Preservation

Carpenters' Hall Franklinia trees

Rare trees named for Ben Franklin to be planted at Carpenters' Hall

Chester County's Crebilly Farm, site of a Revolutionary War skirmish, to be preserved as public park

Crebilly Farm Preservation

A section of Camac Street in Center City is being repaved with wood blocks for historic preservation

Camac Street reno

June Fete fairgrounds in Montgomery County to be permanently protected from development

June Fete Fairgrounds

Family recipes are heirlooms. Learn ways to preserve them like historical documents at the Free Library.

Free Library recipes

Library of Congress selects Philadelphia jazz musician's album for preservation

Lee Morgan Library of Congress

Pennypack Farm to be permanently protected in Horsham

Pennypack Farm Preservation

Part of Cape May Co. beach, legendarily haunted and a haven for nudists, closes for ecological work

Higbee Beach NJ

Cherry Hill completes purchase to preserve 23-acre Holly Ravine Farm

Holly Ravine Farm

National Film Registry adds 'Desperately Seeking Susan,' directed by Abington-native Susan Seidelman

National Film Registry

The Menzingers shot a music video at Lynnewood Hall, the Gilded Age mansion in Elkins Park

Lynnewood Hall Menzingers

The Roundhouse, Philly's former police headquarters, is now one step away from historic preservation

Roundhouse Preservation

Schuylkill Center reveals donors who gave $3 million to preserve Roxborough's Boy Scout Tract

Schuylkill Center Donors

Chester County farm permanently preserved in effort to protect natural lands from development

Chester County Farm Preservation

Lynnewood Hall, the last Gilded Age mansion in the Philly area, to be restored

Lynnewood Hall

M. Night Shyamalan sells 90 acres of Chester County farm to preservation group

Kirkwood Farm

Carpenters' Hall to reopen this summer after undergoing preservation project, repairs from Christmas Eve fire

Carpenters' Hall Reopening

Longwood Gardens to purchase 505-acre du Pont Estate in Delaware

Longwood Gardens Granogue Reserve

Schuylkill Center to permanently preserve 24-acre Boy Scout Tract in Roxborough

Schuylkill Center Boy Scout Tract

South Jersey historic sites could receive portion of $15.8 million in state funding for preservation efforts

Lucy The Elephant Grant

Vintage A-frame Wildwood vacation home to be spared demolition

Wildwood A Frame Home

Wildwood's historic Shamrock building to be relocated and preserved

Shamrock Wildwood Preservation

Victorian buildings in Roxborough get protection while Philadelphia Historical Commission considers designation

Roxborough victorian historic preservation

Cape May Point retreat St. Mary by-the-Sea to become nature center

Cape May Point Retreat

John Coltrane House project in Strawberry Mansion gets state blight remediation funds

Coltrane House Preservation

Seven Philly organizations receive state historic preservation grants

Eastern State Penitentiary Grant

Historical Buildings

Nine historic Philly structures receive state grants for preservation

Powel House Old City

You definitely want to avoid most fried and frozen foods when battling the flu, study suggests

food additive flu

Township denies Toll Brothers' massive development proposal near Brandywine Battlefield

Crebilly Farm

Philly's neighborhoods are now a 'National Treasure'

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Jewelers Row condo developer drawn into preservation fight near Brandywine Battlefield

Crebilly Farm

Philly cyclist spots 205-year-old infrastructure relics in Center City

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Historic Preservation

Philadelphia establishes historic preservation task force

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Martin Luther King Jr.

Camden home where Martin Luther King Jr. lived while in seminary will be saved

Martin Luther King Jr. house Camden

Groundbreaking book inspires bus tour of the Pinelands

Carroll - John McPhee Book and The Pine Barrens

Gallery: Into the Pine Barrens

Carroll - John McPhee Book and The Pine Barrens

Can Jewelers Row buildings be saved from wrecking ball?

Jewelers row Sept 17

With some help, Absecon Lighthouse still shines good light on Atlantic City

Absecon Lighthouse

Nature preserve planned for hidden forest in Camden

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Archaeological dig at Shofuso unearths remnants of long-forgotten Japanese bazaar

Pennsylvania's strange, single-arch McDonald's sign to be preserved by fanatic

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WATCH: Adorable baby lemurs to debut at Philadelphia Zoo

Lemurs Philly

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