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====Parks==== {{See also|Drinking fountains in Philadelphia|Fairmount Park|List of parks in Philadelphia|}} [[File:Detroit Photographic Company (0757).jpg|thumb|Philadelphia's [[Fairmount Park]] on the [[Schuylkill River]], the city's largest and one of the world's largest public parks]] {{As of|2014}}, the city's total park space, including municipal, state, and federal parks in the city, amounts to {{convert|11211|acre|sqmi|1}}.<ref name=tplrank/> Philadelphia's largest park is [[Fairmount Park]], which includes the [[Philadelphia Zoo]] and encompasses {{convert|2052|acre|sqmi|1}} of the total parkland. Fairmount Park's adjacent [[Wissahickon Valley Park]] contains {{convert|2042|acre|sqmi|1}}.<ref name=parkacres>{{cite web |url=http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/cs/groups/public/documents/document/dcnr_20027240.pdf |title=The City of Philadelphia, Emerald Ash Borer Management Plan |website=dcnr.state.pa.us |publisher=The City of Philadelphia |year=2012 |page=2 |quote=The City contains approximately 6,781 acres of watershed parks including East/West Fairmount Parks (2052 ac.), Wissahickon Valley Park (2042 ac.) |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161219001451/http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/cs/groups/public/documents/document/dcnr_20027240.pdf |archive-date=December 19, 2016 |url-status=dead |access-date=January 6, 2017 }}</ref> Fairmount Park, when combined with Wissahickon Valley Park, is one of the largest contiguous [[urban park]] areas in the U.S.<ref name=tplrank/> The two parks, along with the [[Colonial Revival architecture|Colonial Revival]], [[Georgian architecture|Georgian]] and [[Federal architecture|Federal]]-style [[List of houses in Fairmount Park|mansions]] in them, have been listed as one entity on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] since 1972.<ref name=NRHP>{{cite web |url=http://focus.nps.gov/AssetDetail/NRIS/72001151 |title=National Register of Historic Places β Fairmount Park β #72001151 |date=February 7, 1972 |website=focus.nps.gov |publisher=National Park Service |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161230223434/https://focus.nps.gov/AssetDetail/NRIS/72001151 |archive-date=December 30, 2016 |url-status=live |access-date=January 6, 2017 |quote=Locations: Philadelphia; Both banks of Schuylkill River and Wissahickon Creek, from Spring Garden St. to Northwestern Ave. }}</ref>
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