Hidden City Philadelphia | Author Ethan Wallace

Ethan Wallace

Ethan Wallace attended Temple University, where he received a BA in Communications. He has always been interested in the forgotten, unknown, or unseen parts of the city and has spent the last several years photographing Philly’s hidden and vanishing locations. He is also involved with the National Museum of Industrial History in Bethlehem, Pa. More of Ethan's photography can be seen More of Ethan's photography can be seen HERE

A Monument To Ignorance

January 31, 2013 | Soapbox

What's that Plains Indian doing in our woods? Ethan Wallace reveals the wrong identity of the statue of the Lenape chief Tedyuscung on the Wissahickon's "Council Rock" > more

For The Railroad Nation, The House Of Zinc

December 18, 2012 | Vantage

With plans for a Live Nation concert venue in the former Ajax Metal complex in Fishtown moving forward, we take you inside the former smelting plant and laboratory > more

Goodbye, Paradise City

December 7, 2012 | Vantage

Ethan Wallace remembers the Croyden Apartments, a.k.a. "Paradise City." Once the largest squat in the city, the apartment complex was a haven for crust punks, street kids, and modern hobos on their way through town > more

Memorials Of Brick

October 22, 2012 | Last Light

In Philadelphia, smokestacks were once the most prominent feature of the skyline, competing only with church spires for dominance of the horizon. They towered above every mill, factory, and plant, rising hundreds of feet into a smog choked sky > more

Almost Heaven On The Eighth Floor

July 25, 2012 | Last Light

As the former refrigerated warehouses at Delaware Avenue and Beach Streets become the "Waterview Grande" apartments, Ethan Wallace remembers another recent use: the Eighth Floor nightclub, which closed in 2003. Here's the interior of the club, empty and silent--a memory > more