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The Bedford Springs Hotel will include a In this issue: restored 19th-century grand ballroom; 3 a restored conference Get Involved in “Making room that was used Preservation Work!” in the summers by National Preservation President James Buchanan; an indoor Conference 2006 swimming pool—one of the first in the U.S. 10 dating from c. 1903; Practical Preservation a new Springwater Spa and Architectural History complex; and a restored Donald Ross 16 golf course (c. 1923). Preserving School Buildings Many guest rooms in Pittsburgh and Beyond will have access to breeze-filled porches 20 with views of the hotel gardens and Membership Events: 2006 mountains beyond. Landmarks Acquires Perpetual Easement for Bedford Springs Hotel With the deepest gratitude to Bedford Bedford Springs Hotel Historic District, Little Short of a Miracle Resort Partners, Ltd., Landmarks is designated a National Historic The restoration of the building is little A Personal Note pleased to announce its acceptance of Landmark in 1991. The designation short of a miracle. The deterioration an easement to the elaborate Classical describes the hotel as “an exceptional I have a long association with the of these structures over three decades, and Victorian exterior of the Bedford example of American resort architecture.” Bedford Springs Hotel. Jamie Van combined with the decay of the Springs Hotel, located on Highway 220, Trump and I liked to visit the hotel elaborate Victorian detailing, created just outside Bedford, Pennsylvania, three a restoration effort that seemed beyond for weekends during the 1960s. miles north of Pennsylvania Turnpike New Plans Announced economic practicality. However, by We not only enjoyed the life of the Exit 146. On September 1, 2005, Bedford combining public and private financing hotel and the historic town of Bedford, The hotel, which had been a summer Resort Partners, Ltd. announced a with the use of tax credits and equity but utilized the quiet and serenity of resort for many Pittsburghers, regrettably $90 million renovation and expansion from the easement contribution—and closed in 1987. For years, developers of the Bedford Springs Hotel. Partners those ancient mountains that surround by combining the historic preservation came and went; the Commonwealth of include The Ferchill Group of Cleveland, the hotel to write. Jamie worked on his experience of The Ferchill Group with Pennsylvania offered funds; and the Ohio (well-known to Pittsburghers and notebooks and on a number of articles strong local community support—what town of Bedford considered floating to Landmarks through its development while staying at Bedford Springs. seemed impossible has become possible. bonds: but the ingredients never came of the Heinz Lofts on the North Shore); At one point, I was trying to write Chevron TCI, Inc., a leading investor in Work is already underway, and 400 together to enable a restoration effort Historic Preservation in Inner City Areas to go forward. tax-credit rehabilitation projects in the U.S.; and The Bedford Springs Company, and could never find uninterrupted LLC. Benchmark Hospitality International time in Pittsburgh to complete it, A National Historic will manage the 218-room, four-star so I rented a room in the Barclay, the Landmark destination resort and conference facility most remote building of the Bedford that is to reopen in May 2007. Established in 1804 by Dr. John Anderson Springs campus and stayed in it until The State of Pennsylvania is commit- who prescribed the therapeutic waters I had finished my draft. Thus the ting $24.9 million in Redevelopment of the mineral springs on the site, the first book dealing with inner-city Capital Assistance Program grant Bedford Springs Hotel was located monies to help restore and reopen the preservation, frequently involving beneath the highest range of the hotel, and $8.85 million in federal funds minorities and intensively-developed Allegheny Mountains, midway between has been obtained for highway and areas, was written in the serenity that Harrisburg and Pittsburgh, and 138 county infrastructure improvements the Bedford Springs Hotel provided. miles from Washington, D.C. The The elaborate Victorian porch detailing. around the hotel. Historic preservation earliest building was completed in 1806, — Arthur Ziegler tax credits and the philanthropic contri- workers are involved. Landmarks is and additions continued throughout the bution of an easement in perpetuity to both relieved and proud that work is Editor’s Note: James D. Van Trump century. The resort became the summer Landmarks produces another $19.5 going forward and that our involvement (1908–1995) and Arthur Ziegler, White House for U.S. President James million in financial assistance. through the years has been rewarded. president of Landmarks, co-founded the Buchanan, who served from 1857–61. Landmarks’ easement protects the This is the third easement that Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation Other notable guests included Aaron elaborate wooden gingerbread porches Landmarks has obtained recently that in 1964. Historic Preservation in Inner City Burr and Daniel Webster and Presidents on the guest wings and the Greek is making it possible to save and reuse Areas was published in 1971. William Henry Harrison, James Polk, Revival central building dating from significant historic properties. For details Zachary Taylor, James Garfield, and 1829–42, as well as the indoor on easements associated with the Heinz Dwight Eisenhower. swimming pool wing and the historic Lofts on Pittsburgh’s North Shore and The hotel was placed on the National golf course. the Armstrong Cork Buildings in Register of Historic Places in 1984 and Pittsburgh’s Strip District, see the March is the centerpiece of the 300-acre 2004 and September 2005 issues of PHLF News, respectively. Page 2 PHLF News • April 2006 OUR WORK: Recent Progress

the concept of using $1,000,000 for historic preservation strategies to revitalize Wilkinsburg Neighborhood the community,” said Cathy McCollom, Revitalization chief programs officer Landmarks is making a sizeable commitment to renovate ten at Landmarks, vacant historic houses in the 2.1-square-mile Borough of “we were thrilled to Wilkinsburg, adjoining the City of Pittsburgh, in order to receive in December jumpstart a major neighborhood revitalization effort. 2005 a $500,000 Before After The Sarah Scaife Foundation––the initial supporter of every grant from the Sarah one of Landmarks’ pioneering neighborhood projects––is Scaife Foundation contributing $500,000 to establish a revolving fund that will for Phase One of Making a Difference! result, initially, in the renovation of four historic properties: the Wilkinsburg 516, 522, and 524 Jeanette Street and 811 Holland Avenue. Revolving Fund Lawrence Hall Restored: Allegheny County is also contrib- project. The These before (9-7-04) and after (12-14-05) photos show uting $500,000 to Phase One. Wilkinsburg how historic buildings, when restored, add beauty and Some funds will be reclaimed Neighborhood value to a place. Point Park University restored the through the sale of the renovated Transformation Initiative that exterior and several interior public spaces of Lawrence properties, and Landmarks will 524 Jeanette Street, Wilkinsburg Landmarks helped Hall (originally the Keystone Athletic Club, Janssen & continue to raise funds to support further work. fund and publish in Cocken, 1929) and located its bookstore in the building “After several years of 2004 mapped a course of action that we are now beginning corner at Wood Street and Third Avenue. Landmarks grassroots planning efforts to implement.” Keith Herriot joined Landmarks’ staff in was instrumental in the restoration process, under- that brought Wilkinsburg January to help with the Wilkinsburg project. writing $16,000 of the $24,000 restoration study by residents together around Landmarks Design Associates Architects and helping the University secure a lead grant of $100,000 from the Allegheny Foundation. saved 1,300 acres of historic farms and 10 structures. Phase Two Funding The total value of the property saved was estimated at $5,869,000. for Historic Farm At least 20 other architecturally significant Allegheny County and Western Pennsylvania farms were identified Preservation Program during Phase One as worth saving, but more funding was needed to develop solutions for each. “Now, with contribu- Received tions from the Laurel Foundation and Mr. Scaife,” said Jack December 2005 brought welcome news: after much effort to Miller, director of gift planning at Landmarks, “we will be secure funding to launch Phase Two of our Historic Farm able to work with more farm owners while we continue to Preservation Program, Landmarks received a $50,000 grant raise funds to reach our Phase Two goal of $500,000.” from the Laurel Foundation and a $100,000 gift from To open the dialogue, Landmarks trustee Martha Jordan Richard M. Scaife. and Jack participated in a panel discussion, “Preserving Landmarks had launched Phase One of its Historic Farm Western Pennsylvania’s Farms,” co-sponsored by The Heinz Preservation program with a $500,000 grant from the Architectural Center on March 4, in conjunction with Richard King Mellon Foundation (PHLF News, March its exhibit, “Barns of Western Pennsylvania: Vernacular Cork Factory Lofts to Open this Fall: 2002), with the purpose of slowing sprawl and saving to Spectacular,” organized by architectural historian A preservation easement from Landmarks helped save historic farms in Allegheny and neighboring counties. In the Lu Donnelly. the Armstrong Cork buildings at 2349 Railroad Street September 2004 PHLF News, Landmarks reported having in the Strip. The multi-building brick complex was constructed beginning in 1901 to designs by Frederick J. Osterling (see PHLF News, September 2005). McCaffery Interests of Chicago is developing the Cork Factory to include 298 loft apartments, retail, and parking. Graciano Corporation has removed extensive accum- ulations of graffiti and restored the building facades. New windows have also been installed. Work began on the site on April 2, 2005, and approximately 20 craftsmen have been working fives days a week. According to Dan McIntyre, Graciano’s project manager, “The original craftsmanship on these buildings was exceptional, so we have been able to effectively restore the majority of the exterior surfaces.” To find out more about “urban loft living on the river,” visit: Geneva College’s McKee Hall of 1921 (left) and www.mccafferyinterests.com. Johnston Gym of 1911 (above) were both designed by New Castle architect William George Eckles. The Landmarks’ Grant Supported South Side College recently acquired the now-vacant Pittsburgh Façade Lighting Pilot Program: & Lake Erie Railroad station (below); the conservation The Maul building at 1700 East Carson and The Bridge plan will recommend new uses for the structure. building at 2302 East Carson are illuminated at night, thanks to the South Side Local Development Company’s and resident of Florida, read about the Campus Grants façade lighting program. Landmarks’ $2,000 grant in Campus Grants Program in the September 2005 issue of PHLF News. A 2005 to the SSLDC leveraged an additional $18,000 graduate of Geneva College, Mr. Brown informed Jack Miller, in public and private funds. Chas DeLisio of Makato Program Underway director of gift planning, that he would contribute $10,000 Architecture & Design served as lighting consultant. Landmarks is preparing conservation plans for four historic through his Named Fund at Landmarks to underwrite his To learn more about the buildings, visit: campuses––Allegheny College, Geneva College, Grove City alma-mater’s match. The first draft of a conservation plan for Allegheny College www.spotlightonmainstreet.com. College, and Slippery Rock University––thanks to a $185,000 grant from the Getty Foundation. In order to obtain the was completed in February by Landmarks, in cooperation grant, though, the Getty Foundation required that the four with Landmarks Design Associates Architects and Liberto institutions each contribute $10,000 toward the project. Landscape Design. Plans for all four campuses will be “Allegheny and Grove City colleges were able to do that,” completed by the end of this year. said Landmarks president Arthur Ziegler, “but Geneva Correction of note: We thank Jim Wilson, a member of Landmarks, College and Slippery Rock for pointing out an error in the University asked for our help in September 2005 issue of PHLF News: raising the funds, and we were suc- cessful in our efforts: the Allegheny Grove City College was founded in Foundation has approved a 1876––and not, as we had written, in the $10,000 grant to underwrite late 1920s. Allegheny College, founded Slippery Rock University’s match, in 1815, is the oldest of the four colleges while funding for Geneva College we are studying, followed by Grove City Spotlights illuminate the came from a less traditional, but (1876), Geneva College (located in Native American heads on Beaver Falls since 1879 but founded in the Maul building (above), most welcome, source.” Carl Wood Ohio in 1848), and Slippery Rock and the façade of The Brown, a member of Landmarks Bridge building (left). University (1892). (Continued on page 13) PHLF News • April 2006 Page 3

