It isn't as pretty as you'd like to guess. In your memory you're drunk on your awe to me- it doesn't mean anything at all. Oh comely .We confess, we never really knew what that song meant. But we do know that we always hummed it when we passed by Comly Auctioneers, located

We were making our way back to town the other day from Roxborough, taking Ridge Avenue all the way to avoid traffic on the highway. As we were getting close to Girard, we noticed a construction fence on the 2000 block of Master, covering a sizable swath of the block.

There's a new project in the works at 4401 Ridge Ave., an address that we confess we didn't really think of as having redevelopment potential. Don't get us wrong, the location is great, as it's steps away from the Schuylkill River, about a block from the bottom of Midvale Avenue,

A reader reached out to us recently, wondering about some ongoing construction activity on Umbria Street, a couple blocks past the end of Main Street (or is it the start of Main Street? Who knows). The property in question is 4649 Umbria St., which to the naked eye simply looks

The 1800 block of Ludlow is one of the stranger, seedier blocks in the heart of downtown Philadelphia, where a row of older, three story buildings on the south side of the block smash against the backs of the high rise buildings on the 1800 block of Market Street. Slowly though,

The property at 1103 S. 47th St. has some pretty sweet bones, with a seemingly intact cornice and a turret bay that extends from the 2nd to the 3rd floor. Also cool is that said turret bay has a pointed roof, a detail that's missing from plenty of other similar buildings,

As the West Poplar and Callowhill neighborhoods have gentrified in recent years, the eastern section of Spring Garden Street has seen some changes as well. Many of those improvements have been thanks to the efforts of Arts + Crafts Holdings, a developer and property owner which has purchased and renovated

When someone talks about South Street, they're generally thinking about the famed eastern side of the corridor. Depending on when you were born, you might think fondly about seeing a show at Grendel's Lair or JC Dobbs or Ripley's. No matter your age, you probably have a love/hate thing with the TLA.

We've mentioned the Willow Street Steam Generation Plant a few times over the years, noting its looming presence at the northeast corner of 9th & Willow, in the Callowhill neighborhood. As we've indicated previously, the building was constructed in 1927 and burned coal to generate steam (as the name suggests).

There was a lumber yard near 3rd & Girard dating back to at least 1875, with this use eventually expanding to cover most of the city block encompassed by 3rd Street, Girard Avenue, Orianna Street, and Cambridge Street. Most recently, JT Riley Lumber operated at this site, and we told