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• Vacant properties deter Richmond redevelopment

  
  Church Hill People's News — Authority: 139
  Taking the Richmond Vacant Property Registry as a starting point, student journalist Maureen Link has pulled together a look at the impact of the high rate of vacant properties in the area:“It’s not the urban issues that keep people away so much as the fabric is really destroyed in a lot of ways,” [he says]. ...
  3 days ago

• Churches own many vacants along Fairmount Avenue

  
  Church Hill People's News — Authority: 139
  Stacey Martin manages a tremendous amount of vacant property in the area and gets tagged a slumlord. Oliver Lawrence is a convicted slumlord currently serving time in one of his dilapidated houses on 19th Street. What do you call a church that owns a block’s worth of vacants?PHOTO: 2001 Fairmount Ave. (2004). Still ...
  6 days ago

• Fairmont, West Virginia

  
  CURDLED — Authority: 126
  Im sick to death of seeing ranch houses. I didnt occur to me until today, but virtually every house Ive seen outside of the urban areas has been a shoebox-shaped house with a single-gabled roof running the length of the place. Theyve been putting them up for more than fifty years, in every part of the country, and ...
  1 week ago

• Winter Adventure Tours @ Eastern State Penitentiary, Opens with Ice Sculpture Performance

  
  Things to Do in Philadelphia: uwishunu Philly — Authority: 512
  Photo courtesy Eastern State Penitentiary Next Thursday, December 10th, Eastern State Penitentiary will kick off their 2009 Winter Adventure Tour season… with an enormous chunk of ice. And when I say enormous, I mean 1200 pounds. At 11am, Peter Slavin of Fear No Ice , a local ice carving company, will begin ...
  1 week ago

• Fire on T Street

  
  Church Hill People's News — Authority: 139
  The 1922 bungalow at 1807 T Street caught on fire this rainy evening just after 7PM. Neighborhood bystanders reported the house as vacant, but also said that “a woman stays there” and that “drug addicts go in and out”.The city shows the house as selling for $8,000 in 1957 and then again for $0 in [...]
  1 week ago

• Photo of the Day: Please Touch Museum’s Torch of Toys

  
  Things to Do in Philadelphia: uwishunu Philly — Authority: 512
  While the Statue of Liberty is made of copper, the replica torch at Philadelphias Please Touch Museum is made completely out of toys. Fitting for a museum where learning is paired with fun, hands-on stuff for kids, set in Fairmount Parks majestic Memorial Hall. (Photo courtesy of Please Touch Museum) Please Touch ...
  1 week ago

• Half Way To Beer Week at Bridgid’s

  
  Foobooz — Authority: 509
  Bridgid’s is celebrating that we’re just six months from Philly Beer Week with ten days of great events starting this Friday night with a Duvel Green and Ommegang promo. Also on tap through the week, Dogfish Head 120 Minute IPA, and two years of both Founders Backwoods Bastard and Mad Elf plus some fun finds [...]
  1 week ago

• Fairmount Hall’s punk pioneers

  
  Che Underground: The Blog — Authority: 119
  While doing research for the blog, I came across this account from Scott McDonald in a 1981 edition of Flipside. This scene report (on Page 3 of the PDF) describes Fairmount Hall’s debut as a punk venue: “Recently, a very successful show was produced at Fairmount Hall. This was the first gig at this location, ...
  1 week ago

• Holiday Tours of the Fairmount Park Historic Houses

  
  Things to Do in Philadelphia: uwishunu Philly — Authority: 512
  Cedar Grove Mansion, decorated for the Holiday Tours, Photo by the Philadelphia Museum of Art This weekend, the historic houses in Fairmount Park will get all dolled up for the holiday season, and open their doors for special holiday tours. Cedar Grove, Laurel Hill , Lemon Hill, Mount Pleasant, Sweetbriar, ...
  1 week ago