Get Involved in “Making Preservation Work!” State and Local National Preservation Conference 2006 Contributors (as of March 3)

Tuesday, raising effort will continue up to the trustees, and neighborhood representatives October 31, opening day of the conference,” said Esther are working with us to plan the best National Preservation the 2006 Bush, co-chair with David Barensfeld conference possible.” Scholarships will be Conference National of Landmarks’ Conference Planning available to 100 people in Pennsylvania, to Preservation Committee. This is an excellent opportunity help offset registration costs, so a diverse Lead Donor Conference for local sponsors to reach a national crowd of preservationists, urban planners, will open in audience of influential professionals. developers, and architects is expected here PNC Bank Pittsburgh. A “Green/Historic Preservation National in Pittsburgh. For scholarship information, Two nation- Summit,” hosted by the Green Building contact Cathy (412-471-5808, ext. 516; Benefactors ally renowned Alliance and Landmarks, is being held on [email protected]) or download an Ellwood Group, Inc. Pittsburgh Monday, October 30. “Green” buildings application from Landmarks’ Web site: natives— seek solutions that maximize overall www.phlf.org and click on the National National City David human, economic, and environmental Trust conference link. The Alfred M. Oppenheimer McCullough, health and productivity. “Since Pittsburgh Fund of The Pittsburgh distinguished has more LEED-certified commercial build- Five Events Free to Members Foundation author and ings than nearly any other U.S. city,” said As a special benefit, the National Trust historian, Landmarks’ chief programs officer Cathy Pennsylvania Historical and welcomes Landmarks’ members to five and William McCollom, “we wanted to host a day-long Museum Commission events at no charge. Simply go to the Strickland, working meeting in conjunction with the conference registration desk at the Hilton Pittsburgh History & president and National Preservation Conference so leaders Hotel, show your PHLF membership card, Landmarks Foundation CEO of in green-building design can meet with and ask for a Free Event Pass. This pass Manchester historic preservation experts to identify will admit you to: Bidwell Corporation—will give keynote technical and process issues associated with Sponsors speeches during the Opening Plenary, ‘greening’ historic buildings, and develop • An Opening Lecture by Landmarks Citizens Bank beginning at 5:00 p.m. on November 1 at practical solutions or approaches to solve president Arthur Ziegler on Tuesday, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the Benedum Center for the Performing these issues.” National Preservation October 31, from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m., Arts. Approximately 2,500 people from Conference attendees will have the chance Department of Community and at the Byham Theatre; around the country are expected to attend to comment on the recommendations when Economic Development the five-day event filled with educational they are showcased at a booth in the • The National Preservation Awards ESB Bank sessions, field sessions, awards, speeches, Exhibit Hall. Following the conference, Ceremony on Thursday, November 2, a “Preservation Auction,” candlelight tour, a practical guidebook to applying green- from 5:30 to 6:45 p.m., at the Carnegie Federal Home Loan Bank and much more. Members of Landmarks building principles, technologies, and Music Hall; of Pittsburgh can register for the conference or get strategies to historic structures will be • A lecture by Sarah Susanka, architect and Forest City Enterprises, Inc. involved as volunteers by contacting the prepared. The Heinz Endowments is a lead best-selling author of The Not So Big National Trust for Historic Preservation: local sponsor of the Summit, and Massaro The Gailliot Family Foundation House, on Friday, November 3, from see the notice on page 13 for details. Corporation is a sponsor. Katherine Mabis McKenna 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., at the Omni William Penn Hotel; Foundation $294,900 of Local Match Conference Planning in • The Exhibit Hall at the Hilton Hotel, The North Shore Group at Raised Full Gear open Wednesday, November 1 through Smith Barney The Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Preservation groups and leaders in the Friday, November 3, with more than 50 Robert F. Patton Foundation is serving as the local host, Pittsburgh region submitted a total of vendors and purveyors of materials and and PNC Bank is the lead local sponsor. 82 field-session proposals by the services relating to restoration and Cathy Niederberger, senior vice president of January 13 deadline set by the National historic preservation––and a bookstore. community development banking for PNC, Trust. “We were not surprised by the Landmarks’ 11th annual Old House Fair Green/Historic said: “We are supporting this conference overwhelming response,” said Landmarks will be part of the conference exhibition. Preservation because it gives people the knowledge they president Arthur Ziegler, “because preserva- • The premiere of “Saving Fallingwater,” need to revitalize communities and save tion efforts are at the heart of so much of National Summit a documentary by Kenneth Love, will be historic places. The conference’s emphasis what is working in the Pittsburgh region.” held at the Omni William Penn Hotel on on affordable housing, community develop- All the proposals were first-rate, and Lead Donor Saturday, November 4, at 8:30 a.m., as a ment, and green-building design matches Landmarks’ staff will consider offering Heinz Endowments special presentation open to the public. the interests of PNC Bank.” Thanks to some of those that are not selected for the PNC Bank’s generous support––and thanks Trust conference as membership tours in In order to attend any of the 50 educa- Sponsor to the commitments of other benefactors 2007 and beyond. tional sessions or 30-plus field sessions, and sponsors (please see the side bar)–– “Planning for all aspects of the confer- members must register for the conference Massaro Corporation Landmarks has raised nearly all of its ence is in full swing,” said Cathy. “There is (see the notice on page 13 for details). required $350,000 match. “Our fund- still much to be done, but many members, Pittsburgh Jazz In order to create interest in the 2006 at Lincoln Center conference in Pittsburgh during the Portland Conference in 2005, Landmarks The Lincoln Center Jazz gave “a piece of Pittsburgh” to the first Orchestra with Wynton 250 or so conference attendees who correctly Marsalis celebrated answered Pittsburgh trivia cards. The “pieces Pittsburgh’s jazz heritage in of Pittsburgh” were donated to Landmarks three special evening concerts, by 42 Pittsburgh businesses and organiza- February 16 through 18. “Steeltown tions. They included an actual piece of Jazz” honored Mary Lou Williams, “Fallingwater”; T-shirts from the Children’s Earl Hines, Billy Strayhorn, Art Blakey, Museum, CMU, and Mister Rogers’ and many more. Neighborhood; Penn Pilsner and Iron City The New York program described Beer; and a Pittsburgh Steelers #7 jersey. Pittsburgh as a “somewhat remote The booth created quite a sensation––and mill town,” so those who hosted many attendees said they’d see us in 2006! pre-conference receptions from Cathy McCollom (left) of Landmarks and Pittsburgh––including representatives Kate Trimble of the Lawrenceville from Landmarks, the Greater Corporation are shown here. Pittsburgh Convention and Visitors Bureau, August Wilson Center for African American Culture, Manchester Craftsmen Guild, and Eat’n Park––made a point of polishing the city’s image. We featured our tours and the National Preservation Conference and invited concert attendees from New York, Connecticut, Long Island, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, and New Jersey to visit Pittsburgh in 2006. Page 4 PHLF News • April 2006 OUR WORK: Recent Progress

The Pittsburgh New Church in Point Thank You! Breeze was awarded $8,000 in 2005 to Gifts from the following people clean and repoint masonry and repair its steeple. The church was designed and organizations will enable our in 1929 by Philadelphia architect Historic Religious Properties Harold Thorp Carswell. program to continue. Year-end gift contributors, through December 31, 2005, are: • First Baptist Church of Glassport, Glassport Wilda W. Aiken Anonymous • Lamb of God Christian Ministries, William J. Baumgarten Homestead Mr. & Mrs. Rolland W. Beatty • St. Peter & St. Paul Ukrainian Orthodox Joseph M. Berenbrok Church, Carnegie Minnette D. Bickel • Zion Baptist Church, McKeesport H. M. Bitner Charitable Trust As a result, stained glass will be repaired Edward N. Blair and restored; brickwork repointed; Rachel Kirk Bobo woodwork Barbara Bonnett repainted; and Lisa Bontempo and William Pierce roofs, steeples, and Florence K. Boyt windows repaired. Albert and Anne Burgunder Technical Thomas C. Camarda assistance from Sally Hillman Childs Landmarks Gives $80,300 to Landmarks’ staff Russell W. Coe will help congrega- Communication Research, Inc. 16 Historic Religious Properties Plus tions prioritize Frank and Janet Coyle restoration John P. Davis, Jr. Technical Assistance to Six Others projects and Daniel and Kathleen Deis establish preventive maintenance programs. Mary DeWinter Named Fund Trustee George Dorman, chair of • Missionary Temple Church of God in “We’re seeing progress and sensing a Seymour and Ruth Drescher Landmarks’ Historic Religious Properties Christ, East Liberty cooperative, ‘can do’ spirit among the Lowrie Ebbert Committee, announced 16 grants and six • Mulberry Presbyterian Church, 100-plus churches and synagogues that James M. Edwards offers of technical assistance to the follow- Wilkinsburg have benefited from our Historic Religious Mr. & Mrs. Paul C. Emery ing churches who were among the 28 who • New Hope Church, Marshall-Shadeland Properties Program since its inception in Lois Scott Emler applied to Landmarks’ 2005 Historic 1997,” said Cathy McCollom, chief George and Roseann Erny • Old St. Luke’s, Scott Township Religious Properties program: programs officer at Landmarks. Year-end Gregory R. Fuhrman • Pittsburgh New Church, Point Breeze gifts from our members and friends, private Richard A. Gaydos • South Avenue United Methodist Church, Grants: foundations, and Landmarks’ endowment Anne Genter Wilkinsburg • Bellefield Presbyterian Church, Oakland support the continuing program of grants Michael F. Golde • Bethel Presbyterian Church, Bethel Park • St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, and technical assistance. Douglas and Julianna Haag • Calvary United Methodist Church, Highland Park On the side bar of this page is a list of Harold and Anne Hall Allegheny West • St. Anthony’s Chapel, Troy Hill people and foundations who answered James and Frances Hardie • Union Project, Highland Park our year-end appeal and contributed to J. T. Haretos, M.D. • Episcopal Church of the Nativity, Crafton Landmarks’ Historic Religious Properties The Milton G. Hulme • First United Methodist Church of Technical Assistance: Program. Churches and synagogues Charitable Foundation Pittsburgh, Shadyside/Bloomfield • Clark Memorial Baptist Church, interested in applying for grant funds and Eileen B. Hutchinson • Greenstone United Methodist Church, Homestead technical assistance may contact Cathy Mr. & Mrs. Jay Jarrell Avalon (412-471-5808, ext. 516; [email protected]) Barbara Johnstone • Congregation Poale Zedeck, Squirrel Hill • Hawthorne Avenue Presbyterian or visit our Web site: www.phlf.org. Martha Jordan Church, Crafton William C. and Virginia A. Keck Kelly Art Glass Company Rebecca M. Kuhl Mr. & Mrs. Robert I. Long Edward D. Loughney Good News from Grant Recipients Michael and Andrea Lowenstein The following comments from historic religious property recipients attest to the value of Landmarks’ program: Doug and Angela Marvin Katherine Mabis McKenna a donor in Carlisle, PA who learned about Foundation, Inc. our project via your newsletter…. Melissa M. McSwigan “Now that the roof work is completed, The Miller and Kim Family I hope you will consider stopping by when Named Fund weather and time permits to see the histori- MaryAnn Ference Mistick cally appropriate way the job was done. Muriel Moreland I believe that the original architect, Carlton Philip F. Muck Strong, would be proud of what we have Eliza Scott Nevin accomplished….” Victor and Susan Norman —Reverend John Bachkay, Pastor Jeffrey and Nancy Orman Incarnation of the Lord Catholic Parish James and Pauline Parker December 9, 2005 Matthew J. Ragan Contributions from member Russell W. Coe Mr. & Mrs. William Y. Rodewald and from the Miller and Kim Family Named Dan and Patricia Rooney Fund at Landmarks helped fund the installa- Wilfred and Ruth Rouleau tion of a new roof on the Incarnation of “In the spring of this year [2005] Virginia Schatz the Lord Catholic Parish worship site at First Baptist applied to the Pennsylvania W. Paul Spencer 4071 Franklin Road on the North Side. Historical and Museum Commission Frank L. Stanley The church, built in 1925 to designs by for a Keystone Grant, to reinforce the Louise and Martin Sturgess Carlton Strong, was formerly Nativity Church. steeple/fleche and restore or replace the Caroline Craig Sutton chimola (hemispherical bells) ringing Mr. & Mrs. Louis M. Tarasi, Jr. “I was pleasantly surprised when I opened mechanism. The PHMC notified us last week that we received an award in the Norrine B. Taylor a recent PHLF letter that included an amount of $90,000. Mr. & Mrs. Louis L. Testoni additional $2,000 gift from your Historic “We want to take this opportunity to Tom Tripoli Religious Properties Fund for our church roof replacement project. To date, we have thank you and Landmarks for providing Dr. & Mrs. Albert C. Van Dusen guidance, financial support, and technical Elaine Wertheim received almost $95,000 in donations and another $85,000 in pledges. The total assistance to our church over the past few Roger C. Westman “As a member of the Epiphany R. C. project is $180,000 and the final bill is due years. In particular, we received timely Frances H. Wilson Church I am grateful for the financial before the end of his year [2005]. As you information about applying for a Keystone Jacqueline H. Wilson assistance, encouragement, and support know, Jack and Donna Miller are matching grant at one of the New Dollars/New Mary M. Wohleber PHLF has given us over the years. A 100+ gifts from their PHLF Named Fund 3 to 1 Partners sessions sponsored by Landmarks Arthur Ziegler years old church has continual needs and in up to $500. and Partners for Sacred Places….” our case limited means. That is why the Jack R. Zierden “Jack [Landmarks’ director of gift plan- —Reverend Gary Denning, Pastor, and PHLF grants are so important.” Casey Gnage, Capital Campaign, Treasurer Those who contributed in 2006 will ning] also informed me that this most recent gift would not have been possible —W. J. Baumgarten, December 20, 2005 November 7, 2005 be acknowledged in the next issue without the generosity of Mr. Russell Coe, of PHLF News. PHLF News • April 2006 Page 5

