T HE P RESERVATION A LLIANCE ’ S EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL PRESERVATION ACHIEVEMENT A18WARDS

M AY 2011 The Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia

The Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia actively promotes the appreciation, protection, and appropriate use and development of the Philadelphia region’s historic buildings, communities and landscapes.

Board of Directors Staff Walter Gallas Director, Northeast Field Office Officers John Andrew Gallery National Trust for Historic Preservation Katherine A. Dowdell, AIA Executive Director Jeff Groff Chair Patrick Hauck Director of Public Programs Susan Glassman Director of Neighborhood Preservation Winterthur Museum and Country Estate Vice Chair Programs Stephen D. Marshall Melissa Jest Robert J. Hotes, AIA, LEED AP Secretary Neighborhood Preservation Program Preservation Committee, Co-Chair Coordinator Philadelphia Chapter of the American Christophe Terlizzi Institute of Architects Treasurer Benjamin Leech Director of Advocacy Janet S. Klein Directors Holly Keefe Board Member Leonidas Addimando Director of Membership Development Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission Peter C. Benton, AIA Amy E. McCollum Vital Neighborhoods Interim Project Director John G. Carr Rachel Royer, LEED AP Joseph P. Charles Development Director Grand Jury Awards Panel Anchor Health Properties Sally Elk Randal Baron Linda A. Galante, Esq. Assistant Historic Preservation Officer Lori Salganicoff Marian A. Kornilowicz, Esq. Philadelphia Historical Commission Historic Preservation Coordinator Lower Merion Conservancy Eugene Lefevre Scott Doyle Randall F. Mason, PhD Preservation Specialist Paul Steinke General Manager Andrew Palewski Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission Reading Terminal Market Corporation Harry Schwartz, Esq. Rebecca Stoloff Ron Emrich Thomas J. Sugrue Preservation Consultant Rev. Mark Kelly Tyler Diane-Louise (D-L) Wormley EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL PRESERVATION ACHIEVEMEN T 18AWARDS Tuesday, May 17, 2011

CRYSTAL TEA ROOM, THE WANAMAKER BUILDING 100 E. Penn Square | Philadelphia, PA

Special Recognition Awards 2 Grand Jury Awards 6 James Biddle Award Public Service Award AIA Philadelphia Awards 17 Rhoda and Permar Richards Award AIA Landmark Building Award Special Recognition Award Henry J. Magaziner, EFAIA Award Board of Directors Award of the Historic Preservation Community Action Awards Committee of AIA Philadelphia Easement Donor Recognition 19 Luncheon Sponsors 20 SPECIAL RECOGNITION AWARDS

THE JAMES BIDDLE AWARD PUBLIC SERVICE AWARD For lifetime achievement in historic preservation For preservation in the public interest

NICHOLAS L. G IANOPULOS , PE SCOTT WILDS Nicholas L. Gianopulos, PE was a founding member of Scott Wilds began his career in Philadelphia city govern - Keast & Hood Co. in 1983 and a principal of the firm for ment in 1984 as a legislative assistant to Councilman Ed 26 years until his retirement in 2009. His early career as a Schwartz. When Councilman Schwartz was appointed structural engineer focused on contemporary architec - Director of the Office of Housing and Community ture, including projects with Louis I. Kahn, for whom he Development (OHCD), Scott joined him at OHCD and was consulting engineer for the National Assembly rose to the position of Deputy Director in 2001. Buildings in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and with Robert Venturi, In 1987, Scott was appointed as the representative of with whom he worked on Franklin Court and other proj - OHCD on the Philadelphia Historical Commission. At the ects. time of his retirement from City government in 2011, he Nick’s interest in history led to an increasing concentra - was the longest serving member of the Historical tion on the structural issues of historic properties. His first Commission in its history, having served 23 years and experience with an historic landmark was in 1959 when attended 234 Commission meetings. In addition to being he and Sheldon Keast worked on Independence Hall and a member of the Commission he also served on its the Independence Hall Tower. From the 1980s on, Nick Financial Hardship Committee, chaired the Committee on and Keast & Hood became the pre-eminent structural Legislation, the Special Committee for Germantown engineers for historic landmarks. Nick contributed to the Avenue and, from 2008 to 2011, was Vice Chair of the preservation of many of Philadelphia’s National Historic Commission. Landmark buildings including Carpenter’s Hall, Christ As a result of his long period of service, Scott provided Church, the Fairmount Water Works, the Merchants an “institutional memory” for other commissioners, recall - Exchange Building, the Second Bank of the United States ing cases heard many years ago that helped guide deci - and the Edgar Allen Poe House. One of his most chal - sions in more recent cases. While he advocated for firm lenging projects was the repair of the roof trusses of the and consistent preservation standards, he was often a Academy of Music in 1989, which was completed in 17 mediating voice, trying to find an appropriate balance days after the structural problems were discovered. between high preservation standards and the needs and In addition to his professional practice, Nick has also concerns of homeowners. been a visiting lecturer and critic in the Department of In addition to his service on the Commission, Scott has Architecture of the University of Pennsylvania. His contri - also been active in his own community of Spruce Hill and butions to historic preservation have been recognized by has served on the boards of other non-profit organizations many awards, including Preservation Pennsylvania’s including Philadelphia FIGHT of which he is president. Preservationist of the Year Award in 1990, the Wyck- Strickland Award in 1995, and the Master Builders Award from the Carpenters’ Company in 2006.

2 The Preservation Alliance’s board of directors honors individuals and organizations who have made significant contributions to historic preservation with its Special Recognition Awards.

