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A Prison Reformed: Eastern State Penitentiary Confronts Injustice
Preservation

A Prison Reformed: Eastern State Penitentiary Confronts Injustice

50 years after Eastern State Penitentiary closed, the historic site takes an active stand against mass incarceration

Masonry Program Gives Crumbling Penitentiary HOPE
Preservation

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

Finding John Haviland
Architecture

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

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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


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