Landmarks and Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh Forge Agreement

Preserving historic houses of worship has significant buildings whose religious Landmarks will not nominate any build- been a long-term goal of the Pittsburgh usefulness was in question. ings to the National Register or as City of History & Landmarks Foundation. Some The agreement reached in August 2005 Pittsburgh Historic Structures without the 90 current and former houses of worship by Landmarks and the Roman Catholic consent of the Diocese. have received Historic Landmark Plaques. Diocese of Pittsburgh is of major signifi- Reverend Ronald Lengwin, director of the The Historic Religious Properties Initiative cance. According to the agreement: Diocese Office for Public and Community of 1994 established a formal program to Affairs, sees the agreement as a way • The Diocese will send Landmarks the work for the preservation of historic build- “to identify constructive ways to benefit names of churches and ecclesiastical ings still in active use (see page 4). our community . . . . We should not simply buildings it plans to sell; Preserving religious properties is a wait for opportunities to come our way complex issue. Saving architecturally • Roman Catholic churches may be to work together but create them.” Liverpool Street, Manchester significant structures and venerable nominated for Historic Landmark After being informed about the agree- neighborhood landmarks, and maintaining Plaques if the Diocese agrees; ment between Landmarks and the Catholic community and parish allegiances, may • The Diocese may apply for various Diocese, Peter Brink, senior vice president Pittsburgh conflict with population decline and religious properties services offered of programs at the National Trust, wrote movement, and limited congregational by Landmarks, e.g. technical services the following to Landmarks president Can’t Live or denominational financial resources. or grants offered through its historic Arthur Ziegler on August 19, 2005: Philanthropic organizations have been religious properties program; “You have clearly worked out a model Without You reluctant to fund non-sectarian causes. relationship which has tremendous value to Religious organizations (like universities) • The Diocese may work with Landmarks other preservation groups in other parts of Did you hear the following messages tend to focus on “higher verities” and to assist buyers of buildings deemed the country….I am sharing this material broadcast on KQV, WQED, or KDKA superfluous in applying for historic slight bricks and mortar. with…our Northeast Office since they are in December 2005? In Pittsburgh, as elsewhere, the Roman designation which will benefit the new working with state and local preservation Catholic church has opposed any secular use of the building; and groups and the Archdiocese of Boston You can still hear them on Landmarks’ restrictions on its use and disposition of • The Diocese’s right to remove religious regarding the transfer of a large number of Web site: www.phlf.org, and there’s still church property. The announcement that art and artifacts from a closing structure historic church and related properties.” time to reply to Jack Miller, director of an important structure was scheduled to will not be contested. gift planning: 412-471-5808, ext. 538. close, pitted church officials against preservationists (and not infrequently Landmarks will review the buildings • Preserve forever the landmarks you the Diocese plans to close and will consider parishioners). The struggle was not only love. Create an endowed fund at acrimonious, but piecemeal in its approach (a) purchase, (b) exploring adaptive uses, the Pittsburgh History & to determining the future of architecturally and/or (c) assisting in marketing the sale. Landmarks Foundation. Call 412-471-5808 to find out how… because Pittsburgh can’t live without you. Visiting St. John • A landmark lost is a landmark that Vianney can’t be replaced. Let’s think before we demolish. This message is On November 15, 2005, Landmarks’ brought to you by the Pittsburgh education staff planned a field trip to History & Landmarks Foundation. St. John Vianney for second- and third- grade students from Bishop Leonard Catholic School, to help them appreciate the architectural significance of their “new” church, designed in 1910 by architect Herman Lang. St. John Vianney Parish was created in 2005 when the Diocese had to close and consolidate four parishes: St. Henry’s Church in Arlington; St. Joseph’s in Mt. Oliver; St. Canice in Knoxville; and St. George’s in Allentown. St. George’s is now home to St. John Vianney, and St. Joseph Church and rectory have been sold to an African-American congregation from Braddock. St. Canice and St. Henry’s are still for sale. Much of the religious art from all four During a tour of St. John Vianney, Bishop Leonard students jumped nine times (one jump churches is now part of a thoughtfully equals ten years) to feel about how old the church is. designed museum in St. John Vianney, while artwork by renowned Pittsburgh artist Virgil Cantini from St. Henry’s was group and escorted everyone through all Bishop Leonard students, teachers, and donated to the Pope John Paul II Cultural parts of St. John Vianney. The stained glass parents were impressed with their new Center in Washington, D.C. windows, designed by German artist worship home. Father Tom Wilson met Landmarks’ tour George Boos, are especially magnificent. A stained glass window of 1910 by George Boos (1859–1937).

St. George’s Roman Catholic Church at Allen and Climax Streets in Allentown has been renamed St. John Vianney. Landmarks’ architectural historian Walter Kidney describes the whole effect of the church as “genial and aggressive” and notes that “[t]his church, with its adjacent buildings, makes a great architectural show in its neighborhood.” It was designed in 1910 by Herman Lang. Page 6 PHLF News • April 2006 OUR WORK: Recent Issues

