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Tour: Cedar Park, Clark Park, Portal

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You will walk a little over a mile through two parks and both residential and commercial blocks of this tree-lined former suburb of Philadelphia. At the end you'll be a few blocks South of the Penn campus, across the street from The Woodlands, which has its own impressive art collection and is open dawn to dusk, and at the Trolley Portal, where you can catch the T2,T3,T4, and T5 in either direction. Start at the Northwest corner of 49th and Baltimore and then walk

Cedar Park World War I Memorial
1924
* stele, ideas and symbols, eagle, banner, star
* inscription:
IN HONOR OF THE WORLD WAR VETERANS
ERECTED BY THE WEST PHILADELPHIA BUSINESS MEN'S ASSOCIATION
JUNE 11, 1924
 * East end of Cedar Park. West of the Northwest corner, 49th and Baltimore.
* 39.948223,-75.221955 [map] [nearby]
* Exhibits: Unidentified Artists, War



Cedar Park Mosaics
Johnny Buss, Mike Smash, 2005
* abstract patterns, sign
* Walkways with walls and pillars. Cedar Park. Northeast corner, 50th and Baltimore.
* 39.948100,-75.223150 [map] [nearby]
* Exhibits: Mosaic
* See also:
+muralarts.org's page for this piece
+ublicartarchive.org's page for this piece
+publicartarchive.org's Johnny Buss page
+publicartarchive.org's Mike Smash page



Tons of Tiles
2003
* food
* The inscription tile gives has two titles "Cedar Park" by Karl Yoder and "Tons of Tiles." There is a second credit tile inside the fence that says June, 200 and then a final digit I cannot read. The Mural Arts site implies the mural and tiles are all one piece, but has no date. Yoder's web site does not mention the tiles at all, but does provide a date of 2003. I am listing this as "Tons of Tiles", 2003 and providing the Mural Arts link for "Cedar Park"
* inscription: Created by Delphi After School Art Museum Program students from Ludlow, Wagner, Turner, Drew, Sulzberger, and Lea schools.
 * Wall. Baltimore and Willows (South side of Baltimore, East of 50th).
* 39.947945,-75.222605 [map] [nearby]
* Exhibits: Mosaic
* See also:
+muralarts.org's Cedar Park page



Mary
* statue of Mary
* standing person, head covered
* South side of Windsor, West of 47th.
* 39.947385,-75.216000 [map] [nearby]
* Exhibits: Religious, Unidentified Artists
* See also:
+ihmimmaculata.org
+wikipedia.org's Mary, mother of Jesus page



St. Francis de Sales Walls
Henry Dandurand Dagit (Architect), Adolfo de Nesti, 1907
* Representations of Ezekiel (statue), Gabriel (relief), Isaiah (probable statue), Jesus (multiple reliefs), Saint John (statue), Joseph (relief), Saint Luke (statue), The Magi (relief), Saint Mark (statue), Mary (multiple reliefs), Saint Matthew (statue), Saint Paul (statue), Saint Peter (statue) and Pontius Pilate (relief)
* people sitting, kneeling, standing, headgear, book, manger, furniture, staff, sheep, ox, heads, winged people, Christian ideas, words, and symbols
* The angel in the first picture is on the North side of the building. Over the West Entrance is a relief of the adoration of the magi flanked by Ezekiel and presumably Isaiah as there is a tradition of pairing them with that subject. On the North side there are three entrances with reliefs above them and relief panels between them, including Jesus standing before Pilate. The first entrance, on the left, has a relief of the annunciation, flanked by Matthew and Mark. The main entrance, with a relief of Mary, a child Christ, and angels, is flanked by Peter and Paul, and the right entrance is a relief pieta flanked by Luke and John.
* inscription:
West entrance: THE WORD WAS MADE FLESH
Left North entrance: HAIL, FULL OF GRACE
Center North entrance: MY EYES SHALL BE OPEN AND MY EARS ATTENTIVE TO THE PRAYERS OF HIM THAT SHALL PRAY IN THIS HOUSE
Right North entrance: CHRIST DIED FOR US.
 * Walls. St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church. Northeast corner, 47th and Springfield.
* 39.947150,-75.215194 [map] [nearby]
* Exhibits: Religious
* See also:
+wikipedia.org's St. Francis de Sales Roman Catholic Church page
+philadelphiabuildings.org's Henry Dandurand Dagit page
+post about the life and work of Adolfo de Nesti at sfdshistory.wordpress.com
+wikipedia.org's Ezekiel page
+wikipedia.org's Gabriel page
+wikipedia.org's Isaiah page
+wikipedia.org's Jesus page
+wikipedia.org's John the Evangelist page
+wikipedia.org's Saint Joseph page
+wikipedia.org's Luke the Evangelist page
+wikipedia.org's Magi page
+wikipedia.org's Mark the Evangelist page
+wikipedia.org's Mary, mother of Jesus page
+wikipedia.org's Matthew the Apostle page
+wikipedia.org's Paul the Apostle page
+wikipedia.org's Saint Peter page
+wikipedia.org's Pontius Pilate page



Mary
2009 (approximate)
* statue of Mary
* standing person, head covering, rock
* inscription:
In gratitude for the legacy of Most Blessed Sacrament Parish, 1901-2008 and with praise, love and thanksgiving for all the good done there by the priests, the faithful, and especially the sisters servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
 * Front yard of the Parrish House, St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church. North side of Springfield, East of 47th.
* 39.947475,-75.214800 [map] [nearby]
* Exhibits: Religious, Unidentified Artists
* See also:
+wikipedia.org's Mary, mother of Jesus page



Satterlee General Hospital Marker
1915
* References to Isaac Israel Hayes and Richard Sherwood Satterlee
* rock
* The plaque references Richard Smith Satterlee. But the correct name appears to be Richard Sherwood Satterlee.
* inscription: This stone from the battle-field of Gettysburg is placed by citizens of the neighborhood in the year 1915 to mark the nearby site of the West Philadelphia General Hostpital of the United States Army-later designated the Satterlee General Hospital in honor of Brigadier-General Richard Smith Satterlee, U.S.A. A noted surgeon - and also to commemorate the services of the patriotic men and women who as volunteer physicians, nurses and co-workers under General Isaac I. Hayes, Surgeon in Chief, here ministered from June 9, 1862 to August 3, 1865 to more than twenty thousand sick and wounded soldiers of the Civil War.
 * North side of Clark Park. South side of Baltimore Avenue, West of 43rd.
* 39.949300,-75.210330 [map] [nearby]
* Exhibits: Unidentified Artists, War
* See also:
+wikipedia.org's Satterlee General Hospital page
+wikipedia.org's Isaac Israel Hayes page
+wikipedia.org's Richard Sherwood Satterlee page



Clark Park Urban Forest Inventory Frame
2006
* plants
* graphic by Chris Leswing
* Northeast corner of Clark Park. Southwest of the Southwest corner, 43rd and Baltimore.
* 39.949300,-75.209550 [map] [nearby]
* Exhibits: Unidentified Artists



Dickens and Little Nell
Francis Edwin Elwell, 1890
* Only known statue of Charles Dickens
* two people, one standing, one sitting, chair
* Clark Park. North side of Chester, West of 43rd.
* 39.948625,-75.209550 [map] [nearby]
* Exhibits: Favorites
* See also:
+Article about this piece by Martha Rosso
+phillyhistory.org 1910 picture of this piece
+associationforpublicart.org's page for this piece
+wikipedia.org's Francis Edwin Elwell page
+wikipedia.org's Charles Dickens page



4005 Woodland Ave.
Isaiah Zagar, 1997
* big abstract mosaic
* House and driveway walls. North side of Woodland, West of the 40th St. Trolley Portal.
* 39.948685,-75.204890 [map] [nearby]
* Exhibits: Mosaic
* See also:
+first official picture of this piece at imgur.comm
+second official picture of this piece at imgur.comm
+third official picture of this piece at imgur.comm
+phillymagicgardens.org


Possible trip extension:Avenue of Technology (North on 40th to Market)
Possible trip extension:University City South Medical Complex (North on 40th to Spruce)

See Also

+woodlandsphila.org
+wikipedia.org's Cedar Park , Philadelphia page
+wikipedia.org's Clark Park page
+desalesphilly.com