Old-Time Comfort in Pipersville for $725
Old-Time Comfort in Pipersville for $725K – 6830 Tohickon Hill Rd., Pipersville, Pa. 18947 | Photos and TREND images via Addison Wolfe Real Estate If your tastes run towards the Victorian but you still enjoy all the comforts of modern living, we’ve got just the place for you. This 1825 farmhouse in Pipersville, Bucks County, underwent a complete renovation not too long ago. The redo added a bunch of modern features throughout the home in a way that kept its 19th-century… http://ow.ly/7mN650cmTKq
Jawdropper of the Week: The Ultimate San
Jawdropper of the Week: The Ultimate Sanctuary in Malvern for $2.75M http://ow.ly/yUa550clqDo
Vincent Kling House Restoration Wins Con
Vincent Kling House Restoration Wins Conservation Award – K Yoder Design’s restoration of a midcentury modern home in Gladwyne designed by Vincent Kling received a 2017 Citation of Merit from Docomomo US. Docomomo US, the American branch of the worldwide organization devoted to the “documentation and conservation of the buildings, sites and neighborhoods of the modern movement,” has bestowed one of its highest honors on a sensitive restoration of one of the few resident… http://ow.ly/9ceD50cjSDo
Trinity Tuesday: Suburban Quiet in Fitle
Trinity Tuesday: Suburban Quiet in Fitler Square for $380K – 2136 Tryon St., Philadelphia, Pa. 19146 | TREND images via Keller Williams Realty Center City Not all of the little streets in Center City are equal. Some are just more charming than others. Tryon Street, a one-block lane sandwiched between the 2100 blocks of Lombard and Naudain streets near Fitler Square, falls into this category with its lush greenery and red-brick warmth. Both of these elements spill over i… http://ow.ly/kOkb50cildV
New York Developer Buys Shovel-Ready Pen
New York Developer Buys Shovel-Ready Penn Treaty Park Project http://ow.ly/m9nB50cgPhH
Tenants Continue to Press Case Against N
Tenants Continue to Press Case Against New Penn Wynn Manor Owner http://ow.ly/ymCu50cdmrL
8 Projects Win Willard Rouse Awards – Sw
8 Projects Win Willard Rouse Awards – Swarthmore Town Center West | Photo from Swarthmore College via ULI Philadelphia Judging from the major elements contained in this year’s honorees at the Urban Land Institute Philadelphia’s fourth annual Willard G. “Bill” Rouse Awards for Excellence, the city’s architectural and development communities have not only become masters at multitasking, they’ve managed to successfully complete their context sensitivity training. Whether t… http://ow.ly/fpUR50cbTEn
1911 Walnut to Be Mixed-Use, Mixed-Incom
1911 Walnut to Be Mixed-Use, Mixed-Income Project – The Sansom Street elevation of the revised Southern Land tower proposed for 1911 Walnut. The Warwick Apartments, part of the revised development, are at the extreme left. | Renderings: Southern Land Company Southern Land Company appeared before the City Planning Commission today with a revised version of its proposed apartment tower on the last piece of open land right on Rittenhouse Square. Preservationists will be pl… http://ow.ly/x4RY50cao37
How To Get the Look: Stylish Solutions f
How To Get the Look: Stylish Solutions for Small Spaces – Alejandro Bedoya’s living room. | Photo via Jill Book, senior designer, BoConcept Philadelphia The motto is as follows: Small is beautiful. This should perhaps come as second nature to residents of the city that gave the world the trinity. But they’ve been joined by scores of new arrivals from beyond who have little experience with living large in a little space. As it so happens, Denmark is also a small country,… http://ow.ly/ZCXq50c8QfA
Main Line Monday: An All-New Château in
Main Line Monday: An All-New Château in Villanova for $1.57M http://ow.ly/s84150c7jLl
The Stunning New Farmhouse on Historic A
The Stunning New Farmhouse on Historic Ardrossan Estate – Photography by Tom Crane | The Butler’s pantry Set amid 14 acres of the historic Ardrossan property — former home of Helen Hope Montgomery Scott, the socialite who inspired The Philadelphia Story — is a sprawling stone farmhouse that looks like it’s been there for a century. Surprise: It’s a new build, the work of West Chester-based architecture firm Archer & Buchanan, Ltd. “Everything feels like it has layers of… http://ow.ly/l6H050c5Qiq
Funding Secured for Penn’s Landing Makeo
Funding Secured for Penn’s Landing Makeover – The new park and civic space for which funding has been secured is part of a larger overall vision for transforming the central Delaware riverfront. | Renderings: Hargreaves Associates and redsquare unless otherwise indicated, via Delaware River Waterfront CorporationThat huge new lawn intended to suture the gash separating Old City from the Delaware riverfront is a go. At a noontime news conference at Penn’s Landing, Gov. T… http://ow.ly/ISdU50c3OL4
Jawdropper of the Week: An Imaginative C
Jawdropper of the Week: An Imaginative Carriage Home in Fitler Square for $1.91M http://ow.ly/I13j50c2iJm
The National’s Rebirth Officially Begins