RHODA AND PERMAR BOARD OF DIRECTORS AWARD RICHARDS AWARD For exceptional contributions to historic preservation For service to the Preservation Alliance UNKEFER BROTHERS CONSTRUCTION COMPANY From its founding in 1928 until 2010, Unkefer Brothers Construction Company was one of Philadelphia’s out - standing general building contractors and especially skilled in the restoration of historic properties. Beginning in the 1960s, restoration of historic properties became a significant portion of the company’s work as a result of increasing public awareness of the importance of preserv - ing an aging stock of architecturally significant buildings. In contrast to typical general contractors, Unkefer Brothers employed its own compliment of carpenters, training successive generations of craftsmen in the skills necessary to restore historic properties. GERMANTOWN FRIENDS SCHOOL The list of properties on which the firm has worked is a “who’s who” of historic Philadelphia. It begins in the early A community anchor in one of Philadelphia’s most his - 1960s with the Episcopal Services Building (formerly St. toric neighborhoods, the Germantown Friends School Paul’s Church) in Society Hill and the Arch Street Friends was established in 1845 to educate the area’s large popu - Meeting House, and extends into the following decades lation of Quaker youth. Over the years, its campus has to a diverse and challenging range of historic buildings. grown from a small stone schoolhouse into a nineteen- Notable buildings include four Fairmount Park houses building complex spread over seven acres of bucolic (Hatfield, Woodford, Mt. Pleasant and Belmont Mansion), grounds, providing important community space and John Bartram’s historic farm buildings, the German amenities to its surrounding neighborhood and beyond. Society Library, University of Pennsylvania’s College Hall, The school’s insignia contains the fitting passage, Logan Hall and Irvine Auditorium, Beth Shalom syna - “Behold, I have set before thee an open door,” to which gogue, and Louis I. Kahn’s Erdman Hall at Bryn Mawr the Preservation Alliance can readily testify. College. Two of the Unkefer Brothers’ most challenging For the last five years, Germantown Friends School has projects were the dismantling of the 12th Street Friends graciously opened its doors to the Alliance for our Meeting House in Center City and the reassembling of popular Old House Fair. The annual day-long event the meeting house on the George School Campus in brings together nearly one thousand owners and aspiring Middletown PA, and the rebuilding of the 1899 Fernery at owners of older and historic homes, historic preservation the Morris Arboretum while keeping its interior intact. specialists, and specialty product vendors from across Between 1995 and 2011, Preservation Alliance the region. The school’s generosity in providing its two Achievement Awards were awarded to seven projects for gymnasiums rent-free for the Fair not only supports the which Unkefer Brothers was the general contractor, mission of the Preservation Alliance and the efforts of including this year’s award winner the Wagner Free thousands of homeowners to preserve our architectural Institute of Science. heritage, but also showcases Germantown’s historic In spite of these many outstanding achievements, the beauty and hospitality for hundreds of new visitors every Unkefer Brothers’ project that attracted the most public year. The school and its professional, tireless staff have interest — and true evidence of the diversity of the firm’s made the Old House Fair a resounding success year after year. work — was the preservation of the 1920s gas station at 20th and Arch Streets. The Preservation Alliance commends the principals and craftsmen of Unkefer Brothers Construction Company for their eight decades of outstanding accomplishments in preserving historic landmarks in Philadelphia.

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SPECIAL RECOGNITION COMMUNITY ACTION AWARD For stewardship of The Wanamaker Building For achievement by community organizations

AMERIMAR ENTERPRISES , I NC . CALLOWHILL NEIGHBORHOOD SSOCIATION Great buildings remain great only by having owners who A recognize their importance and give special consideration For organizing community support for the Church of the to historic features and architectural character while adapt - Assumption ing to changing needs. The Wanamaker Building has been fortunate to have such an owner in Amerimar Enterprises, Historic preservation is integral to the mission of the which has owned the landmark building since 1995. Callowhill Neighborhood Association, formed in 2001 in Amerimar Enterprises is a Philadelphia-based real estate part over concerns about demolitions and displacement company that has specialized in repositioning office, hotel, that would have accompanied a proposed stadium north retail and multifamily properties. Today Amerimar owns of Center City. While the stadium threat eventually and manages $800 million of real estate assets throughout faded, the new community group did not. The CNA the country. Its leasing and management successes have remained organized and active through a decade that wit - been recognized by awards from the Philadelphia Business nessed slow, positive changes in the largely forgotten Journal, including “Building of the Year” in 1994. Among area of the city between Broad, 8th, Vine, and Spring Amerimar’s other Philadelphia properties is The Garden Streets. Today the CNA counts nearly one hun - Rittenhouse Hotel, Office and Residential Condominium dred members, and in addition to organizing neighbor - on Rittenhouse Square. hood cleanups and establishing a community garden, the Prior to its acquisition by Amerimar, The Wanamaker group continues to advocate for the preservation and Building had been renovated to meet the changing needs adaptive reuse of neighborhood landmarks like the of office and retail use in downtown Philadelphia. The Reading Viaduct and, most recently, the Church of the once nine floors of retail use were reduced to five when Assumption. the building was restored in 1991, and an atrium was The CNA took a lead role in opposing the demolition introduced from the 9th to 12th floors. Between 1997 and of Assumption, supporting its successful nomination to 1999, Amerimar converted retail space on the fourth and the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places in 2009 and fifth floors to office use for a mix of public and private ten - appealing a subsequent demolition approval in 2010. ants. In addition, external metal work up to the third floor While the fate of the church remains uncertain, the dili - cornice was restored on all four facades, cornice lighting gence of the Callowhill Neighborhood Association in replaced, and the name “The Wanamaker Building” care - defending their architectural heritage and fostering neigh - fully incised into the granite façade over the Juniper Street borhood pride is a model that all of Philadelphia can entrance. admire Today The Wanamaker Building with its spacious Grand Court is still one of Philadelphia’s most significant build - ings and a premier retail and office address, thanks to the exceptional stewardship of Amerimar Enterprises. 4 SPECIAL RECOGNITION AWARDS

COMMUNITY ACTION AWARD COMMUNITY ACTION AWARD For achievement by community organizations For achievement by community organizations

TOWNSHIP OF DELANCO , N EW JERSEY NATHANIEL GUEST AND THE For preservation of the Zurbrugg Mansion PENNHURST MEMORIAL AND PRESERVATION ALLIANCE The Zurbrugg Mansion in Delanco, NJ, is believed to For organizing community support for Pennhurst State be one of Frank Furness’s last commissions and is one of the few remaining examples of his residential work. School and Hospital Designed in the classical revival style, the mansion was Originally named the Eastern State Institution for the built along the Delaware River in 1910 for Theophilus Feeble Minded and Epileptic, the Pennhurst State School Zurbrugg, the world’s largest manufacturer of pocket and Hospital campus once housed over 3,000 patients. watches. Pennhurst was closed in 1987 after landmark lawsuits After watching the mansion stand vacant for nearly a regarding the constitutional rights of the mentally dis - decade, Delanco Township took the bold step to preserve abled. In 2005, the state sold the site and its distinctive this important structure by acquiring the property in 2005 historic buildings to a private developer. and subsequently entering into a redevelopment agree - Concerned about the state of disrepair of the ment with Zurbrugg Partnership LLC. The development Pennhurst property, Nathaniel Guest and other advocates proposal included eight new townhouses on the 2.5 acre formed the Pennhurst Memorial and Preservation Alliance site as well as the restoration of the carriage house and (PM&PA) in 2008. PM&PA’s mission is to promote the re- the mansion, which was converted to 25 affordable age- use of the Pennhurst site to maximize preservation and restricted housing units. The plan also allowed the adaptive use of the historic resources while also establish - Township to keep lots along the Delaware River for a new ing a national disability archive and resource center. In township park. 2010, PM&PA co-sponsored a design feasibility study to The preservation and creative redevelopment of the explore re-use options for the site and sponsored a day Zurbrugg Mansion property not only saves an important long conference with the support of the National treasure from Delanco’s past, but also makes an important Endowment for the Humanities and the Pennsylvania contribution to the current needs of the township. This Humanities Council. The conference was held in conjunc - remarkable accomplishment would not have occurred tion with the dedication of a Pennsylvania historic marker. without the tireless efforts and exceptional commitment Nathaniel Guest has been a highly motivated leader of of the Township Committee and its professional staff. the efforts to preserve and appropriately re-use the Pennhurst site. He is a graduate of Cornell University, the Temple University School of Law and is currently a mas - ters candidate in historic preservation at Cornell. In 2010, Nathaniel’s article on historic preservation law received the Burton Award for Legal Achievement, presented by Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the Library of Congress. 5 GRAND JURY AWARDS

