{"id":2405,"date":"2018-11-21T15:40:36","date_gmt":"2018-11-21T15:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/powerspreservation.com\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=2405"},"modified":"2019-01-07T15:38:32","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T15:38:32","slug":"the-hale-building","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/powerspreservation.com\/?portfolio=the-hale-building","title":{"rendered":"The Hale Building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Few historic rehabilitation projects in Philadelphia have gained as much attention in the last few years as the Hale Building, named after its iconoclast architect, Willis G. Hale. Although lambasted by some as a \u201cmonstrosity\u201d and \u201carchitectural aberration\u201d upon its completion in 1887, the Hale Building\u2019s imaginative profusion of turrets, dormers and ornamented masonry has gained much admiration in recent years. Although it stood largely vacant for decades, Brickstone Properties saw promise in the building as an ideal candidate for office re-use.<\/p>\n<p>Powers &amp; Company\u2019s role was to guide the rehabilitation through the Federal Historic Tax Credit process, providing direction on all aspects of the project, including the restoration of the building\u2019s finely crafted stonework, selection of historically appropriate windows, preservation of significant interior finishes, and the design of new treatments, such as the storefront. The building opened in late 2018 as Spaces, a co-working concept.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Few historic rehabilitation projects in Philadelphia have gained as much attention in the last few years as the Hale Building, named after its iconoclast architect, Willis G. Hale. Although lambasted by some as a \u201cmonstrosity\u201d and \u201carchitectural aberration\u201d upon its completion in 1887, the Hale Building\u2019s imaginative profusion of turrets, dormers and ornamented masonry has&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"portfolio_category":[30],"portfolio_tag":[],"class_list":["post-2405","portfolio","type-portfolio","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","portfolio_category-tax"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/powerspreservation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/2405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/powerspreservation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/powerspreservation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/portfolio"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powerspreservation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powerspreservation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2405"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/powerspreservation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/2405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2603,"href":"https:\/\/powerspreservation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/2405\/revisions\/2603"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powerspreservation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/powerspreservation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"portfolio_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powerspreservation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fportfolio_category&post=2405"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powerspreservation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fportfolio_tag&post=2405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}