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Preservation Pennsylvania has released their “Pennsylvania At-Risk: Twenty-Year Retrospective of Pennsylvania’s Endangered Historic Properties, Where Are They Now” edition. It’s a fascinating look at preservation in action and we’ll be posting a look at each property in a series of posts over the next several months. INTRODUCTION Preservation Pennsylvania established the annual Pennsylvania At Risk list in …

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• AT RISK • 2004 — Mount Moriah Cemetery,Delaware County Located in southwest Philadelphia, Mount Moriah Cemetery is a park-like burial ground that was incorporated in March 1855 and developed along the “rural ideal” popular at that time. Growing to more than 380 acres and stretching into Yeadon, Mount Moriah is the final resting place …

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Articles on Preservation of Historic Buildings and Architectures   Historic Humboldt Gardens Perhaps it is appropriate to say the building is known historically as Humboldt Gardens as it was so deemed in the 1930s and possibly earlier prior to Prohibition. Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company constructed the saloon in 1890 at the advent of the brewery built saloon …

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Articles on Preservation of Historic Buildings and Architectures   How to Revive Our House Paint Scheme Our agent had run out of things to show us when she hesitantly mentioned one more house, an estate sale that hadn’t been listed yet. At first we had only the street name, so we walked up and down …

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Preservation Pennsylvania has released their “Pennsylvania At-Risk: Twenty-Year Retrospective of Pennsylvania’s Endangered Historic Properties, Where Are They Now” edition. It’s a fascinating look at preservation in action and we’ll be posting a look at each property in a series of posts over the next several months. INTRODUCTION Preservation Pennsylvania established the annual Pennsylvania At Risk list in …

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Articles on Preservation of Historic Buildings and Architectures   Architectural Highlights of Old Louisville In this city, part Old South and part Midwest; we were taken on a tour of Old Louisville, a 45-square-block residential community. We were fascinated that such a large and pristine historic area could have survived. Louisville was developed on 19th-century …

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Preservation Pennsylvania has released their “Pennsylvania At-Risk: Twenty-Year Retrospective of Pennsylvania’s Endangered Historic Properties, Where Are They Now” edition. It’s a fascinating look at preservation in action and we’ll be posting a look at each property in a series of posts over the next several months. INTRODUCTION Preservation Pennsylvania established the annual Pennsylvania At Risk list in …

Preserving Pennsylania: A Journey Through the Last 20 Years, Part 10 Read More »