{{Short description|Municipal park in West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania}} {{Use American English|date=January 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=August 2023}} {{Infobox park | name = Clark Park | other_name = Clarence H. Clark Park<ref name="jama" /> | image = Shakespeare in Clark Park.jpg | image_size = | image_alt = Clark Park, West Philadelphia | image_caption = An August 2007 performance of "[[Romeo and Juliet]]" by [[Shakespeare In The Park Festivals#Shakespeare in Clark Park|Shakespeare in Clark Park]]. | type = | location = [[West Philadelphia]], [[Pennsylvania]] | coordinates = {{Coord|39.94767|-75.20983|type:landmark|display=inline,title}} | area = {{cvt|9.1|acre}} | created = {{Start date|1895}} | operator = [[Philadelphia Parks & Recreation]] | visitation_num = | status = Always open | website = {{URL|http://www.friendsofclarkpark.org}} {{Infobox NRHP | embed = yes | name = Clark Park | partof = West Philadelphia Streetcar Suburb Historic District | nrhp_type = cp | nocat = yes | caption = | location = [[Pennsylvania]] | coordinates = {{coord|39|57|1|N|75|12|45|W|display=inline}} | locmapin = Philadelphia#Pennsylvania#USA | architect = multiple | architecture = Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Classical Revival | area = {{convert|640|acre|0}} | added = February 5, 1998 | partof_refnum = 97001669<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|2007a}}</ref> }} | map = | map_size = | map_alt = | map_caption = }} '''Clark Park''' is a [[municipal park]] in the [[Spruce Hill, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania|Spruce Hill]] section of [[West Philadelphia]] in [[Philadelphia]], [[Pennsylvania]]. Its {{convert|9.1|acre}} are bordered by 43rd and 45th streets, and by [[Baltimore Avenue|Baltimore]] and Woodland Avenues.
The park was established in 1895 on land donated to the city by banker and West Philadelphia developer [[Clarence Howard Clark]], and was known in its early decades as "Clarence H. Clark Park".<ref name="jama">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JOwBAAAAYAAJ&q=%22clark+park%22+satterlee+%22clarence+clark%22&pg=PA206|title=Journal of the American Medical Association|year=1912}}</ref>
Today, the park has a basketball court, playground, an open field, and many paths. It holds a life-sized [[Dickens and Little Nell (Elwell)|1890 sculpture]] of [[Charles Dickens]], one of just three known statues of the author.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Kennedy |first=Maev |date=2014-02-06 |title=Portsmouth erects Britain's first full-size statue of Charles Dickens |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/feb/06/portsmouth-charles-dickens-statue-uk-martin-jennings |access-date=2024-08-18 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> It is home to the [[Shakespeare In The Park Festivals#Shakespeare in Clark Park|Shakespeare in Clark Park]] theatre company.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.shakespeareinclarkpark.org/|title=Shakespeare in Clark Park|website=Shakespeare in Clark Park|language=en-US|access-date=2019-10-15}}</ref>
The park also hosts Philadelphia's largest year-round [[farmers' market]], which runs once a week on Saturdays.<ref name="foodmatters">{{Cite web |url=http://www.thefoodtrust.org/pdf/FoodMatters_Fall08.3.pdf |title=Food Matters, a publication of the Food Trust, Fall 2008. |access-date=2010-09-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724133121/http://www.thefoodtrust.org/pdf/FoodMatters_Fall08.3.pdf |archive-date=2011-07-24 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==History==
