utopian vision - View this location on map duck around the tourists (who dont know better) and dart into the curtis center. just inside the stately lobby, behold dream garden, maxfield parrishs 1916 vision of utopia rendered with 100,000 bits of exquisite tiffany glass. the 49-foot-long mosaic energized the citys preservation movement in the late 1990s when the casino owner stephen a. wynn tried to buy it for his bellagio hotel in las vegas. a local foundation paid $3.5 million to keep it in philadelphia. consider yourself the beneficiary. NYT 601 walnut street, Philadelphia, PA Cultural

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