THE BAPTIST TEMPLE/TEMPLE CHRIST CHURCH PERFORMING ARTS CENTER NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE 1837 N. Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 20 N. American Street, Philadelphia, PA

HONORING: HONORING: Temple University Christ Church Preservation Trust Keast & Hood Co., Creative Acoustics, Daniel J. Keating Company, Voith & Mactavish Architects LLC, Dommert Phillips, Haverstick- HF Lenz Company, J.S. Cornell & Son, Inc., RMJM/Hillier Borthwick Company, KieranTimberlake

When constructed in 1891, North Broad Street’s Since its construction in 1910 as one of the city’s first Baptist Temple was the largest Protestant church in the settlement houses, Christ Church Neighborhood House United States. Built to house the charismatic pastor has been the civic heart of Old City. It served not only as Russell Conwell’s Grace Baptist Church congregation, the parish house for historic Christ Church, but also held the building also nurtured the birth of Temple University the offices of numerous not-for-profit organizations and and became one of the city’s most prestigious speaking hosted a number of theater groups in its fourth-floor venues, hosting such luminaries as Franklin D. gymnasium-turned-performance space. But before under - Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, and going its recent $4 million rehabilitation, the building suf - Martin Luther King, Jr. But after its congregation relo - fered from structural instability, ADA inaccessibility, and a cated in 1972, the Baptist Temple spent the last three lack of fire suppression, air conditioning, and other basic decades of the twentieth century abandoned and systems. decaying. Plans to demolish the building were averted Architects Voith & Mactavish designed a small infill in 1984 with its successful nomination to the addition between Neighborhood House and the adjacent Philadelphia Register of Historic Places, but its long- Washburn House, creating a single, completely accessible term fate appeared dim until Temple University structure with more efficient circulation and a more direct announced plans in 2008 for its $30 million conversion orientation to Christ Church across the street. The entry into the Temple Performing Arts Center. to the rejuvenated Neighborhood House is now graced Architects RMJM/Hillier and engineers Keast & Hood by a stained glass window rescued from storage, depict - led a design team charged with creating a state-of-the- ing scenes from the signing of the Magna Carta and the art performance venue while simultaneously preserving First Continental Congress. Renovated interiors provide the building’s historical character. New structural mem - rental space for community organizations and perform - bers were carefully integrated into the building’s distinc - ance space for arts and theater companies, as well as tive wood and iron skeleton, original clerestory windows parish archives, classrooms, music and choral programs, were reopened to provide natural daylighting of the and nursery space for the parish and the neighborhood. performance space, and all surviving stained glass win - The project was coordinated by the Christ Church dows were carefully restored. At the same time, all new Preservation Trust. mechanical systems were added to the building, along with a new lobby and bar area, new stage, and new seating. The result is a spectacular blend of contempo - rary and historic design that has reenergized one of North Philadelphia’s preeminent cultural and architec - tural treasures.

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DELAWARE COUNTY PUBLIC FAIRMOUNT WATER WORKS HISTORY FEASIBILITY STUDY AND PARK SCULPTURE AND IMPLEMENTATION PLAN SIGNAGE Delaware County, PA Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, PA

HONORING: HONORING: Delaware County Planning Department Philadelphia Parks and Recreation Heritage Consulting, Inc. Exit Design, Fairmount Park Art Association, Peter Reed Environmental Graphic Design, Philadelphia Water Department, Rob Cardillo Photography, Urban Sign Delaware County is rich in history. More than 80 organizations—museums, archives, historical societies, Fairmount Park is an undisputed crown jewel of preservation commissions—are devoted to the preser - Philadelphia, but for many years, two of its most signifi - vation and promotion of the county’s historic resources. cant assets wallowed in relative obscurity, unnoticed or The Delaware County Planning Department recognized overlooked by the majority of the park’s thousands of the potential to better coordinate these groups’ dedi - daily visitors. Both the Fairmount Water Works, one of cated efforts and to develop a more inclusive interpre - the country’s most important early industrial sites, and tation of the County's history reflecting all periods, the park’s extensive collection of public art (dubbed the peoples and geographic portions of the County. This “museum without walls”) remained unknown to proactive vision led the Planning Department to Philadelphians and visitors alike, with very little on-site engage Heritage Consulting, Inc. to develop the information present to highlight their significance. With Delaware County Public History Feasibility Study and the exciting recognition of Fairmount Park as a National Implementation Plan. Park Service Preserve America community in 2007, the The year-long study brought together a wide array of park secured federal grants to develop an interpretive professionals and volunteers in the fields of history and signage program for the both the Water Works and the preservation to discuss their collective strengths, weak - public art installed throughout the park. nesses, opportunities and threats. The study identified The two-phase project was completed in December concrete steps to improve the effectiveness of public 2010, and today’s Fairmount Park visitor is now met with history stewardship, engage new audiences, and a wealth of previously obscure knowledge, stories, and increase public awareness of the County’s historic lega - historic photographs in a series of beautiful and illustra - cy. The study has spawned an active listserve and web - tive sign panels. Subjects include Robert Indiana’s iconic site, the Delaware County Historic and Preservation LOVE sculpture, Frederic Remington’s only life-sized Network (www.dchpn.org), and exciting opportunities bronze Cowboy , and the tucked-away Ellen Philips and initiatives are developing out of the new partner - Samuel Memorial , each complemented by an accompany - ships the project helped form. ing cell-phone audio program developed by the Fairmount Park Art Association.

