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Remembering Buck, One Year Later
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Remembering Buck, One Year Later

After a year of coping with the loss of the Buck Hosiery mill and two firefighters who died trying to put out the fire that brought it down, the city’s would was ripped open again over the weekend in Fabric Row. Theresa Stigale remembers Buck with these photos taken in that fire’s cleanup

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When Northern Liberties Burned

The Inquirer’s Stephan Salisbury remembers the primal fear of the Swoboda Tannery fire of 1990, one of a series of fires big and small that leveled chunks of the Northern Liberties

RIP, Buck, From Your Neighbor Viking Mills
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RIP, Buck, From Your Neighbor Viking Mills

With a vigil for the lost and injured firefighters and neighborhood scheduled for Sunday at 6PM, we send this offering of love

Let’s Get To Work
Preservation

Let’s Get To Work

If we want buildings like Buck Hosiery to be assets rather than catastrophic liabilities then we need to create preservation tools for workplaces, mills, and factories. With another historically important mill sitting vulnerable across the street, the imperative is now, says Nathaniel Popkin

On Buck Owners: “It Was All A Great Swindle”
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On Buck Owners: “It Was All A Great Swindle”

Artist Mat Tomezsko’s experience with Michael Lichtenstein, owner of Buck Hosiery, is more insight into the dubious and careless business practices that led to Monday’s fire

In The Fire’s Aftermath, Fear And Uncertainty Lingers
Preservation

In The Fire’s Aftermath, Fear And Uncertainty Lingers

Ryan Briggs has more on the owners of Buck Hosiery and speaks to neighborhood leaders, renovators, and residents, who fear another fire. Time to rethink the way we protect these kinds of buildings–they are assets for our future

Heartache And Violence
Preservation

Heartache And Violence

“It really could be something,” said the former owner of the Buck Hosiery building that burned Monday. Now, four years on, the neighborhood is burning up piece by piece. Nathaniel Popkin condemns our failure to protect neighborhood and industrial architecture

Buck Hosiery Mill Burns, Two Firefighters Killed
Preservation

Buck Hosiery Mill Burns, Two Firefighters Killed

An absentee landlord failed to secure the building and piled up more than $60,000 in unpaid property taxes, liens and building code violations


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