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Enduring Emergency Aid At 20th & Sansom
History

Enduring Emergency Aid At 20th & Sansom

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 Tenderloin Doughboy
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The Tenderloin Doughboy

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.


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