Preservation Alliance and Roxborough Development Corporation present more training sessions.
Owning an historic home comes with both charm and chores to preserve the challenging character antiquity provides. Roxborough's homeowners will get an opportunity to learn some tips on how to keep those homes looking new. The Roxborough Development Corporation partners with the Preservation Alliance to offer free homeowner workshops this fall, geared toward historic properties. "We are glad to welcome back the Historic Preservation Workshops to Roxborough after a successful first series last April," Executive Director Bernard Guet said. "Because of such a large turnout we outgrew our space and Roxborough Memorial Hospital has allowed us to use the Wolcoff Auditorium for the September-October series." In the spring, the Preservation …
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Roxborough Memorial Hospital
5800 Ridge Ave, Philadelphia, PA
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Hidden City shares the architectural background for public schools.
The look for many school buildings within the School District of Philadelphia is strikingly similar look. Sure each school possesses its own individuality, but the size, shape and feel to many buildings contain familiar patterns. In a recent article, Hidden City Philadelphia outlines how Irwin T. Catharine standardized the designs for nearly all school constructions in the period prior to World War I. The concrete and steel-framed structures still stand today and many are based on the standardized blueprints developed by Catharine. Click here to read the article. View some pictures of local schools by clicking through the gallery. Featured schools include Roxborough High School, Germantown High School, Shawmont Elementary, Dobson …
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James Dobson Elementary School
4667 Umbria St, Philadelphia, PA
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