What’s inside Noble house, by Nelly Childress The President of Council noble room reports on the various by Bob Devoe projects underway: elevator Summertime, and the readin’ is cabs, handicap and garage easy ramps, the water system of Books are jumpin’ off the library the swimming pool, and shelves more. Manager Judi Forte Oh, the fiction’s hot, and so’s the reminds those with short latest mystery The Newsletter of memories of the high-rise And for those who favor history buildings’ balcony users’ code, We have plenty o’ that… Hopkinson House • Summer 2013 as well as recommendations —apologies to George & Ira for those moving in or out. Gershwin and DuBose & She also strongly advises Dorothy Heyward earlier edition. But will anyone But frankly, friends, the books drivers not to drive through * * * borrow or read the book donated to our library are the Independence Place James Cavell’s classic today? Likely not. simply someone’s unwanted garage to 5th Street, for they 1981 novel, Noble House, was There are more books in the books, orphans and victims of are trespassing on private one of the first books donated Hopkinson House library the growing storm of changes property. Paul Coyne and to the Hopkinson House than even Hamlet’s friend in the publishing industry. If Judi’s columns are “a must library when we opened in Horatio could probably they are put on shelf, there read”. For those who do not 1984. The black hard-bound dream of in his moments of most of them will likely sit know the members of Council copy was a bit beaten and philosophy. As we prepare in collective solitude until see the column that introduces battered, but still readable. for our thirtieth year, the either discovery by a browser, the 2013–14 members. For almost thirty years, the key words to describe our donation elsewhere, or a This issue concentrates book sat on the library shelf, situation are overload and purge-and-disposal sweep by on the celebration of our without a reader or borrower. overflow. Our ever-growing an enterprising librarian. Sad building’s 50th anniversary Recently, a resident donated and expanding inventory to say, we have more books as well as tries to heighten a new paper-bound edition, reflects the changing and here than regular readers. the awareness of residents with a colorful cover. It was a varied tastes of readers They are good books but, regarding the special artistic natural decision to replace the everywhere. except for fiction and mystery features that distinguish Hopkinson House from The Occasional Photograph the other high-rises in Philadelphia. These features should be preserved not only for their beauty but for the great artists who designed and executed them—see articles by Victoria Kirkham, Lynn Miller and Susan Tomita. Bob Devoe muses about our library. Dan Rothermel takes us through a journey of the coming season in Philadelphia—a veritable cornucopia of events for the aficionados. David Roberts discusses Ancel Keys’ Mediterranean diet that many of us used years ago and concludes, “If you decide to try a Mediterranean diet I suggest you do it mainly for fun and pleasure.” Pleasant Reading! ■ Summer blooms in the courtyard. Photo by David Roberts. 2 • SUMMER 2013 • ON THE HOUSE ON THE HOUSE • SUMMER 2013 • 3

(and an occasional history), no catalog or charge-out system. sets of books by Sir Winston So, as we welcome the last, face of the building. These Revision in the one ever seems to read them. (Regrettably we have no Correction Churchill offer his views and hazy, crazy days of summer, we changes are subject to review Community Rules and As John Adams sings in the space to accept magazines, The “Occasional perspectives on the history of hear the Gershwin melody in and approval by the City and Regulations musical 1776, “Is anybody CDs, or tapes.) Photograph” appearing in the English-speaking peoples reprise: the Historical Commission. An ad hoc committee has Editorial Committee there? Does anybody care? Summer is our busy the Spring 2013 issue was and the valiant years of the One of these mornings, you’re The job is targeted for early fall been appointed by Council Nelly M. Childress Enny Cramer Does anybody see what I see?” season, as people seek reading taken by Susan Tomita and Second World War. The goin’ to wake up reading of this year. to revise Hopkinson House’s Lynn Miller Was it always thus? Nay, for poolside or the beach. Let’s not by David Roberts. British Empire countries are Send up the Kites, and discover Community Rules and David Roberts once upon a time we were a see what we have to offer this also well-profiled, as is France. you can fly Repiping the pool water Regulations. Owners will Dan Rothermel growing and thriving enterprise, year. Recent additions include finance, law, mass media, All the Russians are here, system at the end of the receive the draft of the revised Susan Tomita All the world is yours, with a in our original ground-floor books by the current masters religion and theology, politics from the time of Catherine book at your fingertips season Rules for comments and/or Council Liaison location (presently the project of mysteries and thriller: David and international relations. the Great to the current post- We wish you a pleasant journey, One of the many pipes in recommendations before final Paul Coyne management office) across Baldacci, John Grisham, P.D. United States history includes Soviet era. by and by… ■ the swimming pool’s plumbing publication. Graphic Design from the freight elevator. The James, Jonathan Kellerman, two shelves devoted to the We also house two was found sheared at the threads Desperate Hours Productions, purpose of starting the library James Patterson, John presidents who have led this cases of books relating to the (possibly caused by the 2011 “Bare walls” insurance [email protected] was to provide an opportunity Sandford, and Lisa Scottoline. noble land. Civil War buffs horrors of the Holocaust and Virginia earthquake) and had for the building Advertising for Hopkinson House residents Other leading authors on shelf will find a large number of the continuing efforts to build to be replaced in May before the To insure