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The National Trust for Historic Preservation recently unveiled its 2023 list of America’s Eleven Most Endangered Historic Places, and two Philadelphia sites have found…
Visiting abandoned places has become a popular activity among tourists across the country. From ghost towns to abandoned historic sites, these places are filled with…
One of Bucks County’s most well-known hotels has hit the market, and sellers are asking a hefty price for the old estate. JD…
Benjamin Berry, who grew up in Willow Grove, will receive France’s highest honor for his participation in the Battle of the Bulge during World…
Multiple school districts split the cost to tear down the century-old University of Pennsylvania research lab in Levittown, writes Carl LaVO for the Bucks…
Longwood Gardens has successfully moved the Cox House, a historic home that once served as a stop on the Underground Railroad.
Longwood made the decision…
A new book is putting the spotlight back on Ardrossan, the famous Radnor estate, and the family that inspired The Philadelphia Story, writes Steven Kurutz…
Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church was recently hit by a vandal who left its age-old stained glass windows shattered, but the situation has…
Lynnewood Hall, a Gilded Age mansion in Elkins Park, is finally being restored and Jan Carabeo of CBS News offers a glimpse inside the estate…
A presidential order signed by Abraham Lincoln four days before he was assassinated has been found in an old writing desk and is now being…
A married pair of researchers have rewritten the history of kissing with the help of the Barton Cylinder, a Sumerian artifact from around 2400 B…
There are mountains of historic documents — such as legal wills and marriage licenses — decaying in the attic of Philadelphia City Hall, some of them dating…
Montgomery County played an important role in the American Revolution and that history will be celebrated at an upcoming exhibition at the Museum of the…
So much of our connection to the past can be lost with the rush for development and modernization. The survival story of the King of…
Renate Breslow, a 93-year-old Holocaust survivor, recently recounted her experience as a child in Nazi Germany at Cedarbrook Middle School in Wyncote, writes…
Earlier this week, officials from Jenkintown 150, Jenkintown School District, and the Jenkintown Library opened an envelope containing personal essays written in 1976 by students…
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