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Historic Designation & Landmarks

Advocacy Articles

2024-06-25

Heartbreak on Broad Street: DAG Statement on UArts Closure

2024-05-16

DAG joins coalition advocating for increasing the Pennsylvania Historic Tax Credit

2023-10-06

The Future of the Past: Preserve Philadelphia's Roundhouse

2021-04-06

Support for the Historic Designation of the Philadelphia Gas Works in Point Breeze

2021-01-07

Preserve Doctors' Row

2020-07-06

DAG Supports PAGP on the Proposed Demolition of St. Laurentius Church

2019-10-15

DAG's Statement on Historic Preservation Bills

2019-02-04

DAG's Statement Regarding the Mayor's Task Force on Historic Preservation

2019-01-14

Comments + Recommendations on the Final Draft Report of the Mayor’s Task Force on Historic Preservation

2017-12-03

DAG supports Preservation Alliance in recent vote on designation of church at 1020 Christian St

2016-09-04

Commentary: Jewelers Row

2016-01-26

DAG Statement on PHA Plans for Sharswood Neighborhood

2012-08-21

Let's make it revolutionary: the design of the new Museum of the American Revolution

Forum Articles

2020-11-30

The Painted Bride: What would the building's loss reveal about Philadelphia?

2020-10-18

Henry Minton House, Systemic Racism and Historic Preservation

2020-06-15

Whose History Is It? The Democratization of Preservation

2018-10-01

A Session with Art: “Making a Classic Modern” (or Wrestling with a Crisis in Faith)

2013-03-27

Art Houses

2004-09-09

Defining the City's Image

2004-08-05

Philly Royalty: Queen Village ushers in the city's first Neighborhood Conservation District.

2004-04-01

Divine Accommodation

2003-10-09

Bell Jarred

2003-08-21

Word House: The National Constitution Center, built to commemorate our guiding document, is a stunning success.

2003-06-12

Bell's Hell: The new home of the world’s most famous gong is a blow to liberty.

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Archived | 2021-05-13

No longer here, now and what to come: Can Philly's music venue scene resist the residential development pressure?

Archived | 2021-01-14

Preservation and the Public Realm

Archived | 2020-09-30

Whose History Is It? The Democratization of Preservation

Archived | 2020-07-22

Rising Up: Commemorating Catto and Black Historical Figures

Archived | 2020-03-05

Historic Preservation, Public Memory and Social Justice

Archived | 2020-01-09

Beyond Neutrality - A New Vision for Eastern State Penitentiary

Archived | 2019-04-09

Preservation Pints - Education, Outreach + Archaeology

Archived | 2019-01-03

Monument Lab: Report to the City

Archived | 2018-04-05

The Metropolitan Opera House: Past, Present & Future

Archived | 2016-06-02

A New Chapter for Preservation

News

2018-06-15

Design Advocacy Group's views on the Philadelphia Historic Preservation Task Force