the best Louis DelSoldo, (267) 249-7843 [email protected] to have access to books include Nora Roberts, James books discussing various and settle the state of Israel. opening of the pool. After the coverage and lessen the read and donated by their Michener, William Faulkner, E. aspects of the War Between The books include biographies pool closes all plumbing for the demands on HHOA’s Photography neighbors. This is still the noble M. Forster, Michael Crichton, the States. And we have and studies of and by the pool will be replaced and routed resources for $10-15 thousand David Roberts philosophy which drives this Janet Evanovich, Mary Stewart, World Wars One and Two— legions of Jewish leaders and for easier access. system failures, Council, Issue Contributors noble room. We are a reading Stephen King, Tom Clancy, with the original casts. scholars. along with the condominium Nelly Childress Paul Coyne room, first and foremost; all and John LeCarre. (If we And of course, there We are loaded with poets Garage ramp repairs industry, is considering Bob Devoe other uses are secondary and haven’t mentioned your favorite will always be an England. and their poetry, playwrights The garage ramp was liability insurance that covers Judi Forte incidental. Both regular and author, he or she is probably The royal dynasties are and their plays. In spite of inspected in March by the only what was originally Victoria Kirkham Lynn Miller occasional browsers and readers here nevertheless.) well represented, from the Plato’s banning poets from his building engineer, Ed Rothong, installed in the building. Dan Rothermel can do, and will continuously In addition, our inventory Plantagenet, Lancaster, York, ideal Republic, Hopkinson a consultant engineer and me. Owners’ home insurance David Roberts experience the pleasure of includes medical studies, Tudor, and Victorian eras to House chooses to honor them Message from The ramp shows signs of stress policies should cover any Susan Tomita unexpected finds. There is no business, economics and today’s Windsor families. Two (our building’s namesake, due to the large-capacity trash changes made since then. ■ Francis Hopkinson, was Council trucks. Repairs are scheduled himself a poet of note.) Our by Paul Coyne for 2014. poets include Dickinson, HHOA Council President Emerson, Frost, Joyce, It has been a busy time for The Vivarelli sculpture of Keats, Wilde, Yeats, and of Council since the last issue of Adam & Eve course, Shakespeare. Good the newsletter. The Adam & Eve poetry knows no borders or sculpture, as V. Kirkham says, boundaries. Elevator cabs “extends the Hopkinson House We have biographies, The contracts for the lobby art to the courtyard” music and the classics of renovation of the elevator cabs but has sustained, in the past antiquity, to the fast poetic have been signed. Actual work 50 years, marked weather exoticism of tales of iniquity. will start following the receipt damage and is in dire need of We have those one-of-a of materials and equipment restoration. Our thanks go kind books which everyone - anticipated to arrive in to Susan Tomita who took “discovers” at one time or about six weeks. We expect analytical pictures and to Chris Message from another. Sports and exercise completion of this work to be Wasson from the Conservation are represented, too, with a around Labor Day. Department, Philadelphia Management few books about baseball, Museum of Art for helping in by Judi Forte yoga, and gymnastics. And Handicap ramp the search for a conservation/ Summer is finally here, did we way we have art Our building engineer restoration company. The although it’s hard to tell with books? Yes, we have those is considering the use of company under consideration the crazy ups and downs of outsized collections—hats, concrete or stamped concrete worked on the restoration of the weather. Hopefully, it sculpture, cartoons, and for paving a handicap ramp at the statue of Joan of Arc near will straighten itself out and movies. the front entrance. This work the Art Museum. We will soon provide lots of sunshine and The library is open and will facilitate needed repairs - be given the estimated cost for warm weather. available to you daily from owing to water damage - of the the rejuvenation of our Adam Most of us love the 8:00 am to about 10:00 pm. concrete beams under the north & Eve. summer weather and the Photography: David Roberts. David Photography: ON THE HOUSE • SUMMER 2013 • 5

opportunity to enjoy the world objects must be removed to occupy the bank space. and belongings. Our mission outside. But, when you live from balconies during periods While another bank would is to get the move finished as in a multi-family building of high winds. And please be the ideal tenant, banks are quickly as possible. However, summer brings its own set of remember that bird feeders are downsizing and combining the freight elevator is also issues, which are not unique not permitted on the balconies. their offices rather than used to transport contractors, to Hopkinson House. One In the warm weather, expanding in this economy. deliveries and bring the trash of the most serious issues residents like to spend more Moves in and out of down from 31 trash rooms. is the continued practice of time on their balconies and the building are permitted This is likely to occur during tossing cigarette butts from entertain their guests outside. Monday through Saturday. your move, but your move will the balconies. These butts Sometimes, the entertaining No moves are permitted on not be delayed because of other become airborne and can goes into the early morning Sundays and religious and building activities. land anywhere. There have hours when most of the legal holidays. Moves may Some residents do not Hopkinson House been reports of burned patio residents are asleep, only to be start at 10:00 a.m. and must begin to pack their boxes until furniture and mulch fires. awakened suddenly by loud be completed by 4:00 p.m. the moving truck arrives. This 10% OFF A fire is a high price to pay voices or noises coming from After 4:00 p.m, there is limited not only delays your move, it for not extinguishing