November 2011
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Design on the Delaware Mod panel discussion and... →
AIA Philadelphia’s ninth annual Design on the Delaware regional conference will be held November 7-9. This collaborativeconference will examine the issues and opportunities of the built environment for design and building professionals in Eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware, with over 50 sessions and tours. The Alliance’s advocacy director Ben Leech will be leading a panel...
Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia... →
A great listing of mid-century modern buildings and houses within Philadelphia.
October 2011
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Docomomo Philadelphia Modern Home Tour: White... →
Fascinating steel framed house, masonry walls, enameled steel fascia panels - all commercial construction techniques of the time. More photos posted at Flickr - follow the link in the title above.
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Docomoco Philadelphia Modern Home Tour: Zaprauskis... →
A beautiful home on a hillside site. The title link will take you to more photo’s at Flickr.
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Docomomo Philadelphia Modern Home Tour: D'Onofrio... →
The most dramatic feature of this house was the curved butterfly roof. Most endearing, the Mondrian like collage of window frames. The title link above will take you to more photos at Flickr.
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Docomomo Philadelphia Modern Home Tour: Irv... →
Some older photos from a prior tour are here too, but we’ve added about 30 new shots of this great house. The title link above will take you to more photos at Flickr.
August 2011
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SAVE WRIGHT Annual Conference coming to... →
With its rich history in progressive American architecture and design, Philadelphia provides a splendid vantage point to explore Frank Lloyd Wright’s work in relation to that of his east coast contemporaries and students during this year’s annual conference, September 21-25, 2011.
This year’s conference will be headquartered at the Sheraton Society Hill, situated in one of Philadelphia’s...
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Philadelphia Modern House Tour 2011
Hooray Modern House Fans. The annual Philadelphia Modern House Tour has just been announced, organized by realtor Craig Wakefield, but this time also by Philadelphia’s new Chapter of DocoMomo. Here is more info from Craig:
I am glad to announce the 4th annual Philadelphia Modern Home Tour. The Oct 9th, 2011 tour is of Mid-Century Modern Homes in Delaware County. The lineup is great this...
April 2011
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A Modern House project here in our Region
A project by Gregory La Vardera Architect, DVM member/organizer (or lack of organizer!). This house is a near complete tear down and reinvention of an existing house creating what he has come to call “MoTrad” - a mix of modern design and traditional form. In this case the owner desired the house to be a good neighbor on this suburban street, but have a distinct modern aesthetic which...
January 2011
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Philadelphia DOCOMOMO Chapter starting
The correspondence sent to me:
Thank you for your interest in DOCOMOMO and the development of our Greater Philadelphia Chapter. We will be having our kick-off meeting for the Chapter on January 19th at 7pm at my 1950 Norman Rice Historic home in East Falls at 3421 W. School House Lane, Philadelphia. I appreciate all of the efforts that you have made to preserve our architectural treasures...
1519 Cleveland St. - New Modern Home in South... →
This new modern house is selling for 130k in South Carolina. We can certainluy do something like this in the Delaware Valley, don’t you think?
December 2010
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Construction Tour of PostGreen's Two Point Five... →
PostGreen Homes are having a tour of their Two Point Five Beta project on January 6, 2011 from 3pm to 8pm. At the link you will find a video preview of the house.
PostGreen has sold every house they have built in the past few years since they started, in the middle of this terrible economy even. Good signs for green homes, and Modern homes. Come out to check on their lastest project.
November 2010
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October 2010
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August 2010
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Mysterious Philip Johnson Archive Now for Sale |... →
interesting article - thank you for the link Maria!
June 2010
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Architectural Walking Tour: Northern Liberties |... →
Sounds like a good tour, and I’m sure there will be some modern properties in the mix. Who’s going, and will report back with some photos?
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May 2010
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Photos coming from Philly Modern House Tour
Great houses on the tour this past weekend. I’ll be posting photos this week. Watch this blog.
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Some photos from the Hollin Hills House and Garden... →
From the Modernesia Blog
April 2010
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DVM member home still on market →
DVM member Lawrence O’toole has his home on the market in Philadelphia. It is a modern refurb of a pair of adjacent townhouses in the Fishtown neighborhood. It really is a fantatic living situation for the city. Its a double townhouse on a triple lot. So it has an enormous garden behind it,…
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Hollin Hills Modern House and Garden Tour, May 1st →
This is close enough for Delaware Valley Modern fans. Hollin Hills is a well known modern neighborhood outside of Washington DC. Follow this link to a Washington Post article with more information about the tour.
