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RIKARD LARMA/METRO
Joe Frazier’s gym was knocked out by a furniture store.
The Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia recently announced its annual list of “endangered properties,” but with a twist: Instead of architecturally significant properties, the list consists of culturally significant properties.
From the Brewerytown rowhouse where jazz master John Coltrane lived during his most creative years to recently deceased Joe Frazier’s iconic gym on North Broad Street, each property “give character to our communities” that cannot be replaced or substituted for, alliance executive director John Andrew Gallery said.
“Last year, we tried something different in that we felt some of the more pressing buildings were ones we had already visited four or five years behind,” alliance spokesman Ben Leech said Thursday, noting that many properties from the first seven years remain on tenuous ground. “This year, we were posed with a challenge of listing those again for a third time or do we do something completely different.”
From that quandary came the cultural list, he said.
“To be honest, the majority of places listed in the past are still in endangered,” Leech said, describing their present states as “like so many things in Philadelphia ... still just hanging on.”
Repeats
The list last year consisted of sites like the Divine Lorraine that remain in serious peril despite their inclusion on the Cultural Alliance’s rankings from the first eight years. “It’s usually around 10,” Leech said of the annual list. “The few is seven and as many as 11. Up until last year, we had never repeated a property.”
From the Brewerytown rowhouse where jazz master John Coltrane lived during his most creative years to recently deceased Joe Frazier’s iconic gym on North Broad Street, each property “give character to our communities” that cannot be replaced or substituted for, alliance executive director John Andrew Gallery said.
“Last year, we tried something different in that we felt some of the more pressing buildings were ones we had already visited four or five years behind,” alliance spokesman Ben Leech said Thursday, noting that many properties from the first seven years remain on tenuous ground. “This year, we were posed with a challenge of listing those again for a third time or do we do something completely different.”
From that quandary came the cultural list, he said.
“To be honest, the majority of places listed in the past are still in endangered,” Leech said, describing their present states as “like so many things in Philadelphia ... still just hanging on.”
Repeats
The list last year consisted of sites like the Divine Lorraine that remain in serious peril despite their inclusion on the Cultural Alliance’s rankings from the first eight years. “It’s usually around 10,” Leech said of the annual list. “The few is seven and as many as 11. Up until last year, we had never repeated a property.”
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