butts a neighboring balcony. Please staff in the building and the may also cost you more money in an ashtray. In September remember that your voice freight elevator operator has if the movers are being paid $0 enrollment fee Any 2012, the Hopkinson House carries when you are on your gone home for the day. Non- by the hour. It is in your best Council passed a No Smoking balcony and to use your inside employees of the building are interest to pack your boxes resolution, which grandfathers voice so as not to disturb not permitted to operate the and organize your belongings Membership those who lived here prior to your neighbors’ rest. We also freight elevator. before the movers arrive. September. However, under would like to remind everyone The summer months are • Be sure to file a change of that resolution, no one is that residents are entitled the busiest time of the year for address with the Post Office. Full Fitness The Optimal Workout permitted to smoke on their to the use of their balconies moves. Only one move per day • Trucks over 12 feet in height balconies, regardless of how to entertain guests and have is permitted and the schedule will not be permitted into 4 weeks of unlimited long they have lived here. normal conversation without gets booked up weeks in the garage. Large moving Assessment group training: Even grandfathered smokers the threat of a neighbor advance. If you are planning a trucks have to park on Sixth may be subject to fines if their shushing them or calling move, please reserve the freight Street and the movers will neighbors are subjected to the Resident Services Desk, elevator as soon as you suspect have to transport furniture Curtis Center smoke from their unit. We especially before 10:00 p.m. that you may be moving. You and belongings up the ramp 601 Walnut Street LL30 recommend that all smokers The use of barbecue can always cancel or change to the truck. invest in an air-purification grills is prohibited in high- the move date if your plans • Take your bike from the Philadelphia, PA 19106 system which will help to rise buildings by order change. The charge to reserve bike room before leaving. PH: 215.238.5751 Weight management consultation eliminate smoke traveling of the Philadelphia Fire the freight elevator is $150 Unclaimed bikes are beyond their unit. Department. and it is non-refundable. Your disposed of periodically. Optimal Sport 1315 complete with lab work from When you are watering As you all know by now, move date cannot be confirmed • Make arrangements with The Phila. Building your plants on the balcony, PNC Bank has closed its until this fee is paid. We do Comcast to return your don’t let the water overflow doors at Hopkinson House. not accept cash. Payment is by cable modem, digital boxes 1315 Walnut Street Rossi Wellness Center the drip pan. Your neighbors Hopkinson House has check or money order only. and remotes. Philadelphia, PA 19107 downstairs or several floors contracted with Precision When you are moving, the If you have boxes to PH: 215.735.1114 down may be sitting on their Realty Group, Inc. to find elevator will be at your disposal discard, please do not leave NEWTOWN, PA balcony enjoying their meal the best possible tenant to transport your furniture them in the trash room. Call the 2132 S. Eagle Road when your water overflow hits resident services desk at 215- Newtown, PA 18940 Optimal Sport them on the head or ruins For owners or renters interested 923-1776 to have housekeeping PH: 215.579.7600 their food. This also applies to pick up the boxes. washing your balcony. Use only in HHOA’s working committees If you have not completed BURLINGTON, NJ f Health Club a broom and damp mop and and their chairpersons: and returned your emergency Burlington Center Mall don’t sweep the debris over the information form, please do 2501 Mount Holly Road www.optimalsporthealthclubs.com side of the balcony. Committee Chairpersons so. The information on this PH: 609.239.6900 Remember that all form is vital in helping us to balcony umbrellas must be Dispute Resolution Enny Cramer assist you in the event of an ·Zumba · Yoga ·Cycling ·& More! closed when they are not in use Engineering Edwin Rothong emergency. It is also helpful for and taken down when there Finance Paul Coyne, Edwin Rothong us to have your e-mail address is danger of a storm or high Newsletter Nelly Childress on file. Forms can be obtained winds. All loose or removable at the Resident Services Desk. ON THE HOUSE • SUMMER 2013 • 7

Periodically, we have to Philadelphians than the sound update our list of residents of Mummers making music? with physical problems The Quaker City String who require assistance in Band saluted residents in our an emergency, such as a fire, garden on a perfect afternoon. when the building has to In the spirit of mummery, be evacuated. If you require refreshments included soft assistance and are not on pretzels with mustard and our list, please contact Cathy outstanding local brews to “If you work just for money, you will never make it. But if you love Kavalkovich, the Office accompany the music. Manager, and give her the This Quaker City band what you are doing, and always put the customer first, success will necessary information. of 50 musicians takes pride in This list is given to the fire producing multiple generations be yours.” Ray Kroc department in the event of an of players from the same evacuation emergency. family; we were introduced to We ask that drivers who several such fathers and sons. Hopkinson House Residents Be Assured, We Love What We Do and are exiting our garage do not This club has long been one make a short cut through the of the top contenders on New We Will Put Your Needs First! Independence Place garage to Years day. They won second 5th Street. The Independence prize this year, and have been Place garage is privately owned first or second 26 times. But and operated for their residents they were especially impressive and their garage patrons. A in their music-making for us, number of near miss accidents thanks to the fact that (a) they Our Recent Activity On Washington Squaree have occurred by cars speeding faced us directly and