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On Jewelers Row, Oral History Project Goes Beyond The Bench Work
History

On Jewelers Row, Oral History Project Goes Beyond The Bench Work

Behind the scenes on Jewelers Row, family history and a vibrant, multicultural community is revealed through interviews with designers and merchants along the historic commercial corridor

Marked Potential: Warwick Apartment House
Architecture

Marked Potential: Warwick Apartment House

With this month’s Marked Potential we put our eyes on the Warwick Apartment House currently under threat of demolition. Interior architect Shila Griffith puts a stop to the wrecking ball with this boutique hotel conversion

Pearl Properties Goes Back Before The Historical Commission With Boyd Revisions
Preservation

Pearl Properties Goes Back Before The Historical Commission With Boyd Revisions

Pearl Properties goes before the Historical Commission tomorrow with new plans for the 1900 block of Chestnut Street. The developer’s first pass with project designs that replace all but the Boyd Theater’s façade and lobby was unanimously rejected by the Architectural Committee in May.

Enduring Emergency Aid At 20th & Sansom
History

Enduring Emergency Aid At 20th & Sansom

A World War I relief organization, the Empire State Building, an order of Catholic nuns, affordable housing, and gelato might not seem such obvious bedfellows, but they all play a part of the history of an eleven-story building at 20th and Sansom Streets. Constructed in 1926 and opened in 1927, the Warburton House actually took root a decade earlier, out of the establishment of the Emergency Aid of Pennsylvania

Doppelgangers
Architecture

Doppelgangers

Separated at birth: twin buildings five and a half miles apart


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