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Nomination Withdrawal Signals The End For Stone Cottage In Overbrook Farms
Preservation

Nomination Withdrawal Signals The End For Stone Cottage In Overbrook Farms

Historical Commission withdraws nomination for 127-year-old cottage in Overbrook Farms after owner St. Joseph’s University neglects the home for over a decade. Starr Herr-Cardillo has the news

L&I An Overlooked Asset To Historic Preservation Efforts
Preservation

L&I An Overlooked Asset To Historic Preservation Efforts

Dana Rice looks at “demolition by neglect” and the potential of the Department of Licenses and Inspections as an unlikely ally in the fight to solve Philly’s preservation crisis

Marked Potential: Warwick Apartment House
Architecture

Marked Potential: Warwick Apartment House

With this month’s Marked Potential we put our eyes on the Warwick Apartment House currently under threat of demolition. Interior architect Shila Griffith puts a stop to the wrecking ball with this boutique hotel conversion

Surveying The Damage With Abandoned America: The Age of Consequences
Photography

Surveying The Damage With Abandoned America: The Age of Consequences

A picture is worth a thousand words, but some can leave you speechless. We caught up with photographer Matthew Christopher to discuss a nation in architectural decline and his new book, “Abandoned America: The Age of Consequences”

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Still A Beauty

Last moments for the Church of the Assumption? With demolition permitted beginning tomorrow, Photographer Chandra Lampreich takes us inside today

With Ortlieb’s Destined for the Wrecking Ball, An Artist Speaks Up
Art & Design

With Ortlieb’s Destined for the Wrecking Ball, An Artist Speaks Up

Last month a mysterious flag appeared on top of the tree that graced the roof of the abandoned and soon-to-be demolished Ortlieb’s Brewery building in Northern Liberties. We’ve got the story of how it got up there–and why

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Ortlieb’s, The Last Brewery In NoLibs, To Be Demolished

Developer Bart Blatstein says the market in the neighborhood has shifted to new construction. But there are no set plans for the site, one of the last vestiges of the Northern Liberties’ rich industrial history

Update: Wynne Theater Demolition Imminent
Preservation

Update: Wynne Theater Demolition Imminent

The 1928 theater, deemed too ruined to save, will be torn down by the city. A mixed-use development for the site is being sought by Fourth District councilman Curtis Jones


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