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PRESERVATION ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS 2019 HORACE TRUMBAUER: CELEBRATING THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF A PHILADELPHIA DESIGN ORIGINAL

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Welcome to the 2019 Preservation Achievement Awards Honoring the individuals, organizations, business, and projects throughout the Greater Philadelphia Region that exemplify outstanding achievement in historic preservation Table Of Contents Our Sponsors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Executive Director’s Welcome. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Horace Trumbauer (1868 –1938) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Special Recognition Awards. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 James Biddle Award. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Rhoda And Permar Richards Award. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Board Of Directors Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Economic Impact Award. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 John Andrew Gallery Community Action Awards. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-15 Preservation Education Award. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Public Service Award. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Special Anniversary Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Young Friends Of The Preservation Alliance Award. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 AIA Philadelphia Awards. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Landmark Building Award. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Henry J. Magaziner Award. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Grand Jury Awards and Map. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 In Memoriam. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Program Design by Peltz Creative Program Text by Fabien Communications Video by All Ages Productions CELEBRATING THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF HORACE TRUMBAUER 2

Congratulations to Stoneleigh: a natural garden 2019 Grand Jury Award Winner Wyncote Foundation and The Organ Historical Society 3 PRESERVATION ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS 2019

Thank You to Our Sponsors for Their Generous Support PRESERVATIONIST Brickstone Wyncote Foundation ALABASTER Domus KPMG Post Brothers Apartments IBEW Local 98 Penn Medicine University of Pennsylvania Alterra Property Group, INTECH Construction PMC Property Group LLC; Kelly/Maeillo Architects; MIS Capital MARBLE EB Realty Management Keystone Property Group Orion General Contractors A. Roy Smith Eugene & Deborah Lefevre Klehr Harrison Harvey Powers & Company & The Morris House Hotel Branzburg LLP Architectural Window Seaquay Architectural Corporation Firstrust Bank Klein and Hoffman Millwork Atkin Olshin Schade Hanson Fine Building & Janet and Lew Klein Strada Architects Preservation Materials Conservation W.J. Castle, P.E. & Ballinger HDR Company Associates City Center Construction JKRP Architects MMPartners W. S. Cumby, Inc. Cohen Seglias Pallas John Milner Architects North County Conservancy WSFS Greenhall & Furman PC Keast & Hood O’Donnell & Naccarato Woodcock Design Eastern State Penitentiary GRANITE Fox Rothschild JacobsWyper Architects PIDC Philadelphia Joseph Dugan, Inc. AIA Philadelphia G8 Development KieranTimberlake Preservation Design Knapp Masonry Partnership AMC Delancey Group General Building Langan Contractors Association Larsen & Landis RCJ Consulting Aquinas Real Estate Mara Restoration Partners Graboyes Commercial Marvin Windows & Doors Reading Terminal Market Window Company Montgomery McCracken Corporation Ascent Restoration Walker & Rhoads Haas Printing Natural Lands Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr Atlantes Architects Orphanides & Toner Heritage Consulting Group Pella Windows & Doors TAO Design Architects Bancroft Construction Penn Design Company Holstein White Engineers Philly Home Girls The Concordia Group Blue Rock Construction How General Contracting The Goldenberg Group Cescaphe Group Ian Smith Design Group Voith & Mactavish Architects Citizens Bank Independence Historical Trust VSBA Architects & Delaware River Waterfront Planners Corporation Inter-Mission Watts Restoration E-Built International Masonry Institute Window Repairs & Econsult Solutions Restoration J&M Preservation Studio Fairmount Park Conservancy CELEBRATING THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF HORACE TRUMBAUER 4

Lincoln Square Historic Train Shed Rehabilitation and Addition Thank you Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia We are proud to be recipients of the 2019 Economic Impact Award 5 PRESERVATION ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS 2019

Welcome to the 2019 Annual Preservation Achievement Awards The power of historic architecture to shape our lives may never be more evident than in the current moment. In April, the world stood riveted as Notre Dame Cathedral burned, an 800-year-old monument to the best of western civilization. Since then, the world has come together to ensure its reconstruction. Here at home, our event tonight shows how the forces of neglect and decay can be vanquished as one after another historic landmark is given renewed life. Tonight, we celebrate these renewals, along with the extraordinarily positive impact they have on community pride and reinforcing our sense of place. These projects, and the people who made them happen, serve as examples to us all. May they continue to inspire those who care about preservation, including our many partners who fight to preserve and restore the buildings and streetscapes that power our present and point the way towards a prosperous, livable, and beautiful future. Tonight, at the 26th Preservation Achievement Awards, we celebrate the extraordinary level of skill and dedication to historic preservation that flourishes in this region. Our thanks to all the award winners for your commitment to preservation, to our sponsors who made tonight possible, and to all of you who chose to spend your evening with us in support of the Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia. Every old building has a story. These stories have a happy ending. Thank you. Paul Steinke, Executive Director CELEBRATING THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF HORACE TRUMBAUER 6

PMC PROPERTY GROUP COMMENDS THE WELL-DESERVING 2019 PRESERVATION ACHIEVEMENT AWARD WINNERS! With shared commitment to our region’s rich history and promising future. 7 PRESERVATION ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS 2019

Horace Trumbauer (1868 – 1938)  Horace Trumbauer (1868-1938) was the quintessential Philadelphia architect of the early twentieth century. In a four-decade-spanning career, he helped to define the first African American architecture graduate, who became gentle architecture of our middle class suburbs, devised his chief designer. Trumbauer’s team could work in all suave urban mansions and stupendous country houses the styles needed to fulfill the visions of his demanding for our richest citizens, defined the classical splendor clients. They constructed a trio of English Palladian, Italian of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway and the commercial Renaissance, and neo-Tudor mansions for the Elkins and skyline of Center City, and equipped our institutions of Widener families in Elkins Park at the turn of the century medicine and learning with monuments that stirred the and created two campuses for Duke University—one heart while getting the job done. To oversee more than English Gothic and the other Jeffersonian classical—in the 500 projects, Trumbauer orchestrated a large and talented twenties and thirties. staff. His employees notably included Julian Abele, Penn’s – David Brownlee, Ph.D. The following buildings, designed by Horace Trumbauer, were past recipients of Preservation Alliance Grand Jury Awards: Cabrini College Mansion 2013 Grand Jury Award Winner Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2009 Grand Jury Award Winner Irvine Auditorium University of Pennsylvania, 2000 Grand Jury Award Winner SEPTA Regional Rail Stations Improvement Project: Jenkintown-Wyncote Station, 2011 Grand Jury Award Kline Institute of Trial Advocacy (previously Beneficial Winner Savings Fund) 2018 Grand Jury Award Winner Union League of Philadelphia, 2007 Grand Jury Award Le Meridien Hotel (formerly YMCA), 2011 Grand Jury Winner Award Winner Horace Trumbauer is interred at Laurel Hill Cemetery, a North Broad Street Station, 1998 Grand Jury Award 2016 Grand Jury Award Winner Winner Preservation Alliance Board of Directors Mary Werner DeNadai, FAIA, Chair Betty Marmon Suzanna E. Barucco, Vice Chair Anthony Naccarato Sally Elk, Vice Chair Robert Powers Vincent P. Bowes, Treasurer Joseph Schick Barbara Kaplan, Secretary Joanne Semeister, Esq. Leonidas Addimando Robert T. Vance, Jr., Esq. David Brownlee, PhD Janice Woodcock, AIA John G. Carr Scott Compton, AIA Staff William Cumby, Jr, LEED AP BD+C Cheryl L. Gaston, Esq Paul Steinke, Executive Director John M. Hanson Susan Matyas, Senior Director of Development & Russell H. Harris, MD Communications Andrew Hart, Assoc AIA Patrick Grossi, Advocacy Director Anthony V. Mannino, Esq. Amy E. Ricci, Director of Preservation Services Caroline Slama, Associate Director of Preservation Services CELEBRATING THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF HORACE TRUMBAUER 8

