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Thursday, February 28, 2019

James T Nulty - Undertaker in Frankford - 1857-1935



Inquirer 9 Apr 1903



The Pennsylvania Manual 1913


James T. Nulty



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Friday, February 22, 2019

Ascension Church in Harrowgate/Kensington Looted for Rich Burb RC Raleigh Cathedral - Cultural Rape




A real "city on a hill" impressive piece of architecture that the ppl downtown at 222 seem to be blind to seeing. That and I resent it being looted to build some cathedral on the cheap in a burb down south. I call it "cultural rape" when the best of something as Ascension, hand made - "Made in Kensington" - when that best of here is served up on a platter to the rich in the segregated burbs of North Carolina. All for lack of a roof in need of repair. All for other Abortion and Buggery Coverup priorities followed for decades and a real disgrace to the R.C. archdiocese of Philadelphia. 


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Church Buildings Past and Present as Anchors of Communities - Entitlement Exchange


Churches used to be Anchor Building in a or any community along too with similar buildings and different faiths. In Philly, many of these older churches or Fraternal Meeting Hall structures were the center of a lot of people's everyday living. They were literally built on pennies, nickels and dimes of the working poor and now in ancient age they many times, if not torn down, are the centerpiece of some condo conversion, a setting for dozens of expensive postage stamp size studios and small one bedroom apartments in an up and coming reborn neighborhood revival. A lot of kids raised in the burbs discover the centuries old magic of people living and functioning in cities.  

If land starts out as taxable and then is bought and improved by a religion for a house of worship, it then slips in entitlement as "tax-free" as in sheltered from the local taxes, it only makes sense that one day when these entitled properties slip back into real world taxation by sale from a religious group to a developer, that instead of the usual capital gains which probably does not exist in such tax filings, that if not a tax on capital gains, the community, the city, and or the state, should have some say as this property transitions back to pure capitalist function, the transitions of entitlement from tax-free to taxable should in fact be an say if the community wants 40 condos shoved up the butt of a beautiful old Victorian church building. That running away from the scene and selling this church so that two monks can now go wild with whores, drugs, and limousines, more say and or control as a condition of entitlement change of the property should be allotted and in the hands of the community. 


E. Tioga St. and Kensington Ave. - circa 1930 - Engel Dairy "K" & Tioga Streets - Elevated Railway Entrance at Harrowgate Park







1942 Land Use Map






Elevated Railway Entrance - E. Tioga St. and Kensington Ave. - circa 1930 - Engel Dairy "K" & Tioga Streets







VINTAGE RARE ENGEL DAIRY 1/2 GLASS PINT MILK BOTTLE EMBOSSED PHIL. PA  - Ebay.




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Monday, February 18, 2019

Texaco Corner Gas Station - Frankford and Glenwood Aves. Harrowgate - circa 1936 - Claude H Alexander Photographer 1894-1978


Address - 3744 Frankford Avenue - Frankford and Glenwood Aves - Harrowgate  

Old Gas Station - Frankford and Glenwood





Old Gas Station Terry Corrigan 



"Cass's Corner" a gready spoon in the 1950s-1960s - Frankford and Glenwood Aves. or 3744 Frankford Ave. with old George L Horn Public School in background (left)


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Saturday, February 16, 2019

The Sunday Inquirer - 27 Apr 1895


Inquirer 27 Apr 1895


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Kensington Theatre - Frankford Avenue and Norris Street - 1890s


Inquirer Jan 22, 1895




Inquirer 16 Dec 1894



Inquirer 11 Dec 1892


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Perishable Products Terminal - Columbus Blvd (Delaware Ave) and Weccacoe Ave and Jackson and Ritner Streets - Inquirer 30 Oct 1926






TWO RAILROADS OPEN PERISHABLE PRODUCTS TERMINAL

Lower picture shows the new freight plant between Delaware and Weccacoe avenues and Jackson and Ritner streets, to be operated jointly by the Baltimore and Ohio and the Reading Railroad for the handling of fruit and vegetables and meat shipments. It was opened officially by the three officials shown in inset, they being, from left to right: E.D. Hillary, vice president Reading Railway Company; Hubert J. Horan, president of the Commercial Exchange, and Archibald Frees, vice president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Only one unit of the plant, which is designed for the modern handling of all food shipments over both railroads, is completed, the unit seen under construction being designed for a cold storage warehouse and private sales building. The completed section contains the auction sales building, of reinforced concrete, 1000 feet long and 90 wide, and three tracks serve it, permitting the handling of seventy-two cars at one time. The team delivery yard adjoins it, while on the second floor are two large auction rooms, with an amphitheatre effect.


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Monday, February 11, 2019

William Ashdown Audsley - Architect - 1838-1925 - Edward the Confessor Church - St. Joan of Arc School Harrowgate


Former Edward The Confessor R.C. church - N8th and York Sts.




Former St. Joan of Arc Grammar School, Frankford Ave. and Venango St. Harrowgate



There was a wooden church on the same site, an Episcopalian church of the same name Edward the Confessor that was sold to the R.C. AD of Phila. A civil action followed by the Episcopal diocese against the R.C.AD for use of the name. Could never find a resolution to this in the newspapers so I presumed the matter settled out of court because the R.C.s kept the name.

Audsley sought out of retirement by Father Edward Hawks, founder of St. Joan of Arc Parish, Harrowgate. Hawks had a colorful life. Convert from being an Episcopalian priest and changing brand to R.C. Hawks was a curate at the new St. Edward the Confessor Church as a curate and knew and offered Audsley his last commission. Audsley already in his eighties and retired and living with his son in Yonkers, NY.

Father Hawks, a spy for the Vatican, traveling in Spain under his British passport (born in Wales) in its civil war to take secret photos of Guernica in order to dispute so-called facts about its supposed destruction as reported in the Times of London. Which is why he later received the Order of Queen Isabella from General Franco.





William Ashdown Audsley - Designer Wanamaker Organ - 11 Broadway - Edward the Confessor Church - St. Joan of Arc School Harrowgate



9 Broadway entrance of the Bowling Green Offices building, "11 Broadway" at Bowling Green Park in NYC.

1890s


I see that wikipedia's current print up is serving up its usual tepid stuff, ignoring and not doing full research into the works of British architect William Ashdown Audsley here in America, ignoring his churches in Britain and synagogues like the New West End Synagoge in London. A favored and preferred spot for Jewish weddings in London btw.


Interior - New West End Synagogue, London


Not to mention those works of his architectural art, especially the ones in Philly. Still standing btw.


George Ashdown Audsley  1838-1925

...The firm of W. & G. Audsley was revived and was commissioned to design the Bowling Green Offices (completed 1896), the largest office building erected in New York City to that time. Two Catholic schools, a chapel in Brooklyn, NY, a library in Norwalk, CT, and a church in Philadelphia, PA, were also designed by the firm.








Former Edward the Confessor R.C.church, N. 8th and York Sts. 




Former St. Joan of Arc grammer school, Frankford Ave. and Venango St., Harrowgate. Now a charter school. 



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