This Live/Work Home in Philadelphia Gets Its Layout From the Renaissance
A blackened cube with an indoor greenhouse makes for a striking addition to a historic neighborhood.
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The neighborhood is quintessential South Philadelphia. East of the city’s Italian Market along the Delaware River, Pennsport’s streets are lined with weathered brick row houses and anchored by 19th-century school buildings and grand churches. The clubs that participate in the Mummers Parade, the colorful folk festival held on New Year’s Day every year since 1901, have their workshops along 2nd Street.
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