Parkside, Philadelphia
Parkside Historic District
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Location | Bounded by Penn-Central RR track, 38th St., Girard, Parkside and Belmont Aves., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
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Area | 97 acres (39 ha) |
Built | 1876 |
Architect | Hale,Willis G.; Newman,Frederick |
Architectural style | No Style Listed |
NRHP Reference # | 83004248[1] |
Significant dates | |
Added to NRHP | November 17, 1983 |
Designated PRHP | December 11, 2009[2] |
Parkside is a neighborhood in the West Philadelphia section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Much of the Parkside neighborhood was built during the 1876 Centennial Exhibition. It is a National Register of Historic Places Historic District with many examples of Victorian architecture, some well-preserved, others in poor condition. The neighborhood was populated by German Americans, followed by Eastern European Jews, before becoming heavily African American after World War II. (Directly after WWII it was home to many displaced persons from Eastern Europe, which included Latvians.)
In 2008,a shopping mall called the Park West Town Village Shopping Center was completed. Its anchor stores are Shop Rite, Lowe's, McDonald's and CW Price. It is located on North 52nd Street.
Parkside is the home of the Evans Recreation Center. In 2014, the Philly Pumptrack opened at Evans. [3]
Parkside was the early home of gangsta rapper Schoolly D, and was referenced in his songs "PSK" (Park Side Killers) and "Parkside 5-2".
External links
- Parkside Historic Preservation Corporation (dead link)
- East Parkside Community Revitalization Corporation (dead link)
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- Neighborhoods in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- National Register of Historic Places in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania
- Houses completed in 1876
- Philadelphia Register of Historic Places
- West Philadelphia
- Houses in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania