Fairmount Park Conservancy

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Rendering of the soon-to-be-re-created "Rustic Pavilion"

Women for the Water Works

The 2007 Water Works Celebration was a great success! Thanks to all of you who attended.

  • The Women for the Water Works is a committee of the Fairmount Park Conservancy that was founded in January of 2006.

  • This committee consists of approximately fifty civic-minded women who have committed to raising the necessary funds to finish Ernesta Ballard’s signature project, the South Gardens and Cliffside Paths at the Fairmount Water Works.  For a full committee list please click here. 

  • The committe was recently honored by the Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia, which awarded the Water Works and South Garden Cliffside Project with the 2007 Grand Jury Project Award. 
  • The Women for the Water Works has raised $3.6 million towards its $5 million dollar goal, bringing the total monies collected to more than $28 million since renovations first began thirty years ago.
  • The project goal includes $2 million to establish a maintenance endowment, an important addition to maintain the integrity of the project. 
  • To view the South Garden and Cliffside brochure please click here. 

 

Limited Edition Full Color Water Works Photographs
by Graydon Wood, Senior Photographer at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

All photographs are 17 X 11 inches and signed and numbered. Limited Edition of 15 each. Prices are $250 each unframed and $500 framed. Contact us at 215-988-9334 for purchase. All proceeds go to benefit the final phase of the Water Works restoration.

 

Water Works: View from the Eagle Pavilion

 

Water Works: View from the West Bank of the Schuylkill River

 

Water Works: View from the South Garden

 

Water Works: The Graff Memorial