Preservation Demo Prep Begins For Gothic Revival Church In West Philly Christ Memorial Reformed Episcopal Church, a mountainous 131-year-old Gothic Revival landmark in West Philly, prepares for the end. Michael Bixler has the ...
Preservation Repeating History In Old City After Chestnut Street Fire Tyler Putman takes a look at the recent fire that ravaged 239 Chestnut Street and its long-gone neighbor the Jayne Building, a mid-19th century skyscraper that suffered a similar ...
Architecture The Lasting Mark Of An Architect/Developer The Shadow has the lowdown on an old office building at 22nd and Chestnut Street that was designed by one of Philly's first architects to play the role of real estate ...
Architecture Mid Mod Façade On Chestnut Conceals History Of Wheels The Shadow uncovers a 97-year-old Center City auto dealership that has no problem changing with the ...
History An Original Keeps It Classy On Chestnut Street From furniture and furnace manufacturing to a 1980s video arcade, 1606 Chestnut Street has kept busy for 127 years. The Shadow has the details on this Center City ...
Photography I’m Still Here: Saving The Work Of Robert Cornelius In 1839, amateur chemist Robert Cornelius was experimenting with a new photographic process at his family's store in Center City. That fateful year, in an alley off of Chestnut Street, he would give birth to ...
Architecture Old Mansion Hangs Tough On Chestnut Street Rittenhouse Square is full of sturdy, old mansions, but you would be hard-pressed to find one as resilient as this. The Shadow has the lowdown on this tenacious Queen Ann Revival home at 22nd and ...
Preservation Razing A City In Haste: The Lesson Of The Horn Building The Shadow takes a look at indiscriminate demolition and the state of preservation in Philadelphia from the windows of the Horn ...
