Month: September 2013
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Walking the Eraserhood: 11th and Hamilton Streets
“Walking the Eraserhood” represents an ongoing street-level exploration of the Callowhill district and surrounding environs, a sort of virtual walking tour of the neighborhood.
While we are now well outside the dedicated areas of the neighborhood, we are still surrounded by former industrial buildings, with good views of the iron Viaduct southeast down Ridge, east down Hamilton, and south, back the way we came. To the west, the spire of the Lasher is clearly visible.
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Exploring Philadelphia’s Abandoned Subway Stations | Streets Dept
Closed in 1989 due to low ridership and safety concerns after nearly 60 years in service, SEPTA’s Spring Garden Street Station on the Broad-Ridge Spur is now an abandoned mecca for graffiti artists and urban explorers alike, who are arguably the only people showing the old station any love.
Exploring Philadelphia’s Abandoned Subway Stations | Streets Dept.
Philly Bricks: Friends of the Rail Park
Some new renderings have emerged from OLIN Studio for Callowhill’s should-be Reading Viaduct Park as well as some for a City Branch Rail Park, this time opening up City Branch’s tunnels to the sky.
Commissioned by Friends of the Rail Park, formerly ViaductGreene, the renderings are highly conceptual, integrating the School District Administration Building and former Inquirer Building.
New Apartments Rising Next to Former Tombstone Business | NakedPhilly
On the southeast corner of 12th & Brandywine, a new building is currently under construction. You may recall, we brought this intersection to your attention many moons ago, when we talked about six new homes coming to the northeast corner. While that project is not yet in the ground, plans we were previously unaware of are already in full swing.
New Apartments Rising Next to Former Tombstone Business | NakedPhilly.
Walking the Eraserhood: 11th and Callowhill Streets
“Walking the Eraserhood” represents an ongoing street-level exploration of the Callowhill district and surrounding environs, a sort of virtual walking tour of the neighborhood.
Here we can stand directly under what Philadelphians call “The Trestle” as it makes the transition from stone viaduct to iron girders. In the evening, visitors can also visit the infamous inn bearing the same name.
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Positively Philadelphia: Our City’s Small, Hidden Streets « CBS Philly
By Lauren Lipton
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — There are so many treasures hidden in plain sight in Philadelphia that often you walk by and don’t even notice.
The Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia offers walking tours of neighborhoods and neighborhood architecture all over the area, pointing out things you probably would have missed on your own.
“I think it’s neat if you’re a Philadelphia resident to take a tour of a neighborhood you don’t live in or might not know,” says Holly Keith of the Preservation Alliance. For example, she says, “We have a tour of the so-called ‘Eraserhood,’ which I think is really interesting — the Callowhill neighborhood.”
Positively Philadelphia: Our City’s Small, Hidden Streets « CBS Philly.
Walking the Eraserhood: 1100 Block of Wood Street
“Walking the Eraserhood” represents an ongoing street-level exploration of the Callowhill district and surrounding environs, a sort of virtual walking tour of the neighborhood.
Standing and 12th and Wood we can see the former Smaltz building along the 1100 block of Wood, currently clothed in modern skin. Walking east from here, we can also pass through one of the massive stone tunnels under the Reading Viaduct. It is believed this is the tunnel David Lynch refers to in his anecdote about carrying a nail-studded board as protection while he lived in this neighborhood. The textures of the inside of the tunnel may well serve as the original model for textures Lynch used in the “man in the planet” sequence in Eraserhead. One can then continue south to stand at 11th and Wood at the foot of the Frank C. Maurone Company building, currently bearing the banner of Khmer Art Gallery. Standing here at 11th and Wood, it is also a good idea to look back to the west, to appreciate how the Reading Viaduct comes in from the crossing at 11th and Callowhill and points toward Reading Terminal.
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