The National’s Rebirth Officially Begins Friday – The new National mixed-use apartment/retail building in Old City. | Rendering: Barton Partners via The Buccini/Pollin Group A little more than a year ago, as it was being demolished, the old National Products Company Building on North Second Street in Old City got a thorough going-over from Bradley Maule at Hidden City, who noted that whatever else happened, the bright-orange-tile Midcentury Modern facade that made the b… http://ow.ly/1zfp50c0Njy
Philly Ranked Fifth Most Walkable City i
Philly Ranked Fifth Most Walkable City in U.S. This Year – All of Center City’s neighborhoods, from the Avenue of the Arts on down, are “Walker’s Paradises,” contributing to the city’s continued ranking among the five most walkable cities in the U.S. | Photo by Jeff Fusco A mere two-tenths of a point dropped Philadelphia from its perch as the nation’s fourth-most-walkable city in this year’s Walk Score rankings of American cities. Miami traded places with Philadelphia t… http://ow.ly/idr250bZhWh
Main Line Monday: A Nice New Neighbor in
Main Line Monday: A Nice New Neighbor in Gladwyne for $795K – 326 Righters Mill Rd., Gladwyne, Pa. 19035 | TREND images via BHHS Fox & Roach Usually, when one reads about a new home being built in Gladwyne, it’s usually some spectacular mansion being built by a celebrity or local notable, occasionally in the context of demolishing some equally spectacular historic mansion built by another notable in an earlier era. This brand-new home is none of the above. Instead, it’s… http://ow.ly/lUn150bXL8r
Adding Blue to Your Walls Puts Green In
Adding Blue to Your Walls Puts Green In Your Pocket When It’s Time to Sell http://ow.ly/Uu9u50bUk8K
Jawdropper of the Week: Party Palace in
Jawdropper of the Week: Party Palace in Newtown for $7.9M – Undisclosed address, Newtown, Pa. 18940 | TREND images via Addison Wolfe Real Estate New Hope is legendary for its parties, and we’re not talking the nonstop party that is Main Street. The people who live in the lovely homes in and around the town keep things hopping with house parties throughout the year. We’ve been to our share of these, but New Hope’s got nothing on this spectacular estate in Newtown that’s … http://ow.ly/8ja050bSTN9
Just Listed: A Standout Home in East Ken
Just Listed: A Standout Home in East Kensington for $585K – 2401 Emerald St., Philadelphia, Pa. 19125 | Photos: Sandy Smith Red Oak Development, the people who built the Parish House not far from this place in East Kensington, pride themselves on being a notch or two — or several — above the run-of-the-mill builders throwing up new homes around the city. They seek to give each home they build personality through the use of local craftsmen, reclaimed materials and origin… http://ow.ly/KL7H50bRmc0
Toll Brothers Caught Up in Chester Count
Toll Brothers Caught Up in Chester County Historic Preservation Fight http://ow.ly/42gn50bPPal
What’s Developing in Your Neighborhood?
What’s Developing in Your Neighborhood? This New Form Lets You Find Out http://ow.ly/ctNi50bL7Co
Single-Family Workforce Housing Comes to
Single-Family Workforce Housing Comes to East Poplar – Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority Executive Director Greg Heller (fifth from left), City Council President Darrell Clarke (to the right of Heller), representatives of BMK Properties and its parent The Riverwards Group and representatives of the East Poplar RCO and Meridian Bank pose after the formal ribbon-cutting May 24. | Photo: The Riverwards Group Late on Wednesday morning (May 24th) in East Poplar, City Coun… http://ow.ly/s6ux50bJH3w
9 Doormats That Say Exactly the Right Th
9 Doormats That Say Exactly the Right Thing – iStock/KenWiedemann Tis the season for sprucing up your stoop. If your doormat didn’t survive the winter and you’re searching for a replacement, allow me to point you to several that say, well, everything — whether you’re feeling sassy, welcoming or a bit of both. Hey Good Lookin’ doormat, $29 at West Elm Sup doormat, $50 at Nordstrom I Dare You To Ring The Doorbell Doormat, $45 on Etsy Be Happy doormat, $45 on Etsy Welcome… http://ow.ly/Th9550bIbLa
Hard Hat Tour: The Adams – The wraps are
Hard Hat Tour: The Adams – The wraps are still on the cabinets and appliances in this almost-finished apartment in the Adams. Most of the units on the 12th floor are move-in ready, though one isn’t yet because it’s being used for construction staging. | Photos: Sandy Smith Post Brothers’ Presidential City Rejuvenation Derby has entered the home stretch. When it’s finished, the iconic four-building apartment complex erected in 1951-53 by prolific Philadelphia builder Joh… http://ow.ly/abAV50bGIZh
Old House, Young Soul in Northern Libert
Old House, Young Soul in Northern Liberties for $489K – 841 N. Lawrence St., Philadelphia, Pa. 19123 | Photos via Janet Ames, RE/MAX Executive Realty The little homes of Northern Liberties present modest faces to the outside world, and many of them still possess equally modest hearts. Not this one, however. For its 100th birthday in 2010, its owner gave it a stunningly modern heart and soul, one that bespeaks both style and sophistication. Actually, to characterize this… http://ow.ly/yK0r50bFb12