===19th century=== During the [[American Civil War]], a small portion of the land that would later become Clark Park was occupied by the southern tip of the 16-acre grounds of [[Satterlee Hospital]], one of the largest [[Union Army]] hospitals.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.uchs.net/Satterlee/satterleehospital.html|title=Philadelphia - University City Historical Society|website=www.uchs.net|access-date=2019-10-15}}</ref><ref name="satterlee">{{Cite web |url=http://www.clarkpark.info/Graphics/Satterlee%20map.jpg |title=Map of Satterlee Heights |access-date=2010-09-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070731180045/http://clarkpark.info/Graphics/Satterlee%20map.jpg |archive-date=2007-07-31 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Some 60,000 Union soldiers were treated at the medical facility, which was torn down after the war.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=http://www.uchs.net/HistoricDistricts/wpsshd.html|title=West Philadelphia Streetcar Suburb|website=www.uchs.net|access-date=2019-10-15|archive-date=June 4, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070604030607/http://www.uchs.net/HistoricDistricts/wpsshd.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
A prominent feature of the park is its "bowl", once a [[mill pond]] that powered a paper mill and another mill to the south.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/westphiladelphia00weavrich|title=West Philadelphia: a study of natural social areas|last=Weaver|first=William Wallace|date=1930|publisher=Philadelphia|others=Prelinger Library}}</ref> An [[Ice house (building)|ice house]] sat near its southern tip.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://westphillyhistory.archives.upenn.edu/maps/1843-map-ellet|title=Map of the County of Philadelphia, by Ellet {{!}} West Philadelphia Community History Center|website=westphillyhistory.archives.upenn.edu|access-date=2019-10-15}}</ref> The pond was fed by [[Mill Creek (Philadelphia)|Mill Creek]], which ran through a ravine between 42nd and 43rd Streets, was dammed above Woodland Avenue,<ref name=":2" /> and emptied into the [[Schuylkill River]].<ref name=":0" /><ref name="route34">{{cite web| title =Studio 34's Eponymous Trolley, or, A Short History of Route 34| publisher =Studio 34: Yoga Healing Arts| year =2008| url =http://www.studio34yoga.com/trolley.shtml| access-date =2008-03-11| url-status =dead| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20080709051920/http://www.studio34yoga.com/trolley.shtml| archive-date =2008-07-09}}</ref>
The mills were closed in the 1860s.<ref name=":1" /> As the area shifted from farmland to residential, over the next decades, the dam was removed, the creek was buried to make it easier to build houses, and the pond dried up.
In the 1890s, the land was used as a public dump.
In 1894, a proposal to take the land between 43rd and 44th streets and Baltimore and Chester Avenues for a municipal park was advanced to the City Council. Most of that land was owned by Clarence Howard Clark, a prominent banker and developer who lived a few blocks to the north. The city, which had laid out the streets surrounding the land, had issued a tax assessment of $16,925.25 (${{formatnum:{{Inflation|US|16925.35|1894|r=0}}}} today{{Inflation-fn|US}}) for the work. Clark proposed a deal: he would donate the land for use as a park, and the city would forgive the assessment.<ref name="peniston2014">{{cite news | url=http://hiddencityphila.org/2014/01/whats-in-a-name-clark-park/ | title=What's In A Name: Clark Park | work=Hidden City Daily | date=January 14, 2014 | agency=Hidden City Philadelphia | access-date=November 19, 2015 | author=Peniston, Bradley | location=Philadelphia}}</ref> Subsequently, a proposed ordinance was sent on April 19, by the council to the Committee on Municipal Government, which on May 10 recommended its passage in this form: {{blockquote|AN ORDINANCE To place on the public plan for park purposes a plot of ground in the Twenty-seventh Ward, to be known as Clarence H. Clark park. Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City of Philadelphia do ordain, That the Department of Public Works, Bureau of Surveys, be, and is hereby authorized and directed to place on the public plan for park purposes that certain lot of ground situate between Forty-third and Forty-fourth streets and Baltimore avenue and Chester avenue, to be called Clarence H. Clark Park : Provided, The owners of property first enter into an agreement satisfactory to the City Solicitor, to dedicate the same to the City on the payment of the amount paid by them for street improvement, sixteen thousand nine hundred and twenty-five (16,925) dollars and thirty-five (35) cents.|Journal of the Common Council of the City of Philadelphia, Volume 1<ref name="ordinance">[https://archive.org/details/journalcommonco00pagoog <!-- quote="clark park". --> Journal of the Common Council of the City of Philadelphia, Volume 1], 1894.</ref>}}