Federal and State Landmarks Offers City Funds to Save Market Street Buildings

Legislation When Landmarks learned that the City Either of these proposals might propose demolishing 439 Market would save the City the Support Street due to its deteriorated condition, expenditures of demolition fallen roof, and collapsed floors, president and would provide the needed Preservation Arthur Ziegler wrote to the Mayor’s office money for the roof. and to the Urban Redevelopment Authority Meanwhile, on December 7, in August 2005. He suggested two 2005, Pittsburgh’s Historic Since the last report on historic proposals for the City’s consideration: Review Commission agreed that the City could proceed in preservation legislation in the • The City could transfer ownership partially demolishing the of 439 Market Street and two adjoining September 2004 issue of PHLF News, Graeme Street façade of buildings (443 Market Street and Section 4(f) of the Federal transporta- 439 Market Street, and, 130–132 Fifth Avenue) to Landmarks or tion reauthorization bill, providing as reported on December 8 by an entity that Landmarks would create for Mark Belko of the Pittsburgh strong protection for historic resources, this purpose. Landmarks would then Post-Gazette, in “gutting the has been retained in the bill passed by immediately put the new roof on the interior, stabilizing some walls, Congress and signed by the President 439 Market Street building and clean it. and erecting a temporary in August 2005. • Or, if the City preferred to retain enclosure to protect what In Pennsylvania, preservationists ownership of the three buildings, then remains from the elements. The three endangered buildings are shown in this photo. Landmarks would offer the alternative of The plan, estimated to cost were victorious with the passage of The corner building, 130–132 Fifth Avenue, was lending the City up to $33,000 (an $100,000, would save the designed by Alden & Harlow in 1908 for the Regal Shoe Growing Greener II in July 2005, amount later amended to a maximum Market Street façade….Still to Company. To its left are twin Italianate structures of which set aside $10 million annually of $75,000) for a new roof and clean up, be determined is who will pay c. 1870: 443 Market Street is shown in the center of the for the next six years for grants to to be repaid upon the City’s transferring for the work.” photo and 439 Market Street is to its left. owners of eligible properties for the the building to a new owner or developing the building itself. The loan, with an out- preservation of historic commercial and side date of 24 months, would be interest A New Plan three buildings. Mayor Bob O’Connor is residential properties. After unanimous free, but would carry the stipulation that The new year brought a new City considering the idea: Landmarks would House passage last fall, the Historic all three buildings be preserved. In addi- administration—and a revised proposal: serve as developer and the Downtown Preservation Incentives Act is now tion, Landmarks would have the right Landmarks and the Pittsburgh Downtown Pittsburgh Partnership would be an anchor tenant. being considered by the Senate. to approve the exterior design of any Partnership announced in February that This bill was strongly supported by redevelopment. they might team together to redevelop the Preservation PA, 10,000 Friends, the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Downtown Living Initiative, and Landmarks. Spring Ground- Properties eligible for the grants must Breaking for be “listed or eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places, August Wilson either individually or as a contributing Center for African building within a historic district.” The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum American Culture Commission will review applications that must include a description of the A triangular block of historic buildings at proposed improvements and estimated Liberty Avenue and Tenth Street, down- cost. Improvements must follow the town, was demolished in the fall of 2005 to make way for what architect Allison Standards for Rehabilitation of the Williams hopes will be regarded, in time, Secretary of the Interior. Residential as a historic landmark for Pittsburgh’s properties will receive up to $15,000 African-American community and citizens, African-American architect Allison Williams’ design for the August Wilson Center, to be in grants, and commercial properties and for people nationwide. constructed in the 900 block of Liberty Avenue. will receive up to $2 million. A principal at the international design firm Perkins + Will, Williams has designed Some legislators, however, “would a three-story, 80,000-square-foot building provide sufficient space for feasible uses. prefer to see a tax-credit program intended to express both a prow moving A few years ago, Landmarks entered forward and a chest puffed out with pride. into negotiations with Neil A. Barclay, rather than grants,” said Julie DeSeyn president and CEO of the African of the Urban Redevelopment Authority Named in honor of Pittsburgh-born play- wright August Wilson, the Center is engaged American Cultural Center (AACC), and of Pittsburgh, but “the Governor’s in a capital campaign to raise $35.9 million with architect Allison Williams. Our staff office has taken a hard stance against for the construction of the state-of-the-art provided research on the history of the all types of tax credits going forward,” facility, scheduled to open late next year. area, and on the variety of significant buildings that had been located within because the staff believes their legality The August Wilson Center will include a three-block area, including the Nixon will be challenged. a 500-seat theater; a permanent exhibition gallery devoted to Western Pennsylvania’s Theatre, Fort Pitt Hotel, and Second Only seven states, including African-American cultural history; a chang- Presbyterian Church, among others. Knowing that the AACC intended to Pennsylvania, have failed to imple- ing exhibition gallery; a music café featuring demolish the historic buildings in the Above: The 900 block of Liberty Avenue, ment some type of tax credit for live Pittsburgh-based and national perfor- mances as well as food of the African 900 Liberty Avenue block, Landmarks before demolition in the fall of 2005. historic preservation rehabilitation. Diaspora; a large gift store with cyber café, requested that a permanent exhibition Below: Landmarks loaned $115,000 to As one of the original thirteen colonies, classrooms and educational activity spaces, be included on the first floor of the new the URA in 1996 to protect this Italianate it makes sense for Pennsylvania to and a multi-purpose room for community- Center documenting the architectural building of 1876 from demolition for a encourage the protection of its based meetings and events. and social history of the area, and that parking lot. This photograph was taken on Landmarks be included in the design October 19, 2005, when demolition of the architectural heritage and pursue review process. On August 10, 2005, 900 block of Liberty Avenue was underway. efforts for tax-credit legislation to Landmarks’ Involvement Mr. Barclay gave Landmarks written build on the success of the historic On August 28, 1996, at the request of confirmation of that agreement. On preservation grant program. Mayor Murphy, Landmarks loaned August 23, 2005, the URA repaid $115,000 to the Urban Redevelopment Landmarks’ loan, and work began in Authority so it could acquire an Italianate earnest on clearing the site. building of 1876 in the middle of the The 900 block was not part of the Penn- 900 block and thereby prevent demolition Liberty City Historic District, nor was it of the entire block for a parking lot and save part of the Penn-Liberty National Register the block for a more useful future purpose. Historic District. The August Wilson Landmarks conducted studies of the build- Center will add vitality to the Cultural ings to see if they could function as lofts or District and is within walking distance of office space. Because of the angles of the the David L. Lawrence Convention Center streets and the small size of the buildings, and the Senator John Heinz Pittsburgh they could not be restored, meet codes, and Regional History Center. PHLF News • April 2006 Page 7

Living Downtown

A Suggestion for Downtown Housing Arthur Ziegler

If more people live downtown, the Gateway One, Two, and retail environment will improve; and at Three are in a park-like Landmarks we believe that if City subsidy setting, secluded in effect funds are to be expended, they should be from street-front retail. expended for housing rather than retail. They are adjacent to the The huge subsidies and public costs Cultural District, a light rail involved in the failed downtown Lazarus stop, the airport bus, and and Lord & Taylor department stores, restaurants. All three are totaling almost $100 million, could have connected by underground instead subsidized the creation of hundreds passageways to a central The former Union National Bank at Fourth of housing units placed along the water- parking garage, and there Avenue and Wood Street (MacClure & Spahr; fronts. Office buildings do not need to are fine river views from 1906) has been renamed “The Carlyle” and command our precious riverfronts; views of many of the floors. is being converted into 61 residential units with the rivers, though, will help attract residents. Three excellent results three, five, and ten-year leases. E. V. Bishoff We suggest to the Hertz Investment could occur if the studies Company is the developer and Gerald Verardi Group, owners of Gateway Center One, were positive and the owners is the architect. For information, call amenable. First: at a time 412-512-0414 or visit: www.carlylecondo.com. when there is a glut of vacant office space down- town, a supply of office space would be removed from the office market. Looking west on Forbes Avenue to Market Second: high-quality housing would be Square, with Ehrenkrantz Eckstut & made available without having to dislocate Kuhn’s “Pittsburgh Pavilion,” a significant any businesses or create new parking new public building proposed by garages. Third: the gardens and grassland Landmarks in its 1999 plan. surrounding these buildings would be Two, and Three, that they undertake better used. studies to determine the feasibility of We continue to recommend that the the City,” would be “Pittsburgh’s reply to converting these cruciform-shaped office long-demolished market house on Market Richardson’s Courthouse.” It would only buildings to housing. The Renaissance I Square be replaced with the stunning be a short distance from the potential structures, completed in 1953 to designs by contemporary glass building proposed by apartment dwellers in Gateway One, Eggers & Higgins (New York), might not Ehrenkrantz Eckstut & Kuhn Architects in Two, and Three, and could house a tradi- provide optimum office space for today’s our 1999 plan that was submitted to the tional food market and various public McHolme Builders is converting the Standard needs, but they might provide an excellent City to revitalize Fifth/Forbes. The new activities. It would also serve as a vibrant Life Building (right) at Smithfield Street and Fourth Avenue (Alden & Harlow; 1902) into floor plate for housing. building, “a true Pittsburgh Pavilion for all symbol for new life downtown. student housing with 44 two-bedroom units. Students from the International Academy for Design and Technology are now in residence in the Fidelity Building (left) at 341 Fourth Arthur Ziegler Avenue (James T. Steen; 1889). McHolme Fifth Forbes: Go Ye to FortWorth Builders converted the upper floors into 24 two-bedroom units. About 20 years ago, I was invited to Fort Worth, Texas to look at the languishing downtown, where a handsome new apartment The Art Institute building had been erected amidst a collection of historic, small-scale of Pittsburgh is buildings dating from the turn-of-the-century through the 1930s. Historic Fort Worth, Inc. Responds converting the The developer of the nascent area called it Sundance Square. nine-story Try Fort Worth was struggling to bring people back to town. October 28, 2005 Street Terminal To do so, they outlined all of the high-rise buildings with light bulbs. Building at 620 It made a beguiling sight as you approached the city from the Dear Mr. Ziegler: Second Avenue highways or saw it from a plane as you landed at the airport. Thank you for taking the time to write me about your into 140 student While meeting with my hosts, I reinforced the idea of saving as earlier and recent visits to Fort Worth. Your observations apartments. Tasso many of the historic downtown buildings as possible, no matter are consistent with ours. Katselas Architects how improbable a viable future use for some of them might is preparing The enormous convention center and surface parking seem. I advocated utilizing the concentrated collection of the designs. lots and garages disconnect a vibrant Sundance Square on historic buildings for entertainment and restaurants, which were already taking root in Sundance Square and in the historic the northern side of downtown from the beautiful south- Stockyards area. ern edge of town. Our city fathers are aware of this and are working on the issue. Fortunately, the Terminal is Last September, I had an opportunity to stop again in Fort Worth. being rehabbed into apartments as a Federal Tax Credit Point Park The high-rises had been replaced by higher ones, and all were project and should begin to bring life back to this area University (PPU) still outlined top to bottom in light bulbs. I headed for Sundance of town. Certainly, the towering glass buildings were is converting the Square. As I drove through the streets, I saw only big new build- never “people friendly.” upper floors of ings, an arena, a new convention center, and empty sidewalks …We all wish you the best of luck in turning the 111 Wood Street around all these new structures. The huge fountain square political will towards the preservation of the older (left; c. 1900) into designed by Philip Johnson over two decades ago and located buildings along “Fifth/Forbes.” You might remind the 18 two-bedroom amidst these structures was surrounded by cyclone fence and local leaders that there is a reason why everyone wants units for students, marked “Closed.” Finally, I reached Sundance Square, where, to spend their tourism dollars in Europe. with Silver King to my delight, all the old buildings seemed not only to be Best wishes, Housing as the standing, but were fully leased for restaurants, interesting local developer. PPU shops, and entertainment. The sidewalks were crowded with Sincerely, is also converting people of all ages, enjoying the beautiful fall evening, and the upper floors of creating a beating heart for the city. the Conestoga Building (below) at 7 Wood As I strolled around, I noted that other older buildings had Street (Longfellow, Alden & Harlow; 1890) into 24 two-bedroom units for students. The first been converted to apartments; there were a number of hotels Jerre Tracy floor will remain commercial. McHolme on the perimeter of the area which, judging from the lights Executive Director Builders is the developer. in the windows, looked as if they were well occupied. National retailers were announcing their intention to open just on the perimeter of the lively area. Bringing My Point Home Landmarks has been advancing for some years now the same principles I advocated years ago in Fort Worth for rejuvenating Fifth/Forbes, downtown: cease restricting the development opportunities to a single out-of-town master developer; open the market to developers who wish to commit now to quality development. Use those old buildings for entertainment, for interesting and unique local shops, for restaurants and pubs, for a market house. Enable housing to take place such as has been happening in downtown Pittsburgh outside of the Fifth/Forbes area (by local and national developers), and then the retail will follow. For over five years our approach has been ignored. We are now pleased that Mayor Bob O’Connor is considering these ideas. We suggest a trip to Fort Worth where the results of the approach we advocate are there to be seen and jubilantly experienced. Page 8 PHLF News • April 2006 OUR WORK: Recent Progress

Grable Foundation Grant and South Side “Neighborhood Assistance Program” Boost School Participation

