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Th e P r e s e r vat i o n A l l i a n c e f o r G r e at e r P h i l a d e l p h i a The Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia actively promotes the appreciation, protection, and appropriate use and development of the Philadelphia region’s historic buildings, communities and landscapes.

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Tuesday, May 8, 2012 CRYSTAL TEA ROOM, THE WANAMAKER BUILDING

Board of Directors Officers Marian A. Kornilowicz, Esq. Chair Sally Elk Vice Chair Stephen D. Marshall Secretary Joseph P. Charles Treasurer

Directors Leonidas Addimando Suzanna E. Barucco

Staff John Andrew Gallery Executive Director

Linda A. Galante, Esq. Prema Gupta Barbara J. Kaplan Randall F. Mason, PhD Andrew Palewski Robert Powers Harry Schwartz, Esq. Thomas J. Sugrue Rev. Mark Kelly Tyler

Walter Gallas Director, Northeast Field Office National Trust for Historic Preservation

Melissa Jest Neighborhood Preservation Program Coordinator

Director of Public Programs Winterthur Museum and Country Estate

Benjamin Leech Director of Advocacy Holly Keefe Director of Membership Development Amy E. McCollum Special Projects Consultant

Grand Jury Awards Panel Karen Arnold

Jeff Groff

Robert J. Hotes, AIA, LEED, AP Preservation Committee Co-Chair AIA Philadelphia

Janet Klein Former Chair Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission

Richard I. Ortega, PE, AIA, FAPT Principal Heritage Design Collaborative

Keystone Grant Preservation Specialist, Grant Programs and Planning Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission

Lori Salganicoff

Randall Baron

General Manager Reading Terminal Market Corporation

Assistant Historic Preservation Officer Philadelphia Historical Commission

100 E. Penn Square | Philadelphia, PA

Principal sbk + partners, LLC

Patrick Hauck Director of Neighborhood Preservation Programs

John G. Carr Thomas D. Cestare

Suzanna Barucco

Historic Preservation Officer Lower Merion Conservancy

Paul Steinke

Special Recognition Awards James Biddle Award Public Service Award Rhoda and Permar Richards Award Board of Directors Award Community Action Awards Special 100th Anniversary Recognition Award

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Grand Jury Awards AIA Philadelphia Awards AIA Landmark Building Award Henry J. Magaziner, EFAIA Award

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of the Historic Preservation Committee of AIA Philadelphia

Easement Donor Recognition

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Luncheon Sponsors

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S P E C I A L R E C O G N I T I O N AWA R D S THE JAMES BIDDLE AWARD

PUBLIC SERVICE AWARD

For lifetime achievement in historic preservation

For preservation in the public interest

The Preservation Alliance’s board of directors honors individuals and organizations who have made significant contributions to historic preservation with its Special Recognition Awards.

RHODA AND PERMAR RICHARDS AWARD

BOARD OF DIRECTORS AWARD For exceptional contributions to historic preservation

For service to the Preservation Alliance

RICHARD J. WEBSTER, PHD Richard J. Webster, PhD has enriched the field of historic preservation through the integration of history, architecture and material culture in his diverse roles as teacher, scholar and civic leader. For thirty-seven years he was a Professor of History and American Studies at West Chester University where he is now professor emeritus. Dick coordinated the university’s interdisciplinary American Studies program for thirty-two years, engaging thousands of students in exploring the intellectual, artistic and material culture of American civilization. He offered such diverse courses as “Women in America” and “The Turbulent 1960s,” as well as Art Department courses on “Modern American Architecture.” Dick was instrumental in bringing the resources of West Chester University to bear on Chester County by serving for twenty years as co-chair of a conference on material culture sponsored by the university and the Chester County Historical Society. Dick has been a long-time trustee of the Chester County Historical Society and is secretary and vice-chair of the Historic Preservation Commission of Thornbury Township. He served on the Historic Preservation Board of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for eight years and was twice its chair. Dick’s publications have been an important resource for scholars and students. Philadelphia Preserved: Catalog of the Historic American Buildings Survey, published in 1976 and revised in 1981, is still a definitive resource as is Pennsylvania Architecture: the Historic American Building Survey 1933–1990, published in 2000, which he co-wrote. He was also a contributor to Buildings of Pennsylvania: Philadelphia and Eastern Pennsylvania, published in 2010. Dick has been a long-time lecturer in the Center for Architecture’s “Building Philadelphia” lecture series and has served as a consultant, assisting various architectural firms with historic property reports.

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THE ATHENAEUM OF PHILADELPHIA The Athenaeum of Philadelphia was founded in 1814 as a member supported special collections library with a focus on materials “connected with the history and antiquities of America, and the useful arts.” The Athenaeum is renowned for its outstanding collection of architectural drawings, including critical materials for such prominent architects as Thomas U. Walter, John Notman, Mellor Meigs & Howe and Horace Trumbauer. Since 2000, the Athenaeum has responded to its mission of “disseminating useful knowledge” for public benefit by facilitating two collaborative projects that have made a vast range of resources about Philadelphia architecture and the development of the city available to both scholars and the general public. The Philadelphia Architects and Buildings website—a collaborative project with the University of Pennsylvania Architectural Archives, the Philadelphia Historical Commission, and the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission— now contains over 133,000 images and information on over 40,000 structures in the region, as well as biographical sketches of 2,500 architects. The website (www.philadelphiabuildings. org) is widely recognized as a national model for presenting authoritative building history resources. In 2005, the Athenaeum took the lead in creating and hosting a web-based repository of geographically organized historical information about Philadelphia under the auspices of the Greater Philadelphia GeoHistory Network. Principal partners include the Free Library of Philadelphia and Fairmount Park, with additional resources from many other organizations including the Philadelphia Historical Commission and the Philadelphia Water Department. The GeoHistory website (www.philageohistory.org) contains over 7,000 maps, property atlases, city directories and other items documenting the history of the city from the 1600s to today.

