Preservation Old Iron Works In Logan Square To Face The Wrecking Ball When the housing bubble burst and the recession hit in 2007, plans to convert Creswell Iron Works on Cherry Street into apartments tanked. The quaint collection of industrial buildings is now headed for demolition. Michael ...
Architecture Writing Machines Made Here The Shadow give us a classic example of adaptive reuse from the 1980s, when the residential conversion of an old typewriter factory in Logan Square led to a wave of new ...
Architecture The Toughest Little Hut In Logan Square Development of the lot at 20th and Arch has been cursed since the Kahn Building was demolished in 1929, only 8 years after its construction. Ironically, an easy to miss, colorful little Gulf Oil station ...
History A Century Ago, A Series Of Skews And Slants For Streets Harry K. investigates the rationale and planning for Benjamin Franklin Parkway over a century ago, as well as a series of other unrealized diagonal streets that were proposed, in a calculated, efficient way, to add ...
Art & Design The New Life Of The Old Family Court (And Its Murals) When the Family Court relocates to its new building on LOVE Park later this year, it will vacate the French-inspired structure on Logan Square it's called home for over 70 years. Max Ufberg digs in ...
History Logan Square, Lincoln & The Great Sanitary Fair of 1864 150 years ago, while the Civil War raged, Philadelphians attended the Great Sanitary Fair on Logan Square to support the troops. Harry K takes a look at the event, which raised more than a million ...
Preservation Another Historic Property To Meet Its Maker In 2008, PMC Property Group demolished the former St. George's Hall and the Fernley & Fernley Building at 19th & Arch; last year, they started construction on 1900 Arch, the apartment building rising there now. ...
History A Multi-use History, Sown From Maule’s Seeds With origins as a lumber company at 25th & South, the William Henry Maule Company grew to be one of the largest seed companies in the world. After bouncing around various offices, Maule built an ...
