Daily News | William Blades, former executive vice president of the Philadelphia Historic Preservation Corporation, has died at 77
William Blades, 77, formerly of Philadelphia, onetime executive vice president of the Philadelphia Historic Preservation Corp., former staffer at Philadelphia Development Corp., former program director at Greater Philadelphia YMCA, independent contractor, and popular sailboat captain, died Thursday, May 11, of cancer at Compass Regional Hospice in Centreville, Md.
Mr. Blades criticized the media for giving more coverage to explosive demolitions than preservation efforts and wrote a 1987 letter to the editor of The Inquirer about dilapidated buildings in Fairmount Park. “We firmly believe that this, the world’s largest city park, in a city so full of heritage, deserves better than benign neglect,” he said.
He went on to work as an independent contractor in Old City and began managing the Philadelphia Historic Preservation Corp. in 1982. He served on the board of directors of Reading Terminal Market and was honored for his work by the Preservation Coalition of Greater Philadelphia and officials in the administration of President Ronald Reagan.
William Stoddard Blades was born May 18, 1945. He grew up in Wayne, graduated from the Haverford School and Ohio’s Muskingum College, now Muskingum University, and served in the Army Reserve.
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