ARCHITECTURAL WALKING TOUR VOLUNTEER GUIDES From the narrow alleyways of Washington Square to the grand expanse of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia is a city best experienced on foot. The Preservation Alliance’s walking tour program, one of the most ambitious and successful programs of its kind in the country, draws more than a thousand residents and visitors every summer to the city’s rich collection of historic neighborhoods and architectural treasures. Volunteer tour guides are the life blood of the program, hosting over one hundred tours along fifty different routes each year between May and October. True ambassadors of the city’s history, the tour guides’ only compensation is the satisfaction of sharing their knowledge and love of Philadelphia. Not only is this audience appreciative, but it is also growing: attendance for the tours has increased every year since the Alliance began managing the program in 2009. Many of the Alliance’s loyal guides have participated in the tour program since its creation by the Foundation for Architecture in 1986. When the Foundation folded, the Center City District took over, and eventually the Philadelphia Society for the Preservation of Landmarks stepped in, successfully managing the program until 2009 when the Preservation Alliance took the reins.

RUTH AND MANSFIELD BASCOM Wharton Esherick (1887-1970) is considered the “dean of the American craftsman.” One of Esherick’s greatest works is the studio/residence he built for himself and his family in Tredyffrin Township, just outside of Philadelphia, which was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1993. Following his death, Esherick’s friends and family wanted the studio preserved, so a non-profit organization was formed in 1971, and the studio was opened to the public in 1972. Over many decades, Esherick’s daughter Ruth and her husband, Mansfield “Bob” Bascom have cared for the property, which also includes a barn (now a visitor center) designed by Esherick and a workshop designed by Esherick in collaboration with Louis I. Kahn. The Bascoms have lovingly ensured that all buildings on the property have been meticulously maintained and that any necessary improvement or repairs are consistent with Esherick’s design or intent. They have made sure that all aspects of the property have been well documented, including construction materials, the special colors for the studio and the methods for proper maintenance of the wood and stone buildings. The result is a national treasure that allows a visitor to experience where Esherick lived and worked exactly as it was during his lifetime. To ensure the long-term protection of the site, Ruth and Bob have donated a preservation easement on the site and all structures, including the entire interior of the studio. Bob Bascom served as the museum’s first director until 1990 and continued as curator until 2007 and is the author of Wharton Esherick, The Journey of a Creative Mind (Abrams, New York, 2010). Through their dedicated stewardship and careful preservation of Wharton Esherick’s studio and property, Ruth and Bob Bascom have enriched the citizens of Pennsylvania and the world.

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S P E C I A L R E C O G N I T I O N AWA R D S COMMUNITY ACTION AWARD

COMMUNITY ACTION AWARD

For achievement by community organizations

For achievement by community organizations

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SPECIAL 100TH ANNIVERSARY RECOGNITION BUCKS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY

FRIENDS OF MOUNT MORIAH CEMETERY For efforts to maintain and improve Mount Moriah Cemetery Mount Moriah Cemetery was founded in 1855 and covers approximately 150 acres along Cobbs Creek in Southwest Philadelphia and adjacent Yeadon Borough. Home to over 80,000 burials including veterans of the American Revolution, Civil War, Spanish-American War, and both World Wars, Mount Moriah is one of the largest and most historic cemeteries in the region. Unfortunately it is also one of the most endangered, with approximately sixty percent of its grounds overgrown and inaccessible after decades of systematic neglect. The cemetery lay prone to short-dumping, vandalism, and other crime while concerned neighbors appealed in vain to absentee owners for better maintenance of the grounds and its historic monuments. The Friends of Mount Moriah Cemetery formed in early 2011 to help address this chronic neglect. In March of 2011, the cemetery’s current operators abruptly folded, casting ownership and responsibility for the site into further doubt, while the City of Philadelphia initiated legal action to establish a responsible new entity to assume ownership of the site. At the same time, the City called upon the newly-formed Friends of Mount Moriah to spearhead the herculean task of clearing and maintaining the site. Though there is still much work to be done, FOMMC’s efforts in just one year have been inspiring. The group’s monthly cleanup days attract hundreds of volunteers from across the region. Tons of trash, weeds and debris (including abandoned cars) have been removed from the site, and large areas of the cemetery now enjoy regular upkeep for the first time in decades. At the same time, the Friends continue to research and promote the site’s history and ecological importance along Cobbs Creek, cultivating partnerships with groups across the country to find sustainable solutions to the cemetery’s challenges.

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STRAWBERRY MANSION COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP. STRAWBERRY MANSION NEIGHBORHOOD ACTION CENTER For successful efforts to retain the historic character of the Strawberry Mansion trolley barn Philadelphia’s only surviving trolley depot stands at the corner of 33rd and Dauphin streets in North Philadelphia’s Strawberry Mansion neighborhood. Built in 1905 for the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company, the structure now known as the “Bus Barn” serves five busy SEPTA bus routes. It is a cherished landmark that embodies the history of Strawberry Mansion and stands as a gateway to the neighborhood. In 2005, SEPTA proposed complete demolition of the barn. Recognizing its importance to the neighborhood’s sense of place and quality of life, both the Strawberry Mansion Community Development Corporation and the Strawberry Mansion Neighborhood Action Center organized to oppose the plan. The barn’s fate remained in limbo for years while the community advocated for its preservation, enlisting the aid of neighbors, community activists and historians to help draw attention to the site. In 2011, SEPTA abandoned its demolition plan in favor of a rehabilitation that will preserve the bus barn’s historic and functional integrity. SEPTA’s new plans, funded by a $5 million transportation grant, will restore the architectural character of the bus barn while enhancing its value as a neighborhood amenity by adding a coffee counter and newspaper stand and improving ADA accessibility.

