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A storm steadily approached Philadelphia as I walked away from Eden Hall for the last time.

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Thank you, Mr Motts, for sharing your gift with us. I am, as usual in awe of your exquisite photos.

I will second the awe and the thanks.

Motts...You did it again! This chapel was amazing! Such a shame it was wasted.

Great set, the architecture of this location is just unbelievable!

Restt in peace eden hall you will be remimbered her forever as a beautiful. Thanks to Motts and the many who where with you though out the good time the fire and saddly the very end. you will not be forgotten. thanks you all for your pictures. kim

Thanks very much, Motts.

Yet another amazing gallery! Its amazing all the praise doesn't go to your head...your one of a kind Motts, just like the places you capture with your camera.

love this picture......possible wallpaper?

Makes me want to cry. Goodbye Eden Hall.

Another great set!

I cannnot believe someone can actually bulldoze such old beauty. Thank you Motts for keeping the memories alive through your camera. Great set!

What a fantastic gallery, Motts. Thank you for sharing this beautiful location with us.

Gorgeous gallery...the craftsmanship on this one is just out of this world as you said in your writeup. Nice job.

Hey is that a way in right there?? :D

EASILY the best photos Ive seen of this place.

haunting.

That was a wonderful set of galleries! Thank you Motts!

Long Island Irish

A poetic and sad end to the history of the church.

Entrancing. Made my Monday morning a lot nicer. :)

Once again, you not only captured the beauty but the history of a place that can never be seen again (except through your eyes, and these wonderful photographs). Thank you so much for sharing this with us.

this place could of been restored and turned into historical site it si extremely sad that all that fine craftmanship was destroyed. i wonder if anyon e tried to protest aganist the bulldozing!

I don't think anyone even knew about the demolition until it was too late.

RIP Eden Hall... you will be missed. Thank you Motts, for once again sharing the beauty of the world

I LOVE THE STORM IN THE BACK OF THE CHURCH. GREAT PICTURES MOTTS.

Motts, Your a natural. I love your photos.

Motts, what can i say but THANK YOU !!

Who would destroy something like this??

ireally enjoy your work and look forward to more to come thank and keep it up

Thank you, Mr. Motts. This was my first experience of your work, but I am now definitely a fan. Eden Hall will always have a special place in my heart....and in my memory.

It's not the building being lost that's the tragedy it's all the work the people but into it and the lost opportunity to have saved it that's the real tragedy.

Where were all the Priests and Pastors when this place needed to be saved? I know a Pastor who could only dream of a place like this. To serve God in such a building is truly worth of the Lords grace.

it's gone

excelent view!!, an excelent photo!

I wonder if it had been in another part of the city would it have been saved?

The fire damage basically killed any plans for renovation.

Where was Eden Hall at?

Thank you....what an ending in all regards.

OMG Mr Motts I am such a fan ; Can you tell us whatthenextgallery will be? TX

I'm in a really big pinch right now with work, so it might be a while until I can get to more photos... I'm contemplating starting on another set from Europe though.

Such a beautiful place. I wish it were not gone, these photographs are hauntingly beautiful. Thank-you.

I Love this Photo! Another good one yet again Motts!!

Eden Hall was in Torresdale, PA, Benz Boy. It closed in 1969.

More great work Motts. I think you must have been born with a gift for photography and you use it well. Lucky us who at the click of a mouse can be taken to these unreal abandon places,some of which no longer exist.your ledendary DG....

Thank you Motts for this beautiful gallery. It could be one of my favorites! It makes me literally sick that some morons burned this exquisite building down. I used to work at another Sacred Heart School....our chapel was nowehere near as beautiful as this one!

It makes me want to cry...

such beauty left behind. Years of craftsmanship, of pride into this building... souls saved, epiphanies reached.

reduced to a shell of a building, disrespected by vandals and returned to the earth under a bulldozer's tread.

That is the way of us all, I guess.

Nice work, I went to grade school across the street and know some girls who went to Eden Hall but never made it inside.

this place was amazing. this craftsmenship that was put into this place at its time of getting built is crazy. this place was my childhood. it was the place were my friends and i would go and hangout. we treated this place like we would treat out own home. if i go to the location were this chapel once stood i can still see it standing high but when you take a second look all i see is grass. thankyou motts for putting these pictures up especially the ones of the inside. seeing it again brings back so many memories

This is one of my fav churches youve done. I love the beautiful gothic look

I cannot believe how such a beautiful place could ever be allowed to be demolished. the buildings of today hold no such beauty.

I became an Alter Boy and first served in this chapel around 1950. I attended an elementary school on the Eden Hall grounds where students were taught by the Sacred Heart nuns. I remember all of Eden Hall in its glory as a convent and school for girls.

Richard McAllister

Make that an Altar Boy!! The elementary school which has since been relocated was St Katherine of Sienna.

Richard McAllister

Its absolutely disgusting that someone would burn this down. In no way am I religious, but that is rather disrespectful.

Thank you, Mr. Motts. Thank you for preserving Eden Hall in pictures, even in its dilapidated state. I would have loved to have seen Eden Hall when it still functioned as a school and this beautiful chapel was still a House of God.

i love this set and how allot was still preserved at the time. Its a shame that its all gone.

Thank you, mr. motts....that seems so inadequate for the relief you have provided us who schooled there and grew in the faith...and miss THE chapel. such an important part of our experience and spiritual growth. you have much more than pictoral success ! p o'h '53

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