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Mon, 07 Oct 2024 17:19:59 -0400

Overview Security Square Mall is a prominent shopping destination located in Woodlawn, Baltimore County, Maryland, just outside of Baltimore. This bustling mall features over 100 stores and restaurants, […]

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Wed, 04 Sep 2024 16:08:10 -0400

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Tue, 03 Sep 2024 20:50:56 -0400

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Tue, 03 Sep 2024 20:48:31 -0400

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Tue, 03 Sep 2024 20:15:08 -0400

A Humble Beginning In 1890, Rachel Lit Wedell set up a modest millinery shop on Eighth Street above Filbert, quickly becoming known for her offer to trim hats purchased at her store free of charge. This […]

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Thu, 22 Aug 2024 19:42:49 -0400

A Fresh Start in Center City Fashion District Philadelphia is a shopping center in the heart of Center City, Philadelphia. Opened on September 19, 2019, this mall took over the space once known as The […]

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Thu, 22 Aug 2024 19:20:52 -0400

Overview The Mills at Jersey Gardens, often just called Jersey Gardens, is a bustling two-level indoor outlet mall located in Elizabeth, New Jersey. Since opening its doors on October 21, 1999, it has proudly […]

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Wed, 21 Aug 2024 19:41:12 -0400

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Mon, 01 Jul 2024 17:48:58 -0400

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Mon, 01 Jul 2024 17:12:05 -0400

Woodbridge Center, a prominent two-level shopping mall located in Woodbridge Township, New Jersey, sits strategically at the crossroads of U.S. Route 1 and U.S. Route 9. As of 2022, the mall hosts a variety […]

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Mon, 01 Jul 2024 16:38:35 -0400

Evolution of Menlo Park Mall Menlo Park Mall, located in Edison, New Jersey, at the junction of U.S. Route 1 and Parsonage Road, has transformed significantly since its inception into a two-level super […]

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Thu, 13 Jun 2024 19:20:24 -0400

The Spotsylvania Towne Center in Fredericksburg, Virginia, originally opened as the Spotsylvania Mall in 1980, anchored by Sears, Leggett, JCPenney, F. W. Woolworth Company, and Montgomery Ward. It was built […]

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Thu, 13 Jun 2024 17:14:02 -0400

For those who love retro malls, it’s a dispiriting time: indoor malls are closing in staggering numbers nationwide, and many of the remaining ones have had updates in the past decade or two that erased their […]

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Wed, 12 Jun 2024 19:04:10 -0400

The Southpark Mall in Colonial Heights, Virginia, was built by the developer Faison and opened in 1989. It is a single-story mall listed as spanning approximately 800,000 square feet on 6.67 acres, with […]

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Wed, 22 May 2024 19:47:40 -0400

Lynnewood Hall is a 110,000-square-foot, 110-room Neoclassical Revival Gilded Age estate left to the elements for decades. Designed by Horace Trumbauer, construction finished in 1900. It was the home of […]

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Wed, 22 May 2024 19:02:01 -0400

The Springfield Mall opened with 70 stores in 1974. The main interior section of the mall was 350,000 square feet, and with Bamberger’s and John Wanamaker as anchors, the area more than doubled to 715,000. The […]

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Wed, 22 May 2024 16:50:22 -0400

The Quaker Bridge Mall was developed by the Kravco Co. and opened in 1975. With two floors and over one million square feet of retail space, it was (and continues to be) one of New Jersey’s largest indoor […]

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Mon, 08 Apr 2024 21:52:52 -0400

Trenton Psychiatric Hospital was founded in 1848 as the New Jersey State Lunatic Asylum by Dorothea Lynde Dix. Dix was a proponent of creating a series of state-run hospitals to care for patients with […]

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Wed, 03 Apr 2024 20:20:49 -0400

Philadelphia Mills is the second largest mall in Pennsylvania after the King of Prussia Mall, which is also serves the Greater Philadelphia region. It was built late in the mall boom in 1989 as Franklin Mills, […]

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Sun, 17 Mar 2024 19:35:06 -0400

The 1,336,364 square-foot Oxford Valley Mall opened in 1973 and is currently the tenth-largest mall in Pennsylvania. It is clean and well-kept, and more stores are opened than closed, which is a good sign in […]

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Sun, 17 Mar 2024 18:33:21 -0400

While enclosed shopping malls were in their heyday incredibly popular and focal points for their surrounding communities, shoppers have largely ignored them during and after the Covid pandemic, and online […]

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Mon, 12 Feb 2024 22:36:47 -0500

When screenwriter Amy Holden Jones decided to use the Mystic Pizza restaurant in Mystic, CT as the inspiration, setting, and even the title of the romantic comedy she was working on, it’s doubtful that the […]