stood in and almost hitting cars exiting place instead of marching past over there. From time to time, us, and (b) neither they nor we Independence Place will have were freezing on Broad Street. JUST LISTED a police officer on duty who Remarkably, the club had only will stop and ticket those cars two captains in its first 73 cutting through. The Board of years, from 1931 to 2008. The Independence Place has asked second of those, Bob Shannon, SOLD that we respect their property. Jr., was present and helped lead From Council, us in a sing-along as well as the Management and staff at Two-Street Strut. Hopkinson House, have a safe Philadelphia’s New Year’s and wonderful summer. ■ Shooters and Mummers Association is regarded as the oldest folk festival in the United States. We learned, Our festive 50th between songs, a bit of its Hopkinson House Efficiency Independence Place history, which goes back to birthday the late 17th century, when Top and middle: Sections of the Quaker City String Band Asking $175,000 One Bedroom Park View by Lynn Miller Swedish settlers here first performing during the closing party for Hopkinson House’s 50th The 50th anniversary in celebrated “Second Day anniversary. Bottom: Residents join in dancing the Two-Street Strut. Asking $344,900 the life of Hopkinson House Christmas” on December 26. began last September when That soon got extended to Whistles, guns, and bells bears his name in the 1840s? (A we celebrated to the music welcoming in the new year eventually gave way to the local authority and sage reports of the Big Band from the with shooting and other noise- strings, banjos, and saxophones that Sax himself supposed Valley and dined on delicacies making, along with dressing up that make for the unique sound that saxophones would only from Ristorante La Buca. On and making visits to neighbors. of a Mummers band today. No be used—just imagine—in Sunday, April 28, we closed This bit of doggerel apparently brass instruments are permitted. performances of religious music.) our long birthday party with once did the trick: “Give us What would our Mummers But I digress. In addition PRUDENTIAL Fox & Roach Realtors a joyful noise. What could whiskey, give us gin / Open the have done if Adolphe Sax had to ranks of saxophones and be more joyful to the ears of door and let us in!” not invented the instrument that gorgeous weather, many 1818 Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia, PA 19103 / 215.893.9800 [bottom] Fink Byron [top Roberts middle], David and Photography: ON THE HOUSE • SUMMER 2013 • 9

banjos and lots of strings made of the local residents. Many the local diet that supported from the Rockefeller Foundation our festivities surpassingly lived to be 100. his belief. stated that the people of Crete festive. We flashed our Their good health and and Corfu ate very little sugar Golden Slippers all the way longevity could reasonably What is the and no white flour. Keys to Moonlight Bay. While the have been attributed to Mediterranean diet? disregarded this extremely neighbors strained to see, a various aspects of the Keys observed that the low consumption of refined number of exceptionally spry Mediterranean coastal way people of Crete and Corfu carbohydrates and instead residents, some at least as old of life. For example, it could obtained their protein and fat attributed the excellent health of as Hopkinson House, outdid have been due to what the mainly from wild-caught seafood the inhabitants to the fact that each other performing the people ate or drank, how and from chicken. They were they ate very little animal fat. Mummer’s Strut. much physical labor they too poor to afford much animal Even the tulips danced. ■ performed, or the peaceful meat. They also consumed nuts, The Seven Countries unhurried life in the region. fruits, vegetables, and salads, Study Keys, however, simply and relatively large amounts of Apart from the Ancel Keys seized on those aspects of olive oil. Reports from Keys and Mediterranean diet and his

e and the for their dedication to our Meehan, Vice President; Millie Meet the 2013–14 s

collective welfare and for their Korn, Secretary; Lisa Schwab, u Mediterranean Council willingness to give of their time Assistant Secretary. Bottom A o H diet and talent to this most important row: Edwin Rothong, Treasurer; ro e As is required by our function. We welcome Lisa Edward Kurilla, Assistant und th by David Roberts condominium papers, the Schwab, appointed by Council, Treasurer; Howard Zakheim. The phrase Hopkinson House Owners’ to complete the term vacated Mediterranean diet makes one Association held its annual by Council member Lisette dream of sipping wine and meeting (1) to give the previous Tarragano’s resignation earlier sampling the local catch in a year’s audited financial report and this year. We deeply regret café overlooking the sea. Ancel (2) to announce the results of Lisette’s resignation and are most Keys, Ph.D. had a different Council members’ election. grateful for the many hours if not vision. For most of his life On behalf of the years spent on our behalf. the influential physiologist Hopkinson House Community —Nelly Childress was obsessed with the belief we thank the candidates: Paul that the eating of animal fat Coyne, Millie Korn, Diane Top: Paul Coyne, President. is the main cause of elevated Molas and Edwin Rothong Middle row [left to right]: Larry cholesterol and cardiovascular disease. Instead, however, of designing rigorous experiments to test his idea, as science requires, Keys always looked for evidence that supported his idea and ignored evidence that did not. After World War 2 ended, Keys spent time on the Greek islands, Crete and Corfu, and later he bought a house with gardens outside the southern Italian fishing village of Pioppi (poplars in English.) There he grew his own vegetables and fruit including olives that he used to make olive oil. In all three places Keys was struck by the healthy hearts and longevity Photography: David Roberts David Photography: ON THE HOUSE • SUMMER 2013 • 11

