In Rittenhouse

This quaint and quiet corner, complete with a fully-matured elm tree, was once the site of the symmetrically elegant Dundas-Lippincott Mansion. And while this photograph, circa 1890, may suggest the tranquility of a suburban setting, you are in fact looking at the northeast corner of S. Broad and Walnut Sts.

Philadelphia has quite a few unique buildings, but are they as unique as we think? With July 4th coming up, we looked around the world to find architectural tributes to Philadelphia's Liberty One. Apparently, our beloved height-limit killer is pretty popular. Having itself been inspired by New York's Chrysler Building,

As we reported a few months ago, the City of Philadelphia is in the middle of a project to improve crossings over CSX tracks that separate most of Center City from the banks of the Schuylkill River. To this point, this project has involved improving the surfaces and increasing the

We've had our eye on this building for years. 325 S. 18th St. is in a prime location a block away from Rittenhouse Square. It's a four story building, with approximately 5000 sqft of interior space, according to OPA. It could be a spacious and staggeringly beautiful mansion, luxury condos,

A lesser known street outside of North Philly, Smedley St. runs between 16th and 17th Sts., and appears for only one block downtown, between Pine and Spruce. 307 S. Smedley, a 4 bedroom, 2.5 bathroom house on this block, offers a little over 1400 sqft of living space in one

Finally, the one store that can provide Rittenhouse Square with enough cachet to bring Philadelphia’s toniest zip code in line with such renowned locales as Gramercy Park in New York, Belgravia in London or Victoria Peak in Hong Kong comes to 18th and Moravian Sts. The

This bi-level, 2 bedroom, 1.5 bath condo is extremely spacious at over 1700 sqft, and is listed at $524,999. With high ceilings, original hardwood floors, built-in bookcases and a mantle with original details, the living room is ready for your next dinner party. And with granite countertops and stainless steel

We've heard that the long-vacant retail space at 1708 Chestnut Street has finally been leased. The sliver of a space squeezed between Dressbarn and Sephora is slated to become Laila Rowe, a trendy women's jewelry and accessories store not unlike Nova Ice, located down the block at 1508 Chestnut Street. Laila Rowe sells

What many readers have asked us about at 17th and Walnut (a great corner that has been under construction for some time) is actually a now-gutted part of the Latham Hotel, the former home of the founder of Bucknell University, William Bucknell, at 135 South 17th Street. We asked the two

Black lacquered furniture, glass tables and red accents would be right at home in Gordon Gekko's Bridgehampton beach house, next to a fabulously late-1980s Daryl Hannah. ('You spent $400K on that Georgia O'Keeffe? You could get a beach house for that.' 'Yea, maybe in Wildwood, N.J.') This expanded 1,634-square-foot two-bedroom (plus den)