Benjamin Franklin Parkway

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COLLECTION OF BACKGROUND MATERIALS

More Park Less Way (2013)

In 2013, PennPraxis worked with Philadelphia Parks and Recreation to create an action plan to outline ways for the city to lead the way in more fully integrating the Parkway with the urban life of the city. It was determined that the ingredients for a successful Parkway redesign would include: 1) Designing for Philadelphians who live near the parkway ensuring that the public spaces could be used on a daily basis. 2) Reprioritizing the “park” component of the Parkway - essentially, finding a balance between pedestrian life and vehicular needs. 3) Merging or honoring the civic grandeur (the institutions, the vistas, the public art) and the neighborhood charm. 4) Creating more public oases and activity centers in existing underutilized spaces. 5) Enlivening the Parkway with more amenities, programs, and activities.

PORT Urbanism -- Oval+ 2017/2018

(documentation of impact of temporary pavilions and programming) Starting in 2017, PORT designed vibrant public spaces and pavilions for the Summer at Eakins Oval program. Their work focused on piloting long-term design strategies and collecting feedback to inform the permanent transformation of Philly’s Benjamin Franklin Parkway. In 2017, the first year of the Eakins Oval summer program, PORTdesigned an installation around the question, “What’s Your Parkway?” In 2018 and 2019, the theme was “More Park, More Play” and in an effort to involve more play, the installation expanded down the Parkway. The design involved turning a lane of traffic over to bikes and pedestrians. The installation included a giant sandbox, misting pavilion, and more defined programming along a half mile of the Parkway. Over the course of the PORT initiatives, the design team collected important data to document who visited the Oval and what those users wanted to see out of a more permanent transformation of the Parkway. The links below offer some background on Port’s project. Additional links access news articles covering the Oval and its success as a seasonal public space. Curbed Article (2017) Philly.com (2017) Port Urbanism (outline of work from the firm) MyPhillyPark (2018)

Center City District (Parkway focus)

For two decades, the Center CIty District has been working to improve the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. CCD has released plans that examine dense development along the Parkway as well as public space improvement plans. These plans have helped the CCD

1 guide investment dollars to projects such as directional and interpretative signage, lighting improvements, and renovations of various parks. Olin Partnership completed the master for the Center City District.

Logan Square Neighborhood Association - Neighborhood Plan Update 2019

The Logan Square Neighborhood-Parkway Plan articulates a shared vision for the Logan Square neighborhood worked with various constituencies including the Philadelphia City Planning COmmision to develop a neighborhood that reflects the needs a diverse community.

Philadelphia - A World Heritage City

(21 minutes in -- good insight on the history of the Parkway) The movie provides a summarization of the history of Philadelphia with the intent of making the case for its designation as a World Heritage City. The overall message is that Philadelphia is a city built on a history of ideals, idealism, tolerance, and diverse thinking. Additionally, this movie serves to remind the viewers that Philadelphia has always been a “place to test ideas” -- whether those ideas were developing a democractic system of government or building steam locomotives.

PLANNED PROJECTS

Winter Street Greenway

Installation of a new playscape, play equipment, dog run, landscape, and new amenities. http://www.lsnaphilly.org/announcements/winterstreetgreenwayconstructionstartssoon

Maja Park

The Association for Public Art (aPA) is working with Philadelphia Parks and Recreation (PPR), Ground Reconsidered, and Aimco to install Gerhard Marcks’ Maja (pronounced \MAI-uh\) sculpture in a newly planned park for the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, to be located in front of Park Towne Place Museum District Residences on the south side of the Parkway at 22nd Street. https://www.associationforpublicart.org/apa-now/news/maja-sculpture-for-new-park/

Calder Museum

Herzog & de Meuron has been selected to design a museum dedicated to the work of Alexander Calder. The museum is scheduled to break ground in early 2021.

NY Times article Art Net article Architectural Digest

Logan Square Neighborhood Association Updated Statistics on Recent Apartment/Condo Development (provided by Dennis Boylen, President, LSNA, on 10/26/20) Project name Location Units

2301 JFK 2301 JFK 275

Riverwalk I 60 N. 23rd 291

Riverwalk II 60 N. 23rd 321

23rd & Cherry 23rd & Cherry 119

Edgewater 230 N. 23rd 219

Trader Joe lot 33 N. 22nd 341

Cathedral Place 200 N. 17th 270

The Hamilton II 1520 Hamilton 320

1823 Callowhill 1823 Callowhill 57

TOTAL 2213

Fairmount Area Proposed Developments (provided by Lawrence Reynolds, member of the Parkway Council, on 10/27/20)

There are currently three good sized apartment developments going up between Poplar Street and Girard Avenue. They have 160 units, 108 units, and 49 units respectively totaling 317 units and close to 400 bedrooms.

