Philly Bricks

The homes comprising the 4200 block of Spruce Street, designed by Kimball, Hewitt, and Hewitt Architects in the late 1800s, were describes a...

If you're familiar with Philadelphia, you know what an abandoned building can do to the morale of its neighbors. If you're familiar ...

Because sometimes you just want to look at pictures, here's a small pictorial tour through West Philadelphia. Mostly Spruce Hill, I note...

A Ghost Story In the fall of 1962, construction began on the first major residential development in West Philadelphia in decades. As part ...

When it comes to architecture in Philadelphia, few neighborhoods can match the decadence of West Philadelphia. It is a portfolio of 19th cen...