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The Truth About the Ruins in East Fairmount Park
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The Truth About the Ruins in East Fairmount Park

Contrary to popular belief, those ghostly brick arches across from the Dell Music Center are not the remains of the Strawberry Mansion Music Pavilion. Ed Duffy explores the misconception

Surveying The Damage With Abandoned America: The Age of Consequences
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Surveying The Damage With Abandoned America: The Age of Consequences

A picture is worth a thousand words, but some can leave you speechless. We caught up with photographer Matthew Christopher to discuss a nation in architectural decline and his new book, “Abandoned America: The Age of Consequences”

Photographing The Abandoned City
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Photographing The Abandoned City

Vincent Feldman’s long-awaited book presents a haunting portrait of Philadelphia in the 1990s and early 2000s, when so many remarkable buildings were vacant or in ruins. We spoke with him last week

Colonial Ruins On The 12th Hole
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Colonial Ruins On The 12th Hole

On the back side of the back nine at Sedgley Woods Golf Course, a ruin has become a canvas for graffiti writers. Brad Maule finds many a famous name in the story of The Cliffs in Fairmount Park

Two New Books Provide A Fitting Eulogy To Byberry State Hospital
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Two New Books Provide A Fitting Eulogy To Byberry State Hospital

House of horrors? From 1990, when it closed, until 2006, when it was demolished, the legend of Byberry State Hospital in the Northeast grew in our imagination. Now two new books aim to set the complicated record straight. Ethan Wallace has the review

Schuylkill View, Manayunk
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Schuylkill View, Manayunk

In Manayunk, a crazy, jagged stone roofline led Ben Leech up a set of stairs and onto the remains of an estate called Schuylkill View

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Halloween, Shmalloween

For our money, there’s nothing haunted about Eastern State Penitentiary, but there is something haunting about the decaying prison in these photos from Laura Kicey. Enjoy

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The Cliffs

Photographing the ruins of a mansion built by the merchant who created the first nautical chart of Delaware Bay


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