Best Buildings in Philly: the winner
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After a week of nail-biters and tough matchups, readers have named Carpenters’ Hall Philadelphia’s best building!
🧮 By the numbers: The guild hall dominated the people's hall with 78.6% of the 823 total votes.
🤔 The intrigue: City Hall was comfortably leading throughout Thursday.
- But hundreds of votes poured in for Carpenters’ Hall with about an hour to go before voting ended.
🔥 Of note: Carpenters’ Hall remains closed after a Christmas Eve fire last year that was deemed arson.
- The building’s basement suffered extensive damage.
- Police told Axios no arrests have been made and the investigation is ongoing.
☝🏾The building is expected to reopen to the public by year’s end, Alex Palma, assistant director of the site, tells Axios.
- The site is still raising money for repairs via a GoFundMe page, which has already raised nearly $43,000.
- Crews broke ground on the simple, two-story building in 1770. The brick beauty designed by Robert Smith is a Georgian-style architectural gem that welcomes more than 150,000 visitors from around the globe each year.
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