Skyspace for new Friends Meeting in Chestnut Hill
This is a sky space in Pomona in California and I think these are houses maybe in Connecticut. I’m not quite sure. But his work is all over the…
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Tear it Down, Philly
DO YOU REMEMBER WHAT BUSINESS IT WAS? It was a chicken store. A CHICKEN STORE? Yes. HOW LONG HAS IT BEEN SITTING LIKE THIS? I got to be about 50…
Olsens turn shells into homes
Learn how the Olsens find dilapidated homes, gut them and turn them into beautiful, rehabbed homes. Watch video here.
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Bees make hive in home: Highland Avenue honey
It’s really great. They took the fascia off and the amazing thing to me is as they’re crow barring, and this and that , the bees completely ignored them. So…
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Building homes – love in action
On a recent Saturday, Linley Kirkwood, community outreach coordinator for Habitat for Humanity of Montgomery County and a Chestnut Hill resident, led a “Love in Action Tour” for prospective volunteers…
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Big Rob serves up Maryland style barbecue
Rob Lambert takes his food truck around to a couple locations in Germantown and Mount Airy and specializes in barbecue, Maryland style. Rich Sanders is a satisfied customer seen here…
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House hunting on the Hill
Prudential, Fox and Roach realtor Pam Thistle shows houses to prospective buyers Dabravka and Moritz Ritter who are attracted to the Hill's Avenue, shops, trains and not "too suburban" feel.…
Andorra’s tree house tree stump down
SO THE TREE HOUSE TREE IS DOWN? “Yeah, it’s been a stump for thirty years. It wasn’t going to last forever. AND BEFORE IT WAS A STUMP? “It was the…
Virginia Bryant Shows 1800s Gothic Revival House
WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT WHAT THIS HOUSE WAS? “Well there are four houses here that are seemingly identical, originally and they’ve all had different additions put on and changes…
Antje Mattheus unhides Cresheim Farm
So this is Cresheim farm. It’s the first farm around this area and it appears on a map around 1700 so that’s just a few years after William Penn got…