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GREENWOOD CEMETERY THE JAYNE HOUSE HOUSE AT RUSH FARMS Delancey Place, Philadelphia, PA 930 Adams Avenue, Philadelphia, PA HONORING: John Milner Architects, Inc., Charles Hess Landscape Architects, HONORING: Cherokee Construction, Eberlein Design Consultants Ltd., Grenald Knights of Pythias Greenwood Cemetery Waldron Associates, Inc., Milner + Carr Conservation, LLC, Pine EwingCole, Bill Rymer Associates, Friends of Greenwood Cemetery, Hanson General Contracting, Inc., Jablonski Building Conservation, Street Studios, Inc., Thornton Tomasetti Inc., Keast & Hood Co., The Louis Berger Group, Inc. Architect Frank Furness designed the Jayne House for A dilapidated house that many people assumed was his niece Caroline Furness Jayne and her zoologist hus - beyond repair has been transformed into a beacon of band Horace Jayne in 1895. This grand Rittenhouse neighborhood pride by new owners, a dedicated com - Square home has an eclectic and storied past, purchased munity group, and an accomplished team of designers and remodeled in the 1920s by department store mag - and craftsmen. Known for years as “the spooky house” nate Jacob Lit, converted to a synagogue in the 1940s, by its Northwood neighbors, the Greenwood Cemetery and adapted for offices in the 1950s and 1980s. House was originally constructed as a farmstead on Remarkably, many original details survived despite these lands once owned by Stephen Decatur, Sr. and Dr. multiple changes, so when new owners acquired the Benjamin Rush. The home was converted to a head - property in 2007, they recognized the potential to return house for the Knights of Pythias Greenwood Cemetery the building to a splendid single-family home. in 1870, when its surroundings were transformed into a Using clues from the building’s original layout, an origi - picturesque rural cemetery with rolling hills, grand path - nal two-and-a-half-story wood-paneled atrium anchored a ways, and naturalistic plantings. Unfortunately, decades new interior floorplan developed by John Milner of neglect in the late twentieth century left the ceme - Architects. A parlor and library replaced 1980s office par - tery an overgrown and debris-strewn eyesore and the titions, and a kitchen was inserted into the original parlor headhouse a shambles. space. Asbestos ceilings were removed and modern sys - The cemetery was purchased in 2008 by Greenwood tems discretely inserted, with original walls and masonry Holdings, a sister company of Philadelphia Healthcare openings retained wherever possible. Exterior restoration Properties which manages the adjacent Cancer included a new terra cotta roof with copper flashing, Treatment Center of America. Both the house and the rebuilt projecting balconies, and thorough masonry clean - grounds were completely restored in a transformation ing. The resulting “new” living space skillfully reclaims the praised by the community as “a thing of beauty.” spectacular grandeur of Furness’s original vision of nine - Extensive analysis established the house’s date of con - teenth-century urban elegance. struction and period of significance to 1830-1850. Its roof was repaired and restored to its original wood-shin - gled appearance. Later additions were removed and its open porch restored, salvaging original wooden columns. Original stucco was repaired and replicated, and windows were returned to wood double-hung divided light sashes. Interiors were completely refur - bished to accommodate cemetery office space, largely using reclaimed material found onsite.

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LE MERIDIEN HOTEL MERCY FAMILY CENTER 1421 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA 1939 West Venango Street, Philadelphia, PA

HONORING: HONORING: HEI Hotels Mercy Neighborhood Ministries Blackney Hayes Architects, DGW Engineers, Domus, Inc., DSG Brawer & Hauptman, Architects, Re:Vision Architecture, The Sullivan Inc., Forchielli-Glynn, Lighting Design Collaborative, M. P. Company Hershman, PE, Incorporated, Metropolitan Acoustics, Michael Raiser Associates, Pennoni Associates, Inc., Ricca-Newmark, Stantec, Five North Philadelphia warehouse buildings have been Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide, Inc., Stuart G. Rosenberg transformed from obsolete, forgotten shells into the Architects, P.C. vibrant heart of a neighborhood striving to renew itself. For more than 35 years, Mercy Neighborhood Ministries With demand for hotel rooms in Center City has played a crucial role in the Nicetown-Tioga neighbor - Philadelphia growing, historic buildings provide the hood, providing child care, adult day care, adult educa - perfect opportunity for ready-made luxury. A stellar tion and career development services to one of the most example is the new Le Meridien, a modern four-star underserved areas of the city. Their new Mercy Family hotel that transformed an elegant but downtrodden Center, replacing a warren of rented rooms in deteriorat - YMCA building into one of the city’s premier accommo - ing buildings, is the first LEED Silver-certified project in dations. Built in three phases between 1907 and 1925, North Philadelphia and gives new life to structures many the Horace Trumbauer-designed Georgian Revival struc - would have considered disposable. ture originally served the recreational, educational, and The complex includes a 1920s heavy timber roof truss boarding needs of the city’s youth during a time of garage, a 1930s Georgian Revival office building, and a rapid industrialization. Fitness, recreation, library, and series of midcentury utilitarian additions. Designs for the auditorium facilities filled the lower floors, with class - center began with a four-day collaborative design char - rooms and boarding rooms above. While the upper rette which drew together Mercy staff, financial and polit - floors were gutted in 1985 and converted to office ical backers, and more than 80 neighbors whose aspira - space for a new tenant, the lower floors remained tions for the site guided the program. Once an environ - active YMCA facilities until 2007. mental hazard and eyesore, the site now features Many of the surviving interiors were grand, ornate restored building exteriors, a native plant garden and spaces left surprisingly intact after years of heavy use, bird habitat, and spacious secure courtyards. Inside, char - including the main lobby, library, and an auditorium that acter-defining structural elements remain exposed, with for many years served as a charter school gymnasium. generous natural light provided by skylights discovered Every significant interior was painstakingly restored and and restored during the rehabilitation. adapted for new hotel uses, with bold contemporary design features complementing the historic spaces and finishes. The restoration scope also included masonry cleaning and repointing, new windows installed in refur - bished historic frames, and complete systems upgrades. The resulting 202-room, state-of-the-art hotel is a testa - ment to the potential of adaptive reuse to sustain a twenty-first century Philadelphia renaissance.