Landmarks—and more than 5,600 school students and teachers from throughout the Pittsburgh region—are enjoying the second year of a three-year grant from Atrium, Fox Chapel Golf Club The Grable Foundation that is helping students and teachers “develop an understanding and appreciation for the urban environment.” In addition, funding Brandon Smith from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania’s Department of Community and Economic Lecture Inspires Development (PA DCED) and local sponsor PNC Bank, is enabling Landmarks to offer Crowd of 200 educational programs to four South Side schools for the eighth consecutive year, The Fox Chapel Golf Club and thanks to the South Side Local Development Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Company’s “Neighborhood Assistance Foundation combined efforts to stage Program/Comprehensive Service Program.” a memorable evening for members We are grateful to The Grable Foundation and DCED for their continuing support, and friends of both organizations on and are pleased to match those major October 2, 2005. Close to 200 people program grants with endowment income. attended an illustrated lecture by By participating in walking tours, David J. Vater, architect and Pittsburgh in-school programs, architectural design History & Landmarks Foundation challenges, after-school enrichment Gateway High School students climbed more than 200 city steps during their tour of the trustee, that was followed by guided programs and in-services designed by South Side in October 2005. High school students from Central Catholic, Fox Chapel Area, Landmarks, teachers, students, and adult Mt. Lebanon, and Shaler regularly tour with Landmarks. tours of the clubhouse and a buffet chaperones are learning to see the beauty supper. Historic photographs were in, and value of, their neighborhood and value and can add life and character to an offered to city and county schools between displayed in various rooms and places, city. In the process, teachers are able to existing community—and can even be the October 2005 and February 2006. Our connect classroom lessons to real-world so guests could see how the clubhouse catalyst for community revitalization. programs often involve an art or writing situations (which makes learning more had evolved from the original Alden & To learn more about our educational component. When students have the chance relevant for students), and students Harlow design of 1925 to Brandon programs, contact Mary Ann (412-471-5808, to draw or write, they see the landmark, in are able to strengthen academic and ext. 537; [email protected]); or visit all its detail, and develop a personal con- Smith’s design of 1931. citizenship skills and develop a sense of www.phlf.org (click on “For Kids and nection with the landmark through a story belonging that builds self-esteem and The event celebrated Teachers”) or www.spotlightonmainstreet.com or drawing they create. As a result, they encourages community involvement. the life and work of (click on “Field Trips & Programs”). will be more likely to work to save that Landmarks, in the process, is able to The photos here and on pages 9 and 12 landmark as an adult. Eclectic architect teach the most basic principle of historic highlight some of the programs we have Brandon Smith preservation: that something old has (1889–1962), who practiced in Pittsburgh from 1912 until his Brandon Smith retirement to Florida in 1955. He designed the Fox Chapel and Edgeworth Clubs, the B. F. Jones Library at Aliquippa, and many fine residences in the region. In a tribute to the architect published in the February 1962 issue of The Charette, William Chalfant described Smith as having “an instinct for elegance” and “a passion for ancient Beauty….Inevitably his professional ambitions centered around the fine residence, the club, any building serving superior social living….Brandon was without doubt the ablest great house planner this City has known.” The evening helped everyone more fully appreciate the enduring elegance of the Fox Chapel Golf Club, from its innovative design concept and hillside site to the grand interior spaces that are enlivened by intricate, Fourth-grade students from Woolslair School explored Bloomfield, ornamental detailing. sketched historic houses that matched photos they were given, and created paper-bag buildings based on their sketches. Pittsburgh A copy of David Vater’s lecture and Public School art teacher Carole Malakoff, pictured above with her the clubhouse tour notes are on file students, asked Landmarks to organize this educational program. in Landmarks’ James D. Van Trump Library. Members and friends are welcome by appointment: contact Al Tannler (412-471-5808, ext. 515; [email protected]). PHLF News • April 2006 Page 9

Of Note More than 2000 Volunteer Hours in 2005 Members of Landmarks and student interns helped us involve just over 11,900 people in our education programs in 2005. Plus, we reached an additional 5,000 people Art teacher Carole Malakoff involved through book sales and exhibits. her fifth- and fourth-grade students from Volunteers helped with bulk mailings, membership Schaeffer Elementary in walking tours of Pittsburgh’s bridges and of the solicitations, the 2005 Old House Fair (March 12 & 13), Mexican War Streets, respectively. and the South Side “Save Our History” community Students used the sketches they made celebration (April 30). Our docents and student interns during the tours to create watercolors worked with our education staff to present 41 slide lectures and paper-bag buildings. in 2005; 52 private group tours; 71 walking tours for school students; 16 “special” programs for various schools/groups; 39 membership events and public tours; and 95 educational programs offered through the South Side Local Development Company’s “Neighborhood Assistance Program/Comprehensive Service Program,” sponsored by the PA DCED and PNC Bank. We thank all our docents who have worked with us so loyally for years, and the following student interns who have volunteered with us in recent months: Carrie Czar, Michelle Kirkpatrick, Kristina Kosloff, Anne Nelson, Charles Schaefer, and Emily Schantz.

Legendary Ladies Contact Marie (412-471-5808, ext. 526; [email protected]) for a free copy of “Legendary Ladies: A Guide to Where Women Made History in Pennsylvania.” The Greater Pittsburgh brochure (there’s one for Philadelphia as well) features 55 women and 80 places. Landmarks worked with the Senator John Heinz Pittsburgh Regional History Center and others to produce the text and obtain photographs for the brochure, published by the Pennsylvania Commission for Women.

Laurel Foundation Funds A. W. Schmidt Biography Clarke M. Thomas, senior editor (retired) of the Pittsburgh In December 2005 and Post-Gazette, has written a biography of the Honorable January 2006, 121 students Adolph W. Schmidt (1904–2000) that Landmarks is from Arlington, Bishop publishing this spring, thanks to a $40,000 grant received Leonard, Philip Murray in 2003 from the Laurel Foundation. A notable American (shown at left), and Phillips who lived during a time of great American world influence, Elementary schools participated Schmidt was a U.S. ambassador to Canada and a vital part in the “Poetry and Art of South Side Landmarks.” of Pittsburgh’s urban renewal history. He offered helpful Students saw Douglas Cooper’s advice to Landmarks trustee Barbara Hoffstot when we mural of Pittsburgh in CMU’s were launching our organization in 1964, and helped University Center, and then conceive and fund Landmarks’ first architectural survey sketched and wrote a poem of Allegheny County, which became the first county-wide about a South Side landmark. survey in the nation. To read all the student poems Contact Frank Stroker (412-471-5808, ext. 525; and see all the artwork, visit: [email protected]) for more information about A Patrician www.spotlightonmainstreet.com. of Ideas: A Biography of A. W. Schmidt. Click on “Main Street Memories” and then click on “Written History PDFs.” PHMC and Buhl Foundation Fund Three poems and sketches are Allegheny City Book reprinted below. Thanks to a $15,000 matching grant from the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission and a $7,000 grant from The Buhl Foundation, along with in-kind assistance from various local groups, author Lisa A. Miles is researching and writing a book on Allegheny City (now Pittsburgh’s North Side), based, in part, on a collection of recently catalogued materials at the Pennsylvania State Archives. The book is to be published in 2007, marking the centennial of Allegheny City’s annexation to Pittsburgh. Landmarks is overseeing the grant and publication process.

Oliver Miller Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony Visit the Oliver Miller Homestead in South Park on Friday, April 28 at 10:00 a.m. and celebrate the completion of a major restoration project involving Allegheny County, the Oliver Miller Homestead, and the Pittsburgh History & I’m a perogie-making church full I am over 100 years old. My castle represents the city, Landmarks Foundation. You’ll see a new barn that is a of people, I once was told I was beautiful and Which sometimes can be dirty And I have domes instead of a steeple. I still am. replica of the original built in the 1770s and a permanent and gritty. educational exhibit, including a collection of images I have four gold crosses that shine in The people are very nice to put a glass My checkerboard pattern represents depicting the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794 and historic the sky, piece to protect me. William Pitt, maps of the area. Landmarks supervised the construction And every time a guy walks by The pictures mean something like if Our city was named for him— of the barn, at the request of Allegheny County, and created He says “Hi” I were the State seal. Oh yeah, that’s it! a PowerPoint presentation documenting the barn-raising. And I say “Bye.” Even though people don’t look much My three eagles are black and gold, Schools or community groups can borrow the presentation My bells ring all the time more at me, With all the symbols they are by contacting Mary Ann (412-471-5808, ext. 537; And the gold plates on me shine. I know I’m important. really bold. [email protected]). The barn-raising and other Please keep me for many more years. —Robert Duttine —Chad Dawgiello improvements were funded through a $500,000 grant 7th grade, Arlington School —Briana Brookins 7th grade, Bishop Leonard School from the Pennsylvania Department of Community and 5th grade, Philip Murray School Economic Development.

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Kidney Bequest Endows Library and Publications On his 71st birthday, Walter made Landmarks the beneficiary of his retirement plan. The following year, in 2004, he established Landmarks’ first flexible deferred gift annuity, providing him with lifetime income and, as he said to Landmarks’ director of gift planning Jack Miller, “a gift to Landmarks when I expire.” His gifts, when added together, have resulted in a sizeable bequest to Landmarks, amounting to about $300,000. During the December 20, 2005 Board of Trustees meeting, chair Mark Bibro proposed that a special fund be created with Walter’s bequest honoring his professional interests. The trustees unanimously agreed to use Walter’s bequest to endow the “Walter C. Kidney Library and Publications Fund,” that will support, primarily: Walter C. Kidney (1932–2005), photographed in 1999 by Jim Judkis. Here, Walter is in his office, amidst files and page proofs of his book, Pittsburgh’s Bridges: Architecture and Engineering. • the James D. Van Trump Library (that includes about 4,000 of Walter’s books); • publication of Beyond the Surface: Architecture and Being Alive, a memoir by Walter C. Kidney; and Practical Preservation and Arc • Landmarks’ publications program, in general, including publication of books and booklets on the architec- hen I joined Landmarks in 1991, my diverse jobs included writer, historian, librarian, curator, tural heritage of the Pittsburgh region. Wand archivist. Thus my not-quite-fifteen-year association with Walter Kidney was not only collegial, it was also archival. I was also fortunate to know Jamie Van Trump; we were in regular “Walter will live on through his philan- thropy because of the sensible plan he contact until his death in 1995. put together during his lifetime,” My archival responsibilities came to the fore in 1994, when I wrote Landmarks remarked Jack at the Board meeting. Celebrates Thirty Years. Therein I remembered my first visit to Landmarks and It is this realism Several members have contributed to my (temporary) return to Chicago armed with books by Jamie and Walter. that distinguishes Landmarks in memory of Walter, and I recalled: their contributions have been added to [William] Morris from the Walter C. Kidney Library and [John] Ruskin, Jamie told me a great deal about Pittsburgh buildings and Pittsburgh architects and did so with such breadth and affection and involvement Publications Fund (see page 19). this sense of urgency of that Pittsburgh, through his writings, became a vital and appealing place. effective action. Walter elucidated architectural shapes, textures, and patterns and revealed In reading and rereading the subtleties and quirkiness of the designs and the designers working in Memoir to Morris’s lectures, the Pittsburgh area. Be Published one nearly always An unbeatable combination it seemed to me then—and still does today. finds answers Jamie and Walter wrote architectural history from the standpoint of historic in October to the question: preservation. They wrote from within an organization committed to saving and Donors to the Walter C. Kidney Library What can be done? maintaining historically significant buildings, neighborhoods, and landscapes. and Publications Fund also will be —Sir Nikolaus Pevsner As I noted in Landmarks Celebrates Thirty Years: acknowledged in Walter’s memoir, Beyond the Surface: Architecture and Landmarks is an activist organization committed to practical preservation, Being Alive, to be published by and to educational programs and publications that may be scholarly, informational, interactive, Landmarks in October. If you are or a combination thereof. Innovation and flexibility have characterized Landmarks’ approach interested in making a donation to and methodology. support the publication of his memoir, please mail your contribution by August 10 to Louise Sturgess, Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation, Publications by Jamie and Walter 100 W. Station Square Drive, Suite 450, Pittsburgh, PA 15219. Please make your check payable to “PHLF” and reference it “WCK Book.” In a notice which Walter wrote for the 2003 Haverford College 50th Reunion magazine, he referred to his memoir in the following passage: “As regards belief: I am still trying to make sense of existence….This ‘personal’ book I am working on will, I hope, bring an architectural approach to the existential question in some way, looking for some harmony regardless of whatever comes….” PHLF News • April 2006 Page 11

