Philly to boost historic preservation with comprehensive survey and developer incentives

There's still no plans to hire a public archaeologist.

Philly’s black burial grounds and the battle for preservation

Could a city-funded archaeologist help avoid development tension?

Philly’s iconic cast-iron subway entrances just won protection from the Historical Commission

Yet another historic church — 19th Street Baptist in Point Breeze — is headed for the wrecking ball

The Commonwealth Court once again ruled in favor of a developer seeking to convert Fishtown’s St. Laurentius into apartments

Uptown Theater’s original marquee will be lit up on Saturday

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A House of Our Own bookstore and two other West Philly buildings now have historic protection status thanks to a 23-year-old Penn student

A new owner has taken over a historic brownstone mansion on Frankford Ave. Neighbors are making him promise not to turn it into an addiction recovery house

Philly developers set a new record for demolition permits in 2018, the first year private companies razed more buildings than L&I did

Neighborhoods

As Philly navigates preserving its network of historic church buildings, one neighborhood had an idea: Turn it into a grocery store

A former Underground Railroad stop is on the brink of collapse in Spring Garden

The city alleges the property owner has been neglectful for years, ignoring their orders to protect the house.

54 apartments are about to replace the historic Royal Theater

The South Street West icon's facade will be preserved.

Former Mayor John Street thinks the city’s doing a crappy job on historic preservation, so he’s backing this new PAC

This stretch of Ridge Avenue just became the city’s newest historic district with 188 buildings now under protected status

The Germantown Boys and Girls Club drama just ended in a compromise: The club can’t demolish the old, historic building, but they can build a new one nearby

Fleisher Art Memorial is looking for a donor to help restore its pipe organ — the last factory-installed Wurlitzer in Philadelphia

Dozens of Philly’s historic churches have been razed by developers since 2011. Hickman Temple on 50th & Baltimore refuses to be next.

Apparently that teal building at Broad and Lombard is ‘a historic and contemporary focal point of the arts in Philadelphia’

Pennsylvania’s oldest standing school building, in Northeast Philly, will become an Albanian-American cultural center

John Coltrane’s North Philly home appears vacant and forgotten