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NORRISTOWN FARM PARK OLD MORTALITY SCULPTURAL 2500 Upper Farm Park Road, Norristown, PA GROUP HONORING: Laurel Hill Cemetery, 3822 Ridge Avenue, Philadelphia, PA Pennsylvania Department of Conservation & Natural Resources HONORING: Laurel Hill Cemetery Company BAU Architecture LLC, Ann Rothmann Structural Engineering LLC, Friends of Laurel Hill Cemetery, 1:1:6 Technologies, Incorporated, Conspectus, Inc., County of Montgomery Parks and Heritage Anthony Biddle Contractors, Inc., Dan Lepore & Sons Company, Services, Donald E. Reisinger, Inc., International Consultants Inc. Efremoff Restoration, Gavigan Cemetery Memorial Restoration, Gillespie Tree & Landscape Design, John P. Donnelly Roofing & Norristown Farm Park, one of the last large undevel - Heating, Joseph R. Addis Contracting, Kreilick Conservation, LLC, oped areas in Montgomery County, has been active Laurel Hill Cemetery Grounds Crew, Native Woods Restoration farmland since before the American Revolution. It occu - Company, Philip Aiello, Inc. pies 690 acres of agricultural fields, woodlands, creeks and other wildlife habitats, and includes fifteen historic When the founders of Laurel Hill Cemetery sought a structures built between 1764 and 1914. Assembled in piece of memorial sculpture to anchor their picturesque the late nineteenth century to provide food, recreation, rural burial grounds, they found the perfect work in Old and labor opportunities for patients at Norristown State Mortality and His Pony . Carved by self-taught sculptor Hospital, this unique collection of historic farmsteads is James Thom after a tale popularized in a novel by Sir now managed by the Montgomery County Department Walter Scott, it depicts a pious peasant who spent a life - of Parks and Heritage Services as part of the time traveling the Scottish countryside recutting the Department of Conservation & Natural Resources faded epitaphs of martyrs’ tombstones to keep their Bureau of State Parks. memories alive. Purchased for the new cemetery in 1836, Many of the park’s historic structures fell into disrepair chief designer John Notman gave the sculpture pride of in the decades following the hospital’s decision to cede place in a Gothic Revival enclosure perched on a promi - control of the land in 1975. In 2008, BAU Architecture nent rise above the cemetery’s entranceway. was retained to rehabilitate four key structures within After nearly 175 years of exposure to the elements, Old the park. The 1764 Shannon Mansion is the farm’s old - Mortality itself had begun deteriorating at a dangerous est structure, a two-story stuccoed fieldstone farmhouse rate, and the Friends of Laurel Hill Cemetery recognized with a nineteenth-century rear addition. The Castner the need for their own pious intervention. Working from House was built by cobbler John Castner and features a comprehensive conditions assessments conducted charming boot-shaped stone set below its 1802 date between 1998 and 2006, the group secured Pennsylvania stone. Also built in 1802 was the Getty Cottage, a small Historical and Museum Commission Keystone Historic building which served for many years as the resident Preservation Grants and assembled a restoration team farmer’s lodging. A 1914 dairy barn features an innova - led by Kreilick Conservation and 1:1:6 Technologies to tive octagonal tower core that was designed to provide fully restore the monument. Completed in September natural light and ventilation to four radiating wings. 2010, the comprehensive restoration scope included Each building received a complete exterior restoration, improved site drainage; consolidation and repair of the with future new uses and interpretive programming sculptural figures; restoration of the Gothic enclosure planned to enrich the public’s experience at this unique including roof repair, refabrication of lost decorative ele - historic site. ments, and masonry and stucco restoration; and new aes - thetic illumination of the sculptures and enclosure.

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OLD TOWN HALL PHILADELPHIA MAIN POST 512 N. Market Street, Wilmington, DE OFFICE HONORING: 2970 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA Delaware Historical Society Frens and Frens, LLC, J.S. Cornell & Son, Inc. HONORING: Brandywine Realty Trust Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, BNIM, Grenald Waldron Associates, Inc., Wilmington, Delaware’s Old Town Hall was built in J. Brough Schamp Photography, Jacobs Engineering, Keating Building 1798 and served as the city’s government seat for more Company, Keating Project Development, Pennoni Associates, Inc., PHY than a century. The building was vacated in 1910, and Engineers, Inc., Powers & Company, Inc., Thornton Tomasetti the Delaware Historical Society assumed stewardship soon after and converted the building into a history Historic preservation as an economic engine is on museum in 1920. Various major and minor alterations beautiful display along the west bank of the Schuylkill and restoration campaigns followed, including a sub - River with the transformation of the former Philadelphia stantial utilitarian rear addition built in the 1920s. Main Post Office into a world-class office facility. Faced In 2009, architects Frens and Frens undertook a com - with the looming spectre of a 900,000 square foot white prehensive examination of the building’s conditions and elephant after the Post Office announced plans to relo - developed a strategy to restore the building to its origi - cate its main regional distribution center, Brandywine nal configuration without obscuring the significance of Realty and other stakeholders came together with an its subsequent history, much of it guided by leading ambitious redevelopment scheme for the Art Deco behe - preservation architects of the early and middle twentieth moth. The building’s challenges were many, yet its loca - century. The now-obsolete rear addition was removed tion directly across from 30th Street Station, with an his - and masonry throughout the building envelope was toric Post Office lobby among the city’s finest Art Deco repaired and repointed with appropriate mortar and interiors, presented an unparalleled opportunity. joint profiles. Window restoration involved selective Architects Bohlin Cywinski Jackson devised a radical reglazing and Dutchman repairs of individual frame and reuse scheme, carving a 200-foot-long, four-story-deep sash components, with epoxy consolidation of many lightwell into the center of the building to allow conver - deteriorated sills. Restoration of the iconic cupola sion of deep industrial floorplates into attractive modern involved the replacement of severely deteriorated mem - office spaces centered around an interior atrium. All char - bers dating from an earlier restoration campaign which acter-defining historic features of the Mayan-inspired Art used an inappropriate, rot-prone wood species. Though Deco design were retained and meticulously restored, modest in visual impact, these important interventions down to the original post office boxes lining the build - are testament to the consistent and dedicated steward - ing’s lobby. A 1930s state-of-the-art lighting scheme was ship the Delaware Historical Society shows its significant recreated in the lobby, and a new nighttime lighting plan collection of architectural landmarks. was developed for the building’s restored exteriors. The $252 million project, financed in part with federal historic preservation tax credits, is now home to more than 5,000 permanent employees who are breathing new life into an awakened gateway for Center City Philadelphia.