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Mon, 05 Feb 2024 21:40:06 -0500

I was incredibly excited to go to the Empire Garden Restaurant in Boston – in part because the idea of eating in a place that was once a huge, ornate theater is inherently exciting to me, and in part because I t […]

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Sat, 06 Jan 2024 19:32:12 -0500

If there’s one thing being married to my wife has taught me, it’s that some people are really passionate about their ice cream. I am admittedly a bit of a philistine when it comes to the subject, but true ice […]

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Fri, 05 Jan 2024 21:51:13 -0500

Shane Confectionery, located in the Old City section of Philadelphia, is not only America’s oldest candy store, it’s also one of the most unique and captivating. Though it’s easy to miss, it’s a hidden gem that […]

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Tue, 05 Dec 2023 23:01:58 -0500

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Tue, 05 Dec 2023 19:37:17 -0500

Olde Mistick Village is, at its base level, a shopping center disguised as an 18th-century Colonial hamlet. It is neither “olde”, having opened in 1973, nor is it truly a “village.” It’s a collection of stores, […]

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Mon, 04 Dec 2023 23:07:46 -0500

Comic book stores are another type of shop whose disappearance seems paradoxical, given the fact that comic book storylines are better known and more popular than ever before. While comics used to be a […]

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Mon, 04 Dec 2023 22:09:46 -0500

Camera stores used to be a staple in many American communities – places where both experienced photographers and amateurs alike could go to check out and learn about new equipment, receive advice and assistance, […]

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Thu, 09 Nov 2023 18:04:25 -0500

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Wed, 18 Oct 2023 21:27:41 -0400

Linvilla Orchards, a 300-acre farm located in Media, Pennsylvania, is a beloved destination for families and nature enthusiasts. The farm was purchased by Quaker Arthur Linvill and his mother Lydia in […]

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Fri, 13 Oct 2023 23:00:29 -0400

As Philadelphia’s population grew in the years following the Civil War, churches eyes growing neighborhoods in areas that were, at that time, on the city’s outskirts. The Spring Garden Street Presbyterian […]

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Wed, 11 Oct 2023 18:12:37 -0400

When Prohibition was repealed in 1933, it represented an enormous opportunity for businesses to construct distilleries, breweries, and wineries. The Baltimore Pure Rye Distilling Co. was one of many built […]

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Tue, 03 Oct 2023 19:27:20 -0400

The parish for Most Blessed Sacrament, a former Catholic church located at 56th and Chester Streets in West Philadelphia, was founded in 1901, but the cornerstone for the church wasn’t laid until 1922. […]

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Fri, 29 Sep 2023 21:32:34 -0400

One of the most frequent things viewers of my photos of abandoned or endangered churches lament on is the fate of the stained glass. There is a not entirely incorrect belief that stained-glass making is […]

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Tue, 26 Sep 2023 00:03:03 -0400

Philadelphia has a storied history in the papermaking industry and was, in fact, the primary provider of paper in the United States until Holyoke, MA, overtook it in the late 1800s. As reported by The […]

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Thu, 17 Aug 2023 21:12:39 -0400

There’s surprisingly little information available online about the abandoned Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School in Trenton aside from news of the tragic conclusion to its story. It originally opened in 1916 as […]

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Fri, 23 Jun 2023 17:49:54 -0400

The Frankford Arsenal in Philadelphia is one of the oldest and most significant munition production facilities in the United States. With another war with Britain…

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Fri, 09 Jun 2023 18:58:23 -0400

Built in 1927 and measuring 158* feet tall at the top of its smokestacks, the Willow Street Steam Generation Plant was built by the Philadelphia Electric Company (PECO) to serve industrial sites along the […]

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Thu, 08 Jun 2023 19:36:42 -0400

Edward G. Budd founded the Budd Company in 1912 after leaving a job manufacturing parts for train cars. His new company started by producing the…

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Tue, 06 Jun 2023 02:32:37 -0400

The site of Gould Street Power Plant has a fairly rich history, as it is roughly located on the former site of Fort Babcock and…

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Fri, 28 Apr 2023 18:17:47 -0400

Boston’s North End was the site of one of America’s strangest disasters – one that is barely remembered today, but is at once so absurd…

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Thu, 27 Apr 2023 21:04:49 -0400

St. Laurentius Church was the oldest Polish Roman Catholic Church in Philadelphia, established in 1882 by Polish immigrants who wanted a parish of their own. The church was named after St. Lawrence, a deacon […]

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Sun, 12 Mar 2023 00:42:54 -0500

The Clough House in Boston is a fascinating look into the city’s past. Located in the North End, the house itself is over 300 years old and is one of the town’s oldest buildings. Built by bricklayer Ebenezer […]