Frick Park Main Entrance

1937-06-02

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Frick Park Main Entrance
  • Title
  • Frick Park Main Entrance
  • Identifier
  • MSP285.B018.F16.I01
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP285.B018.F16.I01
  • Description
  • In 1919 Henry Clay Frick bequeathed 151 acres of land, Frick Woods,” to the City of Pittsburgh for a public park. Frick Park opened on June 25, 1927, as a woodland park. Frick trustees expanded the park by purchasing several hundred additional acres of land in 39 separate transactions. The largest purchase, in 1936, was 90 acres of Pittsburgh Country Club property located on Beechwood Boulevard. The interior wooded habitat has approximately eight miles of trails for walking, jogging, hiking, skiing, or biking. In 1992 the original 151 acres given to the City of Pittsburgh by Henry Clay Frick was designated “Frick Woods Nature Reserve,” an urban wildlife sanctuary. Today, the 476-acre Frick Park is the largest of Pittsburgh’s City Parks.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Frick Park (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Pittsburgh (Pa.).Parks and Recreation.Frick Park.
    Parks--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
  • Source
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs, 1892-1981, MSP 285, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs
  • Rights Information
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