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To Die For: Luxury Rental With Marble and More Marble on Clinton Street
Clinton Street is the East-of-Broad Delancey–pretty and historic, narrow and shaded by trees. It runs for two blocks between Ninth and 11th, and Spruce and Pine. Rentals are very hard to come by on...
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What Are Those Little Shields Above the Doorways of Philadelphia Homes?
Photo via A Little Reality If you’ve walked around Philadelphia’s older neighborhoods, you’ve probably seen the medallions affixed to the front of older houses. Some have four hands, clasping each...
View ArticleProperty’s Morning Obsession: Historic Philadelphia Maps Revealed for the...
David Rumsey is a man obsessed–and we mean that in the best way. He’s been collecting maps and related ephemera for 25 years and has accumulated more than 150,000 examples of cartographic...
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Renovation Reveals 1300 Spruce Street Was Once the Locust Club
Here’s a space whose prestigious past has been unearthed during renovations. Most recently the home of a social services agency for immigrants, the building at 1300 Spruce Street has been converted...
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What Is the Future of Water in Philadelphia? [VIDEO]
Kelly Natatorium in Fairmount Park The post What Is the Future of Water in Philadelphia? [VIDEO] appeared first on Property: Philadelphia Real Estate.
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Inside Some of Philadelphia’s Most Extraordinary Forbidden Buildings
Yesterday tickets went on sale for the Hidden City Festival, which opens nine buildings to the public for the first time. The Festival runs for just six weeks with limited hours each day. Each space...
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“Real World House” Gets Approval to Become Gourmet Food Store, Completing the...
The building pictured above–variously known as the National Corn Exchange, the Girard Corn Exchange Bank, Trust, the Real World House, the Corn Exchange Building, and more–was constructed in 1907, and...
View ArticleLe Bec Fin: It’s Over
Talk about the end of an era: It’s hard to believe this day would come. Le Bec Fin, long known as Philadelphia’s flagship fine dining establishment, is through. For longtime residents and natives, it’s...
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Union League Gets a New Look
That august institution founded in 1862 by President Lincoln, Broad Street’s French Renaissance Union League of Philadelphia is getting an interior makeover. A new demonstration kitchen and wine cellar...
View ArticlePetitioner Seeks to Turn Royal Theater Over to Feibush
Earlier this year, after Kenny Gamble’s Universal Companies put the crumbling Royal Theater on South Street up for sale, real estate agent and developer Ori Feibush made a bid for the derelict hulk,...
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Trinity Tuesday: Four-Floor Home in Prettiest Warren of Center City Streets
Though tourists generally hit Elfreth’s Alley to get a look at what residential life was like in Philadelphia in ye olden days, those in the know navigate the lovely interlocking streets behind a more...
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Beautiful Photos of Hidden City Festival Installations (Tomorrow Is Free!)
The Hidden City Festival brings contemporary art and performance into forgotten and forbidden sites across the city for music lovers, urban explorers, ruin festishists, art enthusiasts, history buffs...
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Renderings of Townhomes to Replace St. John the Evangelist at 3rd and Reed
Yet another house of worship goes the way of all Philly churches: this time, it’s St. John the Evangelist at Third and Reed, which cannot withstand the power of the wrecking ball. Hidden City Daily...
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Divine Lorraine Featured on Web Urbanist As Abandoned and Apparently Hopeless
Remember the Divine Lorraine? That big, beautiful, abandoned building on North Broad Street that Mayor Nutter said was a cornerstone of Philadelphia’s revival and that developer Eric Blumenfeld has...
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The Amazing History of the People’s Trust Co. at 12th and Arch, Once Home to...
This old postcard shows a rendering of the building from before it was built. Now here’s a building from when they knew how to build buildings. The People’s Trust Company Building ruled the corner of...
View ArticleProperty’s Morning Obsession: Slice-of-Life Video of Kensington in 1982,...
This is a really depressing video (and good morning to you!) that’s nonetheless mesmerizing. A California filmmaker follows around a bunch of teenagers in Kensington in 1982. Some kids are profoundly...
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Newly Listed: Hank McNeil’s Delancey Street Mansion + Former Chunk of the...
Tylenol heir Henry McNeil has been busy. He recently sold 1914-15 Rittenhouse Square (colloquially known as the McIlhenney mansion) to Bart Blatstein for the developer’s use as a private residence....
View ArticleProperty’s Morning Obsession: Art Installation at Fort Mifflin That Will Blow...
You’re walking through the woods, along a path that snakes along the Delaware River. Alongside the path are broken, mysterious structures–ruins of buildings, wood and metal industrial tools that are...
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Abandoned America Tours Keep Selling Out. Photos By Laura Kicey
Matthew Christopher is a photographer of decrepit, abandoned places who shares his technical expertise with other photographers in weekend workshops. The Abandoned America series took Property’s Laura...
View ArticleKenny Gamble’s Petition to Demolish Royal Theater Due to “Financial Hardship”...
Kenny Gamble’s attempt to demolish most of the historic Royal Theater on 15th and South, an African-American landmark, faces more than just the approval of the Philadelphia Historical Commission. It...
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