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From Prints To Trivets, Art Imitates Life Of Manhole Covers
Art & Design

From Prints To Trivets, Art Imitates Life Of Manhole Covers

Contributor Jonathan Schmalzbach talks with a designer and a printmaker about their obsession with manhole covers and public utility as creative muse

Pencoyd Bridge Reopens In Manayunk, As Redevelopment Of Foundry Site Begins
History

Pencoyd Bridge Reopens In Manayunk, As Redevelopment Of Foundry Site Begins

The deserted industrial site of Pencoyd Iron Works is next on a growing list of riverside redevelopment along the Schuylkill. Contributor Mick Ricereto takes us deep inside the history of the family-owned foundry and farmland that dates back to the city’s founding

Finding Robert Wood: The Long Lost Foundry Of An Iconic Ironworker
History

Finding Robert Wood: The Long Lost Foundry Of An Iconic Ironworker

Robert Wood’s renowned foundry at the corner of Ridge Avenue and 12th Street on Spring Garden Street once produced some of the nation’s finest ornamental iron work. The neighborhood is slowly awakening with renewal, yet the revered company’s former site remains an empty, blighted lot

Live/Work: outcast studios
Art & Design

Live/Work: outcast studios

In the first of an occasional series looking at some of the city’s more unusual living spaces, we visit an old bronze foundry that’s more work/live than live/work


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