{{short description|Historic house in Pennsylvania, United States}} {{Use American English|date=January 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=August 2023}}
{{Infobox NRHP | name = Parkside Historic District | nrhp_type = hd | nocat = yes | designated_other1 = Philadelphia Register of Historic Places | designated_other1_date = December 11, 2009<ref name="PRHP districts">{{cite web|title=PRHP: List of historic districts|url=http://www.phila.gov/historical/base.html|publisher=Philadelphia Historical Commission|access-date=12 March 2013}}</ref> | image = Parkside HD Philly d.JPG | caption = | location = Bounded by Penn-Central RR track, 38th St., Girard, Parkside and Belmont Aves., [[Philadelphia]], [[Pennsylvania]] | coordinates = {{coord|39|58|26|N|75|12|24|W|display=inline,title}} | locmapin = Philadelphia#Pennsylvania#USA | built = 1876 | architect = Willis G. Hale, Frederick Newman | area = {{convert|97|acre}} | architecture = | added = November 17, 1983 | refnum=83004248<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|2007a}}</ref> }}
'''Parkside''' is a neighborhood that is located in the [[West Philadelphia]] section of [[Philadelphia]], [[Pennsylvania]], United States.
==History and notable features== 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 American]]s, followed by [[Eastern European]] [[Jew]]s, before becoming heavily [[African American]] after [[World War II]]. (Directly after World War II it was home to many displaced persons from Eastern Europe, which included Latvians.)<ref name=nrhpdoc>{{cite report|type=none|url=https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71997210 |title=National Register of Historic Places Registration: Pennsylvania SP Parkside Historic District|publisher=National Archives and Records Administration |author= George E. Thomas| date = July 1983| access-date=January 8, 2026 }} ({{NationalArchivesNote}})</ref>
In 2008, a shopping mall called the Park West Town Village Shopping Center was completed. Its anchor stores are [[ShopRite (United States)|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.<ref>{{cite news|title=Blazing Trails|url=http://www.gridphilly.com/grid-magazine/2014/11/7/blazing-trails.html?rq=pumptrack|access-date=30 November 2015|work=Grid Magazine|date=7 November 2014}}</ref>
Parkside was the early home of [[gangsta rap]]per [[Schoolly D]], and was referenced in his songs "PSK" (Park Side Killers) and "Parkside 5-2".
==Gallery== <gallery mode=packed heights=200> File:Parkside HD Philly a.JPG|Building at 41st and Parkside File:Parkside HD Philly b.JPG|Detail of window of building at 41st and Parkside File:Parkside HD Philly c.JPG|Building at Memorial and Parkside </gallery>
==External links== *[http://www.parksidehistoric.com Parkside Historic Preservation Corporation] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130619015701/http://parksidehistoric.com/ |date=2013-06-19 }} *[http://www.eastparkside.com East Parkside Community Revitalization Corporation] *[http://www.parksideassociation.org Parkside Association Of Philadelphia ] (PAP)
==References== {{Portal|Philadelphia}} {{Reflist}}
{{West Philadelphia}} {{National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania}}
[[Category:Neighborhoods in Philadelphia]] [[Category:Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Philadelphia]] [[Category:Houses completed in 1876]] [[Category:Philadelphia Register of Historic Places]] [[Category:West Philadelphia]] [[Category:Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania]]