The ordinance was passed on June 8, 1894, and the deal was done. In Clark's deed, he restricted the land to be used solely as a park, and he said that he wanted the park dedicated to children.<ref name="plan">{{cite journal |author= Simone Jaffe Collins | title = Clark Park Revitalization Project | journal = Master Plan | issue = Draft, April 2001 | pages = 5 | publisher = Friends of Clark Park / University City District | location = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | date = April 2001 | url = http://www.friendsofclarkpark.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/ClarkParkMasterPlanApril2001-smaller.pdf | access-date = 2013-10-23 }}</ref>
The first portion of the park was dedicated on January 18, 1895.<ref name="quest">{{cite journal | last = Byers | first = Fran | author2 = Cynthia Roberts | title = Clark Park: Then and Now | journal = The Quest | issue = Spring 2005 | pages = 1 | publisher = University City District | location = Philadelphia | date = Spring 2005 | url = http://www.universitycity.org/_files/pdfs/Quest_spring_05.pdf | access-date = 2010-09-22 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110721023942/http://www.universitycity.org/_files/pdfs/Quest_spring_05.pdf | archive-date = 2011-07-21 }}</ref> In November 1898, the area south of Chester Avenue was added, giving the park today's 9.1-acre form.<ref name="plan" />
====''Dickens and Little Nell''==== {{Main|Dickens and Little Nell (Elwell)}} [[Image:Dickens Statue.png|thumb|''[[Dickens and Little Nell (Elwell)|Dickens and Little Nell]]'' (1890), a statue of [[Charles Dickens]] by [[Francis Edwin Elwell]]]] The Dickens sculpture, by New York City sculptor [[Francis Edwin Elwell]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.philart.net/landmark/Clark_Park/64.html|title=Philadelphia Public Art Landmark: Clark Park|website=www.philart.net|access-date=2019-10-15}}</ref> shows the 19th-century author and one of his characters, Nell Trent of the novel ''[[The Old Curiosity Shop]]''. The work was commissioned in 1890 by [[Stilson Hutchins]], who soon pulled out of the deal. Elwell nevertheless finished the sculpture, which won a gold medal in 1891 from the [[Art Club of Philadelphia]] and two gold medals at the 1893 [[World's Columbian Exposition]].<ref>{{cite news| url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1893/09/17/109266247.pdf| title=Dickens and Little Nell| work=The New York Times| date=September 17, 1893}}</ref> In 1896, the [[Fairmount Park Art Association]] (FPAA) bought the sculpture for $7,500 (${{formatnum:{{Inflation|US|7500|1900|r=0}}}} today{{Inflation-fn|US}}); it was placed in Clark Park the following year. By 1908, the association was receiving, and rebuffing, requests to move it to a more prominent place in the city.<ref name="quest" />
It was vandalized in November 1989, but restored. <ref>{{cite web| url=http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=1314032671TPS.68228&profile=ariall&source=~!siartinventories&view=subscriptionsummary&uri=full=3100001~!15621~!0&ri=3&aspect=Keyword&menu=search&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=Dickens+and+Little+Nell&index=.GW&uindex=&aspect=Keyword&menu=search&ri=3#focus| title=Dickens and Little Nell, (sculpture)| publisher=Save Outdoor Sculpture, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia survey| year= 1993| access-date=August 14, 2011}}</ref>
===20th century=== [[Image:Gettysburgstone.png|thumb|The Gettysburg Stone, a monument to the 60,000 Union soldiers treated at [[Satterlee Hospital]], on whose southern tip the stone was placed in 1916.]]
