Roughly half a dozen years ago, we told you about the demolition of the former Saint Rita's school at the southwest corner of Broad & Ellsworth. As the name suggests, the school was associated with the Saint Rita of Cascia Shrine, the handsome building located just next door, to the south. The

While we recognize their necessity, we're none too fond of parking garages. And when those parking garages are located in prime locations and aren't very large, we find them all the more irksome. Take, for example, the parking garage at 1608 Sansom St., a three-level building which takes up maybe

A reader reached out to us the other day, worried sick about a demolition notice they'd spied on an old firehouse in Grad Hospital. Firemen haven't hung their hats at 752 S. 16th St. for a number of years, as the building was converted into a quadplex somewhere along the line, but the

The history of 2620 W. Girard Ave. is far from obvious, given that it's a sizable vacant lot in the middle of Brewerytown's primary commercial corridor. You'd never realize that it was once a rail depot, later transitioned to a bus terminal, and was eventually home to a supermarket. Since the

Ah, Meglio Furs, one of our favorite buildings on South Broad Street, located at the southwest intersection with Wharton Street. Actually, to be more accurate, the building is just fine, a three-story mixed-use edifice with some intact bay windows and intact cornice. It's the old sign that makes the building

The property at 238 Tasker St. is rather unusual, covering roughly 7,500 sqft and running between Tasker and Fernon Streets, with 61 feet of frontage on Tasker and a staggering 148 feet on Fernon. We first brought it your attention way back in 2014, noting that longtime occupant Phil's Battery

In 1949, an orphanage appeared at 1823 Callowhill St., in a building designed by Elizabeth Fleisher. Fleisher is the first known woman architect in Philadelphia and also was involved with the design of the Parkway House, incidentally. The building later was home to the Children's Crisis Treatment Center, which moved several years ago to

Back in January, we shared the latest iteration of plans for 2101 Washington Ave., a huge property more commonly known as the Chocolate Factory. It's known as such because Frankford Candy, the largest marketer of licensed confections and gifts in the country, was located there for decades, before moving to the Northeast about

Like we told you a few months back, Washington Avenue is getting repaved in 2021. This is rather monumental, since the last paving will be legally able to buy cigarettes and lottery tickets when this repaving occurs, which is to say that Washington Avenue will be getting paved for the

We've always been a little confused by the surface parking lot at the northeast corner of 34th & Chestnut. That's not to say that we don't understand why a parking lot would exist at this corner- with a location that's incredibly convenient to both Penn and Drexel, it certainly makes