Preservation

Pennsylvania's governor is seeking GOP buy-in to his proposition for a state-based alternative to a cap-and-trade program aimed at fighting climate change.

A former Philly penitentiary, now a museum, is presenting a spring break exhibit highlighting sports and recreation behind bars.

Celebrating the music and memories behind the historic Uptown Theater in North Philadelphia. Plus, Police Commissioner Kevin Bethel and the latest on 30th Street's flip board.

The Germantown Urban Village Historic District is now part of the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places.

A host of ambitious proposals have gone nowhere while Gibraltar deteriorated into a YouTube “haunted house.” Now the city has bought it. The mayor lives next door.

The 134-year-old structure in Society Hill will get $90,000 to rehab its intricately designed stained-glass windows.

What was once the the St. Mary by-the-Sea Retreat House now focuses on the migration of different species, including monarch butterflies.

The neon signage had become something of a landmark. Developers haven’t yet said what they plan to do with the 1950s relic.

The neighborhood high school closed in 2013 along with nearly two dozen others.

The museum needs variances to continue operating out of private residence in Germantown.

For newcomers, Saturday’s podcast listening party was a history lesson. But for Swarthmore’s historically Black neighborhood, storytelling is a way of resisting erasure.

Piers 38 and 40 will be part of a new development from Bart Blatstein.

In a town whose history is intertwined with a massive train accident, residents have clashed with SEPTA in an effort to preserve a relic of the Ambler Train Station.

The 7,000-square-foot tile mosaic wrapping the former performance venue had been in legal limbo for five years.

“The fate of red knots should not be put on the line year after year,” said one advocate.