World War 2 “K Ration,” Keys Meet new staff Keys became known in com lists several books on is best known for his Seven France as Monsieur Cholesterol the subject, including the two Countries Study. Keys and shown a strong correlation. My although in 1987 he conceded original ones by Ancel Keys his colleagues examined the earlier article, Is sugar the poison to the NY Times that he had and his wife Margaret. On line consumption of animal fat and in the pantry? reviewed the overstated the importance of you can find the Mayo Clinic’s the incidence of cardiovascular evidence that sugar is the main cholesterol in the blood. To Mediterranean diet and even a disease (CVD) in 22 countries cause of CVD. This evidence his credit Keys understood Mediterranean food pyramid. and identified seven where was produced by rigorous and advised that the eating of If you decide to try a there was either high fat experimental research, not cholesterol is harmless. In 2004, Mediterranean diet I suggest consumption and a high biased population studies. when he reached the age of 100, you do it mainly for fun and incidence of CVD, or low fat Dr. Keys was asked whether he pleasure. For a healthy heart consumption and little CVD. attributed this achievement to and a long life the essentials They set up studies in those We welcome Bruce Wylie who his diet. He had the grace to say are the same whatever diet you seven countries and recorded has been with Housekeeping for that it was not proven. It would follow: First, include plenty of the fat consumption and health the past few months. be interesting to know how good protein and fat, and foods of groups of people over many much sugar he ate. I suspect rich in omega 3 fatty acids, as years. Surprise! They found a very little. discussed in earlier articles of strong correlation between the Consequences When ambitious scientists this series on diet and health. consumption of animal fat and When the Seven consort with politicians, as Wild-caught fresh the incidence of CVD. They Countries Study was shown Keys did in launching his anti- seafood, with its high ratio probably could have produced to be flawed Dr. Keys was fat campaign, both parties tend of omega 3 to omega 6 fatty the opposite result simply by publicly accused of selecting to gain fame and influence at acids, is the foundation of choosing a different group the evidence to suit his case, the expense of scientific truth, a typical Mediterranean of countries—some of those and of fraud. I would not use which is obscured by the rising diet but, in our local stores, where high fat consumption the word, fraud; I think Keys dust. Restoring the truth can any wild-caught choice is was associated with very good sincerely believed that his work take a lifetime. For diet and usually very limited. You cardiovascular health, such was valid. In Keys’s defense it cardiovascular health the dust could, instead, buy the as France and Holland, and should be noted that such a has at last begun to clear. farm-raised fish that are so other countries where low fat large study of a public-health Those scientists who by readily available, especially consumption was associated issue had never previously been the early 1970s had correctly the delicious Atlantic salmon with lots of CVD, such as attempted; it was a pioneering elucidated the role of sugar in (Atlantic describes its Finland. effort. Also the study provided causing cardiovascular disease, ancestry not its habitat), and Later reviews of the data useful information about other were denounced and had their supplement your diet with from all 22 countries showed matters such as the effects of work effectively ridiculed by omega 3 fatty acids from fish- a poor correlation from hypertension on heart attacks Keys. How ironic that his own oil capsules, walnuts, or both. country to country between and strokes. Mediterranean diet is now Second, and especially if the eating of animal fat and Nonetheless we are left known to depend on low sugar you wish to live to 100 with the incidence of CVD. The with serious consequences and for its main benefit! a healthy heart, eat very little results were almost a random misunderstandings including sugar, preferably less than an scatter. A weak trend that is the Dept. of Agriculture’s ill- Is a Mediterranean diet ounce (29 grams) per day from discernible could have resulted conceived food pyramid, with for you? all sources. If you have a sweet from some people who ate a its large excess of cereal-grain If the idea of a tooth, try very dark chocolate lot of fat while also eating a products and its dangerous Mediterranean diet appeals (at least 70% cocoa), which lot of sugar, e.g. Americans lack of fat, and the continuing to you, try it. There is usually has only 1 or 2 grams and Canadians, while others adherence of many physicians really no such thing as the of sugar per square. A fresh ate little of either, e.g., the to Keys’s discredited ideas about Mediterranean diet. There are strawberry has almost none. Japanese. Data from several fat and cholesterol. Keys’s anti- roughly two dozen countries Third, to avoid obesity and countries suggest that, whether fat campaign is also largely to bordering the Mediterranean diabetes, cut the starch. Switch fat consumption is high or blame for today’s dry, tasteless, Sea and their citizens do not to brown rice, and cook rice and low, CVD is more common in lean beef and pork but he shares all eat the same food. The term pasta al dente (firm and chewy) those who eat a lot of sugar. the blame for this with the originally referred to the diet to retard and limit the digestion If CVD in the 22 countries federal corn-ethanol program, observed by Dr. Keys on those of starch to glucose. had been plotted against the which has driven up the price of two Greek islands about 50 Complete your diet with intake of sugar instead of fat, corn and made it too expensive years ago but you may design selections from the orchard and the graph probably would have for fattening cattle and pigs. your own version. Amazon. the garden. Buon appetito! ■ Photography: David Roberts David Photography: ON THE HOUSE • SUMMER 2013 • 13

SHCA House and Garden Tour participants in the courtyard [left] and at the historical display in the lobby [right].