INTECH Construction is proud to support the Preservation Alliance and the Preservation Achievement Awards INTECH Construction 3020 Market Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 www.intechconstruction.com | Twitter: INTECH_CON | (215) 243 2000 9 PRESERVATION ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS 2019

Special Recognition Awards Douglas Mooney Advisory Committee AECOM; Philadelphia Archaeology Forum The Preservation Alliance Board of Directors selects the Special Recognition Award recipients with the assistance of the Special Recognition Advisory Committee. Janet Klein Committee Chair A. Robert Jaeger Partners for Sacred Places Mary Werner DeNadai Lucy John Milner Architects; Strackhouse Preservation Alliance Board Chair Fairmount Park Conservancy Bruce Laverty The Athenaeum of Philadelphia Sally Elk Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site CELEBRATING THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF HORACE TRUMBAUER 10

JAMES BIDDLE AWARD FOR LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT IN HISTORIC PRESERVATION David Hollenberg, FAIA David Hollenberg served as University Architect at the David then worked for the National Park Service for University of Pennsylvania from 2006 to 2018. In this role, fourteen years. Serving as Associate Regional Director, he was responsible for oversight of the design of the he was responsible for Park Service structures in thirteen physical development and preservation of the campus. states. He had primary responsibility for the Independence David has led an array of projects that reconcile the desire National Historical Park Plan, which included the design for architectural preservation and the drive for progressive and construction of the National Constitution Center, design, ensuring that the campus continues to be distinctly Independence Visitor Center, Liberty Bell Center, and three “Penn.” He also taught at Penn for 30 years and developed blocks of new, public, open space. In addition, he served as the graduate course entitled Preservation Through Public NPS representative on the jury for the Flight 93 National Policy. In 2018, he was honored by AIA Philadelphia with Memorial Competition. the John Frederick Harbeson Award. Throughout his career, David has embodied the role of David received an undergraduate degree at Columbia and citizen architect by serving on the Philadelphia Historical a Master of Architecture at Penn. While a graduate student, Commission and the boards of Eastern State Penitentiary, David worked at Keast & Hood, but upon graduation, Christ Church Preservation Trust, and the Flight 93 he settled in at John Milner Associates for eighteen Memorial Federal Advisory Commission. years. As Vice President and Director, Department of Architecture, he directed a wide variety of projects involving the documentation, restoration, and reuse of major architectural landmarks including Reading Terminal Headhouse and Market, the Fairmount Water Works, Alden Park Apartments, Lit Brothers Department Store, and the John Wanamaker Building. 11 PRESERVATION ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS 2019

The University of Pennsylvania congratulates this year’s James Biddle Award Recipient, DAVID HOLLENBERG, for all his achievements and outstanding contributions to Philadelphia preservation, promoting the appreciation and development of the region’s historic buildings, communities, and landscapes. CELEBRATING THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF HORACE TRUMBAUER 12

RHODA AND PERMAR RICHARDS AWARD BOARD OF DIRECTORS AWARD FOR FOR SERVICE TO THE PRESERVATION EXCEPTIONAL STEWARDSHIP OF HISTORIC ALLIANCE PROPERTIES Young Friends of the Philadelphia Society Preservation Alliance for the Preservation of Landmarks For a group that is merely five years in existence, the Young Friends have had an extraordinary impact on the In 1931, the intrepid Frances Wister and the Philadelphia future of the Preservation Alliance. They are led by a chapter of the Colonial Dames sprang into action when 13-member steering committee of design professionals, the Powel House on South Third Street was slated for preservation consultants, and others who share a passion demolition. It was, allegedly, the last surviving house in for history and historic architecture. Their annual “In With Society Hill where George Washington had slept. In the the Old” fund-raising gala has been held at Fringe Arts, depths of the Great Depression, they bought the house Fairmount Park Welcome Center, Pennsylvania Hospital, and, over time, purchased other historic properties: the the Divine Lorraine, and the Studebaker Building. Their Hill-Physick House, Grumblethorpe in Germantown, tours of area landmarks, networking events, the annual and Paoli’s Historic Waynesborough. Each property has Parking Day pop-ups, and their work in Sharswood have been lovingly preserved, maintained, and interpreted added a bold new dimension of fun and purpose to the for the benefit of the public. Beyond preservation, work of the Preservation Alliance, while attracting the PhilaLandmarks creates remarkable, engaging energy and talent of preservation’s next generation. programming. For example, “Occupied Philadelphia” tells the story of the British invasion of Powel House, and Grumblethorpe teaches botany, nutrition, and business skills to local teens. PhilaLandmarks uses history to actively contribute toward a better present and future for all Philadelphians. 13 PRESERVATION ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS 2019

