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As you’ve now seen me repeat often, maybe ad nauseam, Germantown is the city’s most eclectic neighborhood, a home for all sorts of free spirits. One of […]

Germantown is, in my opinion, the most eclectic neighborhood in the city. Aging hippies, avant-garde jazz musicians, academics, social activists, everyday working folk, this writer […]

“Freedom’s backyard” Ever since Francis Pastorius took William Penn up on his offer of a place where he and his fellow German Anabaptists could worship […]

Are you one of those people who want to make more stuff in America? Would you like to have a very short commute from your […]

Tree-lined Germantown Avenue — Northwest Philly’s “Great Road” — might be the most historic single street in the city, and it makes for a pleasant […]

One of the things Germantown residents prize about their neighborhood is its highly eclectic character. One can find residences here from shabby to spiffy, modest […]

“Germantown,” a poster on an Internet discussion board I frequent recently said, “is like a box of chocolates.” I couldn’t agree more with the poster’s […]

As I’ve noted in this space on at least one occasion in the past, and probably more, it’s hard to live in the Germantown area […]

Most of Germantown’s showstopper houses are located in the Tulpehocken Station Historic District in the neighborhood’s northwest corner. But, as readers of this department should […]

You might be forgiven when you walk up to 224 W. Pastorius St. in Germantown for thinking that you have mistakenly made your way to […]

As you are probably aware by now, developers’ boot camps run by the Jumpstart Network have unleashed a wave of small-beer rebuilders upon neglected Philadelphia […]

If you haven’t copped wise to this yet, let me make it plain: I’m rooting for Germantown’s revival. The second-most-historic neighborhood in Philadelphia, as a […]

If the makeover of Presidential City was Post Brothers’ main event, its transformation of Rittenhouse Hill was the warmup act. And in bringing this 1950s […]

By now, you should be aware of this little pocket of East Germantown that’s home to a population of affluent residents who own these huge, […]

Pennsylvania Railroad baron Henry Howard Houston may have had Chestnut Hill — or Wissahickon Heights, as it was originally known — as the final stop on his […]