Welcome to our and even “Can you comment explained why architect/sculptor General Manager Judi Forte on the theory of relativity?” The Oskar Stonorov was selected to coordinated the groundskeeping garden guides handled questions with design Hopkinson House on and readying of the pool. Chief by Susan Tomita aplomb, aided by handouts Washington Square and how his Building Engineer Tony Kelly’s While protective of on the building’s history, “totally environmental approach”2 team set up the easel displays. their privacy, city dwellers architecture, courtyard design, to projects distinguished the The Washington Square sometimes open their doors to and plantings. results. Stonorov’s artistic Citizens’ League again strangers. May 19 was one such On easels in the lobby stood achievement is described in detail helped recruit guides. occasion—the Society Hill Civic pictorial displays created for by resident Victoria Kirkham’s Visitors “were pleased to see Association’s 35th Annual Open the building’s 45th anniversary. article in this newsletter. building residents leading the House and Garden Tour, a major They depict a good story worth Visitors spent more time tours.” And the volunteers fundraiser. This year’s self-guided repeating: Washington Square browsing the informational enjoyed the experience. Thanks walking tour featured more as a Revolutionary War burial exhibit than they did for the go to the guides for their friendly than ten exceptional homes and ground followed by its rise tour two years ago. They were participation and comments— gardens, including the garden as a prestigious commercial “really very, very interested in the Ann Artz, Janet Burnham, Scott terrace on the south side of and residential address, the history,” observed Ann Artz, one and Nelly Childress, Charlene Hopkinson House. neighborhood decline by the of the guides. They also admired and Vic Compher, Enny Cramer, It was a cool, misty 1950s and Hopkinson House’s the lobby artwork. Stepping George Koch, Bari Shor, Jim afternoon. Because of the emergence in 1962–1963 as out onto our Italianate plaza, Siegel, Andrew Thompson, weather, visitors entered the “a model historic monument some from the neighborhood Margie Weinstein, and courtyard from the lobby, rather to the success of the vision that expressed surprise at the Roger Moss and Gail Winkler. than through the west gate as converted Philadelphia’s Society courtyard’s existence, size, and Special mention goes to Scott had been planned. About 125 Hill district from a slum to a beauty. Childress, who came, which organizer Paul showcase.” 1 The Adam and Eve bronze redirected traffic from the west Coyne said was a good number. It took a visionary architect sculpture designed by Stonorov courtyard gate all afternoon. Visitors hailed from as far away and city planner, Edmund N. drew visitors’ attention as Also owed thanks are Victoria Sell to your as Australia and New Zealand Bacon, and the support of two the centerpiece of the plaza Kirkham and Jim McClelland and as close as a block away, but successive mayors, Joseph Clark garden. Many strolled around who wrote special background neighbor at the mostly from the Philadelphia and Richardson C. Dilworth, the plantings and the pool, material. ■ Hopkinson House! suburbs and city neighborhoods. to begin the rehabilitation of which was originally part of a Hopkinson House residents Society Hill—and Philadelphia’s moat. “Others welcomed the volunteered as guides in two urban future, no less. The guides opportunity to sit on the garden shifts of two hours. They adroitly chairs,” noted another guide, Jim Local opera handled the sudden rush of 1 Neal Zorn, Hopkinson Siegel. visitors after a slow start. Their House—Living Monument to Having organized the rebranded “Ask Me” buttons encouraged a Modern History (1998), p. 3. tour the arrangements for the by Dan Rothermel wide range of questions, from Created by the Hopkinson House second time, Hopkinson House In time for its thirty- “Do you like living here?” and 25th Anniversary Committee, Council President Paul Coyne ninth season the Opera “What do you know about the this booklet is available from characterized the event as “very Company of Philadelphia garden and building?” to “How www.thehopkinsonhouse.com. sociable and positive” for the has been rebranded Opera much does it cost to live here?” 2 Ibid., p. 15. guests and volunteers alike. Philadelphia. David B. Devan, Photography: David Roberts David Photography: ON THE HOUSE • SUMMER 2013 • 15

the local company’s general production with Washington has had relatively limited Ainadamar a personal and director and president, calls National Opera and The local exposure, although international specialty: he, in the name change “the next Minnesota Opera. For Italians the fact, conducted the first full- step in a creative journey” in in 1842 the Old Testament performed it at the Academy scale production in Spain. which the organization “has story of the Jews enslaved in 1960 as did Opera Ebony in Rovaris will, of course, preside moved quickly to diversify by the Babylonian king, the 1980s. On September 28 over its transfer to the larger our repertoire, identify and Nabuchadnezzar, resonated will reach its largest venue, bringing this compelling cultivate rising new talent, and as their own suppression local audience ever in a high- and richly varied Argentinean present innovative programs, by the Austro-Hungarian definition outdoor telecast on work to a greatly expanded all in an effort to connect Empire. Va