The Preservation Alliance’s magazine Extant debuted in Winter 2015. Published three times a year in collaboration with Hidden City Philadelphia, the magazine is distributed free to members and supporters. Click the covers below to read online.
- A Song of Survival and Loss: Preserving Philadelphia’s Musical Heritage
- Restoration Role Model: Ohio House
- Places to Save: University of the Arts Campus, Parke Building, Garden State Park Gatehouse
- Places Lost and Places Saved
- Unlisted Philadelphia: USS Olympia
- Final Word: The Sounds of Philly Reverberate Around the World
- Challenges for Chinatown, Again
- Restoration Role Model: Birch Knoll
- Places to Save: Monumental Baptist Church, Big Brothers Big Sisters HQ, Chestnut Street Arcade, Overseas Motor Works
- Places Lost and Places Saved
- Unlisted Philadelphia: Zakian Carpets
- Final Word: Sustaining the Ecosystem that Gives Life to Chinatown
- Rebuilding our resources
- Restoration Role Model: The Battery
- Places to Save: RCA Building No. 8; Benjamin Cooper House, Camden; Philadelphia History Museum; Simpson’s Apothecary
- Places Lost and Places Saved
- Unlisted Philadelphia: Marine Barracks
- Final Word: Preserve Cultural Legacy, Too, Through Rebuild
- A Neighborhood Strategy
- Restoration Role Model: Ralph J. Roberts Boys and Girls Club of Germantown
- Places to Save: Frankford High School, Blue Bell Tavern, New Market Headhouse, De Benneville Family Burial Ground
- Places Lost and Places Saved
- Unlisted Philadelphia: Bache-Martin School
- Final Word: Looking Back and Looking Forward
- A Tale of Two Gardens
- Restoration Role Model: 2000 Spruce Street
- Places to Save: Mount Sharon Baptist Church, Church of the Advocate, Old Montgomery County Jail, Ahavath Israel Synagogue
- Places Lost and Places Saved
- Unlisted Philadelphia: Home of Roy Campanella
- Final Word: Patrick Grossi
- More is More: Reimagining relics of the gilded age
- Restoration Role Model: 1000 St. Bernard Street
- Places to Save: Arch Street Methodist Church Steeple; Beneficial Savings Fund Society; Boxwood; Dixie Hummingbirds Headquarters
- Places Lost and Places Saved
- Unlisted Philadelphia: Parkway House
- Final Word: What Remains
- What’s Next for the Roundhouse?
- Restoration Role Model: Dina Wind Foundation
- Places to Save: Oscar James Cooper House; Melrose Diner; Woodburne; Griffith and Rosenberger Halls
- Places Lost and Places Saved
- Unlisted Philadelphia: 1307 Sansom Building
- Final Word: Transform 102 North Main Street
- Neighborhood Revival: Digging Past and Present in Tacony
- Restoration Role Model: The PATH Center
- Places to Save: Southwark Municipal Piers, Nos. 38 & 40; 1700-02 Race Street; Camac Street Wood Block Paving; Henry Osawa Tanner House
- Places Lost and Places Saved
- Unlisted Philadelphia: Market Street Bridge
- Final Word: History is Hyperlocal
- Digging Deep: Preserving the History Beneath our Feet
- Restoration Role Model: The Arlen Specter US Squash Center
- Places to Save: Rothacker-Orth Brewery and Lager Beer Saloon; 23rd District Police Station; Jacob Reed’s Sons’ Store; South 44th Street Rowhouses
- Places Lost and Places Saved
- Unlisted Philadelphia: North Broad Street Station
- Final Word: In Germantown, Even Preservation is “Historic”
- A Prison Reformed: Eastern State Penitentiary Confronts Injustice
- Restoration Role Model: Steeple Lofts
- Places to Save: Penn Knox Historic District; Ninth National Bank; Hickman Temple AME Church; Haab Buildings
- Places Lost and Places Saved
- Restoration Role Model: The Tidewater
- Unlisted Philadelphia: Queen Lane Filter Plant
- Final Word: Preserving the past for a more just and collective future
- Retore, Reuse, Recycle: The rowhouse is greener than you think
- Restoration Role Model: The Tidewater
- Places to Save: Coltrane Row; Russell Conwell Row; Pyramid Club; Crystal Bird Fauset House
- Unlisted Philadelphia: De Gray Street Row
- Final Word: Save the Roundhouse
- Taking Stock: A Quarter-Century of Preservation Advocacy
- The Next 25 Years: A Roadmap for Success
- Restoration Role Model: Harbisons Dairy
- Places to Save: St. Vincent’s Orphan Asylum; John W. Hallahan Catholic Girls’ High School; 52nd Street Business District
- Unlisted Philadelphia: New Bethlehem Baptist Church
- Final Word: Learning from Frank Furness
- The Ordinary Extraordinary: Germantown’s Colored Girls Museum
- Preserving Black Historic Sites: 4 Case Studies
- Restoration Role Model: The Aspen Grove School and The Deacon at First African Baptist Church
- Places to Save: Barber’s Hall; Circle Mission Church; Imperial Theater; Hotel Brotherhood
- Unlisted Philadelphia: The Pearl Bailey House
- Final Word: Preservation’s Racial Reckoning