Rosemary Taglialetela

Anthony L. Selletti, 2012

On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Henry Mercer’s home, Fonthill Completed in 1912 after four years of construction, Fonthill was the home of Henry Chapman Mercer (1856-1930), famed archaeologist, anthropologist, ceramist, scholar and antiquarian. A leading figure in the American Arts and Crafts movement, Mercer built Fonthill to display both his personal collection of tiles and prints and to showcase the myriad designs of his famed Moravian Tileworks. The first of three idiosyncratic Mercer buildings in Doylestown, Fonthill is a significant early example of poured reinforced concrete. Upon his death in 1930, Mercer left his concrete "Castle for the New World" in trust to his longtime housekeeper, who lived at Fonthill and guided occasional tours for the next forty-five years. After her death in 1975, the Bucks County Historical Society and the Mercer Fonthill Museum formed a partnership to operate the site as a house museum. From 1976 to the present, Fonthill has evolved into a unique museum that provides a full range of programs related to Mercer and his collections while maintaining a strong commitment to the preservation and conservation of the building. In 1985, Fonthill was designated a National Historic Landmark. The site was accredited by the American Association of Museums in 2005. Today, Fonthill attracts over 30,000 visitors annually. It is one of the original associate sites of the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s Historic Artists’ Homes and Studios program, and has been featured in numerous print and electronic media including A&E’s popular “America’s Castles” television series.

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1824 DIAMOND STREET

2307 ST. ALBANS PLACE

431 N. 39TH STREET TRIPLEX

1824 Diamond Street, Philadelphia, PA

2307 St. Albans Place, Philadelphia, PA

431 N. 39th Street, Philadelphia, PA

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Power House Development, Incorporated Danilo Vicencio; Martin Bean Renovation & Associates, Inc.; United Bank of Philadelphia

F. Scott Donahue David S. Traub Associates; B&B Foundry; Emerald Windows; J. Loonstyn Roofing and Contracting; Louis DiGiovanni Plumbing and Heating; M&S Contractors; Morris Millwork, LLC; Wm. Proud Masonry Restoration Company Inc.

Power House Development, Incorporated Danilo Vicencio; Martin Bean Renovation & Associates, Inc.; United Bank of Philadelphia

Diamond Street stands as one of North Philadelphia’s most distinctive stretches of Victorian rowhouse development. Despite being designated a Philadelphia Historic District in 1986, the area has long suffered from disinvestment and many buildings have suffered demolition by neglect. In recent years, however, optimism is returning to Diamond Street in the form of reinvestment, and nowhere is this optimism better illustrated than at 1824 Diamond Street. In 2008, developer Audrey Martinez purchased an empty lot in the middle of an otherwise intact row of modest Queen Anne rowhouses. Initially unaware that the area was an historic district, Martinez secured plans and funding for new infill construction similar to other projects her company, Power House Development, had recently undertaken elsewhere in the city. But because a building had stood on the lot when the district was designated, the Historical Commission encouraged a design that more closely replicated the façade of the lost structure. Martinez was initially fearful of cost overruns and delays, but after meeting with Historical Commission staff and exploring the neighborhood for architectural details to incorporate into the new design, she grew excited by the challenge of restoring historic integrity to the streetscape. Working with the Historical Commission, architect Danielo Vicencio, and a dedicated crew, Martinez and her husband, general contractor Benito Martinez of Martin Bean Renovation & Associates, broke ground in May 2011 and completed construction by November. With a corbelled brick cornice, cast brownstone lintels, sills, and water table, and a custom wood door, the new building is a pristine reconstruction of a lost façade and a new source of pride for the neighborhood.

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For three decades, 2307 St. Alban’s Place was a dilapidated eyesore on one of South Philadelphia’s three famous “Park Blocks,” experimental Victorian rowhouse developments with common garden areas and pedestrian walkways in place of vehicular streets. Vacant since the death of its owner in 1979, the property crumbled while heirs contested its ownership. By 2010, the building was near collapse before neighbor F. Scott Donahue was able to resolve its complicated title issues and purchase it for restoration. Given the building’s advanced state of deterioration, this was no easy task. The front facade required complete reconstruction using original and salvaged bricks relaid with thin butter joints. The marble water table had crumbled into numerous pieces; these were reassembled like a jigsaw puzzle and patched where necessary with appropriate filler. New faux slate shingles restored the original appearance of the mansard roof, which had long been sheathed in asphalt. New two-over-two wood windows were installed, and a custom wood door was built to match the few remaining original doors on the block. No detail was missed; even the building’s basement window grilles were custom cast to match originals found elsewhere on the block. Architect David S. Traub supervised the restoration, which employed many of the region’s premier restoration craftspeople.

Born and raised in West Philadelphia’s Mantua neighborhood, Audrey Martinez would pass Hawthorne Hall at 39th and Lancaster every day on her way to school and dream of one day living in that “royal palace” of ornate bays and picturesque rooflines. The building, one of the most striking structures in the neighborhood, was listed on the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places in 1984, but had suffered from years of disinvestment by many of the building’s owners (the hall is actually fifteen separate parcels). Martinez is now a developer active in West and North Philadelphia, and when a vacant, dilapidated Hawthorne Hall unit was listed for sale in 2010, she jumped at the chance to fulfill her childhood fantasy. With guidance from the Philadelphia Historical Commission and gratitude from adjacent parcel owners, Martinez and her husband undertook a complete rehabilitation of 431 N. 39th Street. The property’s condition was so bad that, during construction, a partial collapse of the rear wall necessitated emergency demolition of most of the interior. Undeterred, they reframed the building in three weeks and undertook a complete restoration of the front façade, including the repair of its existing clay tile mansard roof, paint removal from the front masonry, new custom wood windows and doors, and the repair of an original bay window—one of the last to survive on the block. The result is a model rehabilitation of one portion of Hawthorne Hall, a block in dire need of reinvestment but with the potential to inspire a neighborhood renaissance in West Philadelphia.

