CityView sits on the former site of the Preston Retreat, a maternity hospital for married, indigent mothers.
The March 2015 issue of CityView Points, our building’s newsletter, had a series of articles about the history of our site and the history of the artworks on and around our buildings. You can download a copy of that newsletter in PDF format or read the articles individually on the web at the links below.
There is another look at the history of the Preston Retreat on the website of the nearby Matthias Baldwin Park. More images of the Preston Retreat are available at the websites of the Library of Congress and the Free Library of Philadelphia.
CityView Points articles:
- Remnants of Philadelphia History Frame CityView Buildings
- CityView II resident remembers Preston Retreat
- Philadelphia sculptor Winifred Lutz links CityView to its history
- Landscape architects sensitive to backyard’s art
- Artist’s “Neons for Buttonwood” sculpture lights the way to CityView
- Note that the CityView Lights Committee is working to raise the necessary funds to relight “Neons for Buttonwood”
- Download CityView Points newsletter with all articles