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PRESSER SENIOR APARTMENTS RICHARD HUMPHREYS HALL 101 W. Johnson Street, Philadelphia, PA 1837 University Circle, Cheyney University, Cheyney, PA

HONORING: HONORING: Presser Senior Apartments, LP Cheyney University of Pennsylvania City of Philadelphia Office of Housing and Community UCI Architects, Inc., Advanced Geoservices, Gillan & Hartmann, Inc., Development, Fastrack Construction, Inc., High Swartz, LLP, JKR High Construction Company, The Kachele Group, Inc. Partners, LLC, Nolen Properties, LLC, O'Donnell & Naccarato, Powers & Company, Inc., Ritter & Plante Associates, LLC, Sherick Cheyney University is the nation’s oldest African Project Management, LLP, Wick Fisher White, Inc. American educational institution, founded in Philadelphia in 1837 by Quaker philanthropist Richard Humphreys as In 1914, sheet music publisher and philanthropist the Institute for Colored Youth. When the school relocat - Theodore Presser established the Presser Home for ed in 1902 to its current Delaware County site, Richard Retired Music Teachers, a 52,000-square-foot Mt. Airy Humphreys Hall was the first building to be erected and landmark. Vacant, deteriorating, and threatened with remains the heart of the campus. Originally conceived as demolition before being acquired by Nolen Properties both dormitory and classroom space, the dignified in 2006, the building’s architectural grandeur and phil - Colonial Revival fieldstone structure evolved with the anthropic mission have both been preserved in its excit - changing needs of the institution, adding classrooms and ing rebirth as the Presser Senior Apartments. Architects mechanical spaces in a series of 1960s additions. A peri - JKR Partners directed the $13 million interior and exte - od of slow decline followed, leading the school to aban - rior renovation of the National Register-listed building, don its upper floors in 1985. By 2004 the building sat jointly funded through private, city, state, and federal entirely vacant. stimulus money. Retaining the building’s original floor In 2008, UCI Architects were charged with returning the plan and historic finishes, 86 rooms were converted to building to its original character and condition. Years of 45 affordable senior apartments arranged around an water infiltration, biological growth, and wood deteriora - ornate, fully-restored central hallway. A former recital tion were addressed in a sensitive and comprehensive hall was restored to provide recreational and meeting exterior restoration. The badly-deteriorated additions space, as was the building’s once-overgrown and weed- were demolished to return the building to its original foot - strewn courtyard. print. A new slate roof was installed and dormers were Along with the adjacent Nugent Home, also now slat - rebuilt. Fieldstone walls were cleaned and repointed with ed for rehabilitation, the success of this project owes appropriate mortar, and historic windows were restored much to the forward-thinking dedication and passion of and fitted with new interior storm sashes. The exterior the many community organizations who rallied to work was completed in June 2010, readying the structure defend the building when it was threatened with demo - for future interior rehabilitation as student residences. lition in 2005. Together, the West Mt. Airy Neighbors, East Mt. Airy Neighbors, Pomona-Cherokee Civic Council, Duval Improvement Association, and West Central Germantown Neighbors all demanded a better fate than demolition for a building they recognized as integral to the fabric and history of their community.

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SEPTA REGIONAL RAIL STENTON AVENUE BRIDGE STATIONS IMPROVEMENT Stenton Avenue over Wissahickon Creek, Whitemarsh PROJECT Township, PA HONORING: Stations: Allen Lane, Clifton-Aldan, Folcroft, Morton, North PennDOT District 6-0 Wales, Queen Lane TranSystems Corporation HONORING: SEPTA Masonry arch bridges are a Southeastern Pennsylvania Crossing Construction Company, Donald E. Reisinger, Inc., Ernest icon and an important part of our cultural landscape. Bock & Sons, Inc., Alfred J. Fry III, Inc., Gannett Fleming, Inc., More than 120 of these historic stone bridges still carry HNTB Corporation, John Bowie and Associates, L.P. Herman Company, Miller Brothers, Nucero Electrical Construction Co. Inc., vehicular traffic across Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Philadelphia Historical Commission, Santa Paul Corp. T/A Lima Montgomery and Philadelphia Counties. To address the Company, SEPTA/EM&C Capital Construction Department, The significant engineering and maintenance challenges that Sheward Partnership, Smith Construction, Inc., Sowinski Sullivan accompany this regional legacy, PennDOT launched Architects, Stell Environmental Enterprises, TranSystems Corporation Project Keystone, a management plan tailored specifically to the needs and demands of these bridges, many of SEPTA’s regional rail network boasts more than 150 which have been found to be structurally deficient. By stations across Greater Philadelphia, many of which are developing cost-effective repair methodologies and reha - historic structures constructed in the late nineteenth bilitation standards, more of these bridges are being and early twentieth centuries. Built in a variety of styles repaired instead of replaced, thus maintaining the historic and configurations, these historic stations are an archi - sense of place along the region’s roadways. tectural treasure trove, but also pose significant mainte - The Stenton Avenue Bridge carrying State Route 3003 nance and accessibility challenges as they reach, and over Wissahickon Creek in Montgomery County exempli - often surpass, a century of continuous use. Thanks in fies the benefits of this initiative. Determined to be struc - part to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, turally unstable and in a visible state of decline, planners six stations recently completed improvement projects originally recommended against preservation of the two- that successfully preserved their unique historic charac - span structure. Yet further analysis revealed the barrel ters while accommodating modern amenities and stan - vaults themselves to be sound, enabling engineers to dards. pursue rehabilitation. Deteriorated fieldstone side walls The Allen Lane, Clifton-Aldan, Folcroft, Morton, were partially dismantled and rebuilt using stone sal - North Wales, and Queen Lane Stations serve four dif - vaged on site, and a lightweight concrete bed replaced ferent rail lines and represent a wide variety of station heavy earth fill prone to oversaturation and water infiltra - types, from compact brick sheds to picturesque tion problems. The roadway was rebuilt to its historic Victorian complexes. Each station received a cus - width and defining features like date stones were tomized restoration plan specific to its unique material retained and restored. and programmatic needs, avoiding the pitfalls of a one- size-fits-all approach. Among the many highlights, Allen Lane’s striking “flying foot bridge” was retained and restored, North Wales Station was rescued from layers of paint accumulation obscuring its charm, and Morton Station’s distinctive polychrome High Victorian Gothic masonry facades and exterior woodwork were com - pletely rehabilitated. 13 GRAND JURY AWARDS

