Progress At 19th Street Baptist
With training provided by the Bucks County-based LimeWorks.us, which specializes in hydraulic lime mortar, volunteers stabilized the church's north wall > more
Louis, We Hardly Knew Ye
Ben Leech traces the undeveloped connection between Philadelphia and the great architect Louis Sullivan to forgotten plans for Island City, an amusement park that was to be built on Petty's Island > more
School In The Southwest A “Success Story”
A Southwest case study for Philly schools' ills, preserving the name of "Gayborhood," the Mayor hoping for another Center City hotel, Furness cemetery architecture explored, and the zoo to get more parking > more
How To Read Your State
Or half of it, anyway--a review of "Buildings of Pennsylvania: Philadelphia and Eastern Pennsylvania" by George Thomas > more
Wistful For Modern
Forget the colonial city or the 19th century city, what happened to the muscular city of the mid-20th century? > more
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