Boathouse Row Kelly Drive Home of Penn's crew team, our boathouse is one of many that line the Schuylkill. At any time during the day, you can see one of Penn's boats or that of another team practicing on the river. This area is particularly pretty at night when all of the boathouses are lit up. This is the only major building remaining from the Centennial celebrations. In the basement is an exhibition commemorating the Centennial fairground, the first World's Fair ever held in this country.
Admission is free.
This arch was built in 1896 with statues honoring heros of the Civil War. If you sit at one end of its curved stone benches and a friend sits fifty feet away at the bench's other end, you will be able to hear all that your friend whispers. No handicapped access Located throughout Fairmount Park are the summer homes of several prominent eighteenth-century Philadelphians. Restored in the 1970s, each house has its own character and reflects the interests of its previous owner. A Quaker farmhouse, this home was moved into the Fairmount Park in the 1920s from its original site in Frankford.