City Life The Ordinary Extraordinary: Making History Tangible at the Colored Girls Museum What happens when whiteness is no longer the center of experience? The Colored Girls Museum in Germantown flips the script on conventional house museums and celebrates “home space” as the place where Black women and girls get things done.
Preservation Mt. Airy Couple Seeks to Create Community Space “For Us, By Us” in Philadelphia Sun Building Antoine and Samantha Joseph are raising funds to combine community-oriented development and historic preservation at the former offices of an African American newspaper on Germantown Avenue
Preservation Legendary Philly Soul Studio and Brutalist Icon Go Before Designation Committee Starr Herr-Cardillo has this roundup of local register nominations on the agenda for the August meeting of the Philadelphia Historical Commission’s Designation Committee
Preservation Attention to Detail: From Ironwork to Neon Signs, Historic Building Crafts Are Thriving in 21st Century Philadelphia People are drawn to places that resonate with meaning and memory, for themselves and for the diverse cultural legacies they represent. Protecting such sites challenges historic preservationists to rethink assumptions and update time-honored conventions and tools.
Preservation Meaning and Memory: Making a Place for Culture in Historic Preservation People are drawn to places that resonate with meaning and memory, for themselves and for the diverse cultural legacies they represent. Protecting such sites challenges historic preservationists to rethink assumptions and update time-honored conventions and tools. Starr Herr-Cardillo has more
Preservation City Announces Plans for a Historic Resources Inventory Study A survey of Philadelphia’s historic structures enters the planning phase with a two-year study. Starr Herr-Cardillo has the news
Architecture Finding Adolf DeRoy Mark & His Adobe in the Sky Starr Herr Cardillo scours Society Hill looking for Philly’s most charming postmodern architect
Development New Film Zeros in on Unsafe Neighborhood Construction Local documentary director Jason Sherman spotlights Philly’s dangerous residential construction practices in forthcoming film
