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

Ethan Wallace discovers that even cities of the dead have separatist enclaves, ethnically and racially diverse neighborhoods, elite suburbs, and yes, slums

The Divine Lorraine is getting a lot of attention from the city and the media (ourselves included) these days. But as Ethan Wallace points out, there is another magnificent apartment building rotting in relative anonymity a scant three miles up Broad Street

Hidden behind the stone wall: the life of George de Benneville, pioneering founder of the Universalist Church, and a doctor who treated patriot and loyalist alike in the War for Independence

A former coal dealer’s building, at 409 N. 13th Street, below the Reading Viaduct holds a trove of coal and railroad company memorabilia

Most sources say that Midvale Steel was demolished in the 80s. But two buildings remain from its original Nicetown plant, tucked away inside a SEPTA maintenance facility

Ethan Wallace’s photo essay looks at the Frankford Arsenal circa 2010, shortly before demolition on the north side of the property began