Denise Scott Brown is not happy. The National Park Service wants to alter her and Robert Venturi's museum at the Franklin Memorial, adjacent their iconic Ghost House. She'll admit the place needs updating, but to not even be consulted? How dare they! Public comment is open now, so flood the Parks Service with your complaints. (Not that it'll change their calcified minds.) 
Denise Scott Brown is not happy. The National Park Service wants to alter her and Robert Venturi's museum at the Franklin Memorial, adjacent their iconic Ghost House. She'll admit the place needs updating, but to not even be consulted? How dare they! Public comment is open now, so flood the Parks Service with your complaints. (Not that it'll change their calcified minds.) The Architect's Newspaper
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The Ghost House is amazing. Important as a piece of PostModernism certainly, but also an incredibly effective museum experience. One of my favorite places in Philly to just hang out - quieter than one would expect, and hidden away in a way that's fun to "discover" every time, and truly takes one back to a sense of Colonial urbanity.
That said: I don't really mind the new entry. The Ghost House remains, and just as important the passage connection from Market Street remains. I do love the turned-bannister-post-like columns, but I'm thinking that interior space is more valuable than the awnings.
HotSoup, am I missing something? Certainly one would like VSBA to be consulted on reworking one of their masterpieces, but it does seem to me the most masterly portion of the work will remain.
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