Preservation Lost Buildings of 2013-Part II Our Lost Buildings roundup concludes with five more entries, plus four that almost made the list
Preservation Bottleneck At The Historical Commission A political dispute over the designation of the Overbrook Farms Historic District coupled with perennial shortstaffing issues at the Philadelphia Historical Commission has brought the historic designation process to a halt, leaving vulnerable buildings and the proposed Washington Square West Historic District in bureaucratic limbo
Preservation Roundhouse, Broad & Lombard Health Center At Top Of Endangered List The two iconic post-War buildings are joined by the Family Court on Logan Square and “Philadelphia Breweries”
Preservation Gretz Cited For Violations But Demo Not Imminent (Updated) L&I cites Gretz’s owner Tony Rufo with six new code violations, serious enough to warrant a “repair of demolish” notice pasted onto the 19th century brewery
Photography Anything But Sober The 19th century beer barons of Philadelphia built breweries that looked more like castles than factories. For our third and final Beer Week installment, we visit the suitably ornate yet sadly vacant Rieger & Gretz Brewery on Germantown Avenue, which a neighborhood group hopes to put on the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places
Preservation What’s Up With The Gretz Brewery? In our second Beer Week installment, Dan Wisniewski finds another vintage brewing plant, the 1861 Gretz brewery, with some motivated advocates pushing for reuse, but no clear path forward
