In the mid-20th century, Philadelphia witnessed the demolition of dozens of non-Colonial buildings, including two extraordinary Victorian ones by Frank Furness, in an effort to preserve the Independence Hall neighborhood’s 18th-century character. That approach to “preservation” was typical of the era, as the re-creation of Williamsburg, Virginia, attests, where hundreds of historic structures were destroyed to turn it into a Colonial theme park.
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