ECONOMIC IMPACT AWARD FOR JOHN ANDREW GALLERY COMMUNIT Y PRESERVATION THAT BENEFITS ECONOMIC ACTION AWARD FOR ACHIEVEMENT BY A DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION Lincoln Square Historic Northwest Coalition of Train Shed Civics / Roxborough Development Abraham Lincoln’s funeral train pulled into Philadelphia Corporation on April 22, 1865. Cannon fire greeted its arrival at the Pennsylvania Railroad train shed at Broad & Washington. Due in part to the Philadelphia Historical Commission’s Nearly 500,000 people, roughly the population of the hiring of additional staff, five new historic districts City, swarmed the tracks and Independence Hall, where have been added to the Historic Register in the past 18 Lincoln would lie in state the next day. Over time, the train months. Ridge Avenue Roxborough Thematic Historic station closed for passenger service, then freight service, District is the largest and most architecturally diverse. then languished abandoned for decades. With patience Like Germantown Avenue, its neighbor to the east, and creativity, a development team has transformed the Ridge Avenue offers a walking history lesson of three remaining train shed (built in 1876) and made it part of a centuries of American building styles. In 2017, propelled thriving mixed-use complex. In its new incarnation as a by the startling loss of several historic buildings along grocery store, the repurposed train shed has direct impact the avenue, the eight-organization Northwest Coalition on its community, contributing to accessible and healthful of Civics persuaded Councilman Curtis Jones to issue food, and the ongoing revitalization of the neighborhood. a demolition moratorium for a five-mile stretch of Ridge The project also helps to create a southern anchor for Avenue. This stay allowed Historical Commission staff to Philadelphia’s fast developing Avenue of the Arts. prepare a thorough and carefully-researched nomination, resulting in protection for 188 historic properties. CELEBRATING THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF HORACE TRUMBAUER 14

JOHN ANDREW GALLERY COMMUNIT Y PRESERVATION EDUCATION AWARD FOR ACTION AWARD FOR ACHIEVEMENT BY A PUBLIC ADVANCEMENT OF PRESERVATION COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION KNOWLEDGE Friends of Sellers Hall Friends of Northeast Philadelphia History Built in 1684, Sellers Hall was home to the Sellers brothers, the first registered residents of Upper Darby, On May 15, 1918, Torrey Webb, a WWI pilot, made Delaware County. Their descendants were well-known the world’s first official airmail delivery right here in abolitionists -- the house is linked to the Underground Philadelphia. The 26-year-old lieutenant, who later Railroad -- and later generations continue to be became vice president of Texaco, flew the Curtiss Jenny prominent and engaged citizens. Acquired and then biplane from New York with a small leather bag of mail abandoned by a local Roman Catholic parish, the building bound for Philadelphia and Washington. To great fanfare, suffered a long period of deferred maintenance. In 2011, he landed in Bustleton Field, an early site of commercial the Friends of Sellers Hall leased it from the Archdiocese, aviation. To share Bustleton’s pioneering role in flight, and began the painstaking process of restoration. With the Friends of Northeast Philadelphia History celebrated archival research from John Milner’s graduate students the centennial of the first airmail delivery with banners, in hand, the Friends of Sellers Hall stabilized the roof, a brass band, a large model of the Jenny, an Army Color repointed the stonework, installed cedar shingles, and Guard, Boy Scouts, and local elected officials. The event painted the woodwork a red iron oxide color that was honored the heroism performed by the early airmail pilots commonly used during the late 17th and early 18th and the importance of sharing the rich local heritage of centuries. These important first steps are helping to Northeast Philadelphia. preserve this 335-year-old landmark. 15 PRESERVATION ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS 2019

ROJECTPRAXIS P ••• •• A PENN • PUBLIC SERVICE AWARD FOR SPECIAL ANNIVERSARY AWARD 125 YEARS PRESERVATION IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST Reading Terminal PennPraxis Market Serving as the “clinical” arm of the Penn School of In 1890, the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company Design, PennPraxis offers architectural and planning purchased the 1100 block of Market Street for its new services to groups that are otherwise unable to procure terminal. The meat and vegetable merchants, who had these services from traditional sources. As part of Mayor operated from stalls there for decades, refused to relocate. Kenney’s Historic Preservation Task Force, PennPraxis led Thus, an agreement was formed to erect a new market the Historic Preservation Citizen Engagement Project, in tucked beneath the train shed and tracks. It opened for which small groups of diverse Philadelphians discussed business in 1893. By 1913, the Reading Terminal Market what gives their neighborhoods a sense of place. As had 250 food dealers and 100 farmers occupying its similar themes and problems emerged. PennPraxis stalls. Suburban housewives could place an order and developed the Neighborhood Preservation Toolkit, a free have a basket delivered by rail to the suburbs. After the guidebook and poster distributed widely and available for Reading Railroad shut down and a convention center was download in Chinese and Spanish. Beginning with “I want proposed next to the Market in the 1980s, the remaining to…,” the Toolkit offers steps to address common concerns merchants’ businesses were threatened. Like the standoff ranging from caring for an older home to strengthening of the 1890s, merchants, shoppers, and -- most critically a commercial corridor and influencing public policy. -- preservationists rallied to keep the Market intact. Today, Accessible and concise, the Toolkit is a how-to for tactical it is one of the nation’s most successful gastronomic urbanists and all Philadelphians bent on maintaining the bazaars, visited every week by 100,000 locals and tourists. quality and essence of their neighborhoods. CELEBRATING THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF HORACE TRUMBAUER 16

Philadelphia. Worth saving. YOUNG FRIENDS OF THE PRESERVATION PRESERVATION ALLIANCE AWARD IN RECOGNITION OF THE ADVOCACY LATEST GENERATION OF PRESERVATION ACHIEVEMENT At the Preservation Alliance, advocating for historic places is what we do. Oat Foundry From finding new uses for historic buildings, connecting This six-year-old company of Drexel engineers offered property owners with architectural, design and to build a state-of-the-art, ADA-compliant ticker board preservation services, nominating properties for historic to replace the old one at 30th Street Station, but they protection, and promoting stronger public policies to were clearly ahead of their time. The sound of rotating, support historic preservation, the Alliance is committed split-flap modules is always in the background at Oat to preserving the best of our region’s historic built Foundry, where the company’s efforts to blend historic environment. character and inclusive design has attracted clients from Saskatchewan to Hong Kong, and includes hotels, Get involved by visiting restaurants, resorts, office buildings, and even Citizens www.preservationalliance.com Bank Park. Locating the business in the rehabbed for places to save and ways to support us. Frankford Arsenal was rocket fuel for the young company, who recently helped to launch the new LaColombe Draft Latte by actually launching a can of latte into space. Their motto, “We build cool stuff,” is true for a wide range of industrial design products that, like the sound of the split- flap board, makes people turn their heads. 17 PRESERVATION ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS 2019

