Architecture Marked Potential: Mercantile Library If buildings could make distress signals the Mercantile Library on Chestnut Street would fill the ears of all in Center City. The once sleek, mid-century modern structure, vacant for 26 years, now sits in a ...
History The Fortunate Arrangement Memories of the Mercantile Library from an obscure insurance company executive who doubled as first rate ...
Architecture Almost Nude Ben Leech interviews the architects who will renovate the 1952 Mercantile Library on Chestnut Street, the long-boarded up building that Louis Mumford called one of the best examples of mid-century modern architecture in the ...
