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Historic Preservation

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Advocacy Articles

2021-04-20

DAG Supports Variances Sought for Painted Bride Art Center Adaptive Reuse

2021-04-06

Support for the Historic Designation of the Philadelphia Gas Works in Point Breeze

2021-01-07

Preserve Doctors' Row

2020-07-06

DAG Supports PAGP on the Proposed Demolition of St. Laurentius Church

2019-10-15

DAG's Statement on Historic Preservation Bills

2019-02-04

DAG's Statement Regarding the Mayor's Task Force on Historic Preservation

2019-01-14

Comments + Recommendations on the Final Draft Report of the Mayor’s Task Force on Historic Preservation

2018-06-15

Statement on the Philadelphia Historic Preservation Task Force

2017-12-03

DAG supports Preservation Alliance in recent vote on designation of church at 1020 Christian St

2016-09-04

Commentary: Jewelers Row

2016-01-26

DAG Statement on PHA Plans for Sharswood Neighborhood

2015-05-04

A Transformed City, by Design

2015-04-07

An Agenda for Design and Planning in Philadelphia

2012-06-08

Testimony to the Historical Commission by David B. Brownlee

2010-07-02

Catching the World’s Fastest Ocean Liner for Philadelphia

2010-03-29

The renovation of the ISI Building

2009-09-01

The Barnes on the Parkway

2008-01-07

Deal was broken, history defiled What's all the fuss about two buildings? Plenty.

Forum Articles

2020-10-18

Henry Minton House, Systemic Racism and Historic Preservation

2020-06-15

Whose History Is It? The Democratization of Preservation

2016-02-01

The Academy Of Building Conservation: A “motherhood And Apple Pie” Cause

2012-09-07

Part III Philadelphia, Photographs and Stories

2012-09-02

Part II Philadelphia, Photographs and Stories

2012-08-01

Part I Philadelphia, Photographs and Stories

2012-05-01

Preservation is Design

2011-11-01

Looking Up on Broad Street

2011-10-01

Neither Black Nor White, Preservation is a Gray Area

2011-08-06

Preservation is Good Business

2011-08-01

How to Save the Best of Philadelphia's Sacred Place

2011-03-02

From Nashville to Philadelphia:

2004-11-04

What's Old Can Be New

2004-09-16

Finding Good in What's Old

2004-08-05

Philly Royalty: Queen Village ushers in the city's first Neighborhood Conservation District.

2004-07-22

Building Bridges: Finding new uses for an old viaduct.

2004-07-15

Preservation in Practice: It's possible to save Philly's buildings.

2004-06-03

Breaking Ground: Modern structures add energy to historic districts.

2004-05-27

In Front of the Eight Ball

2004-05-20

These Old Homes

2004-05-13

Guilding Philly

2004-05-06

What's Historic?: Often, it is the event within, not the building itself.

2004-04-01

Divine Accommodation

2004-03-18

A Jury of Peers

2004-03-11

Save Our Structures

2004-02-12

Victory on Chestnut

2004-01-15

Hall Monitor

2003-12-04

Futurama: Philadelphia should sell tomorrow as much as it sells yesterday.

2003-11-27

Killing the Golden Goose: Urban uniqueness must be preserved.

2003-09-25

Broad Way of Life

2003-07-24

Convertible Living: Why new apartments in old buildings may be the key to Philly’s future.

2003-05-29

The Past Menagerie: Philadelphia needs to better fund the Historical Commission to preserve its heritage.

2003-05-22

Inside Out: Preserving historic interiors.

2003-05-15

Easement Does It: Voluntary agreements to preserve the past pay off in the future.

2003-05-08

Future Perfect: Historic preservation as economic development.

2003-04-03

Boyds Of A Feather

Upcoming Events

Past Events

Archived | 2021-05-13

No longer here, now and what to come: Can Philly's music venue scene resist the residential development pressure?

Archived | 2021-03-11

Zagar's Mosaics: Painted Bride, Preservation and Adaptive Reuse

Archived | 2020-10-15

Strawberry Mansion Historic Home Repair

Archived | 2020-09-30

Whose History Is It? The Democratization of Preservation

Archived | 2020-03-05

Historic Preservation, Public Memory and Social Justice

Archived | 2020-02-06

Balancing New with the Old: Renovation, New Construction & Adaptive Reuse

Archived | 2019-11-07

Philadelphia’s Construction Boom –The Ecstasy and the Agony. How can a neighborhood survive the proliferation of unpermitted construction?

Archived | 2019-05-16

Preservation Pints - Survey

Archived | 2019-04-09

Preservation Pints - Education, Outreach + Archaeology

Archived | 2018-09-19

Preservation Pints at River Wards

Archived | 2018-09-06

Impactful Investing

Archived | 2018-04-05

The Metropolitan Opera House: Past, Present & Future

Archived | 2017-12-07

New Stories from the Parkway

Archived | 2016-10-13

Design Matters: At Home in a Rowhouse

Archived | 2016-10-06

Learning from Jewelers Row

Archived | 2016-08-10

Design Matters: At the Navy Yard

Archived | 2016-06-02

A New Chapter for Preservation

Archived | 2016-05-05

Philadelphia Chinatown: At the Intersection of Culture, Immigration and Change

Archived | 2016-04-07

Report from Germantown

Archived | 2016-01-14

A Conservation Plan for Sharswood

Archived | 2014-08-27

DAG at the PMA: Get the Inside Scoop on Frank Gehry's Master Plan

News

2018-06-15

Design Advocacy Group's views on the Philadelphia Historic Preservation Task Force

2013-03-28

N.J. officials suspend planned eviction of Camden Children's Garden