The ships of the “Dead Fleet” at Pier 78 rise at low tide from their watery graves in the Delaware River. It’s a curious sight, recalling a time when the riverbanks thrummed with a booming maritime industry. Philadelphia shipping historian Robert McNulty takes us on a salty voyage to uncover the backstory of South Philadelphia’s ghost ship graveyard

Monastery of St. Clare, Shawmont Pumping Station, Crompton and Knowles Loom Works, Orinoka Mills, and Cramp Turret and Machine Shop: RIP

As 2011 comes to a close, we’re taking a look at some of the buildings that got demolished this year. First up, the Cramp Turret and Machine Shop in Fishtown, a majestic industrial building that was the historic Cramp Shipyard’s last surviving structure

A lament for the lost buildings of the year, and a reckoning for a city that isn’t quite serious enough