Last year, a house demolished on the 1400 block of Howard Street in Fishtown contained a piece of Philly music history . “That was ground zero for my musical life in Philly,” says Adam Granduciel, the frontman of the iconic Philly-born rock band The War on Drugs . “That’s where [Philly rocker] Kurt Vile and I would make recordings.”

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For nearly 15 years, Granduciel not only lived in that house — with “probably 50 different roommates,” he says — but also wrote songs there with Vile and the rest of War on Drugs, including their 2014 album Lost in a Dream . In fact, the cover of the album features an image of the house.

Despite now living in Los Angeles, Granduciel says fans reached out to him about preserving a memento from the building as it was tor

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