- Missing in Action: Reclaiming the Women Who Made History
- Restoration Role Model: Blaisdell Paper Pencil Factory
- Places to Save: North Sixth Street Farmers Market; Engine 11 Firehouse; North City Trust; Colonial Savings Bank
- Places Lost and Places Saved
- Final Word: Preservation in the Public Realm
- Attention to Detail: Historic building crafts thrive in 21st century Philadelphia
- Restoration Role Model: Margaret Esherick House
- Places to Save: Temperance Hall; Hahnemann Hospital; Giovanni’s Room; Police Administration Building
- Places Lost and Places Saved
- Unlisted Philadelphia: Sansom Row
- Final Word: Preservation as Ethical Imperative
- Meaning and Memory: Making a place for culture in Historic Preservation
- Places to Save: Manayunk Millworkers’ Housing; Philadelphia Warehousing and Cold Storage Company; Good Shepherd Community Church; Chestnut and Walnut Street Commercial Buildings
- Places Lost and Places Saved
- Unlisted Philadelphia: Germania Turnverein / Knitter’s Hall
- Final Word: Preservation for People
- Easements Are Forever
- Places to Save: Trocadero Theatre; John Evans’ Sons and Keystone Spring Works; Levine Funeral Home/Original Apostolic Faith Church; Dox Thrash House
- Restoration Role Model: The Hale Building
- Places Lost and Places Saved
- Unlisted Philadelphia: Hotel Powelton
- Final Word: Kenny Grono
- A Fine and Public Place: New life blooming at Philadelphia’s historic cemeteries
- Places to Save: 19th Street Baptist Church; Bell Telephone Exchange; Dr. Scholl’s Comfort Shoes; Route 15 Trolley
- Restoration Role Model: The Oaks Cloister, Germantown
- Places Lost and Places Saved
- Unlisted Philadelphia: Banco Bozzelli
- Final Word: Harris M. Steinberg
- A Glorious Uplift for Philadelphia’s Sacred Places
- Places to Save: Fisher’s Lane Bridge; Ascension of Our Lord; Clairemont Farm; Robinson Building
- Restoration Role Model: Frankford Avenue Bridge over Pennypack Creek
- Unlisted Philadelphia: American Protestant Hall
Historic Districts Make a Comeback
- Districts with a difference: from micro-blocks to broad thematic groups
- Districts to Save: Germantown Avenue; Chinatown; Municipal Buildings; Italian Market
- Restoration Role Model: Lural Lee Blevins Veterans Center at HELP Philadelphia B
- Unlisted Philadelphia: Automobile Row
- Philadelphia’s Standout Storefronts
- Places To Save: Frankford Chocolate Company, South Broad Street Rowhouses, Mount Vernon Baptist Church, 30th Street Station
- Restoration Role Model: Pyramid Lofts
- Unlisted Philadelphia: Tourison Building
- How To Save A Building: Lessons From Four Cities
- A Field Guide To Demolition: Development Pressures Facing Four Neighborhoods
- Unlisted Philadelphia: Philadelphia International Records; Regency Ballroom and Philadelphia Fine Print Shop
- Revitalizing Baltimore Through Historic Preservation
- Lights! Music! Action! The Landsdowne Theater Wakes Up
- Restoration Role Model: East Park Canoe House
- Unlisted Philadelphia: Locust Theater
- Places to Save (Trinity Oxford Parish House, Esslinger’s Brewery, West Powelton Victorian Rows, Disston Recreation Center)
- National Trust Treasures Philadelphia’s Neighborhoods
- North Broad Rising: The Divine Lorraine Lights the Path to Long-Awaited Revival
- Unlisted Philly: William Decker’s 1890 Ellis Mansion
- Places to Save (Strickland Row, Tabor Chapel, Beury Building, Lipkin Furniture)
- The Grassroots Come Alive: Citizen-Preservationists Fight to Protect Historic Buildings
- Unlisted Philly: John Decker & Son Architectural Sheet Metal Works
- Places to Save (Jewelers Row, Gershman Y, Weisbrod & Hess Brewery, West Philadelphia Institute)
- Ring the Alarm! Philly Fire Houses Imperiled by Neglect, Development
- Unlisted Philly: An Electrical Substation in Art Deco Disguise
- Places to Save (Morton Weiss House, Hovenden House and Abolition Hall, West Philly Victorians, Loch Aerie)
- Sharswood Redevelopment: A Neighborhood’s Fabric in Jeopardy
- Under Threat: Philly’s Built African-American Heritage
- Places to Save (1900 Block of Sansom Street, Harbisons Milk Bottle, St. Paul’s Baptist Church, Third Presbyterian Church)
- Taking Stock of Philly Public Schools
- Jim Kenney for Preservation?
- Places to Save (Society Hill Playhouse, Germantown Boys & Girls Club, Penn Fruit, and Dyottville Glass Works Homes)
- Back from the Brink in Kingsessing
- Salvation for a Neighborhood Icon in Manayunk
- Places to Save (3600 block of Lancaster Avenue, St. Laurentius Church, and Edward Corner Marine)
- The Room and Haas Building at 50
- Making Preservation Work in Parkside
- Places to Save (William Penn Inn, Mount Moriah Cemetery Gatehouse, the Blue Horizon, and the Fairmount Park Welcome Center)