pensiero, the Independence Mall. La Bohème local audience. with people in powerful ways moving chorus of the Hebrew and Carmen have been so The final Academy [representing] a thriving slaves in captivity, evolved presented in past seasons. production, Mozart’s Don present and a bold future for into a second national anthem The second Academy Giovanni, will feature a cast opera in our city.” during the Risorgimento, this of Music production will be, of rising stars mostly trained As with the season now period in which the Italian surprisingly, Osvaldo Golijov’s right here in Philadelphia. concluding, the 2013–14 city states moved toward Ainadamar, a work with The Academy of Vocal Art’s schedule will only include unification as a nation. The which the opera company Michelle Johnson, who had two works which may truly innovative production by scored a major success in a a stunning success last year be classified as standard turns co-production with the young stepping into the title role of repertoire, the other three the work into an “opera-within- artists of the Curtis Opera in Puccini’s Manon Lescaut on offerings being 20th and 21st an-opera” as our Academy 2008 at their smaller venue, very short notice, will return century works which are either of Music becomes the La the Kimmel Center’s Perelman as Donna Anna, who is both relatively recent and unfamiliar Scala of the opera’s Milan Theater. This richly colorful attracted to and repelled by or in one case, an East Coast premiere. The cast includes opera with its “flamenco and the compulsively womanizing premiere. Sebastian Catana, Csilla rumba-infused score” tells the rake. In this, the title role will In commemoration of Boross, the Academy of Vocal tragic story of a Spanish poet be Curtis Institute graduate, the bicentennial of Giuseppe Arts’ Margaret Mezzacappa and victim of the Spanish Civil Elliot Madore. Wes Mason Verdi’s birth the season will and the astonishing , War martyred for his political and Nicholas Masters, two open with a lavish mounting Morris Robinson, whose beliefs and homosexual life other young AVA artists, of Nabucco, his third opera matchless Joe helped galvanize style. Opera Philadelphia’s join Amanda Majeski, David Hi Tech. Hi Touch. and first major success, an the Washington National music director, Corrado Portillo, Cecelia Hall and initial production for the Opera’s recent . Rovaris, a former Hopkinson Joseph Barron in Mozart’s A Winning Combination – in Person and on the Web! local company and a co- Despite its fame, Nabucco House resident, has made tragic-comic masterpiece about

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Panorama, a mural by com, 215-925-9809. ■ Stonorov’s friend, the American painter Lucius Crowell. As one rounds the corner into the main lobby, the dark Vivarelli and metal sheathing becomes Totally updated deluxe a framing element for the one bedroom on a high Stonorov: their elevator bank and beyond, completing its continuum in floor with magnificent sculptural legacy a wrap around one final turn. city and river views, Articulated by the elevators, at Hopkinson the bronzes burst to life in an hardwood floors and House imposing cycle of bas-reliefs beautifully appointed that represent the Four Seasons. By Victoria Kirkham Personified as women, they custom kitchen and Hopkinson House, a belong to a tradition that bathroom. 1003 square monument to Modernism, flourished from ancient Roman reflects the collaborative ideals art to the Renaissance. Here, feet. $359,900. of its cosmopolitan architect, from left to right, preside Oskar Stonorov (1905–70). Spring, Summer, Fall, and Stonorov, born in Germany Winter. Symmetry governs of Russian descent, was also the composition, pairing the a sculptor. For this project he two outer figures who stand— brought together fellow artists Spring surrounded by gentle and artisans in multiple media, breezes in a volatile dance of from the United States and joy, Winter covering her ears Completely renovated Italy, to achieve a structure as the wind whips around contemporary in appearance her—and the inner two who two bedroom, two but classical in its Old World sit—Summer lazily curled up bathroom with excellent underpinnings. Upon its for a nap in the heat, Autumn completion in 1963, our spilling out fruits of the harvest natural light, south building won the Silver Medal from a cornucopia whose views, balcony, and high Award from the Philadelphia contents seem to pour forth Chapter of the American from a fertile womb. end finishes and Institute of Architects. The virtuoso bronze caster appointments Stonorov’s connections who could depict female figures to Italy, which go back to clad with drapery of filmy Jorio Vivarelli’s Four Seasons bas-reliefs installed near our elevators. throughout. 1200 square student days at the University transparency in a medium so Clockwise from top left: Spring, Summer, Winter, Fall. of Florence in the 1920s, are dense and heavy was another feet. $550,000. immediately evident as one of the architect’s friends, the humanitarian values. In the and developed ideas for urban enters the outer lobby, its floor Tuscan Jorio Vivarelli (1922- 1960s Vivarelli came to America planning in Pennsylvania with paved with Italianate terrazzo; 2008). They met in 1951, the and joined Stonorov, who had Louis Kahn, another in our its walls and support columns year Stonorov co-organized a since 1930 been in Philadelphia, city’s illustrious genealogy of covered by complementary major exhibition on Frank Lloyd where he had designed housing architects, from Strickland and white marble lightly striated Wright at Palazzo Strozzi in for union laborers (the Carl Furness to Venturi Scott Brown with a brushing of grey. In Florence. An intense relationship Mackley houses in Juniata and Kieran Timberlake. contrasting darkness, textured developed between them, rooted Park, on the National Register On Kennedy Plaza (where bronze sheathes the back in shared artistic, social, and of Historic Places since 1998) Cherry Street intersects with Photography: David Roberts David Photography: ON THE HOUSE • SUMMER 2013 • 21

