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A Look At Temple University’s Demolition History
Preservation

A Look At Temple University’s Demolition History

Philadelphia preservationists have taken a wrecking ball to the gut in recent days, with the Boyd Theatre currently coming down and the fate of the legendary Blue Horizon sealed by the Philadelphia Historical Commission’s choice to not designate its interior. Meanwhile, just up North Broad Street, Temple University is in the midst of a demolition spree, in some cases with no plans to replace what it’s knocking down. Rachel Hildebrandt surveys what’s been lost through almost 70 years of campus expansion

The Missing Namesake Of North Philly’s Lost Necropolis
History

The Missing Namesake Of North Philly’s Lost Necropolis

Next up in our Halloween cemetery series: Harry K hits the tomes looking for the missing obelisk of Monument Cemetery. Is it sitting in a gravestone dumping ground at the foot of the Betsy Ross Bridge? Its fate may be forever unknown

Watery Graves
History

Watery Graves

The surprising fate of the gravestones of Monument Cemetery. They can be seen at the foundation of the Betsy Ross Bridge at low tide.


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