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Posted on Fri, May 25, 2007

Changing Skyline | Let's not throw dirt on the city's history

Through ignorance, apathy and neglect, Philadelphia has demolished most of the house in which George Washington and John Adams learned to run the world's first modern democracy. Now, we're on the verge of obliterating from view the little that remains of the storied mansion where the Father of Our Country both nurtured a nation and enslaved nine individuals. »Read story

Inga Saffron blogs about Philadelphia architecture

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