AIA PHILADELPHIA AWARDS LANDMARK BUILDING AWARD HONORING A HENRY J. MAGAZINER AWARD HONORING STRUCTURE OF ARCHITECTURAL AND HISTORICAL AN INDIVIDUAL OR ORGANIZATION THAT HAS SIGNIFICANCE MADE A SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTION TO THE PRESERVATION OF THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT AND Free Library of FOR WHOM BUILDING PRESERVATION IS NOT A Philadelphia PRIMARY MISSION Horace Trumbauer was a Philadelphia public school kid who, Jumpstart Germantown at 16, was apprenticed to the formidable architecture office of George Hewitt, where the drafting tables of Frank Furness and In 2015, Mount Airy developer Ken Weinstein decided to also Louis Sullivan still lingered. At 21, he left to form his own company, go into teaching. Instead of agreeing to one more “pick-your- often working with suburban home-builders Wendell & Smith. brain” request from a newbie developer, he created Jumpstart He had no higher education, but he knew people. In 1906, he Germantown. Initially a course in how to get things built in the hired Julian Abele, the first African-American graduate of Penn’s neighborhood, Jumpstart has expanded into a solid program architecture department, as chief designer. The rest is history:  of community building. The initiatives emphasize training, the Philadelphia Museum of Art; Ritz-Carlton Hotel; the Racquet networking, mentoring, and financing -- including a nine- Club; Irvine Auditorium at Penn; Grey Towers Castle – now hour curriculum supported by mentors who are willing to Arcadia University; much of Duke University; Widener Library walk people through building projects; a speaker series and at Harvard; Woodburne; Ardrossan; Lynnewood Hall; the Elkins online resource forum; and a loan program. With the help of Estate; and many other stunning structures were designed by the the Barra Foundation and Local Initiatives Support Corp, he firm. Many have achieved landmark status, but others, particularly created an ingenious method for staving off blight by educating Lynnewood and Woodburne face an uncertain future. For much of neighborhood entrepreneurs, many of whom are women and Trumbauer’s career, AIA Philadelphia was reluctant to recognize minorities. Jumpstart has now spread to West Philly, Hunting his accomplishments due to his lack of formal training. Therefore, Park, Kensington, North Philly, Tioga, and Southwest Philly, on the 150th anniversary of Trumbauer’s birth, AIA is honoring empowering local residents to invest in the healthy development the firm’s oeuvre with the Landmark Building Award, which will of their neighborhoods. be mounted on the Central Library Building of the Free Library of Philadelphia. The library, likely heavily influenced by Abele, was the first structure to be erected along the new Fairmount (now Benjamin Franklin) Parkway and is an extraordinary example of the firm’s great public buildings. CELEBRATING THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF HORACE TRUMBAUER 18

The University of Pennsylvania would like to congratulate this year’s Preservation Alliance Achievement Awardees for Greater Philadelphia — including the Richards Medical Research Laboratory Project Team — for their dedication to honoring the past while looking towards the future. 19 PRESERVATION ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS 2019

Grand Jury Awards The 2019 Preservation Achievement Grand Jury Award winners from the Philadelphia area and beyond. Stoneleigh Yeakel Cemetery Preservation Roberts and Mander Stove Company Buildings and Conservation 330 N SPRING MILL RD, VILLANOVA, PA 301 JACKSONVILLE RD, HATBORO, PA 8833 STENTON AVE, WYNDMOOR, PA Pyramid Lofts The William Trent House 3101 W GLENWOOD AVE, PHILADELPHIA, PA 15 MARKET STREET, TRENTON, NJ Ross Fording Road Bridge over Octoraro Creek Fishtown Church ROSS FORDING ROAD, COCHRANVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA 2347 E SUSQUEHANNA AVE, PHILADELPHIA, PA Fairmount Water Works William Progress Lighting Manufacturing Rush Sculpture Company Building WATERWORKS DR, PHILADELPHIA, PA 1401-1409 GERMANTOWN AVE, PHILADELPHIA, PA West Chester National Guard Armory The Philadelphia Metropolitan Opera House 226 N HIGH ST, WEST CHESTER, PA 858 N BROAD ST, PHILADELPHIA, PA Richards Medical Research Laboratory Hale Building Cherry Street Pier 3700 HAMILTON WALK , PHILADELPHIA, PA 1326 CHESTNUT ST, 121 N CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS BLVD, PHILADELPHIA, PA PHILADELPHIA, PA 2122 Locust Street Linode Headquarters 2122 LOCUST ST, PHILADELPHIA, PA 249 ARCH ST, PHILADELPHIA, PA 300 S Philip Street 300 S PHILIP ST, PHILADELPHIA, PA Rutgers Alumni House 312 COOPER ST, CAMDEN, NJ WWiillliiaamm Brinton 170044 HHoouussee Camden County Heritage Tourism Plan 21 OAKLAND RD, WEST CHESTER, PA 1900 PARK BLVD, CAMDEN, NJ Abigail Vare Lofts 1619 E MOYAMENSING AVE, PHILADELPHIA, PA CELEBRATING THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF HORACE TRUMBAUER 20

Grand Jury Members John Carr Julie Carmelich Materials Conservation Connecticut Historical Commission Jane Montanaro Connecticut Trust for Historic Preservation John Herzan New Haven Preservation Trust Jared Edwards FAIA (Chair) 21 PRESERVATION ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS 2019

300 South Philip Street 300 SOUTH PHILIP STREET, PHILADELPHIA CIT Y OF PHILADELPHIA City of Philadelphia Streets Department; Gilmore & Associates; KMJ Consulting; Olivieri & Associates The 300 block of South Philip Street is a stunning example of the harmony, scale, and rhythm of Society Hill’s 18th and early 19th century neighborhoods. The street itself is 6.5 feet wide and is listed on the Philadelphia Register, along with many of its homes. That is why panic ensued last year when the street’s granite blocks began to sink. This restoration, managed by the Philadelphia Streets Department, required professionals with Old World skills. They were found in a mason who removed and re-laid each granite block by hand, workers who sawcut the road base to avoid use of a deafening hydraulic hammer, and a contractor whose knowledge, skill, professionalism, and sincerity made residents sorry to see her leave at the end of the project. CELEBRATING THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF HORACE TRUMBAUER 22

2122 Locust Street 2122 LOCUST STREET, PHILADELPHIA MARC AND SAM GINSBURG, 2122 LOCUST STREET ASSOCIATES Ian Smith Design Group; Melrose; Powers & Company; William Penn Realty Group The distinctive Georgian Revival apartment building at 2122 Locust Street went up in flames on a winter night in 2017. More than 100 firefighters fought the blaze in frigid temperatures. On Wednesday morning, seven families were homeless, the building was encased in ice, and the roof of the structure had collapsed. Encouraged by L&I Commissioner Dave Perri and the Historical Commission, owners Marc and Sam Ginsburg and preservation architect Ian Smith sensitively and accurately restored the building to its pre-fire appearance, saving all remaining historic features and carefully designing replacement cornices, bay windows, and other components to match the originals. 23 PRESERVATION ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS 2019