On May 16, 1907, the city council of Philadelphia approved an ordinance "to place the care and maintenance of Kingsessing avenue between Forty-third and Forty-fifth streets in the Bureau of City Property" and lay it out as a [[macadam]]-topped "Park Drive."<ref name="council">{{cite book |title= Journal of the Common Council, of the city of Philadelphia, for ..., Volume 1 |last= Philadelphia (Pa.). Councils. Common Council |year= 1907 |publisher= J. Van Court, Printer |pages= 130–131 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=ZdROAAAAYAAJ&q=%22clark+park%22+philadelphia&pg=RA1-PA130 |access-date= May 1, 2012}}</ref> (This section of Kingsessing Avenue is today a stub road into the park and functions as a parking lot just south of the basketball court.)
In 1915, D. A. Conan, of 1345 Arch St., won a $5,000 contract to lay 3,000 yards of [[granolithic]] walkways in the park.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TZdMAAAAYAAJ&q=%22clark+park%22+philadelphia&pg=RA3-PA82|title=Engineering & Contracting|date=1915|publisher=Engineering and Contracting Publishing Company|language=en}}</ref>
In June 1916, a large stone from [[Devil's Den]] at [[Gettysburg Battlefield]] was set up in the park to recall the Union soldiers treated on the site and the "services of the patriotic men and women" who cared for them.<ref name="plan" /> The stone sits near the park's northwestern corner, which was once the southern tip of the hospital grounds.<ref name=":1" />
Around 1925, the first sub-station for the [[Fire alarm call box|municipal fire alarm system]] was set up in Clark Park, allowing calls for service to be routed to local West Philadelphia fire stations instead of passing through the central station in [[Philadelphia City Hall|City Hall]] downtown.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Philadelphia Inquirer 24 Feb 1935, page Page 26 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/173841358/ |access-date=2022-10-30 |website=Newspapers.com |language=en}}</ref>
The park seems to have been the venue for a long-running [[Independence Day (United States)|Independence Day]] fireworks show; in 1937, for example, the "27th annual display of the [[Kingsessing, Philadelphia|Kingsessing]] Safe and Sane Fourth of July Association lasted an hour and 10 minutes".<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Philadelphia Inquirer 11 Jul 1937, page Page 3 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/171212137/ |access-date=2022-10-30 |website=Newspapers.com |language=en}}</ref>
In 1947, nearby residents complained to city officials about a stagnant pool of water that had gathered in the bowl of Clark Park and become fetid over the course of four months. A city official conceded that the situation was "deplorable" but said nothing could be done because the city lacked money to fill in the hole.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Philadelphia Inquirer 30 Jun 1947, page Page 17 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/174010329/ |access-date=2022-10-30 |website=Newspapers.com |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=The Philadelphia Inquirer 03 Jul 1947, page Page 17 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/174023171/ |access-date=2022-10-30 |website=Newspapers.com |language=en}}</ref> Still, Eagles star running back [[Steve Van Buren]] continued to take weekly walks with his dog there.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Philadelphia Inquirer 12 May 1947, page Page 19 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/173871300/ |access-date=2022-10-30 |website=Newspapers.com |language=en}}</ref>
In 1950, the park hosted the neighborhood's qualification round of the annual Metropolitan Philadelphia [[Marble (toy)|Marbles]] Tournament, which attracted a record 9,148 boys and girls.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Philadelphia Inquirer 21 May 1950, page Page 41 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/173727057/ |access-date=2022-10-30 |website=Newspapers.com |language=en}}</ref>
In June 1961, the city spent $40,000 (${{formatnum:{{Inflation|US|40000|1961|r=0}}}} today{{Inflation-fn|US}}) on park improvements, adding a basketball court, shuffleboard court, checkers tables, a tot-lot, two drinking fountains and general landscaping.<ref name="plan" />
