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The property became part of Fairmount Park in 1869 as part of a program to preserve the quality of the water supply. In anticipation of the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition in 1876, a large dining pavilion was built alongside the mansion. Belmont was added to the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places, June 26, 1956.
Philadelphia Museum of Art at 2600 Benjamin Franklin Franklin Institute at 222 N. 20th Street National Constitution Center at Independence National Historical Park at 143 S. 3rd Street Eastern State Penitentiary at 2027 Fairmount Avenue Independence Seaport Museum at Penn's Landing Museum of the American Revolution at 101 South Third Street
Aerial view of Lemon Hill Mansion. This list contains all of the extant historic houses located in Fairmount Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.Most of the houses are referred to as mansions due to their size and use as the summer country estates of Philadelphia's affluent citizens in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Belmont Mansion may refer to: Belmont Mansion (Philadelphia), a historic house museum; Belmont Mansion (Tennessee), listed on the National Register of Historic Places
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The Belmont Estate, now Belmont Manor and Historic Park, [4] is a former plantation located at Elkridge, Howard County, Maryland, United States. Founded in the 1730s and known in the Colonial period as "Moore's Morning Choice", [ 5 ] it was one of the earliest forced-labor farms in Howard County, Maryland .
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]
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