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This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. There are more than 600 properties and districts listed on the National Register in Philadelphia, including 67 National Historic Landmarks. This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted December 20, 2024.
May 11, 1976 (North Philadelphia Eastern banks of the Schuylkill River: Fairmount Park: First municipal waterworks in the United States. Designed in 1812 by Frederick Graff and built between 1819 and 1822, it operated until 1909.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Southwest Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below may be seen in a Google map.
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 ]
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 logo of Philadelphia Parks & Recreation Philadelphia Parks & Recreation (PPR) is the municipal department responsible for managing parks, recreation centers, playgrounds, trails, community gardens, and historic properties in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania .
Goss is a co-founder of Keepers of the Culture, a Philadelphia storytelling organization affiliated with the National Association of Black Storytellers, and a founding member of Patchwork, a storytelling group in Delaware. [6]
The Lansdowne Park Historic District is a national historic district that is located in Lansdowne, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.