The Friends of Clark Park (FOCP), a nonprofit volunteer organization, was founded in 1973 to help maintain the park. Yet the 1970s and '80s saw park maintenance steadily decline; no major capital projects were completed except for normal repairs and the installation of playground equipment in the early 1980s.<ref name="plan" /> In November 1989, the figure of Little Nell was torn from its pedestal and thrown face-down by vandals. FOCP raised money to do the repairs, which were overseen by the Fairmount Park Art Association, and requested additional lighting to illuminate the sculpture.<ref name="quest" />
By 1998, "Trash and broken glass surrounded the Dickens statue and littered the park. More than once, the neighbors fought the city just to get the grass cut. Lacking lights, the park was off-limits after dusk except to drug dealers and their prey," wrote [[Judith Rodin]], the president of the nearby [[University of Pennsylvania]], which was heavily involved in gentrification efforts in the neighborhood.<ref name="rodin">{{cite book |title= University and Urban Revival |last= Rodin |first= Judith |author-link= Judith Rodin |year= 2007 |publisher= University of Pennsylvania |location= Philadelphia |page= [https://archive.org/details/universityurbanr0000rodi/page/73 73] |isbn= 9780812240221 |url= https://archive.org/details/universityurbanr0000rodi |url-access= registration |quote= clark park philadelphia. |access-date=April 4, 2011}}</ref>
That same year, regional farmers began offering produce and other products at the Clark Park Farmers' Market.
===21st century=== In 2000, FOCP, the Recreation department, and the non-profit [[University City District]] organization agreed to raise private maintenance funds to supplement municipal efforts. The agreement launched an annual “Party for the Park” fundraiser, which helps underwrite the cost of [[landscape maintenance]] and fund a small, but growing maintenance endowment. Between 2000 and 2006, the trio raised more than $300,000.<ref name="quest" />
The partners sought and received $55,000<ref name="plan" /> from the [[William Penn Foundation]] to develop a master plan for Clark Park, which was delivered in 2001 after a nine-month effort by community-based steering committee and landscape architects. Among its fruits: a comprehensive assessment of the park's 305 trees by the [[Morris Arboretum]]; two new playgrounds, one of which was built with private funds; and plans to rebuild the basketball court. The master plan also calls for a central plaza where chess players now gather around the flagpole, improvements to the Dickens and Gettysburg Stone areas, and sidewalk and lighting renovations. The plan envisions replacing the parking lot next to the basketball court with green space for the [[University of the Sciences in Philadelphia]], which leases the space and the adjacent Rosenberger Hall.<ref name="quest" />
Major renovations to the northern section of the park, dubbed Park A, began on September 7, 2010: improvements to lighting, green areas, paved paths, and drainage. The work was slated to finish in November;<ref name="dp">{{cite web|url=http://thedp.com/article/clark-park-renovations-begin-after-delay|title=The Daily Pennsylvanian - - Clark Park renovations begin after delay|access-date=2010-09-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100911084934/http://thedp.com/article/clark-park-renovations-begin-after-delay|archive-date=2010-09-11|url-status=dead}}</ref> it was actually completed on June 16, 2011.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |date=2011-06-16 |title=Wait No More: Clark Park "A" re-opens tonight! |url=https://gridphilly.com/blog-home/2011/06/16/wait-no-more-clark-park-a-re-opens-tonight-html/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230115220404/https://gridphilly.com/blog-home/2011/06/16/wait-no-more-clark-park-a-re-opens-tonight-html/ |archive-date=2023-01-15 |access-date=2023-01-15 |website=Grid Magazine |language=en-US}}</ref>
