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Architecture

Philly Modernism Takes Center Stage at National Symposium

May 20, 2022 | Kimberly Haas

Docomomo US comes to Philadelphia to spotlight the city’s midcentury pedigree

Old Estate in Chestnut Hill Saved by Artful Intervention
Preservation

Old Estate in Chestnut Hill Saved by Artful Intervention

Woodmere Art Museum’s gallery expansion plan keeps St. Michael’s Hall from the wrecking ball. Stacia Friedman has the news

Ghost Signs of Philadelphia: Maritime Phantoms in Old City
History

Ghost Signs of Philadelphia: Maritime Phantoms in Old City

Jordan Keiffer tracks down the history behind old advertisements in his monthly column, Ghost Signs of Philadelphia. In this installment, sailing the high seas of nautical history

Publicly-Owned Philly History Handed Over to Private University
Preservation

Publicly-Owned Philly History Handed Over to Private University

The City of Philadelphia has officially transferred ownership of 130,000 artifacts from the collection of the Philadelphia History Museum to Drexel University. Kimberly Haas has the details

Animal-Humans, Living Appliances, and Exquisite Tortures: The Life and Art of Arnold Hendrickson
Art & Design

Animal-Humans, Living Appliances, and Exquisite Tortures: The Life and Art of Arnold Hendrickson

Justin Duerr uncovers a forgotten artist with roots in Philadelphia’s 1960s counterculture

Saving South Street Through the Lens of Denise Scott Brown
Photography

Saving South Street Through the Lens of Denise Scott Brown

Celebrated architect Denise Scott Brown and writer Jeremy Eric Tenenbaum take us back to the 1960s when an army of neighbors fought city government to save South Street from the Crosstown Expressway

POOL Explores the History of Segregation in Aquatic Recreation
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

Wissahickon Inn: the Hotel that Launched Chestnut Hill
History

Wissahickon Inn: the Hotel that Launched Chestnut Hill

Stacia Friedman checks in at one of Northwest Philly’s most influential landmarks

Digging Deep
Preservation

Digging Deep

Urban archaeologists unearth full and complicated histories that buildings alone cannot tell

TOP STORIES

Sacré Bleu! Mount Airy’s French Village is Magical

Plans for Park at Penn’s Landing Move Forward

Kodachrome Flashback Shows Reading Terminal Market in the Early 1980s

Wissahickon Inn: the Hotel that Launched Chestnut Hill

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