City Life Playing on Hallowed Ground: Hidden Cemeteries and the Modern City Underneath many of Philadelphia’s community playgrounds lay the remains of burial grounds lost in relocation. Kimberly Haas takes a look at this oddly common confluence of the living and the dead
Architecture Cryptoporticus Exposed: Tunnels Beneath Woodlands Mansion Bare All Cryptoportiwho? Michael Bixler went urban spelunking inside the network of service tunnels that lie beneath Hamilton’s Mansion with Woodlands Cemetery executive director Jessica Baumert. Open to the elements after more than a century, the subterranean passageways are currently undergoing major structural restoration
History We Burrow Through Time To An Original Delaware River Cave Despite being nearly obliterated by successive waves of infrastructure development, a small stretch of Front Street north of the Ben Franklin Bridge remains. It’s there we find an extraordinary connection to the city’s origins