There are 4-5 mid sized developments along Girard each with 20-25 units.

There is ongoing development in Brewerytown just above Girard that is filling in many open lots and abandoned homes. This has been in progress for a few years.

There is similar development in Francisville. Ten years ago 30-40% of the lots were vacant, now they are largely developed with single family and small multi- family homes.

RESEARCH and RESOURCES

Philadelphia Buildings and Architects

Parkway Buildings

Published References

● Thomas, George E.Buildings of Pennsylvania Philadelphia and Eastern Pennsylvania, Society of Architectural Historians, University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville, 2010, p. 110 Links: View citation information Client/Project Name: Fairmount Park Art Association / Benjamin Franklin Parkway Architects Referenced: Cret, Paul Philippe (1876 - 1945); Greber, Jacques (1882-1962); Kelsey, Albert (1870-1950)

● The Fairmount Parkway (Philadelphia: Fairmount Park Art Association, 1919) Links: View citation information Client/Project Name: Benjamin Franklin Parkway Architects Referenced: Cret, Paul Philippe (1876 - 1945); Greber, Jacques (1882-1962); Trumbauer, Horace (1868 - 1938); Zantzinger & Borie (fl. 1905 - 1910 and 1929 - 1950); Zantzinger, Borie & Medary (fl. 1910 - 1929)

● Morrone, Francis. An Architectural Guidebook to Philadelphia. Layton, UT: Gibbs Smith, 1999., p. 195-197 Links: View citation information | Buy this book at Amazon.com Client/Project Name: Benjamin Franklin Parkway Architects Referenced: Cret, Paul Philippe (1876 - 1945); Greber, Jacques (1882-1962); Trumbauer, Horace (1868 - 1938); Zantzinger, Clarence Clark (1872 - 1954)

● Greber, Jacques. L'Architecture aux Estats-Unis. Paris: Payot, 1920., v. 2, p. 151-152, plate 12 Links: View citation information Client/Project Name: Philadelphia Parkway Architect Referenced: Greber, Jacques (1882-1962)

● Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission Cultural Resources Database Links: View citation information Client/Project Name: Benjamin Franklin Parkway

● AIA/T-Square Yearbook, p. 264, 1925 Links: View citation information Client/Project Name: (untitled) Architect Referenced: Cret, Paul Philippe (1876 - 1945)

● Brownlee, David B. Building the City Beautiful: The Benjamin Franklin Parkway and the Philadelphia Museum of Art Philadelphia, PA; Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1989. (link)

Drawings, Photos, Papers, etc.

Architectural Archives, University of Pennsylvania

● Architectural Archives, University of Pennsylvania - Edmund Beaman Gilchrist Collection Holding Name: Parkway from City Hall to Fairmount Park Quantity: 3 sheets; 1 item, Call Number: 007.51; 007.154 Architect Referenced: Gilchrist, Edmund Beaman (1885-1953)

● Architectural Archives, University of Pennsylvania - Paul Philippe Cret Collection Holding Name: Fairmount Park Art Association / Philadelphia Parkway and Schuylkill River Embankments Improvement Plan Quantity: 6 items, Call Number: 062.132-062.134 Architects Referenced: Borie, Charles Louis, Jr. (1870 - 1943); Cret, Paul Philippe (1876 - 1945); Trumbauer, Horace (1868 - 1938); Zantzinger, Clarence Clark (1872 - 1954)

● Architectural Archives, University of Pennsylvania - Paul Philippe Cret Collection Holding Name: Bok, Edward W. / Improvements to Penn Square Quantity: 4 items, Call Number: 062.309-062.310 Architect Referenced: Cret, Paul Philippe (1876 - 1945)

Drawings, Photos, Papers, etc.

Athenaeum of Philadelphia

● Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Ballinger Collection Holding Name: [Aerial view of Philadelphia, Pa., from the Philadelphia

Museum of Art, down the Parkway to City Hall] Quantity: 1 photoprint: b&w ; 8 x 10 in., Call Number: 007-P-4783

● Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Cret Collection Holding Name: Lamp posts, Benjamin Franklin Parkway Quantity: 1 Folder, Call Number: 27-F-123 Architects Referenced: Cret, Paul Philippe (1876 - 1945); Voight Company

● Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Cret Collection Holding Name: Bird's Eye View of the Park Boulevard from City Hall to Fairmount Park Quantity: 1 item, Call Number: 27-P-060 Architects Referenced: Smedley, Samuel Lightfoot (1832 - 1894); Windrim, James Hamilton (1840-1919)

● Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Cret Collection Holding Name: The Parkway Quantity: 1 Sheet, Call Number: 27-PS-087 Architects Referenced: Cret, Paul Philippe (1876 - 1945); Greber, Jacques (1882-1962); Trumbauer, Horace (1868 - 1938); Zantzinger, Borie & Medary (fl. 1910 - 1929)

● Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Cret Collection Holding Name: Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, Pa. Quantity: 5 items, Call Number: CRE087 Architects Referenced: Cret, Paul Philippe (1876 - 1945); Greber, Jacques (1882-1962)

● Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Cret Collection Holding Name: Benjamin Franklin Parkway Lamp Posts Quantity: 14 sheets, Call Number: CRE123 Architects Referenced: Cret, Paul Philippe (1876 - 1945); Greber, Jacques (1882-1962)

● Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Cret Collection Holding Name: Lamp Posts, Benjamin Franklin Parkway Quantity: 11 Sheets, Call Number: CRE265 Architect Referenced: Cret, Paul Philippe (1876 - 1945)

● Athenaeum of Philadelphia - General Collection - Prints Holding Name: The Philadelphia Parkway as Planned for The Fairmount Park Art Association by Horace Trumbauer, C.C. Zantzinger and Paul P. Cret Quantity: 1 Item, Call Number: 001-PRL-044

Architects Referenced: Cret, Paul Philippe (1876 - 1945); Trumbauer, Horace (1868 - 1938); Zantzinger, Clarence Clark (1872 - 1954)

● Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Jacob Stelman Collection Holding Name: Benjamin Franklin Parkway Call Number: 143-P-388

● Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Karl Lutz Collection Holding Name: Parkway Quantity: 114 Items, Call Number: 76-P-110

● Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Karl Lutz Collection Holding Name: Philadelphia - Several Views Quantity: 2 Items, Call Number: 76-P-121

● Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Karl Lutz Collection Holding Name: Parkway Quantity: 5 Items, Call Number: 76-PC-110

● Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Lawrence S. Williams, Inc. Collection Holding Name: Benjamin Franklin Parkway Quantity: 2 items, Call Number: 140-N-4905-4906

● Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Lawrence S. Williams, Inc. Collection Holding Name: Ben Franklin Parkway Quantity: 2 items, Call Number: 140-N-5001-5002

● Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Lawrence S. Williams, Inc. Collection Holding Name: Distant view of Art Museum down parkway Quantity: 2, Call Number: 140-P-000053

● Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Lawrence S. Williams, Inc. Collection Holding Name: Benjamin Franklin Parkway from the Art Museum Quantity: 1 Item, Call Number: 140-P2-004

● Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Moss- Historic Landmarks of Philadelphia Research Notes Holding Name: Benjamin Franklin Parkway Quantity: 1 Folder, Call Number: 208-F-006 Architect Referenced: Cret, Paul Philippe (1876 - 1945)

Drawings, Photos, Papers, etc.

Philadelphia City Archives

● Philadelphia City Archives - Art Jury/Art Commission Records Holding Name: Benjamin Franklin Parkway, including Logan Circle (revisions) Call Number: 108.67

● Philadelphia City Archives - Art Jury/Art Commission Records Holding Name: Architectural & Landscape Development of the Parkway at the Art Museum Call Number: 8187.2 Architect Referenced: Harbeson, Hough, Livingston & Larson (fl. 1945- 1976)

● Philadelphia City Archives - Art Jury/Art Commission Records Holding Name: Improvements to Street Lighting Call Number: 8237 Architect Referenced: Flynn, John (1859 - c.1914)

Drawings, Photos, Papers, etc.

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Prints, Drawings, Photographs - Parkway Drawings

● Philadelphia Museum of Art Prints, Drawings, and Photographs - Parkway Drawings Holding Name: Fairmount Park Commission / New Pennsylvania Railroad Station and Episcopal Cathedral Quantity: 1 sheet, Call Number: (Brownlee 90.07) Architect Referenced: Greber, Jacques (1882-1962)

● Philadelphia Museum of Art Prints, Drawings, and Photographs - Parkway Drawings Holding Name: Fairmount Park Commission / Art Museum and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Quantity: 1 sheet, Call Number: (Brownlee 90.08) Architects Referenced: Greber, Jacques (1882-1962); Trumbauer, Horace (1868 - 1938); Zantzinger & Borie (fl. 1905 - 1910 and 1929 - 1950)

