Uncategorized A Last Look at Second Baptist Church The demolition of a former house of worship in Northern Liberties has provided a glimpse into the building's ...
History Obit For A NoLibs House Of Worship The former Second Baptist Church on New Market Street--for decades obscured by a thick coat of stucco and home to the AA Fence Co.--is slated for demolition. Which makes the time ripe for a a ...
Photography Benediction At St. John The Evangelist Demolition on St. John the Evangelist begins on Monday. John and Joan Pettit, longtime parishioners of the church, share their experience there, and Chris Dougherty brings us this photo essay of the church before the ...
Preservation Top Ten Significant, Vulnerable Churches Along with factories and schools, churches bring our neighborhoods a sense of scale, history, and often beauty. Some 60-80 across the city are acutely threatened. We've selected 10 that really do matter--for various reasons, their ...
Preservation The Geography Of Retreat Hidden City has covered more churches and schools that have closed, are closing, or might be closing, than we'd really care to. John Vidumsky has plotted them on a citywide map to illustrate just how ...
Photography Into the Light The faded beauty of the former Fourth Reformed Church in Roxborough, through the lens of Laura ...
Preservation Holy Smokes: What Do We Do With All These Churches? As we face a spate of newly abandoned sacred spaces, ideas and inspiration from the dozens of church reuses in Philadelphia, including the former Church of New ...
Preservation Hope For 19th St. Baptist? Furness Week, Day 4: Winter is closing in, and the most endangered Frank Furness building in the city still has two gaping holes in its roof. Help is on the way, but will it arrive ...
