier: 10
Scope and Contents Note
From the Collection:
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...
Dates:
1927 May 16
Plan placing upon city plan Wister's Woods Park bounded by Fishers Lane or East Logan Street, Philadelphia and Reading Railway, Wister Street, Stenton Avenue, Belfield Avenue, Somerville Avenue, and 19th Street [fragile] [2 copies], 1911 December 27
Item — Drawer N10: Series 10, Folder: 2.1
Identifier: 10
Scope and Contents Note
From the Collection:
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...
Dates:
1911 December 27
Plan to accompany report on Bill no. 696, an ordinance to authorize the striking from the City Plan and vacating of Ellicott Road from Lindley Avenue to Somerville Avenue, Rodman Road from Ellicott Road to Somerville Avenue, Somerville Avenue from Rodman Street to Ellicott Road and placing upon the City Plan in a new location Somerville Avenue from Rodman Road to Ellicott Road, and the revision of the lines and grades of intersecting streets affected thereby [fragile] [2 copies], 1953 December 16
Item — Drawer N10: Series 10, Folder: 1.1
Identifier: 10
Scope and Contents Note
From the Collection:
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...
Dates:
1953 December 16
Plan to place upon the City Plan a tract of ground on the southeast side of Wister Street and southwest of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, to be named Wister's Woods Park. [reproduction], 1912 April 15
Item — Drawer N10: Series 10, Folder: 2.1
Identifier: 10
Scope and Contents Note
From the Collection:
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...
Dates:
1912 April 15
Plan to strike from the City Plan and vacate Ellicott Road from Lindley Avenue to Somerville Avenue, Rodman Road from Ellicott Road to Somerville Avenue, Somerville Avenue from Rodman Road to Ellicott Road, to place upon the City Plan in a new location Somerville Avenue from Rodman Road to Ellicott Road, and the reservation and placing upon the City Plan a right-of-way for drainage purposes; the revision of the lines and grades of intersecting and adjacent streets affected thereby [3 copies], 1954 March 1
Item — Drawer N10: Series 10, Folder: 1.1
Identifier: 10
Scope and Contents Note
From the Collection:
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...
Dates:
1954 March 1
Planting plan [reproduction], 1921 September 20
Item — Drawer N10: Series 10, Folder: 2.1
Identifier: 10
Scope and Contents Note
From the Collection:
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...
Dates:
1921 September 20
Plot plan. City of Philadelphia, John Spicer, Woodford Tennis Club, Incorporated, depicting the area northwest of the intersection of Wister Street and the Reading Railroad [reproduction], n.d.
Item — Drawer N10: Series 10, Folder: 2.1
Identifier: 10
Scope and Contents Note
From the Collection:
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...
Dates:
n.d.
Property 3 inch STL. H.P. gas service, St. Basil's Orphanage and School, Belfield Avenue N.N.C. Lindley Avenue: Plan of location and sewer main, sheet 1 of 2; plan of location and sewer main, sheet 2 of 2, 1983 June 21
Item — Drawer N10: Series 10, Folder: 2.1
Identifier: 10
Scope and Contents Note
From the Collection:
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...
Dates:
1983 June 21
Tennis court lighting at Wister Woods: Electrical plan, E-1, 1978 June
Item — Drawer N10: Series 10, Folder: 2.1
Identifier: 10
Scope and Contents Note
From the Collection:
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...
Dates:
1978 June