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Site at Schuylkill River Heritage Area; Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) documentation: HABS No. PA-1649, "Belmont Mansion", 6 photos, 2 photo caption pages, supplemental material; HABS No. PA-6184, "Schuylkill River Villas", 18 data pages of historical context; Lithograph of Belmont Mansion Archived 2007-04-26 at the Wayback Machine
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.
The Fairmount Water Works was initially constructed between 1812 and 1815 on the east bank of the Schuylkill River.The Water Works initially consisted of a 3 million US gallons (11,000,000 L) earthen reservoir atop Faire Mount at the present site of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and a pump house with two steam engines to pump water.
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]
The cottage is situated on the west bank of the Schuylkill River within a plot of 100 acres (40 ha) of land granted to John Boelson in 1677 by the Swedish colonial court in Upland, Pennsylvania. [6] Boelson's cottage is the oldest extant structure in Fairmount Park.
The Schuylkill River (/ ˈ s k uː l k ɪ l / SKOOL-kil, [1] locally / ˈ s k uː k ə l / SKOO-kəl) [2] is a river in eastern Pennsylvania. It flows for 135 miles (217 km) [ 3 ] from Pottsville southeast to Philadelphia , the nation's sixth-largest city, where it joins the Delaware River as one of its largest tributaries.
Grays Ferry: north to Gray's Ferry Ave., south to Passyunk Ave., west to the Schuylkill River, east to 24th St. Hawthorne: from South St. to Washington Ave., Broad St. to 11th St. [8] Italian Market: along 9th St. from Fitzwater St. in the north to Wharton St. in the south. Little Saigon; Lower Moyamensing; Marconi Plaza; Moyamensing; Packer Park
Northern and eastern bank of the Schuylkill River from Pennsylvania Route 113 to Lock 61 40°07′57″N 75°30′10″W / 40.1325°N 75.502639°W / 40.1325; -75.502639 ( Schuylkill Navigation Canal, Oakes Reach