3+ hour, 39+ min ago  (432+ words) Places Lost: Winter 2026Hidden City Philadelphia Places Lost: Winter 2026 Editor's Note: A version of this story was published in the Winter 2026 issue of Extant, a publication of the Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia. Location: 6657-59 Blakemore Street The corner building at 6657-59 Blakemore…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago  (367+ words) For the first time in 135 years, Cunningham Piano Company will not have a physical presence in Philadelphia. Its last outpost, 24-26 E. Coulter Street in Germantown, has been put up for sale and will soon have new owners. The sale also marks…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago  (367+ words) For the first time in 135 years, Cunningham Piano Company will not have a physical presence in Philadelphia. Its last outpost, 24-26 E. Coulter Street in Germantown, has been put up for sale and will soon have new owners. The sale also marks…...

1+ week, 7+ hour ago  (575+ words) Editor's Note: A version of this story was published in the Winter 2026 issue of Extant, a publication of the Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia. Extant Magazine (EM): What attracted you to this particular building/site? Marc Pinard (MP): Its intact…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (275+ words) While the local register includes over 10,000 building exteriors, the Main Banking Room of the former Fidelity-Philadelphia Trust Company Building at 123 S. Broad Street has become only the 6th interior designation in the register's 70-year history. Built in 1928, the exterior was added to…...

3+ week, 6+ hour ago  (67+ words) A film still from For the Common Good shows Laura Adie as Elizabeth Coates Paschal. | Image: You'll Never Forget Productions The Mother of Germantown Documentaries as Tools of Public History Sowing the Seeds of Women's History Amy Cohen is an…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (425+ words) The world entered the computer age right here in Philadelphia. It is fairly well known that the modern computer's birthplace was in 1946 at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, with ENIAC, the Electronic Numerical Integrator…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago  (429+ words) In a bucolic stretch of countryside along the Delaware and Chester County borders'once the site of the Battle of Brandywine during the American Revolution'sits a 170-year-old home whose moniker is finally catching up to it: Painter's Folly. The second came…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago  (243+ words) Editor's Note: A version of this story was published in the Winter 2026 issue of Extant, a publication of the Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia. Location: 1421 Baltimore Pike, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania Howard Pyle, founder of the Brandywine School of Art, operated…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (363+ words) Of course, that's precisely what Germantown once was, and in many ways still continues to try to be, even long after the city of Philadelphia subsumed it during a massive expansion to its current borders in 1854. Perhaps no structure is…...