February 2010
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2010 Philadelphia Modern House Tour Announced
From organizer Craig Wakefield:
This year’s modern home tour will take place Saturday May 8th from 1:00 till 4:30 PM. The homes are all in the East Falls, Roxborough, and West Mt Airy sections of Philadelphia. This year the tour will be a fundraiser for the Athenaeum of Philadelphia, supporting their work to save and protect the architectural records of Philadelphia. The ticket price is...
January 2010
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December 2009
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A NY based modern realtor
A realtor in Westchester County New York with a focus on modern: Architectural Homes NY
November 2009
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A Modernist trove in Northeast Philly
An interesting article in the Plan Philly blog about a little known early modernist neighborhood: Greenbelt Knoll.
Greenbelt Knoll at Plan Philly
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Wall Street Journal features Mitchell Residence as... →
The Wall Street Journal today featured the Mitchell Residence in Lafayette Hill as its House of the Day in the WSJ Real Estate section.
October 2009
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July 2009
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More photos of Mitchell Residence
Photos are posted at flickr
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The New Blog is Announced
A new newsletter went out today inviting DVM members to visit the blog. Previously we were sending out emails to make announcements, which worked fine, but sometimes news needed to go out faster than the newsletters were going out, which meant people missed learning about events. So we have started this new blog where we can post announcements instead of sending email newsletters. The newsletters...
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Open House, Mitchell Residence, Lafayette Hill, PA...
The home of Ehrman Mitchell, partner of Philadelphia architecture firm Mitchell Guirgola is for sale, and there will be an open house this coming Sunday 2-4pm.The house is at 850 Andorra Road Lafayette Hill, Pa. More info can be found at the web site for the house sale by modern realtor Craig Wakefield.
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PostGreen Homes hosts Open House
Although this open house will be at their new office, and not at one of their houses! PostGreen is the small Philadelphia developer that we have been following, and who has been building sustainable LEED certified and modern styled homes in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia. Their 3rd and 4th houses are nearing completion and their business proposition appears to be suceeding, as is the...
May 2009
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DVM member seeking modern business to fill modern...
DVM member & organiser Greg La Vardera is looking for a tenant with a modern themed business to fill the storefront in his office building. Are you dealing modern furniture and home furnishings on the internet and considering a storefront?
The building features a large display window on the street in a traditional downtown setting, and a contemporary second floor making it the...
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Modern Home Tours elsewhere this month
Mid Century Modern Tour, Charlotte, NC May 16&17, just in case anybody will be traveling down in NC this looks like a great house tour:
Mid-Century Modern Homes Tour
Also what looks to be a great tour in Atlanta the same weekend, May 16&17, get more info at the Modern Atlanta Site.
Its great to know that there are other strong groups of Modernist in other regions.
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DVM member home on market
DVM member Lawrence O’toole has his home on the market in Philadelphia. It is a modern refurb of a pair of adjacent townhouses in the Fishtown neighborhood. It really is a fantatic living situation for the city. Its a double townhouse on a triple lot. So it has an enormous garden behind it, and a large two car garage that passes all the way through to the garden. And it has a second...
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Main Line Modernism House Tour
The weekend of May 3rd saw the first Main Line Modernism House Tour sponsored by the Lower Merion Conservancy and Realtor Craig Wakefield. Some photos from three of the homes have been posted to Flickr.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lamidesign/sets/72157617698485012/http://www.flickr.com/photos/lamidesign/sets/72157617608889981/http://www.flickr.com/photos/lamidesign/sets/72157617699097138/
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Lecture: Lou Kahn Live
His Lecture - His Voice - His Architecture Thursday, May 21, 6:00 p.m. $20/ticket includes a wine-and-cheese reception Erdman Hall, 150 Morris Avenue, Bryn Mawr College
William Whitaker, curator of the Kahn Collection, will introduce the program, present images, and lead a discussion.
More info at the Lower Merion Conservancy
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Lustron Home discovered for sale in Haddonfield
An authentic Lustron Home in Haddonfield, NJ, in what appears to be reasonably good condition was found by DVM member Maria Ciuffetelli listed for sale with Weichert Realtors.
Weichert Listing
Wikipedia Lustron description