● Philadelphia Museum of Art Prints, Drawings, and Photographs - Parkway Drawings Holding Name: Philadelphia Museum of Art Perspective: Southeast Perspective of Fairmount Park from Logan Circle Quantity: 1 item, Call Number: (Brownlee 90.10)

Architect Referenced: Greber, Jacques (1882-1962)

● Philadelphia Museum of Art Prints, Drawings, and Photographs - Parkway Drawings Holding Name: Fairmount Park Art Association / Plan for Sesquicentennial on Parkway and Schuylkill Quantity: 1 sheet, Call Number: (Brownlee 90.11)

● Philadelphia Museum of Art Prints, Drawings, and Photographs - Parkway Drawings Holding Name: Parkway Landscaping Quantity: 2 sheets, Call Number: (Brownlee 90.12, .13) Architect Referenced: Greber, Jacques (1882-1962)

● Philadelphia Museum of Art Prints, Drawings, and Photographs - Parkway Drawings Holding Name: Fairmount Park Commission / Parkway from Fairmount to Logan Square Quantity: 1 sheet, Call Number: (Brownlee 90.9) Architect Referenced: Greber, Jacques (1882-1962)

● Philadelphia Museum of Art Museum Archives - Parkway Drawings Holding Name: Fairmount Park Commission / Parkway Plans Quantity: 2 sheets, Call Number: ⅓

Philadelphia Museum of Art - library and archives: The Philadelphia Museum of Art held an exhibition devoted to the history of the Parkway in 1989. The archives and library at the PMA hold records that document that exhibit. Here is the finding aid: https://pmalibrary.libraryhost.com/repositories/3/archival_objects/41020

This collection has a helpful list of repositories they borrowed materials from:

Loans. American Philosophical Society., 1989 Loans. Athenaeum of Philadelphia., 1988-1990 Loans. Mrs. Joseph Carson., 1988-1989 Loans. CIGNA Service Co., 1988-1989 Loans. City archives., 1988-1989 Loans. Fairmount Park Commission., 1988-1989 Loans. Franklin Institute., 1988-1989 Loans. Free Library of Philadelphia., 1988-1989 Loans. Historical Society of Philadelphia., 1989 Loans. H2L2., 1988-1989 Loans. PAFA., 1988-1989 Loans. School administration building., 1988-1989 Loans. University of Pennsylvania, architectural archives., 1989

Loans. University of Pennsylvania, Van Pelt Library., 1989 Loans. Wesleyan University, Davison Art Center., 1988-1989

Drawings, Photos, Papers, etc.

Fairmount Park Historic Resource Archive (Philadelphia Parks & Recreation)

Look at Greber Collection and Photograph Collection https://www.phila.gov/documents/parks-recreation-history-and-archive-finding-aids/

General Resources

Free Library of Philadelphia, Parkway Central Library https://libwww.freelibrary.org/locations/parkway-central-library#departments

A broad catalog search that includes materials from the Print and Picture collection and elsewhere in the library: a mix of archival and library materials: https://catalog.freelibrary.org/Search/Results?lookfor=benjamin+franklin+parkway&type =AllFields

A broad search in the digital library, now the results are just what has already been digitized so it doesn't reflect the full extent of what's in the FLP: https://libwww.freelibrary.org/digital/search/?q=franklin+parkway

For example: https://libwww.freelibrary.org/digital/item/65909

Or: https://libwww.freelibrary.org/digital/collection/?id=maps&q=parkway

Collections at Parkway Central Library that include historic materials on the Parkway:

Print and Picture Collection https://libwww.freelibrary.org/locations/departments/print-and-picture-collection

In particular the Philadelphiana collection, this is that collection’s finding aid, box 99 contains materials related to the Parkway, some of it digitized some of it not, other related items on buildings and monuments located on the Parkway in that collection: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15kUlAUDNspppOFs5pL9tSozBOCugtDGPXojzvry 49lc/edit#gid=928206734

Contact the prints curator, Laura Stroffolino: [email protected]

Map Collection: https://libwww.freelibrary.org/locations/departments/map-collection

Contact the map curator, Megan MacCall: [email protected]

Government Publications https://libwww.freelibrary.org/locations/departments/government-publications- department

In particular their Philadelphia city collection and their Art, Architecture and Engineering collection. No complete electronic finding aid is available, contact the librarian Marija Gudauskas: [email protected]

Art Department https://libwww.freelibrary.org/locations/departments/art-department Research file collection, Philadelphia series contains files of news clippings, brochures, ephemera and a few documents on the Parkway. Contact art librarian Alina Josan: [email protected]

Additional Resources

Association for Public Art French Connection Parkway at 100 Years

PhillyHistory.org ● Historical Images