Philadelphia residents recently held a funeral service for a single dilapidated rowhouse on the eve of its demolition, as part of a project started by administrators at the Temple University art gallery that eventually involved neighbors, a Baptist church, and a local civic association. By all accounts, this sendoff for a lonely rowhouse sounds a lot more moving than the time a Seattle woman married a soon-to-be-demolished warehouse. [CityLabs; previously]
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