Philly Bricks

What's historically significant about a building? Is it the grand ballroom, a theater's auditorium, the marble friezes adorning a tr...

To look at Philadelphia from the river, we look like any other successful city. Office buildings dominate the skyline, historic steeples com...

Once home to a film company, 238 North 13th Street is known to most Philadelphians as the former national office for Big Brothers Big Sist...

After the collapse of the Shirt Corner and the fire that destroyed the Suit Corner, much of Old City's blighted neglect is being called ...

Despite an anonymous offer to purchase the Boyd Theater from its current owners, the Historical Commission has agreed to let Live Nation dem...

Brickstone Realty Corp's proposed residential tower behind Lit Brothers was sent back to the drawing board by the city's Historica...

In what may be a last minute miracle , Friends of the Boyd founder Howard B. Haas seems to have an anonymous buyer willing to match iPic...

Curbed Philly put together a nice map of the Preservation Alliance of Greater Philadelphia's endangered properties list . With seventee...

Philly.com Philadelphia's sole surviving movie palace, The Boyd Theater, is charging headfirst at the wrecking ball. Our city's ...

Great news from PlanPhilly on the Church of the Assumption on Spring Garden. L&I has unanimously voted to stop plans to demolish the hi...