Daily News | Jim Straw, award-winning architect and prolific civic leader, has died at 76
Jim Straw, 76, of Philadelphia, award-winning architect who specialized in historic preservation, restoration and adaptive reuse projects; tireless civic and cultural leader; and versatile musician, gourmet cook, wine connoisseur, and gardener, died Monday, Aug. 8, of complications of leukemia at Pennsylvania Hospital.
His restoration and reuse projects in Philadelphia include turning the Ridgway Library Building on South Broad Street into the Philadelphia High School for Creative and Performing Arts in 1997, and remaking Memorial Hall in Fairmount Park into the Please Touch Museum in 2010. He also restored the John Johnson House historic site in Germantown in 2008, and in 2017 was instrumental in the placement of the Octavius V. Catto Memorial statue at City Hall.
Indeed, Mr. Straw was a leader for many local civic and cultural organizations for nearly half a century. He was commissioner of the Philadelphia Department of Parks and Recreation, and past president of the Union League of Philadelphia, Philadelphia Chamber Ensemble, and Orpheus Club of Philadelphia.
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