Abigail Vare Lofts 1619 EAST MOYAMENSING AVENUE, PHILADELPHIA THE CONCORDIA GROUP Atlantes Architects; Architectural Window Corporation; The Concordia Group; The How Group; Powers & Company The 1903 Vare Elementary School in Pennsport was a local landmark for generations until it closed in 2013. Taking advantage of Historic Tax Credits, the developers completed a sensitive rehabilitation into multi-family housing that reminds residents not to forget their homework. Original chalkboards, sliding wood panels, transom windows, woodwork, and scored concrete floors were preserved. Original pressed-metal ceilings -- hidden for decades by dropped ceiling tiles -- were discovered when the renovation began. On the exterior, a century of accumulated dirt was removed to reveal the warm tones of quarry faced granite and limestone. Now home to forty new households, the building is a persuasive example of conscientious community building. CELEBRATING THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF HORACE TRUMBAUER 24

Camden County Heritage Tourism Plan 1900 PARK BOULEVARD, CAMDEN, NEW JERSEY CAMDEN COUNT Y HISTORICAL SOCIET Y Camden County Historical Society; Camden County History Alliance; Heritage Consulting Inc. Collective action works. Or, as Ben Franklin said, “We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.” This tourism plan is a shrewd, practical collaboration among 48 historic entities in the county of Camden, New Jersey. Working together, some with paid staff, many with only volunteers, this dedicated band of museums, farms, houses, churches, historical societies, and one battleship joined forces in 2016. The Camden County History Alliance created a monthly e-newsletter, designed a map for seven thematic heritage trails, synchronized mailing lists and visitor statistics, planned joint programming, and celebrated the first annual Camden County History Week in 2018. The nine-day event was wildly successful and a model for collective action. 25 PRESERVATION ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS 2019

Cherry Street Pier 121 NORTH COLUMBUS BOULEVARD, PHILADELPHIA DELAWARE RIVER WATERFRONT CORPORATION Delaware River Waterfront Corporation; Groundswell Design Group; Holstein White Engineers; ISA – Interface Studio Architects; Scungio Borst; W. J. Castle & Associates Cherry Street Pier is pure Philadelphia. It celebrates the Delaware River’s rich industrial past, transforming an historic port facility into a vibrant public space for artists, pop-up markets, and public events. Regular programming engages the public, while shipping containers serve as affordable studio space. The level of investment hits the right note in creating a welcoming, flexible, and participatory civic experiences. Plus, there’s beer! CELEBRATING THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF HORACE TRUMBAUER 26

Fairmount Water Works William Rush Sculpture WATER WORKS DRIVE, PHILADELPHIA PHILADELPHIA PARKS AND RECREATION Fairmount Park Conservancy; Gredell Associates; John Bee Mechanical; Mammoet; Mark B Thompson Architects; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Philadelphia Parks and Recreation; Stratton Sculpture Studios; Streamlight Design When Philadelphia was America’s most important city, artist William Rush was its greatest sculptor. Sophisticated and endearing, Rush’s work throughout the colonial and federal periods epitomizes early Philadelphia’s optimism and the admirable civic impulse to combine art and industry. The restoration of Rush sculptures -- “The Allegory of the Schuylkill River” and “The Mercury” -- to their original appearance and locations at the Fairmount Water Works is the capstone project for this decades-long restoration. Still among the city’s most historically significant public sites, the Water Works continues to be flooded with wedding parties every spring. 27 PRESERVATION ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS 2019

Fishtown Church 2345-49 EAST SUSQUEHANNA AVENUE, PHILADELPHIA TRUE HAND SOCIET Y M&T Bank; Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel; Philly Home Girls; PIDC; True Hand; United Makers The Philadelphia zoning code prohibits body-art establishments within 500 feet of a house of worship. But when legendary graphic artist Mike Ski proposed locating his tattoo studio in the Church of the Living Word, the zoning board, the congregation, neighbors, and the bank were all for putting it in ink. This adaptive re-use of an 1863 church into an artists’ studio and single-family residence involved the meticulous restoration of stained-glass windows, wood paneling, and other special features. But, the true beauty in this project is the collaborative efforts of an entrepreneur and the community who believed that the value of a stable small business is more than skin deep. CELEBRATING THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF HORACE TRUMBAUER 28

Hale Building 1326-28 CHESTNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA BRICKSTONE REALT Y Brickstone Realty; Clemens Construction; Graboyes Commercial Window Company; JKRP Architects; Powers & Company When new, critics hated the Hale Building. One of them wrote, “It is a preposterous structure: meaningless, commonplace, incongruous, ugly, objectionable, irrelevant, irrational, and higgledy-piggledy.” The building that knotted an early critic’s mutton chops was The Hale Building at Chestnut and Juniper. Abandoned for decades, Hale’s saucy upper floors and tattered ground-floor discount shop captured the imagination of passers-by and preservationists alike. In this restoration, the soot-covered stone and terra cotta were cleaned and restored and new copper bays installed, among other masterful touches. 29 PRESERVATION ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS 2019

Linode Headquarters 249 ARCH STREET, PHILADELPHIA LINODE Ballinger; Linode; Materials Conservation Company; The Lighting Practice; C. Erickson and Sons Cloud-hosting company Linode’s dream of consolidating 150 employees in one location was realized last summer with the renovation of the former Corn Exchange Bank Building. The ornate, neoclassical temple of finance next to the Betsy Ross House is now the nexus of NERD Street’s tech and design neighborhood. Committed to respectfully restoring the character-defining features of the 1907 building down to the sidewalk vaults, Ballinger architects reinvigorated the historic building, while providing a healthy, sustainable, contemporary home for a thriving company. CELEBRATING THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF HORACE TRUMBAUER 30

Philadelphia Metropolitan Opera House 858 NORTH BROAD STREET, PHILADELPHIA EB REALT Y MANAGEMENT Atkin Olshin Schade Architects; Concord Engineering Group; David Chou & Associates; Domus Construction; EB Realty Management; Live Nation; LStudio; Powers & Company; Procida Funding & Advisors When Bob Dylan belted out “The Times They are A-Changin’” at the Met reopening last December, it was more than apropos. As of four years ago, the formerly grand North Philly venue appeared beyond repair, beyond salvage, and certainly beyond restoration. But, it is now complete and operational -- a preservation project that no one thought could happen. As renovated by Atkin Olshin Schade, the Met is already a hugely popular venue, adding life and commerce to North Broad Street and bringing positive attention to the power of preservation to revitalize the city. 31 PRESERVATION ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS 2019

