Preservation Places Saved: Fall 2025 The Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia highlights vulnerable buildings rescued with reuse with its quarterly list, Places Saved
Preservation The Forgotten Cemetery A native son makes an unbelievable discovery on North Broad Street
Development Temple University Uncovers Human Remains at Construction Site Earlier this month workers discovered bodies while digging the foundation for a new campus building. The event reveals a muddy history of reckless land stewardship
Preservation Court OKs Plan to Sell Historic Mount Vernon Cemetery to Green Burial Company After decades of neglect, a historic cemetery in Allegheny West finds a new steward
History Grave of Georgia Enslaver Discovered at Old Pine Church A misidentified headstone reveals another thread in Philadelphia’s connection to the Antebellum South
History History is Alive at Ivy Hill Cemetery David Bell explores one of Philadelphia’s lesser-known burial grounds
Preservation Digging Deep Urban archaeologists unearth full and complicated histories that buildings alone cannot tell
City Life Playing on Hallowed Ground: Hidden Cemeteries and the Modern City Underneath many of Philadelphia’s community playgrounds lay the remains of burial grounds lost in relocation. Kimberly Haas takes a look at this oddly common confluence of the living and the dead
