Panorama 1219 on Flickr.
Love’s Lost Dream
(Livzey Dam)
Wissahickon Park
Philadelphia, PA
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“ The Northwestern folks commissioned architect Phillip Merz to design a monumentally impressive bank building that would stand out on a corner that already boasted such great architecture as the Lorraine Hotel, Park Theatre, and American Trust Loan and Guarantee Investment Company. Following the trend of neoclassical architecture that was so popular at the time–new money must look old, now isn’t that the story here?–Merz gave them a 50′ x 90′ stone monolith. It was built in 1918 and boasted Anti-Hydro, a high tech waterproofing concrete, for its foundation. It cost $200,000–over $2 million today.
“ The 1849 Church of the Assumption, placed on Philadelphia’s Register of Historic Places in 2009 and threatened with demolition, will have its day in Common Please Court Thursday, May 10, almost a year after a ruling by the Philadelphia Historical Commission allowing demolition was overturned by the city’s Board of License and Inspection Review.
Panorama 1218 on Flickr.
Victorian Drainage Systems
Wissahickon Park
Philadelphia, PA
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Street Portraits 2012 04 25, a set on Flickr.
12th Street, Walnut Street, 15th Street and Penn Square
Panorama 1216 on Flickr.
Creshiem Creek ruins
Fairmount Park
Philadelphia. PA
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Panorama 1215 on Flickr.
Creshiem Creek ruins
Fairmount Park
Philadelphia. PA
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“ The phrase “hulking building” is often used when describing Philadelphia’s former industrial structures, grand abandoned hotels, and so on. Yet perhaps there is one huge/forsaken/troubled building that best exemplifies what a hulking building is in Philly: the Willow Street Steam Generation Plant.
Panorama 1214 on Flickr.
Creshiem Creek ruins
Fairmount Park
Philadelphia. PA
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Panorama 1213 on Flickr.
McCallum Street Bridge
Creshiem Valley
Fairmount Park
Philadelphia PA USA
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Panorama 1212 on Flickr.
Cresheim Creek dam
Fairmount Park
Philadelphia, PA
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Panorama 1211 on Flickr.
Ruined Inn
Fairmount Park
Cresham Valley Road
Philadelphia, PA
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