Preservation Urban Renewal Redux? City Goes After More Tax Dollars for Demolition July 25, 2022 | Kimberly Haas City Council passes a new bill that promotes razing buildings as a way to increase economic development
History On the Waterfront: Chronicling the Lives of Philly’s Black Seamen Keshler Thibert explores the history of African American sailors and dock workers on the Delaware River
Preservation Arch Street Project Examines Life and Death in Colonial Philadelphia Forensic scientists and archeologists uncover life in the 1700s through the recovery of human remains
Preservation Black Doctors Row and Sister Rosetta Tharpe House Added to the Historic Register Celia Jailer has this report from the July 2022 meeting of the Philadelphia Historical Commission
History Ghost Signs of Philadelphia: Steinmetz Marble Works in Callowhill Jordan Keiffer tracks down the history behind old advertisements in his monthly column, Ghost Signs of Philadelphia. In this installment, a rock-solid stone mason on Ridge Avenue
Art & Design POOL Explores the History of Segregation in Aquatic Recreation A new exhibition at Fairmount Water Works dives into the civil rights struggle to swim as equals. Kimberly Haas has this review
Art & Design Artist Explores Urban Renewal at Park Towne Place Mid-century apartment towers become vessels for expression in a new art exhibition
Preservation Preservation Group Mobilizes to Save Lynnewood Hall A Gilded Age mansion in Elkins Park has been reawakened. Kimberly Haas and Peter Woodall take us inside the legendary home
Photography Photographer Captures Heaven on Earth at Devil’s Pool In her new book, Sarah Kaufman distills an endless summer in the Wissahickon