ST. PETER’S CHURCHYARD ST. STEPHEN’S EPISCOPAL 313 Pine Street, Philadelphia, PA CHURCH HONORING: 158 Warren Street, Beverly, NJ Historic St. Peter's Church Preservation Corporation HONORING: St. Stephen's Episcopal Church Milner + Carr Conservation, LLC, The Hedgerows Tree Service Wu & Associates, Inc., Brayco, Inc., Caswell & Co., Inc., Coastal Clock & Chime, Controlled Environmental Systems, Inc., DJ Wagner St. Peter’s Church was established at 3rd and Pine Heating & Air Conditioning, Inc., Farewell Mills Gatsch Architects, Streets in Society Hill in 1758, with services first held in LLC, Keast & Hood Co., Kupex Exteriors, LLC, Premier Building 1761. Among Philadelphia’s many historic cemeteries, Restoration, Inc., Schnabel Conservation, LLC, Woern Plastering St. Peter’s Churchyard is distinctive both for its notable burial sites, including those of Stephen Decatur and On the shores of the Delaware River, the heart of the Charles Wilson Peale, and for its unique collection of small town of Beverly, New Jersey lies in St. Stephen’s table-top and box tablet markers. Led by the Historic Episcopal Church. The church’s establishment in 1837 St. Peter’s Church Preservation Corporation and the predates the town’s 1850 incorporation as a borough, church’s dedicated congregation, Milner + Carr and its present building was finished in 1855—two years Conservation recently completed a five-year effort to before Beverly became a city. Its steeple, the tallest struc - assess, monitor and treat more than 1,200 individual ture in the area, once aided navigation along the grave markers and develop a long-term maintenance Delaware River. Today, the church is home to a dedicated plan to ensure the churchyard’s continued integrity. congregation and hosts numerous community organiza - Restoration of the Decatur Monument, the most tions and events, including the local Riverfront Historical prominent marker in the churchyard, marked the com - Society, Big Brothers Big Sisters program, Habitat for pletion of the conservation campaign. The naval hero Humanity, and myriad other charitable endeavors. But the died in 1820 after being wounded in a duel, and was church’s future was cast in uncertainty when results of a reinterred in the family burial plot at St. Peter’s in 1846. building evaluation exposed severe deterioration in the Since that time, a bronze eagle cast by the Bureau steeple and other integral building features. Recognizing Brothers stood atop a tall granite column, exposed and its cultural and historical importance, the community ral - vulnerable to atmospheric elements that had severely lied around the church and undertook an ambitious corroded the marker. The eagle was temporarily fundraising campaign to restore the building. removed to conservation labs, where it underwent a On the verge of collapse, the steeple was reinforced by meticulous three-phase corrosion treatment involving a new internal steel frame. New slate roofing matching mechanical, chemical and laser techniques. A ceremony historic photos replaced later damage-prone cedar shin - accompanied the reinstallation of the eagle atop its col - gles, and new copper louvers and flashing replaced dete - umn in conjunction with the 250th anniversary of St. riorated or missing details. Stained glass windows were Peter’s Church. restored, interior plasterwork was repaired and the gran - ite steps serving the main entrance were rebuilt. Pride in this important accomplishment is strong in both the con - gregation and the community, ensuring the church’s place in Beverly for years to come.

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TROLLEY CAR CAFÉ AT THE WAGNER FREE INSTITUTE OF BATHEY HOUSE SCIENCE 3269 South Ferry Road, Philadelphia, PA 1700 W. Montgomery Avenue, Philadelphia, PA

HONORING: HONORING: Philadelphia Parks and Recreation Wagner Free Institute of Science Fairmount Park Historic Preservation Trust, East Falls Development Aegis Property Group, Landmark Facilities Group, Inc., Unkefer Corporation, Keller & Company, Inc., KSK Architects Planners Brothers Construction Co. Historians, Inc., PhillyOfficeRetail.com There is always more to a successful preservation proj - A forgotten and ramshackle little building in East ect than meets the eye. This is especially true of the Falls has been transformed into an all-in-one neighbor - Wagner Free Institute’s exemplary stewardship of their hood welcome center, sustainable design showcase, treasured National Historic Landmark building. While the recreational facility, and award-winning BYOB restau - museum’s newly-rehabilitated heating system is virtually rant in this model project highlighting the power of invisible to visitors and staff, the project nevertheless public-private preservation efforts to improve our com - achieves preservation’s highest goals in merging historic munities. Once a bathhouse for a public swimming pool sensitivity and environmental responsibility. Following a on the banks of the Schuylkill River, “Bathey House” 2009 boiler room fire that incapacitated the building’s endured a long period of decline before the East Falls 100-year-old heating equipment, the museum might easi - Development Corporation and the Fairmount Park ly have opted for an entirely new system. Even before the Historic Preservation Trust stepped in to find a new life fire, the steam heating equipment installed in 1907 was for the structure. A proposal by Brinton Partners com - notoriously inefficient, inconsistent and failure-prone. Yet bined a trailhead welcome center for the Schuylkill analysis by the Landmark Facilities Group revealed the River Trail with a fresh food café. The plan was enthusi - system’s flaws to be the result of incompatible changes astically embraced by the community, and restoration and misuse over the years, not the age or design of the of the building began in 2009. system itself. Weeds choked the lot and the roof was near collapse Existing pipes and radiators were reused in place, pro - when work started, but an innovative new space soon tecting the building’s historic fabric and diverting poten - emerged from the Bathey House shell. The roof was tial waste from the waste stream. New high-efficiency gas rebuilt to its original configuration, integrating new boilers reduce the museum’s carbon footprint by over solar tubes to light the cafe and supply hot water. 87,000 pounds annually, and simple alterations to the sys - Doors and lunette windows were restored and a securi - tem’s controls allow for zoned operation and further effi - ty gate salvaged to adorn the interior space. An out - ciency. The museum, whose Victorian-era facility is among door patio and kitchen garden now stand where swim - its most important artifacts, found that the most histori - mers once bathed, and the building hosts bicycle cally appropriate approach—returning the system to its rentals for use along the Schuylkill River Trail. original configuration, albeit with a few modern upgrades—was also the most energy-efficient.

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WARDEN’S HOUSE 150 High Street, Mount Holly, NJ

HONORING: County of Burlington, NJ Regan Young England Butera, P.C., The DaVinci Group, Hunter Research, Inc., John Bowie and Associates, Robert Frizell, Inc., Robert R. Rosen Associates

A Second-Empire house built for Burlington County, New Jersey’s prison warden in 1888 has been immacu - lately restored to house the work of that county’s prolif - ic twentieth-century folk artist Hugh Campbell. The $740,000 Warden’s House project, financed by a voter- approved county preservation and open space fund, undertook a complete interior and exterior rehabilita - tion of the three story structure immediately adjacent to the former Burlington County Prison. The once-down - trodden building called for extensive structural and cos - metic intervention, including underpinning and new foundation work beneath a structurally deficient frame addition, masonry repair and repointing, selective slate shingle replacement, historic window rehabilitation, porch restoration, new exterior shutters, and a new exterior paint scheme. Interior work included new climate control and fire suppression systems, removal of non-historic interior partitions and drop ceilings, and the restoration of newly-uncovered stone hearth, plaster ceiling medal - lions, and other historic features. In addition to new gallery space, the building also contains offices for the Historic Burlington County Prison Museum, an anchor of the Mount Holly National Register Historic District which encompasses both properties. The firm of Regan Young England Butera and preservation consultant John Bowie and Associates led a capable team of contractors and craftsmen who completed the ambitious project in only seven months.

