The Shadow saddles up to the bar at Oscar’s Tavern where the spirit of “Old Philadelphia” is as effervescent as their lagers

The Shadow unearths a little-known Frank Furness design at the old Messiah Univeralist Home in North Philly

The Shetzline family once owned large parcels of farmland throughout Point Breeze and later developed their estate for the shallow canyons of row houses we see today. One conspicuous building, now a laundromat at the corner of 18th and Moore, may be the last remaining home of the South Philly Sweed’s old homestead. The Shadow follows the trail of obscurity

The Shadow teaches us the origins of Philadelphia’s educational architecture reform and the Samuel Sloan Plan with this stony schoolhouse at Cumberland and Hancock Streets

The Shadow gives us a lift to 56th and Chestnut where an early 20th century car dealership keeps its former function well hid

The Shadow walks us through the origins of a pleasantly peculiar mansion in Washington Square West

For decades, a contiguous eight-and-ten-story complex has loomed over Fifth & Master, a behemoth reminder of the loss of industry. But! The Shadow sees light at the end of the tunnel for the Drueding Brothers building, a.k.a. the Umbrella Factory

Hard to believe that Thomas Jefferson University’s mammoth, ever-expanding healthcare system was once a tiny obscure medical school. The Shadow give us the diagnosis on Jefferson’s old Institute of Anatomy at 11th and Clinton Streets, where the school gained momentum and notoriety