Historic Preservation

Ralph E. White’s 1916 Boat House, the Russian Tea Room of the 1926 Sesqui-Centennial Exposition and its only remaining major structure, restored as an open pavilion on the lagoon. Arched bays closed in an earlier renovation were reopened as a loggia. The City had considered demolishing it. Photographs by Daniel Traub.

Restorations of seven mansarded row houses of about 1870 on St. Albans Place, a one-block pedestrian enclave, for Scott Donahue. 2307 St. Albans Place won an award from the Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia.

For the Department of Parks and Recreation, the restoration of the small farmhouse built about 1880 near Cliveden for Anne Sophia Penn Chew.

The rebuilding of a WPA picnic pavilion of the 1930s, almost destroyed by fire, and the restoration of the refreshment stand at Belmont Plateau.

The Flemish Renaissance Revival administration building of the former state fish hatchery, restored with a new clay tile roof, masonry repair and structural stabilization.

The 1894 carriage house and stable of brewer Christian Schmidt, by Otto Wolf, bought with his son Daniel and restored as his studio, with an apartment above that keeps the old carriage elevator.

A similar carriage house restored as two apartments, its elevator mechanism kept in the interior.

A colorful stall for a couple selling gifts and clothing from Africa, approved by Paul Steinke, then the market’s general manager.

The restoration of a 1930s Bauhaus-style house by Israel Demchick to its white stucco and black steel windows.

Further restorations: the old schoolhouse at 11th and Pine Streets, houses on the 200 block of Catharine Street, an apartment building on Spruce Street, Rindelaub’s Row on 18th Street, buildings on the 200 block of Market Street, a wooden house in Francisville, and a proposed amphitheater at the Ridgway Library.