==Park events== The farmers’ market operates at 43rd Street and Baltimore, offering produce and other products from regional farms once or twice a week. From May through November, the market is open on Thursdays (3 to 7 p.m.) and Saturdays (10 a.m. to 2 p.m.); the rest of the year, on Saturdays (10 a.m. to 1 p.m.). The market is run by a pair of non-profit organizations: [https://web.archive.org/web/20101002130151/http://www.thefoodtrust.org/php/programs/farmers.market.program.php The Food Trust] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20100413190913/http://www.universitycity.org/ucd_programs/marketing/clark_park_farmers_market University City District]. Since 2008, the vendors have been equipped with wireless [[Electronic Benefit Transfer]] devices set up by the [[U.S. Department of Agriculture]] that allow customers to pay with credit and debit cards and food stamps.<ref name="foodmatters" /><ref name="usda">{{cite web|url=https://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/ebt|title=SNAP Monthly Benefit Issuance Schedule - Food and Nutrition Service}}</ref>
On February 7, fans of Charles Dickens, led by the Philadelphia branch of the [[Dickens Fellowship]] and Friends of Clark Park, meet at the statue to celebrate the writer's birthday.<ref name="fellowship">{{cite web|url=http://members.cruzio.com/~varese/dickens/history.html|title=Branch History}}</ref>
==Gallery== <gallery> Image:Philadelphia Orchestra in Clark Park.jpg|[[Philadelphia Orchestra]] </gallery>
==See also== {{Portal|Philadelphia}} *[[List of parks in Philadelphia]] *[[University City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania|University City]] *[[University of the Sciences in Philadelphia|USIP]]
==References== <references />
==External links== {{Commons category|Clark Park, Philadelphia}} *[http://www.friendsofclarkpark.org Friends of Clark Park], a non-profit corporation and volunteer organization founded in 1973 to help maintain and improve the neighborhood's largest public green space. *[http://www.phillyhistory.org/PhotoArchive/Search.aspx?type=area&keywords=clark%2Bpark&updateDays=0&sortOrderM=Distance&minx=2636294.21875&miny=169693.125&maxx=2750294.21875&maxy=302693.125&start=0&limit=12&mstart=0&mlimit=12 Historic Photographs of Clark Park] at PhillyHistory.org * [https://web.archive.org/web/20110629222740/http://www.shakespeareinclarkpark.org/index.html Shakespeare in Clark Page] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20100413190913/http://www.universitycity.org/ucd_programs/marketing/clark_park_farmers_market Clark Park Farmers' Market] * [https://archive.today/20130116011110/http://www.34st.com/content/2010/mar/larp-park?page=0,0 "A LARP In The Park: Swordsmen and sorcery in West Philadelphia"], 34th Street magazine, March 25, 2010. Article about [[LARP]]ing at Clark Park. *[https://archive.org/details/universityurbanr0000rodi/page/73 <!-- quote="clark park" philadelphia. --> ''University and Urban Revival'' by Judith Rodin, University of Pennsylvania (2007), pp. 72-76]. Describes efforts by UCD and FOCP to revive the park. *[https://books.google.com/books?id=omwAAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22clark+park%22+philadelphia&pg=PA288 1912 photo of Dickens statue] showing all young trees in Clark Park.
===Historical maps=== *[http://www.archives.upenn.edu/histy/features/wphila/maps/map1843ellet.pdf 1843 map showing dammed Mill Creek and mill pond on future parkland] *[http://www.archives.upenn.edu/histy/features/wphila/exhbts/grubel/maps/1872_plateC.jpg 1872 map showing course of Mill Creek through future parkland] *[http://www.archives.upenn.edu/histy/features/wphila/maps/atlas1892bromley27w_plate8.pdf 1892 map showing future parkland owned by Clarence H. Clark] *[http://www.archives.upenn.edu/histy/features/wphila/maps/atlas1909smithev_plate006.pdf 1909 map showing Clarence H. Clark Park and its paths] {| border=1 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 width=75% |- |colspan="4" align="center" | [[Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority|SEPTA]] [[SEPTA Subway–Surface Trolley Lines|Subway–Surface Trolley Lines]] |- style="background:#33CC33" ! width=25% | [[SEPTA Route 11|Route 11]] ! width=25% | [[SEPTA Route 13|Route 13]] ! width=25% | [[SEPTA Route 34|Route 34]] ! width=25% | [[SEPTA Route 36|Route 36]] |} {{Philadelphia parks}}
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