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Happy Memorial Day. I hope you all had a good weekend.
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Still thinking about that beautiful light on the William and Mary campus when tue Rowhouse City fam visited a month or 2 ago.

For this week's Philly Phriday Pheature I found this shot of a long gone Philly relic in my photos. It really sucks we can't have nice things as a city. Im pretty sure it was on North Broad around Oxford. I believe it is an empty lot now.
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Stay kool out there. Nice like twin in West Philly.
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South Philly Row house
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A great Mansard with an awesome porch from Wilmington, DE
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Don't sleep on the historic architecture of Wilmington, DE. There are really beautiful old homes though out.
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Built in 1928 by prominent Philadelphia architect David Supowitz this Venetian-style, 1,197- seat polychromatic brick and terra cotta movie palace was active until 1962, now commercial stores and offices. Supowitz who designed 24 other cinema theaters including the Hollywood Theater in Atlantic City (1936) and the Goldman theater in Philadelphia (1946) was a prominent architect at the time. However only five of his theaters remain open today. From WHYY website
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For this week's Philly Phriday Pheature the epic Hewitt Bros. designed 420 row in West Philly.
Here's some information on the row from the WHYY Plan Philly website from 2017:
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At the January 13 historical commission meeting, McDaniel, who is the head of the University of Pennsylvania’s religious studies department, broke that logjam when the Historic Commission approved his nomination of the “420 Row District.” The proposal only covered eight houses on the west side of 42nd Street—the self-dubbed “420 Row”—where it meets Baltimore Avenue.
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The row is an impressively preserved example of suburban-style development that grew along streetcar lines, designed by the Hewitt Brothers, a famed Philadelphia architectural firm that designed the Bourse and the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel. The redbrick buildings are an impressive sight. Most of them are studded with stepped gables, turrets, and massive corbeled chimneys connected by alley archways that aren’t found anywhere else in the city. Even in the Spruce Hill neighborhood, which hosts one of the largest collections of Victorian-era houses in America, the row of majestic red brick Queen Anne-style houses stand out.
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M Restaurant at the Morris Hotel. There garden is and awesome out door space. 8th and Saint James St.
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