and master of Crucifixions. catalog shows Vivarelli and The most famous are in Stonorov absorbed together Pistoia’s Church of the Virgin, over our Adam and Eve in the rebuilt after wartime bombing Pistoian’s workshop, as well as (1956), and the Church the Tuscan Girls, Hopkinson of the Autostrada del Sole House, and Rites of Spring for (1963), a daringly modern the fountain at Logan Circle, structure at the Florence a prize-winning proposal exit from Italy’s pan-national never realized. (http://www. north-south highway. In ferrettiarte.it/pdf/Catalogo_ 1970, he established a studio sale_affrescate.pdf) in his native Pistoia at “Villa Countless international Stonorov,” the architect’s last exhibitions have featured project, where Vivarelli’s larger Vivarelli’s work, from Naples pieces dotted the surrounding to Caracas, Paris to Beirut. olive groves. Today it houses He represented Italy, the the Fondazione Pistoiese first country to contribute to Jorio Vivarelli, established Nagasaki’s Peace Park, with a ® to preserve and promote the statue entitled Hymn to Life sculptor’s work. (1982): a battle-scarred woman Versatile for the media lifts over her head a little child CyberKnife Tuscan Girls in which he worked (stone, who clasps in his hands the Stonorov and Vivarelli’s 1966 work , installed along the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. metal, wood, silver, clay, and dove of peace. Surrounded at Pennsylvania Hospital graphics), Vivarelli’s subjects by cherry trees on the ground the Parkway), stands Stonorov village near the ancient town range from early portrait where the atom bomb fell, it James D. Kolker, MD, CyberKnife is a non-invasive form of radiation therapy that is used and Vivarelli’s sculpture of Pistoia. His father, a stone busts to monumental abstract soars as a symbol of hope for Medical Director, CyberKnife Tuscan Section Chief, Radiation Oncology, to treat both cancerous and non-cancerous tumors. Through the Girls (1966), with lithe figures carver who made marble compositions. A 2012 exhibit the future. ■ Pennsylvania Hospital use of a lightweight, dynamic linear accelerator and sophisticated that tumble acrobatically into tombs, named the boy not for a Clinical Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology image-guided technology, CyberKnife delivers high-dose radiation the basin of a wedge-shaped saint, but a character in a play Call today for to tumors with extreme accuracy. fountain. For Hopkinson by Gabriele D’Annunzio, then House, in addition to the Italy’s most celebrated writer. a free estimate CyberKnife treats: Four Seasons, they installed Exposed from youth to his Fast and • Brain and spinal tumors the levitating Adam and father’s craft, Jorio (a variation • Kidney cancer Eve, originally conceived as a on Giorgio pronounced “YOR- • Lung cancer fountain and now mounted in a ee-oh”) formally studied art in • Pancreatic cancer planter on our south terrace. At Florence, heir to a high artistic Painless Stephens College in Columbia, tradition of sculpture—the Benefits of CyberKnife: Missouri, their sculptural group Pisano and Della Robbia • Requires fewer treatment days and is pain-free. The Bathers was dedicated families, Donatello, and Cancer • This outpatient procedure is non-invasive; there is no scalpel, in 1967, when Stonorov’s Michelangelo. High-rise apartment renovations • Residential incision or blood loss. daughter was a enrolled as a Sent to the Balkans as a renovations • Custom kitchens and bathrooms • Tile student. Similar in style are soldier in World War II, he • Treats hard to reach tumors, including many that cannot be and natural stone installation • Drywall • Doors and Treatment treated with conventional surgery. their Dancing Maidens, now was captured following Italy’s • No anesthesia is required. on the Wayne State University armistice with the Allies closets • Hardwood, laminate & cork flooring • • Nearly immediate return to activity. campus near the Reuther and transported a prisoner Custom carpentry and molding systems • Water Library. Stonorov’s career was to Bulgaria, Hungary, and damage repairs • Sound insulation • Small jobs, too! To learn more about CyberKnife, visit PennMedicine.org/cyberknife. cut short when he and Walter Austria, coming finally to a Reuther, for whose United German concentration camp, Auto Workers he had designed where he was forced to bury an educational center near deceased fellow inmates 800.789.PENN PennMedicine.org Detroit, died in a plane crash but kept his spirit alive by Office 267-718-8982 on the way to the building’s “sketching” in the mud. From Fax 215-334-3704 dedication. that period of suffering Email [email protected] Vivarelli, granted longer emerged the artist who scirrottogeneralcontractors.com life, entered the world in a became a renowned pacifist Photograph provided by Vicky Kirkham Vicky by provided Photograph  ! "!     

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