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In Belmont, The Making Of A “City Of Villas”
Preservation

In Belmont, The Making Of A “City Of Villas”

Contributor Joshua Bevan takes us on an architectural tour of Belmont, where the origins and growth of the neighborhood can still be read in its distinctive homes

Near Whitman House, A Queen Anne Revival For Writers
Architecture

Near Whitman House, A Queen Anne Revival For Writers

Rutgers Writer’s House is penning a new chapter for a late 19th century Queen Anne revival home on Cooper Street in Camden. SJ Punderson has the story on the Good Gray Poet’s former neighbor

Saying Goodbye To Stokes House
Preservation

Saying Goodbye To Stokes House

The end is near for the Stokes house of Holme Circle. Despite efforts by a local civic association to save the 19th century stone farmhouse at 2976 Welsh Road, it will be razed any day now for new residential development. Hidden City co-editor Michael Bixler took a trip out to Holmesburg to bid the building a fond farewell

At 200, The Athenaeum Thinks About The Library Of The Future
Architecture

At 200, The Athenaeum Thinks About The Library Of The Future

Tonight kicks of a design competition that seeks visions of the library in the 21st century

Preservation

It’s Been A Bad Year For You, Samuel Sloan

There are demolition permits out on three Sloan buildings, including an 1854 school in Bustleton, his last one remaining, and a mansion and church in West Philadelphia

Architecture

Crude, Violent & Revolting

A look at the past–and possible future–of the Hale Building, often called Philadelphia’s most bizarre skyscraper

Beauty On High
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Beauty On High

In their wisdom, the architects of Center City’s ornate buildings put some of their most extravagant decorations too far up to be seen from street level. We sent Rob Lybeck out to show us what we’ve been missing


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