Masonry Program Gives Crumbling Penitentiary HOPE
HOPE Crew, a masonry workshop organized by the National Trust, leaves the decaying stone walls of Eastern State Penitentiary looking "on point." Starr Herr-Cardillo has the story > more
Finding John Haviland
A quick check to confirm the final resting place of famed Philadelphia architect John Haviland pulls one historical researcher deep down the rabbit hole. Join Nicholas Pappas on an odyssey of obsession, intrigue, and reinterment > more
Two-Day Union League Conference Aims To Remold School System
Conference discusses path toward expanded private school system, Philly in red, John Haviland’s playing out of the Greek option, government shutdown would shutter Independence Mall, and lighting the Schuylkill > more
As Athens Burns In Protest, Reminders Of Greek Philadelphia
No city embraced the architecture of Ancient Greece as much as Philadelphia in the first half of the 19th century. Harry K traces Philadelphia's Greek connection through two Protestant churches in Washington Square built as Greek temples. One of them later became a Greek immigrant church, St. Georges, where the author was baptized > more
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