• Fairmount Apparently Has a Bright Future Before It

  
  Church Hill People's News — Authority: 139
  From the April 06, 1902, issue of The Times (PDF), a Richmond daily:Of the various suburban attractions about Richmond, Fairmount, on the easternmost end of the city, in a northerly direction, is perhaps the largest and the most flourishing. Formerly a part of Henrico county and later a special district controlled by ...
  2 weeks ago

• East End 1962

  
  Church Hill People's News — Authority: 139
  Detail from a 1962 map of Richmond published by Esso. Drawn before the construction of I-64, the map also ncludes the pre-MLK Bridge street grid west of Mosby Street and the original streets of Fulton.
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• Photo of the Day: Dancing a Jig at Jack’s Firehouse in Fairmount

  
  Things to Do in Philadelphia: uwishunu Philly — Authority: 512
  Located across the street from historic Eastern State Penitentiary, the beer and American comfort food specialist has some history of its own: Jacks is located in a 19th century firehouse, and its got the pole to prove it. (Photo by J. Holder) Jack’s Firehouse [gophila.com]
  3 weeks ago

• The vacant house queen of Fairmount

  
  Church Hill People's News — Authority: 139
  Three companies, all managed by Stacy Martin of Hermitage Realty, own 15 vacant houses within 4 blocks of my house (including the 2 pictured above). These companies collectively have over 90 houses on the the city’s Vacant Property Registry, the vast majority of which are in the East End.Inspired by the Richmond ...
  3 weeks ago

• Friday: Enchanted Colonial Village Opens @ the Please Touch Museum

  
  Things to Do in Philadelphia: uwishunu Philly — Authority: 512
  The Blacksmith Shop, Photo courtesy the Please Touch Museum This Friday, November 20th, the Please Touch Museum kicks off their holiday season with an annual tradition… the Enchanted Colonial Village. Since the museum’s days on 21st Street, the museum has invited families to visit their animated bakery, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Brooklyn Brewmaster Comes To Fairmount

  
  Foobooz — Authority: 509
  Brooklyn Brewing Brewmaster Garrett Oliver will be at the Bishop’s Collar from 6 to 8pm tomorrow evening and then at St. Stephen’s Green till 10pm. Both bars will feature tons of Brooklyn beer on tap including limited edition and one-off beers.Upcoming Events [Bishops Collar]St. Stephen’s Green [Official ...
  3 weeks ago

• Renovations in Fairmount, Union Hill recognized

  
  Church Hill People's News — Authority: 139
  The Alliance to Conserve Old Richmond Neighborhoods lauded several local renovations Thursday night during their Golden Hammer Awards Ceremony at Plaza Bowl. While this year’s nominees came from 21 neighborhoods across the city, both the Winner and First Runner Up in Best Residential Renovation went to area houses, ...
  4 weeks ago

• Congratulations Fantasy Winners

  
  Phillies Nation — Authority: 471
  With the Phillies season wrapping up last week, so too comes the announcement of this year’s Phillies Nation Fantasy League Winners! The 2009 season saw our biggest year yet with fifteen divisions and over 150 players.  Here are division winners: Mayfair – La Salle Explorers managed by hockeyfan9090 ...
  4 weeks ago

• Boston Commuter Rail Rant

  
  Marry in Massachusetts — Authority: 122
  The charm quickly peels awayfrom Bostons atavistic transit system. Like the crappy Pennsylvania Turnpike, we have the hemispheres oldest subway. It seems like it. Series note: This is part of the Rail-Volution inspired post set . At the weekends conference, I was surprised and pleased to learn about the ...
  5 weeks ago

• Kind of Getting There from Here

  
  Harrumph! — Authority: 116
  The charm quickly peels awayfrom Boston’s atavistic transit system. Like the crappy Pennsylvania Turnpike, we have the hemisphere’s oldest subway. It seems like it. Series note: This is part of the Rail-Volution inspired post set . At the weekend’s conference, I was surprised and pleased to learn about the ...
  5 weeks ago

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