The Diamond Street Historic District, running on Diamond Street from Broad to Van Pelt, was established in 1986 and is one of the very first historic districts established in Philadelphia. As the application to the Historical Commission says, this corridor "boasts a grand collection of large row houses interspersed with

If you love Dave and Busters, maybe you'd like to live as close as possible to their location on the Delaware waterfront. For a rental, we'd suggest One Water Street apartments, a residential high rise just north of the Ben Franklin Bridge which was completed just a few years ago.

The Italian Market is a Philadelphia landmark, and not just because Rocky has jogged through it once or twice. It's home to a number of restaurants and specialty food stores, some of the most affordable produce in town, and a few flaming barrels for warmth. Every May, it's home to

Rowhomes are probably the most familiar type of housing in Philadelphia's neighborhoods that developed in the late 19th and early 20th century. Rowhomes are the personification of efficiency and were a great option for the factory workers of yesterday and remain a popular choice for the workers and professionals of

We generally love writing about surface parking lots getting redeveloped into more useful purposes, and that goes for double in Philadelphia's most walkable neighborhoods. We'd normally be pretty excited to report about the proposal recently brought to the Historical Commission to build a project on the surface lot at 301-15

Here's a game we like to play when strolling around town - it's called "Spot the Firehouse." Active firehouses are worth zero points and former firehouses are worth all the points. It's fun because there are so many of them sprinkled around Philadelphia's neighborhoods, and you can generally spot them

It's fair to say that most Philadelphians walking along the 1000 block of Chestnut Street are totally unaware of the presence of a Midcentury Modern architectural gem on the north side of the block. In the middle of the 20th century, the Mercantile Library at 1021 Chestnut St. served residents,

The 1900 block of S. Broad Street has a long history of serving the medical needs of South Philadelphia. Saint Agnes Hospital opened here in 1879, at one point taking up an entire city block. The original hospital building was demoed in the early 1970s and was replaced by a

While there are some parts of Center City that look pretty much the same as they did a decade (or decades) ago, Chinatown just isn't one of them. In this neighborhood in the last number of years, we've seen buildings go up on former parking lots, along with plenty of

The last time we checked in on the former Grand Theatre on the northwest corner of 7th & Snyder, we shared that the property was under contract and wondered whether this transaction might result in the unique building's demolition. The building, which was originally built as a church and then