Progress Lighting Manufacturing Company Building 1401-1409 GERMANTOWN AVENUE, PHILADELPHIA G8 DEVELOPMENT Blank Rome; GNP Design Group; G8 Development; Investors Bank; Larsen & Landis; March Design; Parke Bank; Powers & Company; YCH Architect Once home to an emporium of retail display cases, then known as “the world’s largest manufacturer of fluorescent and incandescent lighting fixtures for homes,” this building in Kensington shone brightly for decades before going dark. The National Register listing highlights its prominent role in industrial history and the integrity of the six additions to the building. Not stated is that each of those additions had its own mechanical system, varied floor-to-ceiling heights, and floor joists in different directions. In adapting Progress Lighting into 50 residential units with ground-level commercial space, the developers did indeed have to move heaven and earth. The result is a property that illuminates the surrounding neighborhood. CELEBRATING THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF HORACE TRUMBAUER 32

Pyramid Lofts 3101 WEST GLENWOOD AVENUE, PHILADELPHIA MMPARTNERS Architectural Window Restoration; Axis Construction; Citizens Bank; Fox Rothschild; Heritage Consulting Group; Marshall Sabatini; MMPartners;  Shophouse Design More flatiron-shaped than pyramid, the furniture warehouse built for retail giant Harry Kahn & Sons is wedged between the street and the Amtrak tracks in Brewerytown, with loading docks on both sides. When Harry and then his successor, Pyramid Electric, moved out, the abandoned, graffiti-tagged behemoth greeted train passengers with more warning than welcome. But in this pyramid scheme, everybody’s a winner. Using Historic Tax Credits, MMPartners was able to create 50 residential lofts, 32 surface parking spaces and ground floor commercial space in what is now an up-and-coming neighborhood. Some of the graffiti is staying, just to keep it real. 33 PRESERVATION ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS 2019

Richards Medical Research Laboratory 3700 HAMILTON WALK , UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSIT Y OF PENNSYLVANIA Atkin Olshin Schade Architects; Bruce E. Brooks & Associates; Building Conservation Associates; EYP; Intech; Keast and Hood; TN Ward; University of Pennsylvania; Perelman School of Medicine; Urban Engineers Once deemed “the most consequential building constructed in the United States,” Richards was designed by Louis Kahn in 1960, with structural engineering by Keast & Hood. The building set new directions for modern architecture with its iconic towers and visible structure of reinforced concrete. The phased renovation of Richards by Atkin Olshin Schade repurposed obsolete wet labs into dry research labs, offices, and conference rooms. New energy efficient building systems were inserted and windows replaced in keeping with the original design. In 1961, several years before Kahn died, this building was the subject of an entire exhibition at MoMA. Although Richards is a hard-working building and not a museum piece, it remains one of the jewels of the Penn collection, sought out by architectural pilgrims from across the globe. CELEBRATING THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF HORACE TRUMBAUER 34

Roberts & Mander Stove Company Buildings 301 JACKSONVILLE ROAD, HATBORO, PENNSYLVANIA MOSER GROUP Alderson Engineering; Bryn Mawr Trust Company; C2 Architecture; Moser Group; Larsen & Landis; Powers & Company In 1918, Roberts & Mander were cooking with gas. The company’s stoves -- noted for their graceful design, innovative features, and dependability -- were distributed across the nation and overseas. As the company grew, so did the foundry, resulting in six additions before the Montgomery County company powered-down in 1950. In 2017, the long-neglected buildings were renovated into an 84-unit residential complex with underground parking, lawns, landscaping, and seating areas. Clerestory windows were repaired and new skylights added; historic brick was cleaned and repointed; and a new formal entrance was created. The renovation brought cohesion to a most irregular configuration of buildings, creating the coolest place to live in Hatboro. 35 PRESERVATION ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS 2019

Ross Fording Road Bridge over Octoraro Creek ROSS FORDING ROAD, COCHRANVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA PENNDOT DISTRICT 6-0 PennDOT District 6-0; HDR; Loftus Construction Ross Fording Road Bridge is a Pratt pony truss built by the Phoenix Bridge Company, inventors of the famous Phoenix Column. The bridge has carried Amish buggies and other vehicles across the Octoraro Creek in Chester County since 1885. When a truck crashed into the upstream truss end-post causing partial collapse, PennDOT seized the opportunity for complete rehabilitation. Carefully preserving the design and engineering of the historic bridge, Loftus Construction performed steel repairs, replaced the timber deck, repaired stone masonry, and installed new guiderails. The result is a beautifully restored and functional bridge that supports the country lifestyle of residents. CELEBRATING THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF HORACE TRUMBAUER 36

Rutgers Alumni House 312 COOPER STREET, CAMDEN, NEW JERSEY RUTGERS UNIVERSIT Y Baker Ingram Structural Engineering; FXB; MEP Engineering; Hessert Construction; Roof Maintenance Systems; Pfister Roofing; Rutgers University-Camden; Rutgers University Facilities; TAO Design Architects The oldest building in Camden’s Cooper Street Historic District was once home to railroad magnate Matthew Newkirk, the Republican Club, Christian Scientists, and then the American Red Cross before falling into disrepair. A classic Federalist structure circa 1810, it has now been rehabilitated and repurposed to become the elegant Rutgers Alumni House, the first alumni building on any Rutgers campus. Surrounded by new corporate and healthcare monoliths, this project demonstrates that Camden’s historic buildings can and should be repurposed for modern uses. 37 PRESERVATION ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS 2019

Stoneleigh: a natural garden 330 SPRING MILL ROAD, VILLANOVA, PENNSYLVANIA NATURAL LANDS Haas Family; John Milner Architects; Larsen & Landis; Natural Lands; NorthStar Owners Representation; Organ Historical Society; Urban Engineers; W.S. Cumby; Wyncote Foundation In 2016, the extraordinary philanthropic legacy of John and Chara Haas became personal when their children donated the beloved family home and grounds to the public. The Stoneleigh Estate consists of a large Tudor-Revival mansion and 42 acres of beautiful gardens and vistas designed in the Beaux Arts style by the sons of Frederick Law Olmsted. An extensive rehabilitation and restoration made the mansion accessible, comfortable, functional, and hospitable to the public. Natural Lands, the new steward of the Stoneleigh estate, manages it as a public garden and nature preserve adding paths, lighting, and visitor amenities as well as native plantings. The Haas family’s decorative rabbits that dot the landscape – “Haas” is German for hare – will always be there. CELEBRATING THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF HORACE TRUMBAUER 38