In Memoriam Walter C. Kidney (1932-2005) Walter C. Kidney, who served as Landmarks’ architectural historian and author since the early 1980s (first on a free-lance basis and beginning in 1988 as a salaried employee), died on December 1, 2005. He became ill at the end of August 2005 and his health gradually declined. On January 24, 2006, on what would have been Walter’s 74th birthday, Landmarks invited members and friends to “A Celebration of the Works of Walter C. Kidney” at the Soldiers and Sailors National Military Museum and Memorial in Oakland. About 150 people attended to hear readings from ten of Walter’s works. The event was recorded by SLB Radio Productions, and a booklet of the selected passages will be published later this year by Landmarks. As the author and editor of more than 20 significant publica- tions on local history and architecture, Walter’s words shaped the philosophy of Landmarks. He saw historic preservation as a way to maintain “continuity in the midst of change” so a community could continue to be home to its inhabitants. Through his insightful, graceful prose, Walter helped people see inanimate objects in an “animate” way.

A Biographical Profile James D. Van Trump (1908–1995), co-founded the Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation in 1964 with Arthur Ziegler. A well-known Pittsburgh personality and the city’s Walter Curtis Kidney was born January 24, 1932, in pre-eminent architectural historian, Jamie was a prolific writer, popular tour leader, and Johnstown, Pa., to Mona and Walter C. Kidney. The family frequent guest on local radio and television programs. moved to Philadelphia in 1942 when Walter’s father accepted a position as a teacher of Greek and Latin. Summers, however, were spent in Pittsburgh’s Oakland neighborhood where Walter’s grandparents lived. Albert M. Tannler chitectural History Between 1942 and 1961, Walter lived in Germantown and its Main Line suburbs, Haverford, Bryn Mawr, and Radnor. He attended Haverford College and was graduated with a The work of Landmarks’ historians may be described as scholarly, but not “academic” Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy in 1954. Subsequently, he in the sense “of no practical importance, e.g., because impossible or unreal.” The worked for a time as a library assistant at The Athenaeum of Philadelphia, known for its architectural collections. academician may affect an aura of disinterestedness (at least after gaining tenure) that In 1961 he joined the staff of Random House, Inc. in the preservationist can ill afford at any time, if an historical site is in danger. New York City where he was employed for the next six years One of the first major preservation organizations was the Society for the Protection as a dictionary editor. In 1967–68 he worked as a researcher of Ancient Buildings (SPAB), co-founded by polymath William Morris and architect and writer for Progressive Architecture magazine. He moved to Philip Webb in England in 1877 (and still flourishing). One of SPAB’s first activities was Cleveland in 1968 to accept an editorial position at The Press to survey all the historic buildings in London (then defined as pre-1700). Landmarks’ of Case Western Reserve University, which he held until 1973. (In 1971, Walter’s father retired and his parents moved to first major activity was the 1966 Allegheny County Historic Sites Survey, the first county- Pittsburgh.) Walter lived in Pittsburgh from 1973 to 1976 wide architectural site survey in the United States. Architectural sites were identified so working as a free-lance writer/editor, then as an editor for that their significance could be determined and then articulated and—should they be Laurence Urdang, Inc., Essex, Connecticut; he lived in Essex threatened—action taken. The preservationist historian cannot be disinterested; he or she from 1976 to 1978, and then returned to Pittsburgh where he must be more of a craftsman than an abstract thinker, approaching tasks in a hands-on lived until his death. and creatively committed manner. Jamie once wrote that the preservationist historian “needs a special quality of insight, Publications and Work at Landmarks of sympathy, of skill, a touch of genius which will redeem his creation from the merely Walter’s first book, Historic Buildings of Ohio, was published in 1972. Two years later The Architecture of Choice: Eclecticism factual.” Not from the factual, but from the “merely factual.” By preserving the past, in America 1880–1930 was published and is today recognized one shapes aspects of the future. Walter wrote in A Past Still Alive: as a pioneering assessment and defense of an architectural The preservationist should…concern himself with what is to be built as well as what language then widely despised. Seventeen books on architectural has to be kept. His knowledge and his interests will be limited, but within his limits he history and historic places and structures followed. His later can be a scholar, an ideologue, and a propagandist in a general movement to maintain major works, all published by the Pittsburgh History & and improve a community that continues to be home to its inhabitants. Landmarks Foundation, included A Past Still Alive (1989); Allegheny Cemetery: A Romantic Landscape in Pittsburgh (1991); Pittsburgh’s Landmark Architecture: The Historic Buildings of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County (1997), a revision and expansion of a book that first appeared in 1985; Pittsburgh’s Bridges: Architecture and Engineering (1999); and Henry Hornbostel: An Architect’s Master Touch (2002). A small volume in Arcadia’s “Images of America” series on Oakland, written by Walter in partnership with the Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation and the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, was published in 2005. Throughout his career Walter wrote articles and edited books and manuscripts. As Landmarks’ architectural historian, he wrote frequently for PHLF News, prepared historic survey documents, represented Landmarks at City Historic Review Commission hearings, participated in architectural tours, and provided research and reference assistance to patrons of Landmarks’ James D. Van Trump Library. “His knowledge was encyclopedic,” noted Landmarks president Arthur Ziegler, “and his views on architecture were always exactly stated.” His death is a deep loss to us all. Page 12 PHLF News • April 2006 OUR WORK: Recent Progress (Continued from page 9)

A Chance Meeting: A Westmoreland County Student, Years Later Every so often, a Landmarks staff member or docent reconnects with someone who participated in our educational programs in their younger days. It’s always heartening to discover that the professional path the person is During an orientation tour with pursuing reflects an appreciation for Landmarks in October 2005, historic landmarks, main streets, and Westmoreland County students toured their project site in Greensburg (left). central business districts. Our programs Their task was to build a model showing can be life changing! a new use for the vacant three-story building at 18 West Pittsburgh Street. Such is the case with Kate Johnson Maize, now the production manager of the Palace Theatre in Greensburg, and formerly a participant in two of Landmarks’ Architectural Design 135 Westmoreland County Students Show How a Vacant Challenges while a student at Franklin Regional High School. Main Street Building in Greensburg Can Be Reused After attending orientation sessions in building was also to trigger development sponsoring organizations, as well as from After attending Point Park University, Greensburg in October 2005, twenty-eight of the vacant upper stories of the adjoining MacLachlan Cornelius & Filoni (architects Kate chose to stay in Greensburg, teams of middle and high school students (and former) Cope Hotel. of the new Seton Hill University Center for live in the central city, and use her love from 12 Westmoreland County schools Landmarks offered this Tenth Annual Performing Arts) and Oxford Development. of theater and design to produce plays spent nearly four months addressing a Architectural Design Challenge in In addition, architect Debbie Przekop and at the restored Palace Theatre, a design challenge posed by the Pittsburgh cooperation with the Smart Growth model maker Dick Flock helped judge. History & Landmarks Foundation. The Partnership of Westmoreland County, As always, the models were expertly glorious 1926 performance hall. students’ task: to build a model showing the Greensburg Planning Department, the crafted; the oral presentations were well a new use for the historic brick building Palace Theatre, Westmoreland County delivered; and the written reports were full at 18 West Pittsburgh Street in Greensburg. Historical Society, and Westmoreland of supporting arguments for the model Students were given the option of incorpo- Cultural Trust. On February 23 and 24, concepts. These photos show a few of the rating the adjacent vacant lot into their students presented their models and ideas creative solutions proposed. model and showing how that space would to a jury of architects and urban planners, be used. The new use for the historic including representatives from the

Franklin Regional High School Team Three adapted and expanded the historic building to include “something for everyone,” Louise Sturgess, executive director of with the goal of pleasing the younger crowd. Landmarks, reconnected with Kate, Their model included by chance, when she went to check out an outdoor courtyard, the Palace Theatre, in preparation a media center, game room, for Landmarks’ Tenth Annual The Greensburg-Salem Middle School team adapted dance floor, mini-bar, Westmoreland County Architectural the vacant three-story building for use as the “Cook & and virtual reality room. Design Challenge. Louise recognized Look.” Patrons could watch foreign or independent films on the first floor and dine on the second floor in Kate and invited her to welcome the a restaurant that would serve ethnic foods reflecting middle and high school students the places featured in the films. A loft apartment filled during the orientation program at the the third floor. Palace Theatre. Kate told the students how the Architectural Design Challenge had helped her develop her design skills and take an interest “Theater in the Park,” proposed by the Burrell High School team, included in community revitalization. a first-floor deli, second-floor music store, and third-floor practice rooms for musicians. Dancers, thespians, and musicians could use the outdoor We encourage members of stage for impromptu or practice sessions. This proposal was designed to Landmarks to visit the Palace attract students from Seton Hill who will be coming downtown to the University’s new Center for Performing Arts, opening just a few blocks away. Theatre at 21 West Otterman Street in Greensburg to see Kate’s work: for a schedule of performances and events, contact: 724-836-8000; www.thepalacetheatre.org.

