As Philadelphia gets ready to undertake a $2.4 million renovation of the city's Columbus Square park, a curious stone drum topped by a folded plane roof set to be demolished under the plan has caught the public's attention. 

Debate over the structure's provenance, particularly, whether the pavilion was designed by pioneering Philadelphia architect Elizabeth Hirsh Fleisher or her business partner Gabriel Roth, has influenced the decision over whether or not to save it. Ultimately, city agencies have decided that the structure is directly attributed to Roth and therefore demolishing it would not erase a woman-designed building. The Philadelphia Inquire architecture critic Inga Saffron is neither convinced by the city's determination over the building's authorship nor by the overall decision to demolish the work, regardless of who is responsible for it. 

Defending the structure, Saffron writes, "While we may never know whether a female architect designed this unusual mid-century modern pavilion, it is still deeply entwined with Philadelphia’s history. We don’t need to know everything about the Roundhouse to know that it should be preserved."