20 Nov 2019

WHYY Calls Steeple “Last Remnant” of City’s Colonial Skyline

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Kimberly Paynter of WHYY reviewed our 1754 steeple restoration project -- "a centuries-old artifact of architectural, church and American history" -- in a feature published today on WHYY.

“It was the Comcast Tower of its time,” said Christ Church rector, Rev. Tim Safford. “It put Philadelphia on the map. It proved to the European world that Philadelphia was a first-class city.”

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