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ARCH STREET UNITED METHODIST CHURCH WINDOW 55 N. Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA HONORING

Arch Street United Methodist Church Atkin Olshin Schade Architects; AEGIS Property Group; Keast & Hood Co.; Masonry Preservation Group Inc.; Mezalick Design Studio, LLC; Schnabel Conservation L.L.C.; Sun Precast Co., Inc. Arch Street United Methodist Church has a small but devoted congregation that embraces the stewardship of their landmark Center City sanctuary with the same passion they devote to spiritual and social activism. In 2006, a facilities master plan identified a number of issues critical to the preservation of their soaring Gothic church, built between 1863 and 1870 from designs by Samuel Sloan and Addison Hutton. Of immediate concern was the condition of the church’s large stained glass window facing Arch Street. Water infiltration into the window’s marble tracery was causing severe rusting of the iron pins and cramps holding the window together, resulting in large pieces of spalling and crumbling stonework. With funding from the congregation, Partners for Sacred Places, the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission and the Pennsylvania Convention Center Authority, a restoration team was assembled to completely dismantle and inspect the window piece by piece. Luckily, most of the window’s 34 leaded glass panels were found to be intact and were documented disassembled, cleaned, and repaired at an off-site studio in preparation for their reinstallation. The tracery itself required more complicated interventions. Some of the deteriorated stone units needed only minor consolidation, while others required major Dutchman repairs. Still others required complete replacement in cast stone from molds taken from the original features. After twelve months of meticulous work, the individual components were reassembled and reinstalled. The beautifully restored window again lights the sanctuary, inspiring the congregation to pursue future phases of their ambitious restoration program.

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CATHEDRAL BASILICA OF SAINTS PETER & PAUL

CURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC LENFEST HALL

GEORGE A. WEISS PAVILION AT FRANKLIN FIELD

18th Street & Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, PA

1616 Locust Street, Philadelphia, PA

233 S. 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA

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Archdiocese of Philadelphia VITETTA; BirdMaster; Dan Lepore & Sons Company; Kreilick Conservation, LLC; O’Donnell & Naccarato; Premier Architectural Sheet Metal LLC

Curtis Institute of Music Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, Inc.; AthenianRazak LLC; Grenald Waldren Associates; INTECH Construction, Inc.; Joseph Dugan, Inc.; Keast & Hood Co.; Kirkegaard Associates; Marvin Waxman Consulting Engineers, Inc.; Metropolitan Acoustics, LLC; Noble Preservation Services, Inc.; Stantec

University of Pennsylvania Facilities and Real Estate Services Crawford Architects; AHA Consulting Engineers, Inc.; Geiger Engineers; Hunt Engineering; Hunter Roberts Construction Group; John Milner Associates

The Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul has long been the center of Catholic religious life in Philadelphia and one of the most important buildings along the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. Begun in 1846 and completed in 1864 following the designs of Napoleon Le Brun and John Notman, the cathedral expanded in 1912 with the construction of a rectory and again in the 1950s with the addition of a chapel, baptistery and apse. The resulting edifice, the largest brownstone structure in the city, posed a number of preservation challenges for the Archdiocese and architects VITETTA. The façade was darkened by generations of soot and grime, water infiltration was causing large areas of stone delamination, terra cotta on the rectory was beginning to fail, and unsightly bird netting was obscuring many of the cathedral’s architectural details. Because of the building’s multiple phases of construction, no single cleaning procedure was appropriate for the entire building. Likewise, building materials and tooling marks also varied across the building, requiring a number of different patching compounds and tooling techniques. Work on the façade restoration began in 2009. In addition to the comprehensive masonry cleaning and repairs, the work also included restoration of the cathedral’s entrances, installation of new copper flashing, restoration of exterior statuary, and the installation of more inconspicuous bird netting. The project shrouded the Cathedral in scaffolding and took nearly two years to complete. When it reemerged in late 2011, the Cathedral had reclaimed its original grandeur for the first time in many generations, and it will be a major contributor to a Parkway renaissance for generations to come.

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Designing a new building to complement its historic neighbors is often a challenge, but when the new building is a 105,000-square-foot, nine-story tower on a block of elegant four-story rowhouses, the challenge is all the more daunting. For the Curtis Institute of Music’s new Lenfest Hall, architects Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates succeeded with a design that respects its surroundings and deftly stitches an historic but compromised block back together. Behind a new facade of brownstone and glass, a large rehearsal hall, teaching studios, and dining and social areas form a four story base that respects and enlivens Locust Street. Two bays are angled outward to form a subtle prow above the entrance, increasing the building’s visibility while maintaining its warm palate of materials. The new construction is bookended by two immaculatelyrestored townhouse facades: 1610 Locust, designed by the Wilson Brothers in 1893, and the former Locust Club at 1618 Locust, designed by John Notman in 1850 and altered by Wilson Eyre in 1888. A five-story dormitory tower sits above this foundation, but is set back to be virtually invisible from Locust Street. The setback allowed ample space for a garden terrace and green roof, contributing to its anticipated LEED Gold certification. Befitting a hall built to serve some of the nation’s premier aspiring young musicians, Lenfest Hall honors the historic legacy of its environment while orienting itself proudly towards the future.

The University of Pennsylvania’s newest state-of-theart Weiss Pavilion athletic center is a 55,000-square-foot adaptive reuse project capitalizing on reclaimed space within the shell of the university’s iconic Franklin Field. Designed by Charles Z. Klauder in 1922, Franklin Field features a monumental brick arcade that rings three sides of the stadium. The university hoped to enclose the north side of this arcade to create new weightlifting facilities, but found the proposed new spaces to be awkward and inefficient. Some fortuitous archival sleuthing led to a surprising discovery: the existing arcade was actually much shorter than originally constructed, the result of a long-forgotten roadbed alteration that raised the grade nearly twenty feet. By excavating to the original arcade foundations, an extra 25,000 square feet were captured and integrated into a more spacious and practical design, which preserved the integrity of Klauder’s monumental design by recessing the new glazing to align with the inner plane of the brick arches. The completed project also received LEED Gold certification, the third such honor for a University of Pennsylvania project and the second involving the rehabilitation of an historic building (along with 2010 Preservation Achievement Award-winning Music Building). As Penn looks to the future with their ambitious Penn Connects master plan and the development of adjacent Penn Park, Weiss Pavilion demonstrates both the University’s commitment to its historic resources and the value of such investment.

