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The Crisis On Jewelers Row: Mayor Kenney We Need You
Preservation

The Crisis On Jewelers Row: Mayor Kenney We Need You

The tools are in hand to stop Toll Brothers’ tower (and get it built somewhere else), architectural historian and preservation professor Aaron Wunsch argues. Can Jim Kenney deliver?

More Losses On The Preservation Front & One Thing That Really Must Be Saved
Preservation

More Losses On The Preservation Front & One Thing That Really Must Be Saved

The eleventh hour of our annual fundraising campaign is here and we are only two-thirds towards meeting our goal. Historic preservationist Aaron Wunsch calls Hidden City an indispensable, cultural resource covering Philadelphia’s shifting built environment and explains why you should make a contribution today

Distorted Perceptions Demolished The Levy-Leas Mansion
Preservation

Distorted Perceptions Demolished The Levy-Leas Mansion

The historic Levy Leas Mansion at 40th and Pine has now been reduced to a pile of debris. Hidden agendas and selective thinking is to blame says architectural historian and preservation professor Aaron Wunsch. Here is his final word on the 160-year-old West Philadelphia home

At The Eleventh Hour, Seeking A New Accord At 40th & Pine
Preservation

At The Eleventh Hour, Seeking A New Accord At 40th & Pine

Could a last-ditch effort at diplomacy between the University of Pennsylvania and the Woodland Terrace Homeowners Association save the John P. Levy House from demolition? Aaron Wunsch says it can and should be done, though it would take a touch more civic stewardship by the university and an even-keeled willingness to compromise by the neighborhood group

Shohei Shigematsu, Reluctant Preservationist
Architecture

Shohei Shigematsu, Reluctant Preservationist

Architect Shohei Shigematsu was billed as a “preservation protagonist,” but Aaron Wunsch found preservation largely missing from Shigematsu’s talk Wednsday night, sponsored by Gray Area. Instead, Wunsch discovered an opening to talk about creativity and constraints in the design process

Why 400 South 40th Street Matters
Preservation

Why 400 South 40th Street Matters

The struggle to save the Levy-Leas Mansion in West Philadelphia persists. Aaron Wunsch reminds us why it was important in the first place

A Long Life In Limbo: 19th Street Baptist & The Challenges That Lie Ahead
Preservation

A Long Life In Limbo: 19th Street Baptist & The Challenges That Lie Ahead

  Editor’s Note: Join Aaron Wunsch, professor of historic preservation at the University of Pennsylvania, for a tour of endangered 19th Street Baptist Church, a little-known beauty designed by Frank Furness. The building’s lovely green serpentine facade has proven to be extremely fragile, making it one part of what Wunsch calls “a three-part preservation puzzle.” […]


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