History Philadelphia’s Forgotten Forebears: How Pennsylvania Erased The Lenape From Local History In this poignant essay Dan Shurley looks at the mistreatment of the Lenape in Pennsylvania and how historic Philadelphia still manages to misrepresent and largely ignore the city's native ...
Preservation Bid Process Reveals Uncertain Future For Delaware Power Station Bids for purchase and redevelopment of the Delaware Power Station are due Monday at 5PM. What will they tell us about the monumental building's future? Ryan Briggs talks to some experts and considers the future ...
Art & Design A Matter of Modern Recreation Vs Historic Trees At Penn Treaty Park As the plan to freshen up and modernize Penn Treaty Park have evolved, so has a playground included in it. But as Marlon MacAllister reports, the new playground would now spell the removal of 120-year-old ...
History Respectfully Remembering the Affable One On a recent day in early May, a group of citizens gathered in Old City to honor Tamanend, whose tall statue resides over the I-95 on-ramp at Front & Market Streets. Harry K. looks back ...
Preservation Five Properties Make Preservation List The Historical Commission has added the Kensington Soup Society, Penn Treaty Park and The Rotunda, along with two private residences to the Philadelphia Register of Historic ...
Architecture Battersea But Better Philadelphia Electric Company's monumental power stations on the Delaware: truly "palazzos of ...
Art & Design Light Towers Coming To Girard And Columbia Street Department rejects pedestrian lighting, NKCDC designs its own illuminated history ...