Franklin Regional Team Five’s model introduced a cable-stayed design to hold up a kitchen, lobby, and thrust-stage theater. The new structure is cantilevered behind the historic red-brick building that would be renovated as a Classical bookstore. PHLF News • April 2006 Page 13

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“Woodville” Plantation: Restoring Students from Belmont Technical College in St. Clairsville, Ohio are Forbes Field constructing a picket fence with rough- cut poplar slats to surround the kitchen Wall Remnant garden at “Woodville,” the c. 1785 State Senator Jim Ferlo selected National Historic Landmark in Collier Landmarks to administer a $25,000 Township owned by Landmarks. Pennsylvania Department of Rob Windhorst, president of the Neville Community and Economic House Associates which manages day- Development grant to restore the to-day operations at “Woodville,” is Forbes Field wall remnant in Schenley Penn-Lincoln Hotel: On July 26, supervising the project, along with Park, in time for the All-Star baseball 2005 Landmarks extended a $92,000 game in Pittsburgh in July. (Forbes Field loan at 4% interest to Deliverance opened in 1909 and closed in 1970; Development, Inc. so the group could Landmarks and concerned citizens purchase the vacant hotel at 789 Penn rallied to save the Forbes Field wall Avenue in Wilkinsburg. Plans call for from demolition in 1971.) As part of renovating the historic structure of the grant, the Historical Society of 1927 as a community center with The Betty and Irving Abrams house at 118A Western Pennsylvania is working ground-floor retail and senior housing Woodland Road was designed in 1979–84 by with the Pennsylvania Historical and on the upper floors. Robert Venturi. A relatively small house, it is Museum Commission to erect a spacious and open, both internally and in relationship to its wooded site. State Historical Marker commemorat- ing the site. James Galbraith, director of Belmont’s Architectural Heritage Center, and Tom Keffer, superintendent of property Future Landmark on Recent Loans maintenance at Landmarks. The fence will be completed by May, when the the Market and Assistance house will open on Sunday afternoons for public tours. Landmarks is con- The only Robert Venturi-designed home in tributing $7,300 to the project cost. Pittsburgh is on the market. Located on Woodland Road near Chatham College, B’Nai Israel Reuse Study: In Betty Abrams’ post-modernist home has been November 2005, Landmarks Design referred to by its internationally renowned Associates Architects (LDA) completed a reuse study for the Urban League of architect as “one of the best [designs] that has Pittsburgh suggesting how the main come out of our office.” Landmarks Heritage sanctuary space could be adapted for use as a public auditorium and how the Society members were treated to a tour of the first-floor banquet hall area could be home in 2004. Union Project: During the adapted to provide space for class- September 6, 2005 meeting of rooms, a new kitchen and restrooms, Landmarks’ Neighborhood and multi-purpose room. Landmarks Burtner House: Thanks to the Preservation Committee, trustees contributed $2,750 to underwrite the support of State Senator Jim Ferlo approved a $170,000 loan at cost of the study. According to LDA, a and the Pennsylvania Department 3% interest to the Union Project, “basic” plan to renovate the sanctuary of Community and Economic to support the efforts of a group of and banquet hall area would cost about Development (DCED), Landmarks young Pittsburghers who are converting $1.2 million and a full restoration extended a $7,000 loan to Burtner the former Union Baptist Church at would cost about $2.4 million. The House Restoration, Inc. in September Stanton and Negley Avenues in Urban League of Pittsburgh (ULP) 2005 so new electrical wiring could be Highland Park into “an arts and enter- acquired the temple at auction in 2001, inconspicuously installed in the vernac- prise incubator and but its charter school has been located ular stone house of 1821, and in the community center there since 1998. “The reuse study will summer kitchen and blacksmith’s shop. with partnering be the guide for our decision making Landmarks’ loan will be repaid by artists, community about the possible expansion of the ULP proceeds from a DCED grant. Located builders, and people Charter School or related use,” said in Harrison Township off Exit 15 of “This house is a brilliant work of art, of faith.” Founded president and CEO Esther Bush. Route 28, the Burtner House was nearly in 2001, the Union Constructed in 1923–27 to designs by demolished in 1969 to make way for an beautifully suited to a difficult site. It functions Project has raised Henry Hornbostel with William S. access road to a highway. Burtner as a comfortable, yet spectacular home,” says over $3 million to Fraser, Philip Friedman, and Alexander House Restoration, Inc., a non-profit Landmarks president Arthur Ziegler. “It’s one date and engaged Sharove, architects, the imposing struc- community group, has been caring for more than 1,500 ture is a well-known landmark on the National-Register property since of the few structures that at this early date will people in restoring North Negley Avenue in East Liberty. 1971. It is open by appointment: ultimately qualify, I believe, for listing on the stained glass windows and bringing the 724-224-7999. building, constructed in 1903, back to National Register of Historic Places when it life. Their story is remarkable. becomes eligible.”

Betty has informed Landmarks that she plans to National Preservation Conference 2006 direct some of the sale proceeds toward the cost of obtaining a preservation easement on the Making Preservation Work! October 31 – November 5 property.

You’ll participate in: More information on the house can be • Opening and closing sessions with David McCullough (author/historian) and William Strickland (CEO, obtained by contacting Howard Hanna at Manchester Bidwell Corporation) www.howardhanna.com. • Not-to-be missed half-day and full-day tours of notable Pittsburgh places and landmarks • Educational sessions with experts from throughout the U.S. who know “best practices” in historic preservation • And much more—see page 3 for details

www.nthpconference.org

To register email: [email protected] or call 800-944-6847 To volunteer contact Charlotte Bonini: 202-588-6095 For scholarship information contact Cathy: [email protected] 412-471-5808, ext. 516 Request Registration Information Today ! Page 14 PHLF News • April 2006 PRESERVATION SCENE

is prominently sited at Liberty Avenue Good News and Seventh Street and is used for senior housing. Tasso Katselas Associates, Inc. was the architect, and NDC Real Estate Management deserves credit for maintain- ing the landmark.

Rt. 28 Plans Incorporate Preservation Goals PennDOT presented its latest plans for rebuilding the hazardous two-mile stretch of Rt. 28 between North Side and Millvale on February 13, during the first of several public meetings. Thanks to the leadership Church Reopens as Café Hartwood Ceiling Restored of trustee George R. White, Landmarks has You can lunch and dine in a main street 1952 Gym Converted into been working with PennDOT and other building that has had three lives: it was Art & Design Center This spring, the Great Hall of Hartwood concerned citizens since 2003 to develop a constructed in 1913 as a Presbyterian mansion (Alfred W. Hopkins; 1929) will rebuilding plan that will not endanger Church for Ukrainian immigrants; then Chatham College’s Georgian-style gym is reopen to the public. On August 11, 2005, St. Nicholas Church (1901) and will not modified for a Greek Catholic congrega- now home to a new Art and Design Center the ornate plaster ceiling in the Great Hall mar the hillside. “Our preservation goals tion, and still later used by Cleaves Temple housing classes in landscape architecture, of the Tudor mansion collapsed, damaging have largely been met in this most recent AME Church. Developer and restaurateur interior architecture, interior design, sculp- paneling and furniture. Dan McClelland of proposal which parallels the plan we Clint Pohl purchased 105-07 East Carson ture, ceramics, painting, and printmaking. McClelland Plastering (shown below) and submitted,” said George. St. Nicholas, Street in 2004 for $135,00. He invested The $1.5 million conversion was designed other craftsmen from the Western the first Croatian Church in the U.S. and a many times more in cleaning, repairing, by Rothschild Doyno Architects, with Pennsylvania Craftsmen’s Guild (see page City Historic Structure, is now owned by and converting the church into the Halo Mosites Construction Company as contrac- 20) mounted the restoration effort. The the Preserve Croatian Heritage Foundation Café. Architects for the 2004–05 renovation tor. The Center was dedicated on October process involved carefully documenting and and is being restored as a national shrine. were Felix Fukui and Wayne Chang of 20, 2005. John Marsden, director of the removing all remaining plaster; piecing Fukui Architects. The building is featured Interior Architecture program, has estab- together and repairing broken sections to at: www.spotlightonmainstreet.com. lished a good relationship with Landmarks: Former Buhl Optical Building three of his graduate students––Carrie Renovated Czar, Michelle Kirkpatrick, and Charles NS Properties, the Northside Community Schaefer––have volunteered with Development Fund, and Lami Grubb Landmarks to fulfill course requirements. Associates (architects) completed renovat- ing the seven-story building at Western and St. Paul’s Celebrates 100 Years Allegheny Avenues on Pittsburgh’s North Completed in 1906 to designs by Chicago Side in October 2005. The 35,000-square- architects Egan & Prindeville, St. Paul foot office complex includes a roof deck, Cathedral is a prominent inside parking, Oakland landmark at and a glass eleva- Fifth Avenue and Craig tor providing a Street. Mariani & spectacular view Richards is restoring the of the city. Now exterior to designs by called Northern Silver Eye Catches Your Eye Richard Glance. New Light Tower, the Just a few buildings away from Halo Café construction and interior building is 25% is the Silver Eye Center for Photography, work is being overseen occupied. at 1015 East Carson Street, comfortably by Celli-Flynn. The two According to housed in a Victorian building that was front towers are being developer Jim refaced in 1922. The main street entrance reinforced with steel, and Genstein, Northern was renovated in 2005, to designs by the four corner towers are Light Tower was the first project to close in Walter Boykowyez, to provide better being completely rebuilt. Pennsylvania using the New Markets Tax visibility and accessibility to the gallery Nine hundred pieces of damaged stonework Credit program offered through the National space, offices, and education center. are being replaced or repaired. The William use as modules; casting over 700 individual Trust for Historic Preservation (PHLF The new awning and banner calls attention Willet windows (see page 17) are being pieces; installing a new metal lath; applying News, June 2003), enabling the developers to the Silver Eye and enlivens the restored by Hunt Stained Glass of a conventional plaster base coat; mounting to decrease financing costs and offer unique 1000 block. Silver Eye also is featured at: Pittsburgh. The Diocese plans to publish a new molds to the ceiling; finishing all 2,100 office space within market rental rates. www.spotlightonmainstreet.com. book on the history and architecture of joints by hand; and applying a lime finish National City Community Development St. Paul Cathedral in 2007. coat between all pieces. Corporation provided financing. Located on Saxonburg Boulevard in Allegheny County Purchases Indiana Township, Mary Flinn Lawrence’s Carrie Furnace Site luxurious 480-acre estate has been owned by Allegheny County since 1969. Tom Remediation is now underway at the 137- Keffer, superintendent of property mainte- acre brownfield site on the north shore of nance at Landmarks, has advised the the Monongahela River, primarily in County to install an HVAC system to main- Rankin and Swissvale. In June 2005, the tain a proper temperature for the plaster, County acquired the property from the art, and furnishings. Such an upgrade will Park Corporation for $5.75 million. The cost at least $100,000. site includes two abandoned blast furnaces, each 92-feet tall: Carrie Furnaces No. 1 (1884) and No. 2 (1907). The furnaces Midtown Towers Renovated became part of Andrew Carnegie’s One downtown skyscraper now sports a Homestead Steel Works. The Rivers of Steel Allegheny Commons 1920s Façade Visible Again bold, deep-red “cap” that is worth looking Completes Pilot Project National Heritage Area is overseeing plans up to see. The terra cotta and brick exterior to develop 37 acres of the property as a The Classical building at the meeting of of Midtown Towers, originally the Keenan Allegheny Commons Restoration (ACR), National Historic Site honoring the region’s Craig Street and Baum Boulevard, erected Building (Thomas Hannah; 1907), was led by project director Christina heritage as a steel-making center. National in 1921 to the designs of Edward B. Lee for repointed and repaired in 2005 by Young Schmidlapp, is planning a spring ribbon- Preservation Conference attendees will have the Oakland Motor Car Company, has Restoration Company. The tile on the great cutting to celebrate the restoration of a the chance to register for a “Rivers of Steel” been revealed again. A modern slipcovering dome and four smaller domes was repaired portion of the East Commons, part of the field session, including a hard-hat tour of was removed in 2005, and, although the by Ralph J. Meyer Company. The building 80-acre North Side park designed in 1868. the Carrie Furnace site (see page 3). pilaster capitals and cornice were damaged The central path along Cedar Avenue was beyond repair, the two central Ionic reconstructed in 2005, shade trees were columns and decorative brick façade have planted, and historic-style light fixtures been revealed once again. The building, were added. Phase Two, beginning this owned by the University of Pittsburgh spring, will include the addition of benches, Medical Center, was built on the site of trash receptacles, the casting of the historic Luna Park, a short-lived amusement park drinking fountain, and landscaping. that existed from 1905 to 1909. Since 2004, ACR has raised nearly one million dollars, including grants from the Richard King Mellon Foundation, Allegheny Foundation, Buhl Foundation, and the Shady Brook and Carl Wood Brown Named Funds at Landmarks. PHLF News • April 2006 Page 15