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INDEPENDENCE HALL TOWER Independence Square, Philadelphia, PA HONORING

City of Philadelphia Department of Public Property Bargmann Hendrie + Archetype, Inc.; Alpha Corporation; Avalotis Corporation; Dan Lepore & Sons Company; Daniel J. Keating Company; Elderhorst Bells, Inc.; Independence National Historical Park; Keast & Hood Co.; Kreilick Conservation, LLC; National Park Service Denver Service Center; Schnabel Conservation L.L.C.; Superior Scaffold Services, Inc.; United States Roofing Corporation; Window Repairs & Restoration, LLC Funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the recent $4.9 million restoration of Independence Hall Tower is the latest chapter in a long and fascinating history of a building whose iconic stature has both inspired and challenged the ideals of historic preservation for generations. Construction began in 1732, with the central bell tower and wooden steeple added in the 1750s. By the 1781 the steeple had rotted away and was in danger of collapse. It was removed and replaced with a short pyramidal roof that stood until 1828 when the current steeple was built, designed by William Strickland and based loosely on the 1750 original. The current project aimed to correct significant decay of the tower’s exterior cladding while retaining as much historic fabric as possible. This challenge was compounded by the tower’s unique method of construction: its wooden faces were formed by stacks of pine boards threaded with iron rods, a shipmaking technique rarely used in the building trades. In large sections of the tower, water had infiltrated the cladding and rusted the iron ties. Some areas of this detail were sound and left intact, while others required the replacement of iron rods with stainless steel or complete replacement of the cladding itself. Crews also completely restored and regilded the tower’s clock face and weathervane, reshingled the cupola, and made extensive repairs to the tower’s masonry base. The project—one in a long line of Independence Hall restorations—succeeded once more in prolonging the life of an irreplaceable American icon.

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MARIPOSA FOOD CO-OP BELMONT TRUST COMPANY BUILDING 4824 Baltimore Avenue, Philadelphia, PA HONORING

Mariposa Food Co-op Re:Vision Architecture; Community Design Collaborative; Gardner/Fox Associates, Inc. Bank buildings are an important part of the city’s urban fabric, anchoring commercial corridors and recalling past eras of optimistic investment in Philadelphia neighborhoods. Unfortunately many of these buildings today stand vacant, neglected, or underutilized, victims of financial reorganization and neighborhood disinvestment. Though many will never again be banks, their architectural distinction and prominent locations make them anything but obsolete when their full potential is recognized by a new owner. A perfect example can be found in West Philadelphia, where the former Belmont Trust Company building stood underutilized for decades. Designed in 1922 by Norman Hulme, the stately Neo-Classical structure was purchased in 2010 by Mariposa Co-op, a memberowned community grocery cooperative that recognized the building’s full potential for rebirth. Looking to expand its thriving but cramped facilities, Mariposa transformed the bank into retail, office, and meeting space that dramatically increased its capacity to provide fresh and natural foods to both its members and to the neighborhood as a whole. In the process, forgotten historic elements of the bank’s original design were rediscovered and restored, including an ornate plaster ceiling, terrazzo floors, and the original bank vault. New elements were designed to be sympathetic to the bank’s historic character, including new solar tubes that light the space in much the same manner as the bank’s original skylights. The result is a new community asset that takes advantage of, and at the same time, enhances the neighborhood’s historic character.

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MEDALLION GARDEN

PENNDOT DISTRICT 6-0 BRIDGE REHABILITATIONS

Laurel Hill Cemetery, 3822 Ridge Avenue, Philadelphia, PA

Cope’s Bridge, Strasburg Road over East Branch of Brandywine Creek

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Laurel Hill Cemetery KSK Architects Planners Historians, Inc.; Andrew F. Gillespie Tree Service and Landscape Design; Friends of Laurel Hill Cemetery; Laurel Hill Cemetery Grounds Crew; Menke & Menke Landscape Architects & Planners; Plymouth Valley Construction From its inception in 1836 as one of the nation’s first “garden cemeteries,” Laurel Hill Cemetery has artfully balanced respect for the dead with amenities for the living. This vision began with founder and horticulturalist John Jay Smith, who envisioned the cemetery as a botanical showcase and picturesque leisure grounds where Philadelphians could retreat from the distractions of urban life. One of Laurel Hill’s original landscape features was the Medallion Garden, a formal garden of circular pathways and planting beds displaying a wealth of distinctive trees and shrubs. A popular feature from the beginning, ensuing years proved taxing on the garden. Burials began to out-compete plantings for space in the nineteenth century, while a period of general decline affected all of Laurel Hill in the twentieth century. By the late 1970s, the Medallion Garden had all but disappeared from the neglected and overgrown landscape. In 1978, the Friends of Laurel Hill was founded to reclaim the cemetery and its historic legacy. Restoration of the Medallion Garden was one of the first preservation challenges the Friends identified, though resources for the undertaking remained scant until recent years. Following the success of 2010’s restoration of the adjacent Old Mortality statuary group (a 2011 Preservation Achievement Award winner), the Friends received funding to update and complete a 1981 restoration plan. Walking paths were reestablished and monuments and headstones were cleared, repaired and reset. New plantings restored the original garden’s evergreen focus, following historic cemetery planting lists used to select appropriate shrub and vine species. To celebrate the garden’s restoration and the cemetery’s 175th birthday, the Friends also planted 175 new specimen trees throughout Laurel Hill’s original boundaries.

Hares Hill Road Bridge, Hares Hill Road over French Creek Henry Avenue Bridge, Henry Avenue over Wissahickon Creek, Lincoln Drive Rapps Dam Road Bridge, Rapps Dam Road over French Creek HONORING

