Clark Park

Clark Park is a municipal park in the Spruce Hill section of West Philadelphia in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Its 9.1 acres are bordered by 43rd and 45th streets, and by Baltimore and Woodland Avenues. The park was established in 1895 on land donated to the city by banker and West Philadelphia developer Clarence Howard Clark, and was known in its early decades as "Clarence H. Clark Park". Today, the park has a basketball court, playground, an open field, and many paths. It holds a life-sized 1890 sculpture of Charles Dickens by Francis Edwin Elwell, one of just two known statues of the author. It is home to the Shakespeare in Clark Park theatre company. The park also hosts Philadelphia's largest year-round farmers' market, which runs once or twice a week, depending on the season.