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2011 AIA PHILADELPHIA LANDMARK BUILDING AWARD

his merchandise in print, allowed his customers to return purchases for a cash refund, and offered the first restaurant to be located inside a department store. Wanamaker also invented the price tag. His employees were to be treated respectfully by man - agement (including not being scolded in public), and John Wanamaker & Company offered its employees access to the John Wanamaker Commercial Institute, as well as free medical care, recreational facilities, profit sharing plans, and pensions—long before these types of benefits were consid - ered standard in corporate employment. Innovation and "firsts" marked Wanamaker's. The store was the first department store with electrical illumination (1878), first store with a telephone (1879), and the first store to install pneumatic tubes to transport cash and documents (1880). In 1911, Wanamaker replaced his Grand Depot in stages, and constructed a new, purpose-built structure on the same THE JOHN WANAMAKER site. The new store, built in the Florentine style with granite DEPARTMENT STORE facades and designed by Chicago architect Daniel H. Burnham, had 12 floors (9 for retail), numerous galleries and 1300 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA Daniel H. Burnham & Company, 1902 – 1911 two lower levels totaling nearly two million square feet. The store was dedicated by President William Howard Taft on John Wanamaker, the founder of the store that bears his December 30, 1911. name, was unable to join the U.S. Army during the American The palatial emporium featured the Wanamaker Organ, Civil War because of a persistent cough. Having been rejected the former St. Louis World's Fair pipe organ. The organ was from war duty, he ventured into business with his brother-in-law, installed in the store's marble-clad central atrium known as Nathan Brown. In 1861, they founded a men's clothing store in the Grand Court. Despite its size, the organ was deemed Philadelphia called Oak Hall. In 1876, Wanamaker purchased insufficient to fill the Grand Court with its music. the abandoned Pennsylvania Railroad station at the southeast Wanamaker's responded by assembling its own staff of corner of Center Square for use as a new, larger retail location. organ builders and expanding the organ several times over a The concept was to renovate the terminal into a "Grand Depot" period of years. The organ still stands in place in the store similar to London's Royal Exchange or Paris's Les Halles—two today, and is the largest operational pipe organ in the world, central markets, and forerunners of the modern department with some 28,000 pipes. Free recitals are still held twice store, that were well-known in Europe at that time. every day except Sunday, and visitors are invited to tour the The Wanamaker's Grand Depot opened in time to service the organ's console area and meet with staff after recitals. public visiting Philadelphia for the American Centennial Another item from the St. Louis Fair installed in the Grand Exposition of 1876, and in fact resembled one of the many Court is the large bronze eagle, which quickly became the pavilions at that world's fair with its fanciful new Moorish facade. symbol of the store and a favorite meeting place for shop - In 1877 the interior of Wanamaker's was refurbished and pers. All one had to say was "meet you at the eagle" and expanded to include not only men's clothing, but women's everyone knew where to go. clothing and dry goods as well, making this Philadelphia's—and The John Wanamaker Department Store was designated perhaps America's—first modern-day department store. A circu - a National Historic Landmark in 1978. In 1992 a nonprofit lar counter was placed at the center of the building, and con - group, the Friends of the Wanamaker Organ, was founded centric circles radiated around it with 129 counters of goods. to promote the preservation, restoration and presentation Wanamaker first thought of how he would run a store on new of the famous pipe organ. Current retail tenant Macy's, with principles when, as a youth, a merchant refused his request to a long tradition of parades and fireworks displays, has taken exchange a purchase. His retail advertisements—the first to be a prominent civic role in fostering historic Wanamaker tradi - copyrighted beginning in 1874—were factual, and promises tions, especially the Wanamaker Organ and the Holiday made in them were kept. Wanamaker guaranteed the quality of Pageant of Lights Christmas Show.

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THE HENRY J. MAGAZINER, EFAIA AWARD of the Historic Preservation Committee of AIA Philadelphia

VALERIE SAFRAN AND MARCIE TURNEY

The Magaziner Award recognizes an individual or organization outside the normal circle of preservation and design that has made a significant contribution to y

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s Safran and Marcie Turney, who represent the many entre - a J preneurs who live and work and open businesses in revi - talized neighborhoods. Many successful urban neighborhoods attribute their rebirth to the restoration of their built environment, and glossy photographs of beautifully renovated buildings illustrate this success. However, it is the people who live in or move to these neighborhoods and establish their homes and businesses in these buildings that ensure the continued success of any revitalization project. Drawn by the rehabilitation of 13th Street undertaken by Goldman Properties in the late 1990’s, Valerie Safran and Marcie Turney have opened a succession of restau - rants and boutique retail stores in a one-block section of this street, creating the heart of what is now called Midtown Village. From Open House, a home-furnishings store and their first venture in 2002, to Barbuzzo, a casu - al restaurant opened in 2010 and already a James Beard award winner, Valerie and Marcie have opened three restaurants (Lolita, Bindi, and Barbuzzo) and four shops/businesses (Open House, Grocery, Verde, and Marcie Blaine Artisanal Chocolate), and by doing so have claimed this small part of Philadelphia as their own. Along with several older businesses that weathered many harsh years in a once desolate neighborhood, Marcie and Valerie are ever-present in their businesses on the block. "I think it's clear that we love this community; we live here, and we have enjoyed being a part of its growth both as residents and as business owners," says Safran.

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he Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia began accepting preservation easements in this region in 1979 and Ttoday holds 226 easements on historic properties ranging from Center City skyscrapers to landed suburban estates, from converted factories in Old City to townhouses in Society Hill, from downtown hotels to modernist residences in outlying counties.

In 2010, property owners donated protective preservation easements on two properties:

1 239 S. Camac Street Donated by 239 S. Camac LP Restored by Lawrence S. Krasner, Esq. and Michael Giampietro, Esq.

2 251-53 S. Camac Street Donated by Camac Street Partners and 4929 Cedar LP Restored by Lawrence S. Krasner, Esq. and Michael Giampietro, Esq.

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Modernism Online THE KACHELE GROUP The Preservation Alliance’s inventory of C onsulting Structural Engineers midcentury architectural resources is now online! 1218 Chestnut Street Suite 502 Philadelphia, PA19107 More than 300 Philadelphia buildings TT G are currently listed—search or browse Phone: 215-238-1994 ext 101 G by architect, building type, address, Fax: 215-238-6590 Email:[email protected] area, or construction date to discover KK the full range of resources from this seminal era in Philadelphia architecture. Daniel M. Weinstein, P.E. Vice President www.PreservationAlliance.com/modern

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