Summer 2026Testimony
Speaking for SOS at the Historical Commission
In June and July he spoke on 4238–40 Chester Avenue, 132 N. 10th Street, 5604 N. 5th Street and 1523–29 Wallace Street. He appears at most of the Commission’s monthly meetings.
News
What David S. Traub is doing now: new books, talks and tours, Save Our Sites lectures, and his testimony for the buildings of Philadelphia. Have news, a question or a memory of a building he designed? He would be glad to hear from you: get in touch.
April 2026Testimony
Two North Philadelphia landmarks
He supported designating the Carl Metz House on W. Godfrey Avenue and the Blue Bell Mission on W. Johnson Street, and urged that the Mission’s lost historic features be restored.
November 2025Testimony
The Dodge Estate gardener’s cottage
At 419 W. Clapier Street, he called the gardener’s cottage the centerpiece of the Dodge Estate service buildings and urged its restoration.
August 2025SOS lecture
William Whitaker on Louis Kahn’s vanishing Philadelphia legacy
Save Our Sites published William Whitaker’s lecture on three early Kahn projects in Philadelphia. Whitaker also wrote the foreword to Traub’s new book.
2025New book
Architectural and Design Projects of David S. Traub, 1975–2020
His fourth book, published by Cambridge Concepts Press with a foreword by William Whitaker, gathers more than four decades of buildings, interiors, restorations and proposals.
February 2025SOS lectures
Towers of Medicine and Black History in the Philadelphia Landscape
Two SOS talks: Dr. Steven J. Peitzman on Philadelphia’s hospital buildings, and author Amy Jane Cohen on monuments, markers and murals.
March 2024Press
City of Homes on PHILADELPHIA.Today
Ken Knickerbocker writes about Philadelphia: City of Homes and Traub’s argument that Philadelphia is a city of homeowners.
April 2023Press
Hidden City on the Alain Locke house
Hidden City Philadelphia quotes his testimony on the boyhood home of Alain LeRoy Locke.
February 2023SOS lecture
The Henry O. Tanner House
SOS presented Judith Robinson and Evan Curtis Charles Hall on preserving the family home of the painter Henry Ossawa Tanner.
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