History The Making & Breaking Of The Philadelphia Commercial Museum Edward Duffy takes us back when industry, commerce, and foreign trade flooded the halls of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum, the first institution of its kind in the United States
Photography Now You See Them, Now You Don’t Building don’t have souls (don’t they?), but there is something ghostly about these composite photos by Andrew Evans of buildings meeting their maker
Photography Paint It Black A peek inside the former Gilbert Spruance paint factory in Port Richmond, a survivor through Philadelphia’s long industrial decline that was derailed by the Environmental Protection Agency
Photography Demolished Buildings of 2011, Part One Monastery of St. Clare, Shawmont Pumping Station, Crompton and Knowles Loom Works, Orinoka Mills, and Cramp Turret and Machine Shop: RIP
Photography Wish You Were Here 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
