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This is a weird little windowed outcropping of a Victorian mansion on Broad st. It's sort of like a cupola, but on ground level. I really like this picture.
Italianate manse behind my rowhouse.
I think this is the nicest block in North Philly, even though it's surrounded by ghetto on the north and east. This was the center of the "Mansion District" of old Philadelphia.
Owners of one of the homes in the last picture.
Garden of the Italianate house.
Side of the Freedom Theater, a huge Second Empire building on Broad. I wish I had my wideangle lens to show the whole of the building.
This carriage house on Sydenham street, behind my home was converted into some kind of church and then abandoned. A lot of non-profit groups work out of what were basically garages for rich people in the 1800's, because they are really cheap. There are a few other churches like this on Sydenham Street.
Two views of a manse right in front of my rowhouse. The crumbling building on the side was part of a gatehouse.
The back of most rowhouses aren't usually made of brick, so they usually deteriorate the fastest. This one is an exception, but it's derelict, lot a lot of buildings below Oxford st, where I live.
Doctor's office on Cecil B. Moore Ave
North Philly was once all Jewish industrialists, and there are a lot of old synogogues as a memorial to this era. Most have since been converted into churches, but have very unique architechture.
This was once a big cathedral, but it collapsed or was demolished a while back. Only the rectory survived, so the congragation moved into this small building.
Community garden on 11th st.
This was the sign for a community putt-putt course. You can still see a little bit of the course on the right. It's not much of anything now, but at least the sign is ironic.
The had a free concert in a park in another part of North Philly.
The houses in this picture are actually a new attempt public housing. They stopped building the huge apartment complex style projects because someone finally realized it wasn't a great idea to try to jam as many poor people as possible into a huge rotting building. Unfortunatly, the new plan is to build thesesuburban style prefab houses wherever there's vacant land (this really bothers me, but I won't bore anyone with my theories on proper urban planning). In this case, that land happened to be next to a gutted Quaker Oats factory, which makes the development look weird as shit. Tiny little cookie cutter houses next to an industrial giant.
Hula girl at the music festival.
St. Neumann's
Girl in the park.
Philadelphia has lots of murals, especially in neglected neighborhoods.
Brownstones and wires.
I like this building, and the picture came out really well. I don't know much about it.
An old Quaker meeting hall in the Northern Liberties neighborhood.
The ghettos of Philadelphia are still recovering from a recent Giant Bee attack.
They cut the water towers off old industrial buildings so they don't collapse later on. Below the water tower stand is an advertisement for Ortlieb's, a defunct local brewer.