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Renovation Begins at Historic Mt. Airy Bank
Development

Renovation Begins at Historic Mt. Airy Bank

A mixed-use project in Northwest Philadelphia will revive a Germantown Avenue landmark

Historic Church in Mt. Airy Blessed With Preservation
Preservation

Historic Church in Mt. Airy Blessed With Preservation

On Germantown Avenue a 125-year-old house of worship gets an adaptive reuse “amen”

Mt. Airy Couple Seeks to Create Community Space “For Us, By Us” in Philadelphia Sun Building
Preservation

Mt. Airy Couple Seeks to Create Community Space “For Us, By Us” in Philadelphia Sun Building

Antoine and Samantha Joseph are raising funds to combine community-oriented development and historic preservation at the former offices of an African American newspaper on Germantown Avenue

Bancroft Green Gives An Old Church New Purpose In Mt. Airy
Preservation

Bancroft Green Gives An Old Church New Purpose In Mt. Airy

Contributor Virginia Lindak takes us out to Northwest Philadelphia where an eco-minded development firm is giving Mt. Airy Presbyterian Church a new lease on life

Paging Dr. Typewriter: Healing Old Tech On Fabric Row
City Life

Paging Dr. Typewriter: Healing Old Tech On Fabric Row

Bryan Kravitz brings old Remingtons back from the dead at his repair shop in Mt. Airy and typing salon in South Philly. Joe Brin has the story

Naming The Nameless On Lincoln Drive
Art & Design

Naming The Nameless On Lincoln Drive

An eye-catching installation of t-shirts on Lincoln Drive aims to give a name to each of the victims of the city’s gun violence. Brad Maule visits the historic Unitarian Society of Germantown and soaks in a heavy and cathartic experience

Stuck Inside Of Mt. Airy With The Center City Blues
Photography

Stuck Inside Of Mt. Airy With The Center City Blues

There’s nothing quite like the silent magic of the city during a full-on blizzard, is there? Daily co-editor Brad Maule spent most of this past weekend outside—half in Mt. Airy and Germantown, half in the Wissahickon—and came away with a slight yearning for Center City. Bring your snow shoes along for this photo essay

Unearthing A Lost Temple
History

Unearthing A Lost Temple

Mayor-Elect Jim Kenney came out recently against Temple University’s wishes to build a stadium on-campus in North Philadelphia. The team has rented a field from the Philadelphia Eagles for nearly 40 years—after having one of its own for 50, which it demolished in the late 1990s. Mike Szilagyi revisits the late Temple Stadium


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