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Insights On The Temple Of Tomorrow
27 story, 1,275 bed student residence under construction | Photo: Peter WoodallEditor’s Note:In 2011, for the first time in its history, Temple University hired a campus architect, Margaret Carney, who...
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In Search Of The Girard
Fine Fare supermarket | Photo: Peter WoodallAs the Northern Liberties swelled with immigrants from Eastern Europe in the 1880s, shop owners and real estate investors grabbed up parcels along Girard...
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Where Has All The Money Gone For Our Parks?
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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Conflict In Kensington As Neighbors Appeal Banks’ Demolition
Photo: Peter WoodallThe two stately and derelict Beaux Arts banks sit at the intersection of Kensington neighborhoods in the shadow of the El, their grandeur worn by time and exposure to the elements....
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Proposed Mixed-Use Too Contemporary For Cedar Park Residents
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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Innovative Preservation Solution Emerging In Darby
John Haigis in front of house he hopes to protect | Photo: Dominic MercierSoon after John and Jan Haigis jumped at the chance to live in a circa-1734 home and moved to Darby from Southwest...
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He Taught Us To “Read” The City
The late Seymour Mandelbaum with Oscar Gandy at Penn | Photo: Annenberg School for CommunicationI suspect (I hope!) our readers are appreciative of Hidden City’s manner of deconstructing, framing, and...
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Wireless City
Professor Elihu Thomson and Professor Edwin J. Houston, Philadelphia inventors extraordinaireEditor’s Note:Readers loved Harry K’s dipping into his encyclopedia for a story on Philadelphia’s telephone...
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Where’s The Public Discussion On Temple Boathouse Plans?
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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Inside “The Loom at Richmond Mills”
Aidan Un | Technically PhillyTechnically Philly takes its readers inside “The Loom at Richmond Mills,” a converted textile mill on the border of Port Richmond and Kensington that offers artisanal...
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There’s No Beauty Like St. Bonaventure
Editor’s Note:Beautiful churches sitting vacant and decaying are a dime a dozen in Philly–almost literally. Yet the most exceptional structures still manage to bob to the surface and command our...
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Investing In The Gentrification Of Kensington
Dannette Pascarella | flyingkiteAt a former ribbon factory in Kensington, architectural designer Russell Mahoney is confident that 178 Huntingdon Avenue’s “good bones” will prove attractive enough to...
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Hidden City Partners With Grid Magazine
Top floor of the former Divine Lorraine Hotel. The building was recently purchased by Eric Blumenfeld | Photo: Chandra LampreichAn interview with “accidental preservationist” Eric Blumenfeld and a...
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Manayunk’s Trail Network Expediting Development
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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Community Anxious Over Threat Of Increased Gang Violence With School Merger Plan
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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A Monument To Ignorance
“Tedyuscung statue,” John Massey Rhind | Photo: Ethan WallaceLike all great cities of a significant age, Philadelphia is adorned with markers and monuments to those long gone. The intent is to pay...
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Brady Rescues Bike Race
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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Goodbye, January Of Crowded Rooms
Red Table 1, 2003 by Regina GranneFebruary, season of masks, appears to want to reveal its true self. There is no definition to the sky this morning in Bella Vista, and there is no depth but for the...
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Future Darkening For St. Bonaventure
Looking south down 9th St. from Cambria | Photo: Michael GreenleThe 1894 St. Bonaventure church, notable for its distinctively tall, slender steeple jutting from narrow Ninth Street and visible...
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The Elusive Logic Behind AVI Data
Image: AxisPhillyNaked Philly is fuming at what it sees as the gross inconsistencies within the property assessment of the Actual Value Initiative, released by the City last week. In a series of blog...
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