Preservation Historic Districts Make A Comeback After nearly a decade of lost opportunities, creative new strategies emerge for protecting Philadelphia’s historic neighborhoods
Preservation Historical Commission Inches Its Way Back To District Designations After a long, mysterious hiatus, historic district nominations are back on the City’s agenda. Next stop: Wayne Junction. Starr Herr-Cardillo reports
Preservation Blue Horizon Fights For Its Life At Historic Designation Meeting This Wednesday Legendary boxing venue Blue Horizon gets ready for another round as its nomination for historic designation goes before the Philadelphia Historical Commission on Wednesday at City Hall
Photography “Ruin Porn” Leaves Us Forlorn The “ruin porn” tag was put on our tours and events schedule; we think we’re offering something that’s quite a bit more–we want to make people alive to the city’s possibilities
History Join Us For An Insider’s Tour Of Changing Wayne Junction Our first Inside-Out Tour of the season will take 20 people to the new Wayne Junction Historic District in Germantown for a revealing tour of one of the city’s last working textile mills, a Frank Furness train station under restoration, and a soon-to-be-converted lithography plant–and more
Preservation Van Straaten & Havey Demolition Imminent Days are numbered for this former silk yarn mill, a keystone of the Wayne Junction Historic District
Urbanism SEPTA Buses Not As Green As They’d Like You To Think SEPTA’s recent sustainability award and it’s advertising claims belie a bias against clean electric trolleys and electric trolleybuses, says writer Mike Szilagyi. Even hybrid diesel buses, he says, are hardly green
Preservation Five More Vulnerable Mills We look at the complicated factors that make certain industrial buildings susceptible to fire–and present a list of buildings that deserve proactive attention