PennDOT District 6-0 Bi-State Construction Company Inc.; J. D. Eckman, Inc.; Johnson, Mirmiran & Thompson, Inc.; Loftus Construction, Inc.; Mackin Engineering Company; Modjeski and Masters, Inc.; Pennoni Associates Inc.; Road-Con, Inc. Southeastern Pennsylvania’s historic but aging stock of bridges continues to pose significant challenges to PennDOT engineers charged with maintaining both public safety and the historic integrity of our region’s highways and byways. This year’s four award-winning bridge restoration projects illustrate not only the region’s great diversity of historic bridge designs, but also PennDOT’s ability to find creative and innovative ways of preserving these bridges for current and future generations. Cope’s Bridge, an 1807 three-span stone arch bridge carrying Strasburg Road over the east branch of Brandywine Creek in Chester County, was structurally deficient with load restrictions threatening its future along a high-traffic corridor. Engineers were able to reinforce the historic arches by removing existing fill and casting a reinforced concrete saddle arch above the existing barrel to stabilize the structure and increase its load capacity. The Rapps Dam Road Bridge spanning French Creek in East Pikeland Township, Chester County, is a wooden Burr arch covered bridge with a steel-reinforced roadbed. Originally constructed in 1868, it, too, was load deficient and required significant stabilization. The non-historic steel beams were replaced with new steel plate girders, masonry abutments were repaired, the roof reshingled, and portals repaired and repainted. Hares Hill Road Bridge, an arched girder bridge also spanning French Creek, was built in 1869. It is the only known example of Thomas Moseley’s patented “Wrought Iron Lattice Girder Bridge” system. Though largely intact, the bridge suffered from corrosion and fatigue cracks before a comprehensive structural analysis and repair program in 2010 stabilized the structure and increased its load capacity. Finally, Northwest Philadelphia’s iconic Henry Avenue Bridge, a 1934 stone-clad reinforced concrete span, carries Henry Avenue over Wissahickon Creek, Lincoln Drive, and a busy Fairmount Park recreational corridor. Deteriorating concrete threatened to compromise the bridge’s structural integrity, but a repair program was devised that allowed both traffic on the bridge and vehicular and recreational traffic passing below it to continue unimpeded during 18 months of construction.

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SAINT FRANCIS DE SALES CHURCH 4625 Springfield Avenue, Philadelphia, PA HONORING

Saint Francis de Sales Parish Historic Building Architects, LLC; AC Gentry, Inc.; Daedalus Projects, Inc.; Femenella & Associates, Inc.; GB Geotechnics USA Inc.; John Tiedmann, Inc.; Knapp Masonry LLC; Merrell & Garaguso, Inc.; Pennoni Associates Inc.; Robert Silman Associates, PC; The Art of Glass, Inc. West Philadelphia’s skyline would not be the same without St. Francis de Sales Church, a looming Byzantine Revival edifice that stands as one of the nation’s best examples of a Guastavino tile dome. The iconic main dome of the church spans 60 feet and is only 4 inches thick in some places. Built in 1909, the original polychrome exterior tiles were replaced in 1955 with glazed subway tiles. Philadelphia’s seasonal freezethaw cycles caused these tiles to crack and spall. When roof leaks caused such damage to the structure that protective scaffolding was erected over the sanctuary’s altar, a worried congregation turned to Historic Building Architects, LLC to assess the severity of the situation. HBA’s sophisticated building analysis combined stateof-the-art non-destructive evaluation methods with extensive archival research. Their initial findings were alarming: the building posed an immediate public safety hazard, and a full restoration would cost $20 million for a cash-strapped congregation. Rather than panic, the congregation and architect developed a sensible phased restoration plan that addressed the most immediate concerns without compromising the historic integrity of the original design. Phase I was completed to great neighborhood fanfare in December 2011 with the stabilization and restoration of the main dome and two smaller domes, the main lantern and the stained glass lay light. Gutters and downspouts were redesigned to prevent future water infiltration, and the roof’s original decorative patterns and colors were replicated in a silicate paint more appropriate for the Philadelphia climate.

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110 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA

8 & 9 Park Avenue and 34 Maple Avenue, Eastampton, NJ

1523 S. 8th Street, Philadelphia, PA

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Franklin Fountain LLC Owners Rep Inc.; Christopher Jones Carpenter Designer; Funk Und Stange AIA; J. Loonstyn Roofing and Contracting; Jeff Wilson Ceramic Tile; McCann Painting; Michael Bufalino Design; Robert Green Construction; Trimm Glass Co. Inc.; Wm. Proud Masonry Restoration Company Inc.

Burlington County, Department of Resource Conservation, Division of Parks VITETTA; Arch Design Architects; Caswell & Co.; Expert House Movers; Hunter Research; Pennoni Associates Inc.; Wu & Associates, Inc.

Termini Brothers Bakery Materials Conservation Collaborative, LLC

Philadelphia’s Old City is a neighborhood rich in nineteenth-century commercial buildings, reflecting a time when the area bustled with small-scale manufacturers and tradesmen. While Old City and its buildings still thrive, most of its manufacturers have long since disappeared. Shane Confectionery, one of the oldest confectioners in the country, has been manufacturing and selling candy at 110 Market Street for over a century, and the c.1860 building has been a candy factory since at least 1863. So when Barry Shane announced his retirement and sale of the business in 2010, loyal customers and neighbors feared losing one of Old City’s last direct links to its mercantile past. Instead, this legacy business gained a new lease on life in the form of Ryan and Eric Berley, owners of the nearby Franklin Fountain. The brothers have taken over the confectionery and continue to manufacture candy on site, using recipes handed down to them from the Shane family. They also undertook a full restoration of the building and its rare Victorian storefront, refabricating signature curved glass display windows and restoring leaded glass transoms and unique cellar lights. A stunning array of historic interior features were also restored, including display counters, light fixtures, lincrusta walls, tin ceiling, hardwood floors, rope elevator, and skylights. Original candy making equipment and marble work tables were also preserved. Shane Confectionery remains the building’s only occupant, with two floors of production and a storage floor above the storefront. In an age when preservation often requires adaptation, this candy-coated time capsule is a reminder that progress can sometimes involve no change at all.