West Chester National Guard Armory 226 NORTH HIGH STREET, WEST CHESTER, PENNSYLVANIA UPTOWN!BRAVO THEATRE Bancroft Construction Company; Homsey Architects; Uptown!Bravo Theatre; Uptown!Entertainment Alliance Benjamin Franklin formed America’s first National Guard, and descendants of Franklin’s original regiment would later occupy the West Chester Armory. But in 2017, art replaced arms in Chester County. Using Historic Tax Credits, the non-profit Uptown!Entertainment Alliance created a new home for eight theatre, music, and dance companies and a venue for film festivals, poetry readings, improv, and opera. This simple, solid building contains multitudes: a 327-seat theatre, two smaller performances spaces, two classrooms, and endless possibilities for a community that believes in the transformative power of the arts. 39 PRESERVATION ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS 2019

William Brinton 1704 House 21 OAKLAND ROAD, WEST CHESTER, PENNSYLVANIA BRINTON ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA Brinton Association of America; The Glass Gallery; Griffiths Construction; Integrations Electric; John Milner Architects; Materials Conservation Company; Mattia Exteriors; Michael M. Coldren Company; Northridge Masonry; Ralston Shop; Robert Hammett, Jr. Painting and Paperhanging; Van Heyneker Fine Woodworking This Delaware County house near West Chester is inhabited by spirits: the builder William Brinton, a British Quaker born in 1670, who moved to Pennsylvania to escape religious persecution; the soldiers who fought the Battle of Brandywine in 1777, not a mile away from this house; and G. Edwin Brumbaugh, the foremost restoration architect of the 20th Century. It was Brumbaugh’s painstaking restoration of the Brinton House in the 1950s that accounts for its survival today. The recent project, by Brumbaugh champion John Milner, involved the repair and conservation of exterior features and materials, while replacing the roof and discreetly integrating new mechanical systems. Artisans and craftspeople assisted the restoration, using painstaking techniques not much changed in centuries. CELEBRATING THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF HORACE TRUMBAUER 40

The William Trent House 15 MARKET STREET, TRENTON, NEW JERSEY CIT Y OF TRENTON SMP Architects; Built Form; Roof Maintenance Systems; Becker & Frondorf; Unlimited Builders; Trent House Association In 1719, importing rum, whiskey, and slaves was profitable enough for William Trent to acquire 1600 acres of land near the Delaware River. The centerpiece of “Trent’s town,” later known as Trenton, was an 11-room, Early Georgian Colonial mansion. Over time, the house would be occupied by Hessians, Tories, and three New Jersey governors until eventually becoming an historic house museum. The recent project restored the cornice and dentil blocks, righted and re-glazed the cupola, and repaired the roof and masonry steps. It remains among the best original examples of Georgian classical architecture in the country. 41 PRESERVATION ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS 2019

Yeakel Cemetery Preservation and Conservation 8833 STENTON AVE, WYNDMOOR, PENNSYLVANIA SCHWENKFELDER CHURCH Materials Conservation Company; Yeakel Cemetery Preservation Committee If you follow the trail through the Wyndmoor woods, you will come to a low stone wall. Wrought iron gates with small lion’s head medallions mark the entrance to the nearly 300-year-old Yeakel Cemetery. Abandoned for a century, the Wyndmoor graveyard has 86 markers that tell a story of escape from religious persecution. Ten years ago, volunteers banded together to clear a dirt road to the site, regrade for erosion, remove overgrowth, and repair fallen tombstones. A gantry lifted the stones into place. Dirt was removed from fragile surfaces with dental tools. A hidden treasure in our backyard was rescued from obscurity, thanks to the dedication and hard work of the surrounding community. CELEBRATING THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF HORACE TRUMBAUER 42

In Memoriam Blanche Burton-Lyles (1933-2018) eldest of six children, she graduated from politicians, and the public to reverse “the visual West Philadelphia High School and earned trashing of America.” He was the first Keeper of A piano prodigy at age three, Ms. Burton- degrees from Antioch College and Goddard the National Register of Historic Places, a list Lyles was recommended for early admission University. In 1986, she led the efforts to of sites that now numbers 93,000. Educated to the Curtis Institute of Music by Marian preserve Belmont Mansion and celebrate its beyond reproach, he earned a bachelor’s Anderson, a family friend from the Union role in the Underground Railroad. The first degree in architecture, a master’s degree in art Baptist Church. At age fourteen, she became African-American woman’s organization to history, and a doctorate in architectural history the first black female pianist to play with the become stewards of an historical landmark, from Penn. Between degrees, Dr. Murtagh NY Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall. In 1953, AWHS managed Belmont Mansion for more worked with Charles E. Peterson to develop she became the first black female pianist than 30 years and published Ms. Johnson- Independence National Historical Park. A to graduate from Curtis. Mentored by Ms. Thornton’s work, Crown Jewel of Fairmount Fulbright Scholarship took him to Germany, Anderson, she gave concerts for Eleanor Park: Belmont Mansion, chronicling 300 years where the ravages of WWII intensified his Roosevelt, Supreme Court Justice Thurgood of history for the mansion and its connection appreciation for preservation. After a brief Marshall, and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King with the anti-slavery movement. tenure as the director of the Kemerer Museum Jr. After a career as a performer, she earned of Decorative Arts in Bethlehem, PA, he joined an education degree at Temple and taught Tom Leidigh (1924-2019), Nick the National Trust for Historic Preservation, music in the Philadelphia public schools. Gianopulos (1925-2018), serving as director of education programs, When Ms. Anderson died in 1993, Ms. Burton- Carl Baumert (1929-2017) then vice president. He started preservation Lyles bought Anderson’s house in South programs at Columbia University, the Philadelphia and established the Marian Keast & Hood has been a go-to engineering University of Maryland, and the University of Anderson Historical Society and Museum. firm for historic perfectionists for 64 years. Tom Hawaii and wrote the discipline’s foremost For more than two decades, she celebrated Leidigh, Nick Gianopulos, and Carl Baumert textbook, Keeping Time: The History and Anderson’s legacy through tours, exhibitions, led the firm from the 1950s to the ‘90s, laying Theory of Preservation in America. and programs that support aspiring singers. the foundation for continued success after their retirements. They collaborated with Louis Theodore Newbold (1930 - 2018) Audrey R. Johnson-Thornton Kahn, Venturi Scott Brown, Romaldo Giurgola, (1925-2019) and so many others on iconic buildings like Ted Newbold was an urban pioneer before it the Richards Medical Research Labs and became trendy. He and his wife of 35 years To say that Audrey Johnson-Thornton was Independence Hall. They became known for Helen Cunningham rehabbed their Old City a community activist is to miss the zeal and historic preservation work on City Hall, the rowhouse, filling the house with Guatemalan passion with which this Philadelphia icon Academy of Music, the Philadelphia Museum art and the garden with artifacts from old lived her life. A multi-award-winning advocate of Art, Carpenters’ Hall, and many buildings buildings. Born in Flourtown, Mr. Newbold for diversity, Ms. Johnson-Thornton also at the University of Pennsylvania. They had graduated from University of Virginia with a served as the president emeritus of Belmont a powerful sense of the engineer’s ethical degree in art. He spent his early years as a Mansion and founder of the American responsibilities and believed that every building broker at Nathan Trotter & Co, his family’s Women’s Heritage Society (AWHS). The was a collaborative enterprise. In their passing, metal-products company that was founded Leidigh, Gianopulus, and Baumert leave behind in 1789. He was a 50-year trustee of the an unshakable ethos of honor and service Philadelphia Museum of Art, and a long-time and a commitment to the delivery of safe and board member of the Association for Public durable structures. Art, the Preservation Alliance and other community organizations. He was responsible William J. Murtagh (1923-2018) for the first four easements donated to the Alliance. As the Inquirer reported, Mr. Newbold In a preservation career that lasted more helped to save Louis Kahn’s archives, now than five decades, Bill Murtagh galvanized located at University of Pennsylvania, and architects, historians, archaeologists, 43 PRESERVATION ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS 2019

