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Last Minute Reprieve For Boyd Theater?
Exterior of the Boyd. It was most recently the SamEric theater | Photo: Peter WoodallMaybe there will be a Hollywood ending for the Boyd Theater after all. An anonymous local foundation has offered to...
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Oak Lane Art Deco Bank Waits Patiently For Reuse
Photo: Sandy Smith, for the Philadelphia Real Estate BlogAt North Broad & Chew Streets, the Philadelphia Real Estate Blog stops by the 1946 Beneficial Savings Fund Society bank, one of the last...
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No Loss Of Dignity At Tindley Temple
Tindley Temple, Broad and Fitzwater | Photo: Peter WoodallAsk the polychromatic beauties St. Bonaventure Church and Boyd Theater what they think of urban change they’d probably say, with the wreaking...
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Senator Casey Raises Hopes That North Central Will Get $30 Million Federal Grant
Mr. Casey comes back from Washington | Photo: Michael Bryant, for The InquirerUS Senator Bob Casey announced yesterday that Philadelphia is one of six finalist cities selected for a federal “Choice...
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Talks With Juggernauts: Golden, Updike At Free Library For Mural Arts @ 30
Unless you’ve been doing field research in Antarctica, you’ve probably heard that Inga Saffron is no fan of the Mural Arts Program. In last Friday’s column, she minced not her words regarding the The...
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Now With A Land Bank, Philly Needs To Learn Some Lessons From The NTI Days
Photo: The Trust for Public Land, via Plan PhillyOver at Plan Philly, Greg Heller, the principal of consulting firm Urban Direction LLC, adds some caveats to the excitement being generated by the...
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Disrobed In Desertion
Opposing Forces | Photo: Sarah BloomAbandoned buildings are often synonymous with blight, but they can elicit very different reactions depending on who you ask. The historian sees a structure full of...
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Trial Pedestrian Plaza Coming To Graduate Hospital This Summer
About the authorStephen Currall recently received his BA in history from Arcadia University. Before beginning doctoral studies, he is pursuing his interest in local history, specifically just how...
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From Streets to TEDx
Conrad Benner puts his SEPTA campaign where his token is | Photo: Theresa StigaleEd. note: On this eve of the much anticipated TEDxPhiladelphia event, Temple University’s Performing Arts Center is...
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SEPTA Serious On Preservation Of Shawmont Station
About the authorStephen Currall recently received his BA in history from Arcadia University. Before beginning doctoral studies, he is pursuing his interest in local history, specifically just how...
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Boyd Ruling: “Clear Appearance of Bias”
Boyd Theater auditorium | Image: Motion Picture News, 1928, courtesy Philadelphia Architects and BuildingsEditor’s Note:In response to the decision of the Historical Commission March 14 to grant the...
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Nouveau du Nord: A North Philly Nouveau Mashup
Club Nouveau: the former Mulligan Funeral Home on West Lehigh Avenue | Photo: Bradley MauleWhen traveling down West Lehigh Avenue, east of Broad, in North Philly, it’s easy to recognize the greatness...
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Were Philly’s KOZs DOA?
About the authorStephen Currall recently received his BA in history from Arcadia University. Before beginning doctoral studies, he is pursuing his interest in local history, specifically just how...
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Revisions For Clark Park Mixed-Use Development Presented To Community
One of the latest renderings of 4224 Baltimore; more available HEREResponding to concerns raised during three Spruce Hill Community Association meetings last year, developer U3 Ventures and architect...
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Springtime Philly In The Pink
Amongst the cherry blossoms, the only way to see Carl Milles’ Playing Angels (1950) | Photo: Bradley MauleEat your heart out, DC. While our nation’s capital has hosted the National Cherry Blossom...
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Ticonderoga To Toupees: Binder’s Building On 13th Street
Binder: Toupees, Shampoos, Cigars | Photo: Bradley MauleYou could be forgiven for not noticing the bas-relief signboard advertisement in a second floor window bay over the Old Nelson’s Deli at 13th and...
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A Look At Two Efforts To Fight Crime Through Entrepreneurship
Photo: Clem Murray, for The InquirerMayor Nutter was at the Philadelphia Industrial Correctional Center in the Northeast yesterday to assist in the ceremonial ground breaking on a 2-acre orchard, says...
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$7 Million Campaign Announced To Keep USS Olympia At Penn’s Landing
The colorful USS Olympia (and the subtle Becuna) | Photo: Bradley MauleOfficials from the Independence Seaport Museum at Penn’s Landing announced yesterday that they plan on retaining the historic USS...
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The Revolution, Stuck With Stern
Whoomp, there it is | Rendering: Robert A.M. Stern Architects, Museum of the American RevolutionWell, there you have it, folks. The Museum of the American Revolution (MAR) has a “terrific” new...
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Agreement To Govern Dismantling Of Boyd Auditorium
The Boyd’s Art Deco auditorium | Photo: Chandra LampreichFriends of the Boyd, the advocacy group that fought, and has now ultimately lost, a long battle to preserve the Art Deco Boyd Theater...
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