Fitler Square

Fitler Square is a 0.5 acre (0.20 ha) public park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States and a surrounding neighborhood of the same name.The neighborhood encompasses much of southwest Center City west of Rittenhouse Square and east of the Schuylkill River.The neighborhood is mostly residential, composed of single-family homes[citation needed], and within a short walk of the commercial areas of Center City.In 2010, the Fitler Square Improvement Association engaged a large project at a cost of approximately $40,000 funded by neighborhood donations and a $7,000 grant from the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society to change the fountain into one that recirculates all of its water with a pumping system saving huge amounts of water each year.The Philadelphia School, a private institution, is located in the Fitler Square Neighborhood at 2501 Lombard St.
Fitler Square, c. 1947
The fountain in Fitler Square
Neighborhood of PhiladelphiaUnited StatesPennsylvaniaPhiladelphiaArea code(s)215, 267, and 445neighborhoodCenter CityRittenhouse SquareSchuylkill RiverPhiladelphia mayorEdwin Henry FitlerUniversity CityUniversity of PennsylvaniaDrexel UniversitySouthwest Center Cityurban blightMayor ClarkmortgageCrosstown ExpresswayNational Register of Historic Places listings in Center City, PhiladelphiaEric BergFree Library of PhiladelphiaGilbert and Eleanor KrausPhillyKim DelaneyThe Sixth SenseSections andNeighborhoodsAvenue of the ArtsBroad StreetChinatownFranklin SquareJewelers' RowLogan SquareOld CityPenn's LandingSociety HillSouth StreetWashington Square WestBella VistaCentral South PhiladelphiaDevil's PocketDickinson Square WestEast Passyunk CrossingFabric RowFDR ParkGirard EstateGrays FerryGreenwichHawthorneItalian MarketLittle SaigonLower MoyamensingMarconi PlazaMoyamensingNewboldPacker ParkPassyunk SquarePennsportPoint BreezeQueen VillageSouthwarkSports ComplexWest PassyunkWhartonWhitmanWilson ParkSouthwestAngoraBartram VillageClearviewEastwickElmwood ParkHog IslandKingsessingMount MoriahPaschallSouthwest SchuylkillAvenue of TechnologyBelmont VillageCarroll ParkCathedral ParkCentennial DistrictCedar ParkCobbs CreekDunlapGarden CourtHaddingtonHaverford NorthMantuaMill CreekOverbrookOverbrook FarmsOverbrook ParkParksidePowelton VillageSaunders ParkSpruce HillSquirrel Hill30th Street StationWalnut HillWoodland TerraceWynnefieldWynnefield HeightsLower NorthBelfieldBrewerytownCallowhillCecil B. MooreEl Centro de Oro / FairhillFairmountFrancisvilleHartranftIvy HillLudlowN3RD StreetNorth CentralNorthern LibertiesNorth Philadelphia EastNorth Philadelphia WestPoplarSharswoodSouth LehighSpring GardenStantonStrawberry MansionYorktownUpper NorthAllegheny WestBadlandsFranklinvilleGlenwoodHunting ParkNicetown–TiogaOlde KensingtonSwampoodleWest KensingtonOlney-Oak LaneEast Oak LaneFeltonvilleFern RockKoreatownOgontzWest Oak LaneNorthwestAndorraEast FallsManayunkParklandRoxboroughWissahickonBeggarstownCedarbrookChestnut HillGermantownMortonMount AiryWisterNortheastBurholmeCastor GardensCrescentvilleFox ChaseFrankfordHolme CircleHolmesburgJuniataLawndaleLexington ParkMayfairOxford CircleRhawnhurstTaconyWissinomingAcademy GardensAshton-WoodenbridgeBustletonByberryCrestmont FarmsMillbrookModena ParkMorrell ParkNormandyParkwoodPennypackSomertonTorresdaleUpper HolmesburgWinchester ParkRiver WardsBridesburgFishtownHarrowgateKensingtonOlde RichmondPort RichmondPhiladelphia (Center City)BoroughsAramingoWest PhiladelphiaWhitehallDistrictsBelmontRichmondTownshipsBlockleyBristolDelawareLower DublinMorelandOxfordPassyunkconsolidated city-countyBurholme ParkClark ParkDilworth ParkEakins OvalFairmount ParkFitler SquareFox Chase FarmFranklin Delano Roosevelt ParkGirard Fountain ParkIndependence National Historical ParkInnovation PlazaLogan CircleLove ParkMalcolm X ParkPastorius ParkPenn Treaty ParkPennypack ParkPretzel ParkReading ViaductSpruce Street Harbor ParkStephen Girard ParkThomas Paine PlazaWashington SquareWissahickon Valley ParkWeccacoe PlaygroundList of parks