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Expansion At The Woodmere, Take 2
Art & Design

Expansion At The Woodmere, Take 2

The Woodmere Art Museum’s recharged its batteries and looks again to expansion. Only this time, Brad Maule reports, the museum and its neighbors seem to be on the same page as Chestnut Hill native Matthew Baird comes on board as architect

Building And Preserving A “House Of Wisdom”
Architecture

Building And Preserving A “House Of Wisdom”

The Shadow is all over this slender beauty at 17th and Locust, the original home of artist Violet Oakley’s mural “Building the House of Wisdom.” When the house’s interior architecture and the mural were threatened in 1927, preservationists rallied to save it


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