chaired the restoration of Thomas Eakins’ and historical societies, he unearthed the Robert Venturi (1925-2018) home in Fairmount. His first wife was Deborah colorful stories of the 4000+ ministers, Dilworth, daughter of Mayor Richardson soldiers, politicians, craftspeople, laborers, and Buildings, to paraphrase Bob Venturi, “can Dilworth. They divorced after 22 years. ordinary churchgoers who were buried there accommodate the valid non sequitur.” So, in the 18th century. Mr. Shaffer was raised too, Philadelphia’s beloved contemporary Paulette Rhone (1954-2019) in northern Pennsylvania, the only son of architect and his firm were responsible for working-class parents, and won a scholarship the restoration and preservation of fragile Paulette Rhone, longtime President of the to what is now the University of the Arts. and important historical structures. He and Friends of Mount Moriah Cemetery, was Drafted into the Army, he spent the Vietnam Denise Scott Brown were both teaching known for standing her ground. When the 19th War making massive topographical maps of at Penn when they married in 1967. Due in century graveyard closed in 2011, Ms. Rhone the jungles and roads of Vietnam to be studied large part to their efforts, the extraordinary and other volunteers broke through the gates, by military strategists. Later, he became an Fisher Fine Arts Library at Penn was saved mowed the grass, picked up trash, and righted exhibition designer and successful appraiser. from demolition. Later, their firm would the tombstones. Not much over five feet tall, Mr. Shaffer dedicated his retirement to restore the Frank Furness building with its she was known to stare down trucks trying to identifying Revolutionary War veterans buried Victorian gargoyles and terra cotta arches, dump garbage on the site. She worked as a in obscurity. When he began his research as well as Dumbarton Oaks, the 18th century budget analyst for the US Dept of Labor and there were 8 colonial flags flying over veterans’ Georgetown estate and site of the United raised four children after her husband died graves. Now 285 soldiers have been identified, Nations Charter negotiations; Harvard’s Gothic of a heart attack in 1993. He was buried at the largest number of Revolutionary War dead Memorial Hall and Sanders Theatre, home Mount Moriah. Under Paulette’s leadership, the among the region’s 200 cemeteries. of the Boston Philharmonic; the Horace- Friends of Mount Moriah created and maintain Trumbauer-designed Irvine Auditorium; and an interment registry for ancestral research, Richard Tyler (1936 - 2019) other historic buildings in Philadelphia and raised funds to stabilize the gatehouse on the campuses of Harvard, Princeton, and designed by Stephen Decatur Button (winner Dick Tyler’s experience and knowledge Swarthmore. The only son of a Philadelphia of a 2018 Preservation Alliance Award), and got about preservation in Philadelphia was grocer and early feminist, Mr. Venturi was it listed on the Philadelphia Register. Hidden unsurpassed. He was the Historic Preservation raised a Quaker and attended Episcopal City now conducts tours, Temple and Drexel Officer of the Historical Commission from Academy and Princeton. He worked for Eero students assist with landscaping, and the 1974 to 2005, spanning five often prickly Saarinen and Louis Kahn before winning a Friends hope to create an arboretum onsite. mayoral administrations. Through trials and fellowship to the American Academy in Rome. Their immediate task is to fulfill Ms. Rhone’s triumphs, Dr. Tyler maintained an enthusiastic Mr. Venturi’s teaching, lecturing, and writing last wish: to be buried with her husband in the commitment to preservation and guided the have received widespread attention and historic cemetery that fulfilled her life. Commission with a strong sense of history critical review. Complexity and Contradiction and community values. He earned history in Architecture (1966) has been published Ronald Shaffer (1940-2019) degrees at Penn and Harvard, a PhD in history in 18 languages and honored with AIA’s at Berkeley in 1976, and a JD at Temple in 1994. Classic Book Award. It and Learning from Las Ronn Shaffer, president of the Old Pine In 1979, he was honored by the Pennsylvania Vegas (with Denise Scott Brown and Steven Conservancy, was a passionate advocate Historical and Museum Commission with its Izenour 1972) are still in print. Mr. Venturi’s for those in the graveyard of Old Pine Street first Preservationist of the Year award, and in awards include the Pritzker Architecture Prize Church. Through tireless research at libraries 2004, he received the Public Service Award (1991), the Presidential National Medal of the for Preservation in the Public Interest from Arts (1992), the AIA Gold Medal (with Denise the Preservation Alliance. After retirement, Dr. Scott Brown, 2016), and many others. Tyler lived in his beloved West Philadelphia row house until 2016, when, in ill health, he moved to be near his two children in the UK. CELEBRATING THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF HORACE TRUMBAUER 44

26th Annual Preservation Achievement Awards Preserving our historical heritage enriches our City and community for generations to come. The partners and employees of KPMG LLP would like to congratulate all of the award recipients of the 2019 Preservation Achievement Awards. kpmg.com © 2019 KPMG LLP, a Delaware limited liability partnership and the U.S. member firm of the KPMG network of independent member firms affiliated with KPMG International Cooperative (“KPMG International”), a Swiss entity. 45 PRESERVATION ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS 2019

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