Preservation
Uptown Theater Memories, Police Commissioner Bethel, Click Clack Amtrak
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.
Air Date: February 13, 2024 12:00 pm
Listen 50:00‘A no-brainer’: Philly’s historical commission designates new district in Germantown
The Germantown Urban Village Historic District is now part of the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places.
1 month ago
Listen 0:53A 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.
1 month ago
Listen 3:22New funding to preserve Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
The 134-year-old structure in Society Hill will get $90,000 to rehab its intricately designed stained-glass windows.
2 months ago
A former retreat for nuns in Cape May has been transformed into an environmental science center
What was once the the St. Mary by-the-Sea Retreat House now focuses on the migration of different species, including monarch butterflies.
4 months ago
Listen 1:11Iconic Meglio Furs sign disappears from South Broad
The neon signage had become something of a landmark. Developers haven’t yet said what they plan to do with the 1950s relic.
4 months ago
The neighborhood high school closed in 2013 along with nearly two dozen others.
4 months ago
‘I want her to be wanted’: Zoning decision could jeopardize Philly’s Colored Girls Museum
The museum needs variances to continue operating out of private residence in Germantown.
4 months ago
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.
4 months ago
Industrial piers in South Philly will get new life thanks to preservation easement
Piers 38 and 40 will be part of a new development from Bart Blatstein.
5 months ago
Listen 1:05SEPTA’s plan to demolish historic Ambler Freight House delayed — for now
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.
5 months ago
Isaiah Zagar’s iconic Painted Bride mosaic in Philadelphia’s Old City neighborhood is coming down
The 7,000-square-foot tile mosaic wrapping the former performance venue had been in legal limbo for five years.
5 months ago
Listen 1:27Delaware Bay female horseshoe crabs spared from commercial harvest for another year
“The fate of red knots should not be put on the line year after year,” said one advocate.
5 months ago
Developer unveils new plan for Germantown YWCA amid funding concerns
The city selected KBK Enterprises to redevelop the historic property in 2016. But the building remains vacant and blighted.
5 months ago
Burlington County Prison Museum is restoring decades-old graffiti created by prisoners
The $2.9 million conservation project began in May and includes a new roof and other masonry work at the museum.
5 months ago
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