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Stephen Girard Building Springs Back to Life With New Hotel
Preservation

Stephen Girard Building Springs Back to Life With New Hotel

Canopy, a boutique Hilton Hotel, opens this week in the Stephen Girard Building on 12th Street

Advocates Mobilize to Save a Mid-Century Modern Icon
Preservation

Advocates Mobilize to Save a Mid-Century Modern Icon

In Chestnut Hill, the Dorothy Shipley White House gets a helping hand

Attention to Detail: From Ironwork to Neon Signs, Historic Building Crafts Are Thriving in 21st Century Philadelphia 
Preservation

Attention to Detail: From Ironwork to Neon Signs, Historic Building Crafts Are Thriving in 21st Century Philadelphia 

People are drawn to places that resonate with meaning and memory, for themselves and for the diverse cultural legacies they represent. Protecting such sites challenges historic preservationists to rethink assumptions and update time-honored conventions and tools.

Historic Jewish Women’s Shelter Transformed Into Lux Apartments
Preservation

Historic Jewish Women’s Shelter Transformed Into Lux Apartments

Stacia Friedman takes us to 5th and Spruce where a former women’s shelter has been renovated for residential use

Meaning and Memory: Making a Place for Culture in Historic Preservation
Preservation

Meaning and Memory: Making a Place for Culture in Historic Preservation

People are drawn to places that resonate with meaning and memory, for themselves and for the diverse cultural legacies they represent. Protecting such sites challenges historic preservationists to rethink assumptions and update time-honored conventions and tools. Starr Herr-Cardillo has more

City Announces Plans for a Historic Resources Inventory Study
Preservation

City Announces Plans for a Historic Resources Inventory Study

A survey of Philadelphia’s historic structures enters the planning phase with a two-year study. Starr Herr-Cardillo has the news

Broadcasting Landmark in West Philly Keeps Rocking Around the Clock
City Life

Broadcasting Landmark in West Philly Keeps Rocking Around the Clock

At 45th and Market, an historic hotspot of youth culture endures. Stacia Friedman has the story behind the building that became the birthplace of the original Bandstand TV program

Lost Buildings of 2019
Preservation

Lost Buildings of 2019

Philadelphia’s cultural heritage was served a devastating blow in 2019 with a rate of demolition like no other. Here we highlight some of the biggest losses to our built environment in our annual end-of-year list


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