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

The soldier who stands at the corner of 2nd and Spring Garden is one of the only remaining public artifacts from Philadelphia’s sin-soaked Tenderloin district. Mike Szilagyi looks at the history of the Tenderloin doughboy statue.