Historic Smithville, a National Register Historic District and county park in Burlington County, New Jersey, is one of the region’s most intact Victorian industrial company towns. In its heyday, Smithville was home to the H.B. Smith Company, a firm that specialized in manufacturing woodworking equipment and a popular early bicycle. Maintained as a county park since 1975, the site includes Smith Mansion, a number of industrial relics, and a collection of historic workers’ houses. Three of these houses had fallen into disrepair before an ambitious Burlington County-led effort in 2011 successfully reclaimed them as park amenities. A wood-framed twin at 8 and 9 Park Avenue dating from the 1840s was rehabilitated with restored wood clapboards replacing inappropriate siding, new and refurbished wood windows, a restored bracketed cornice and porch awning, and rebuilt summer kitchens. One side of the twin now contains a museum with period displays of typical workers’ furnishings, while the other serves as a contemporary art gallery and office space. A circa-1820 cottage at 34 Maple Avenue, the oldest surviving workers’ dwelling in the park, was also completely restored for use as a new park visitors center. Because its foundation was in an advanced state of deterioration, the building was temporarily moved across the street so a new foundation could be built in its original location. A small, sympathetic rear addition provides ADA access to the building, which received a new standing-seam roof and restored clapboard siding. Investment in the rehabilitation project totaled $2.4 million and wonderfully demonstrates the County’s continued dedication to using historic resources for the benefit of its citizens.

A South Philadelphia institution, Termini Brothers Bakery has been making cannoli and other old-world pastries and baked goods at their flagship 8th Street shop for over seventy years. Brothers Guiseppe and Gaetano started their first bakery in 1921 at 1514 S. 8th Street, and after 17 years of hard work and dedication, moved across the street to open a gleaming new shop in 1938. That storefront, state-of-the-art at the time of its opening, survives to this day as one of South Philly’s most recognizable landmarks. Its quilted stainless steel façade and neon signage embody a golden age of twentieth-century commercial architecture that is quickly disappearing from the city. But the Termini family, now in their third generation of bakers, has lovingly maintained the storefront as a symbol of their commitment to tradition and the vision of their founders. In the summer of 2011, the bakery hired the Materials Conservation Collaborative for a complete façade restoration. After seven decades, the storefront had collected its share of dents, scratches, sags, rust spots, and lost hardware. MMC cleaned, polished, and straightened each panel and replaced missing and mismatched fasteners. Steel-clad doors were disassembled to reveal extensive deterioration of the wood panels underneath; these were fixed with Dutchman repairs before recladding in their original skin. Corroded door hardware was also replated in nickel. Because of the site’s prominence in the neighborhood, descriptive signage was also created to explain the restoration process. These panels remain on display in the store alongside memorabilia tracing the history of the bakery. Completed in just three months, the storefront looks as good as it did when first installed in 1938, and its owners remain just as proud.

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WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY RECITATION HALL

WORLD CAFE LIVE AT THE QUEEN THEATER

35 West Rosedale Avenue, West Chester, PA

500 N. Market Street, Wilmington, DE

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West Chester University of Pennsylvania of the State System of Higher Education, Facilities Design and Construction Department Klein and Hoffman, Inc.; Caretti Restoration and Preservation Services, LLC; Schnabel Conservation L.L.C.

Buccini/Pollin Group Homsey Architects, Inc.; Belk Architecture; BPGS Construction, LLC; DEDC Consulting Engineers; Jackie Ivy Design Ltd; Light Up the Queen Foundation; MacIntosh Engineering; Metropolitan Acoustics, LLC; Meyer Design, Inc.; Mulhern Consulting Engineers; Powers & Company, Inc.; Real Entertainment Group; The Walters Company; World Cafe Live

Built in 1892, Recitation Hall is West Chester University’s oldest surviving structure and an imposing presence on the campus’s National Register-listed historic quadrangle. Like many of the school’s early buildings, it was constructed from serpentine stone, a greenhued sandstone indigenous to southeastern Pennsylvania and northern Maryland. Popular for a brief period in the late nineteenth century, serpentine stone has unfortunately proven to be a fragile building material. Prone to severe degradation and spalling, serpentine facades are increasingly rare specimens and pose unique challenges to preservation. Aware that their landmark building was experiencing accelerated deterioration, the University commissioned Klein and Hoffman and Schnabel Conservation to undertake a comprehensive conditions assessment report in 2008. Each stone was field-tested, loose material was removed, and mortar and stone samples were extracted. This documentation was used to develop an accurate cost analysis and construction documents for the project, which received funding and commenced in the summer of 2010 with Caretti Restoration and Preservation Services as contractor. Following the detailed construction documents, Caretti masons field-blended custom green and yellow patching material for each stone, and carefully replicated characteristic tooling marks. Select Dutchman repairs were made and lost decorative elements were recreated. The entire facade was cleaned and repointed, and restoration was complete by the fall of 2011. To the casual observer the result is subtle; to those experienced in the challenges of serpentine restoration, the result is magnificent.

VANNA VENTURI HOUSE, 1959–1964 Robert Venturi, FAIA, Int. FRIBA

Three years ago, the Queen Theater was an abandoned shell on Wilmington, Delaware’s neglected Main Street, a once-bustling commercial strip whose long decline began in the 1960s and 1970s. Today, the Queen Theater is a beautifully-restored entertainment venue infusing life into a rejuvenated downtown. World Cafe Live, the Philadelphia music venue which hosts WXPN’s nationally-syndicated radio show, recognized the potential of this hundred-year-old former movie and vaudeville theater and created World Cafe Live at the Queen, a live music venue with a restaurant, bar, and two performance spaces with a combined capacity of over 1,000 concertgoers. Despite standing vacant for almost half a century, the theater still retained many of its historic features, including its stage, decorative plaster walls and ceilings, proscenium paintings, and some wood handrails. These were all retained and integrated into the new design, which preserved the aged appearance of many of the historic finishes. The theater’s exterior was also completely restored. Permastone storefront cladding was removed from the front elevation and a rare cast-iron storefront in the rear was restored. Original windows were refurbished and the theater’s terra cotta and brick elevations were repaired and cleaned. A new marquee and canopy was fabricated to replace the lost 1915 original. The $25 million project is a model private/ public partnership that has helped turn an entire neighborhood around.

