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Preservation

HOUSE: COURTESY PRESERVATION PENNSYLVANIA; MURAL: DANYA HENNINGER / BILLY PENN
Urban Planning
Billy Penn

Strawberry Mansion’s famous John Coltrane house named ‘at risk,’ boosting chance for survival

It’s already a National Historic Landmark, but is still in danger of decay.

6 years ago

Martin Luther King Jr. stayed in the back bedroom of this house (left) on Walnut Street in Camden, according to the owner who inherited the property from her father-in-law. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Community

N.J. historic preservation officials insult the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.

N.J.’s refusal to list the Camden home where MLK plotted his first protest on the state’s Register of Historic Places insults the civil rights leader’s legacy.

6 years ago

Martin Luther King Jr. stayed in the back bedroom of this house (left) on Walnut Street in Camden, according to the owner who inherited the property from her father-in-law. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Community

On the eve of Black History Month, N.J. denied historic designation for Camden MLK House

The Historic Preservation Office withholds a spot on the state’s Register of Historic Places from the site where King planned one of his earliest protests.

6 years ago

Paul Robeson House Executive Director Vernoca Micheal lights the house's mortgage during a ceremonial burning on Saturday, Jan. 25, 2020. (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Community

With a ceremonial mortgage burning, the Paul Robeson House marks its next chapter

With the debt burden lifted, the West Philadelphia Cultural Alliance is one step closer to adding programming to attract younger people to the house and museum.

6 years ago

Martin Luther King Jr. stayed in the back bedroom of this house (left) on Walnut Street in Camden, according to the owner who inherited the property from her father-in-law. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Community

Time running out to save historic ‘MLK House’ in Camden

That structure is now on the verge of collapse in the face of indecision by local and state officials.

6 years ago

Jefferson County Sheriff Mark Pettway points out an old jail log showing the name of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Birmingham, Ala. (Jay Reeves/AP Photo)
Community

Alabama county to preserve jail remnant where MLK was held

An Alabama county is preserving what’s left of the lockup where officials say Martin Luther King Jr. served his final time behind bars just months before his assassination.

6 years ago

A surf boat and rescuers during a drill at Cape May in about 1915. (U.S. Lifesaving Service Heritage Association)
Community
NJ Spotlight

Historians Fight to Preserve New Jersey’s Endangered Lifesaving Stations

A little-known but colorful slice of maritime history can still be found in a few places

6 years ago

Powelton Village (Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

City Council is making it harder to demolish buildings in 6 historic Philly neighborhoods

A bill expected to pass City Council aims to stem demolitions of historic buildings.

6 years ago

Officials say a clown sign that has smiled on motorists at a now-demolished New Jersey drive-in for two-thirds of a century will be preserved. (Google image)
Down the Shore
Community

Iconic clown sign at now-demolished Shore drive-in to be preserved

Officials say a clown sign that has smiled on motorists at a now-demolished New Jersey drive-in for two-thirds of a century will be preserved.

6 years ago

The Christ Church weather vane and miter were gilded and replaced on top the steeple. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
View Finders
Community

Philadelphia’s Christ Church preserves historic steeple

Restoration is underway for the Christ Church steeple, one of the last remaining architectural structures from the colonial era in the country.

6 years ago

The Northern Savings Fund building at 6th and Spring Garden. (Courtesy Di Bruno Bros).
Community
Billy Penn

Historic Northern Savings Fund building is now a gorgeous Di Bruno catering space

The Frank Furness-designed bank on Spring Garden has new life as “Banca.”

6 years ago

Eastern State Penitentiary
PlanPhilly
Arts & Entertainment

History behind the walls: How Philadelphia’s most famous haunted house began

The grounds of Eastern State Penitentiary survived years of abandonment and bids for redevelopment. There’s just as much history as there is terror behind those walls.

6 years ago

Adrian Binkley, an student at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, has been surveying church pipe organs in churches outside Center City. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

Hunting Philly neighborhoods for forgotten church pipe organs

The Philadelphia-based nonprofit Partners for Sacred Spaces is visiting churches in the city’s outlying neighborhoods to document forgotten pipe organs.

6 years ago

Listen 3:29
PlanPhilly's Managing Editor, Ariella Cohen, introducing the panel. To her immediate left sits Paul Farber followed by Karyn Olivier, Ori Feibush and Faye Anderson. (Emily Gann/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Listen: Here’s what happened when a real estate developer, an artist, a historian and an activist got together to talk Philly preservation, displacement and culture

Listen to a live conversation between Philly developer Ori Feibush, Paul Farber of Monument Lab, preservationist Faye Anderson and artist Karyn Olivier.

6 years ago

Listen 65:21
Saint Francis de Sales Church in West Philadelphia. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Community

Sacred battleground: Why the Philadelphia Archdiocese surrendered to preservationists

The Archdioceses of Philadelphia acknowledges that its position on preservation is no longer as oppositional as it once was.

6 years ago

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