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As it celebrates its 50th anniversary, the Vanna Venturi House, located in Chestnut Hill, has been selected by AIA Philadelphia as the recipient of the 2012 Landmark Building Award. Venturi’s house for his mother is now considered a classic of contemporary architecture and one of the earliest expressions of post-Modern design concepts. The house reflects the firm’s interest in applied decoration, historical references and the use of traditional elements in a nontraditional manner. The house is complex and simple, open and closed, big and little. Inside and out, it is a little house that uses big scale to counterbalance the complexity. Complexity in combination with small scale in small buildings creates a nervous busyness—whereas big scale in this small building achieves an appropriate architectural tension. On the exterior, the house has a large, sloping, gabled roof, deliberately reminiscent of 19th-century Shingle style. The

smooth, flat stucco façade is nearly symmetrical, but the symmetry is broken by the placement of windows, and the roof is split by a deep recess, similar to the incomplete pediments of Baroque buildings. Other motifs used in a novel manner include the applied arch over the entranceway and the overscaled molding. On the interior, complexity is achieved through the use of a few simple devices. Diagonal walls, to accommodate circulation, break the simple spaces of the rooms, and the stair to the second floor is distorted by the dominant chimney of the central fireplace. This house is a seminal work. In the years since its completion it has influenced other designs by the firm and the work of a number of other architects. It has been written about, studied and discussed extensively in print and in classrooms and is often visited by architectural students. Even today, the house seems remarkably innovative.

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he Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia began accepting preservation easements in this region in 1979 and today holds 228 easements on historic properties ranging from Center City skyscrapers to landed suburban estates, from converted factories in Old City to townhouses in Society Hill,from downtown hotels to modernist residences in outlying counties.

HISTORY MAKING PRODUCTIONS Sam Katz, Founder and Executive Producer Phil Katz, Producer and Director

The Magaziner Award recognizes an individual or organization outside the normal circle of preservation and design that has made a significant contribution to the preservation of our built environment. This year, we recognize History Making Productions, film makers who are producing “Philadelphia: The Great Experiment,” a multi-part series of films on the history of Philadelphia. Founded in 2008 by Sam Katz, History Making Productions has produced a number of films and webisodes about Philadelphia. The series currently under production, “Philadelphia: The Great Experiment,” now has two episodes, with more to come. “Philadelphia: The Great Experiment” is self-described as “…a multi-format historical documentary television, film, and internet project that presents the story of Philadelphia, the single most compelling stage for the unfurling and testing of American ideals. William Penn’s city was the first in the world to codify freedom of religion, individual rights, trial by jury, and a democratic assembly as the pillars of a constitution amendable by the people.” The first episode covered the period from 1865-1876, a time of great upheaval at both local and national levels.

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Featured in this episode was a recreation of Abraham Lincoln’s funeral procession through Philadelphia. Episode II, “Fever—1793,” is about the yellow fever epidemic that devastated the city in the 1790’s. This episode documents the contributions of several prominent Philadelphians during this era, including the Reverend Richard Allen and his wife Sarah Allen, who was a young nurse at the time. In both episodes, and in those to come, Philadelphia’s rich historic fabric provides the perfect backdrop. Historic scenes are easily and accurately recreated because so many original streets and structures still exist. Sam Katz is a Philadelphia native, history buff, and documentary film enthusiast. His prior career included work in public finance and investment banking, but Sam is best known to many Philadelphians for the mark he made on the political landscape. He serves as the executive producer for HMP. Sam is joined by his son Phil Katz, a producer, director, and post production specialist. Phil has a background in multi-media design and marketing strategy, along with film and video editing. Phil manages the production and post-production teams.

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The Bancorp Bank Brandywine Realty Trust HF (Gerry) Lenfest Philadelphia Management Co.

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806 Capital, LLC Beneficial Bank Federal Capital Partners Firstrust Bank INTECH Construction, Inc.

Keast & Hood Co. Knapp Masonry LLC Pennoni Associates Inc. Radnor Property Group LLC Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young, LLP

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AIA Philadelphia Amerimar Enterprises, Inc./Behringer Harvard The Athenaeum of Philadelphia Cohen Seglias Pallas Greenhall & Furman PC Dan Lepore & Sons Company Eastern State Penitentiary First Niagara Bank Friends of Laurel Hill Cemetery Henry "Jeb" Hart Historic Building Architects, LLC KieranTimberlake Klehr Harrison Harvey Branzburg LLP Klein and Hoffman, Inc. / Caretti Restoration and Preservation Services, LLC

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Land Services USA, Inc. Masonry Preservation Group, Inc. / Atkin Olshin Schade Architects Materials Conservation Collaborative, LLC Modjeski and Masters, Inc. Rampart Holdings Saul Ewing LLP Selzer Company SSH Real Estate Stonehenge Advisors Inc. Stuart G. Rosenberg Architects, P.C. University of Pennsylvania Facilities and Real Estate Services Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, Inc.

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AHA Consulting Engineers, Inc. Allied Construction Services II, Inc. AthenianRazak LLC Bargmann Hendrie + Archetype, Inc. Blackney Hayes Architects Clemens Construction Company, Inc. DOMUS, Inc. Fairmount Park Historic Preservation Trust Femenella & Associates, Inc Gardner/Fox Associates, Inc. Historical Society of Pennsylvania John Milner Architects, Inc. Johnson, Mirmiran & Thompson, Inc. Janet and Lew Klein Marvin Waxman Consulting Engineers MMPartners, LLC Nolen Properties, LLC O’Donnell & Naccarato Powers & Company, Inc. Provenance Reading Terminal Market Corporation S. Harris Ltd. Superior Scaffold Services, Inc. UJMN Architects + Designers Wm. Proud Masonry Restoration Company Inc. Wu & Associates, Inc.

Alpha Corporation ARCH Preservation Consulting BLT Architects David Brownlee Building Conservation Associates, Inc. Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter & Paul Cliveden of the National Trust Conproco Cross Street Partners Dilworth Paxson LLP Eberlein Design Consultants Ltd. F. Scott Donahue Haverford Township Historical Commission Heritage Consulting Inc. Independence Seaport Museum J. Loonstyn Roofing and Contracting K & A Appraisal Co. Barbara J. Kaplan Mark B. Thompson Associates LLC Merrell & Garaguso, Inc. Moran Roofing James Mundy Patricia Patterson Philadelphia History Museum Sun Precast Co., Inc. Thornton Tomasetti Scott Wilds Wolf Historic Preservation World Cafe Live Freeman Zausner

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