masonry. Three hundred workers used a Third Alert vertical feed hand-assembly method to build about 40 Model T automobiles a day Avenue 2005 at the Pittsburgh plant. Assembly opera- Building Our Major tions continued until 1932. The building A commercial remained a Ford sales-and-parts branch brick building Accomplishments until at least the early 1940s and is now (c. 1890) • Accepted two façade easements occupied by the Paper Mart. fronting on Eighteen buildings designed by Graham both Third that will protect, in perpetuity, (1873-1955), a prominent Seattle architect Avenue and the Armstrong Cork Buildings who served as Ford’s supervising architect, the Boulevard in Pittsburgh’s Strip District and were constructed across the country of the Allies the Bedford Springs Hotel in between 1913 and 1915: all are being pro- was demol- Bedford, Pa. tected and restored. As of February 2006, ished in the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center January 2006 to make way for a new • Awarded a $170,000 loan to the Parkvale had an option to purchase the Pittsburgh building for Point Park University’s Dance Union Project in Highland Park Awning Ford Motor Company building. Department, to be completed by the fall of and a $92,000 loan to help reno- 2007 to designs by The Design Alliance. Covers vate the former Penn-Lincoln The façade of 318–24 Third Avenue is Sculptures shown above in a photo of 1980 from Hotel in Wilkinsburg. At the corner of Landmarks’ Allegheny County Historic • Awarded a $2,000 grant to the Fourth Avenue and Sites Survey. Demolished South Side Local Development Wood Street down- town, John Massey Company so it could leverage an Rhind’s tympanum additional $18,000 in public and sculptures are private funding to light the hidden from view, façades of two buildings on East covered by bright Carson Street, and awarded orange Parkvale Savings Bank restoration grants to East Liberty awnings. Light shines down from the Development, Inc. and to the awnings at night, providing needed security West Pittsburgh Partnership, at the money access machine. The bank is among others. displaying large photographs of the two sculptures inside the building and the Banksville Road House • Awarded $80,300 to 16 historic addition of the awning has not damaged religious properties in Allegheny A simple but handsome wood-frame the sculpture, but passers-by are robbed Italianate house, c. 1870, in the 1370 block County to fund restoration of seeing works of art, nonetheless. of Banksville Road was demolished in improvements, and offered tech- January 2006. nical assistance to many others. Recognizing the Ford Motor Company Building Smokestack • Completed a major restoration project at the Oliver Miller The Ford Motor Company retail, service, and More Homestead in South Park, at the and assembly plant at the corner of Baum Gone Boulevard and Morewood Avenue in request of Allegheny County, Bloomfield cost $575,000 to complete in Vacant buildings including the construction of an February 1915. Designed by architect John at the former Dixmont 18th-century-style barn. Graham, Sr., the plant was constructed of More Altwater Murals Destroyed cast-in-place reinforced concrete and State Hospital • Continued our work to help (1862–1984) in Dave’s Bar at 1733 Penn Avenue in the Strip restore the Allegheny County Kilbuck, including District, notable for its Altwater mural the 187-foot-tall (PHLF News, September 2004) of 1958, Courthouse. smokestack of was demolished in July 2005. Photos by • Assisted in the restoration and the former boiler Landmarks’ member Chris Zurawsky are renovation of Point Park plant, were reproduced here. The mural included scenes demolished in the last two months of 2005. of the Parkway, Fort Pitt Bridge, and Point University’s Lawrence Hall. A $28 million Wal-Mart Supercenter is State Park––all under construction; the • Awarded more than $12,000 in being constructed on the site. pre-renovated Pittsburgh Post-Gazette local scholarships to help local building; and downtown signs advertising the “Sherwyn Hotel” (now Lawrence Hall, preservationists attend the 2005 see page 2) and “Rosenbaum’s.” National Preservation Conference The Ford Motor Company assembly plant, on in Portland, Oregon. a postcard from 1916. Courtesy of Donald Doherty, Ph.D. • Continued the “Architecture & Historic Preservation Abroad” lecture series, in cooperation with The Heinz Architectural Center, Carnegie Museum of Art. Landmarks • Involved South Side area We Need school students and citizens in a welcomes prestigious “Save Our History” You ! grant awarded to Landmarks by The History Channel: visit Say “Yes” and become Molly’s Trolleys a tour guide. www.spotlightonmainstreet.com. THE SOCIETY FOR and If you are fascinated • Involved more than 12,000 by Pittsburgh history and THE PRESERVATION OF Pittsburgh Downtown people in innovative educational architecture, have some free time Partnership programs featuring local history during the week, and and architecture, and celebrated enjoy working with people, as Corporate Member the release of Images of America: please contact Mary Lu Benefactors Oakland, by Landmarks’ Walter (412-471-5808, ext. 527; C. Kidney. [email protected]) to learn how to become a • Hosted our Tenth Annual Old PHLF tour guide. Dedicated to the preservation of House Fair during the Pittsburgh Thank you for helping us Home & Garden Show. With your help, we can involve that which cannot be replaced protect the places more people in our award-winning that make Pittsburgh home. education programs For a membership (see pages 8, 9, and 12). please phone 412-381-1665 Page 16 PHLF News • April 2006

Preserving School Buildings in Pittsburgh and Beyond

Schools are among the most notable buildings in a community. Historically sited in prominent places and often designed by distinguished architects, they become centers of meaningful educational––and community––activity. For years, Landmarks has offered assistance to citizens who have promoted school renovation versus new construction in their communities. As a result of staff member Ron Yochum’s work with the Brentwood School District (which renovated Moore and Elroy Elementary Schools in 1997), Landmarks and Preservation Pennsylvania influenced the Pennsylvania Department of Education to change its anti-preservation guidelines pertaining to school construction (see PHLF News, February 1999). As a result of progressive and sweeping changes in the DOE’s construction policy, school districts are now given incentives for renovating older buildings. Here we summarize the stories of four schools and districts in the Pittsburgh region that have recently renovated historic school buildings, or are fighting to do so. A renovated classroom in Washington Elementary School, 735 Washington Road, Mt. Lebanon

Pittsburgh firm of Ingham & Boyd for listing on the National Register of (or its successor) between 1923 and Historic Places, Landmarks is preparing 1950. Architects for the renovation were a National Register nomination for Burt Hill Kosar Rittelmann, with Turner the structure, at the request of the Construction as project manager. “Committee to Save Turtle Creek High Renovating all seven elementary School.” The citizens group has been schools in three years resulted in a successful in convincing City Council to grueling construction schedule and pass a resolution opposing the proposed required the flexibility and cooperation demolition and in bringing Pulitzer- of staff, parents, and students. prize-winning journalist and author Rowe Hall, 423 Fox Chapel Road On Saturday, February 11, the School Thomas Hylton to speak about the District invited the Mt. Lebanon com- value of saving the historic school. Shadyside Academy’s munity to the grand opening celebration (Read Hylton’s book: Save Our Land, Rowe Hall Goes Green of the newly renovated Washington Save our Towns: A Plan for Elementary School: the 1923 Classical Pennsylvania.) Rowe Hall, a 1922 building designed by building is now handicapped accessible; Due to public opposition, the E. P. Mellon at Shadyside Academy, is classrooms are wired for state-of-the-art School District is comparing the costs undergoing a $6.8 million renovation. technology systems; and the new of renovating the existing school versus The exterior of the Georgian Revival windows recall the historic ones much demolishing and building anew. building will be largely unchanged, more authentically than did those although a new courtyard entrance is installed about a decade ago. being added as well as new dormer Council of Educational windows on the third floor. The interior Facility Planners Supports renovation applies “green” principles to the mechanical and electrical systems, School Renovation The new addition to the historic Mifflin increases natural light, and provides for A Primer for the Renovation/ School, 1290 Mifflin Road photos courtesy of Strada an intake of fresh air. Funding for the Rehabilitation of Older and Historic project includes a $900,000 grant from Schools was recently published by The Mifflin School Enlarged the Richard King Mellon Foundation Council of Educational Facility Planners Mifflin School, Edward J. Weber’s Art and $1 million from alumnus Paul G. (CEFPI) and is receiving acclaim Moderne masterpiece in Lincoln Place, Benedum, Jr. Bowie Gridley Architects, from the National Trust for Historic has been handsomely expanded by the P.L.L.C. of Washington, D.C. is Preservation. An article in the May/June Pittsburgh architectural firm Strada. overseeing the project. Pittsburgh based 2005 issue of Preservation calls the The 1932 building, designed by “evolveEA” is overseeing the LEED-NC book “a big breakthrough,” noting that Weber for Link, Bowers & Weber and certification process. Graziano Turtle Creek Valley A Primer “represents a huge turnaround on the National Register of Historic Construction Development Company, Citizens Protest School for CEFPI, whose prior guidelines were Places, is dramatically sited on a hilltop. Inc. is the general contractor. Board’s Plans to Demolish heavily biased against” preserving A one-story functional but drab addition historic school buildings. The book is was appended at the rear of the school Mt. Lebanon School Former High School available at http//shop.cefpi.org. in 1956. Strada’s 17,100-square-foot District Renovates Hundreds of Turtle Creek Valley citizens addition, housing a gymnasium, are opposing the Woodland Hills School Additional Resources cafeteria, and music facility, created Seven Schools Board’s plan to demolish what is now The Pennsylvania Historical and a handsome courtyard between the The Mt. Lebanon School Board and Turtle Creek East Junior High so a new Museum Commission has selected original building, the 1956 wing, and School District are to be commended middle school can be constructed. historic schools as its preservation theme the new addition. Strada’s buff brick, for completing a roughly $52 million Originally the Turtle Creek High School, in 2006 and is planning a series of steel, and glass structure mediates three-year project that has resulted in the building was constructed in 1917 events and publications. For more between the starkness of the 1956 the renovation of all seven elementary according to the competition-winning information, contact Kenneth Wolensky design and the flamboyant brickwork schools––and thus preserved the neigh- designs of Pittsburgh architect George (717-772-0921; [email protected]) of Weber’s building, mitigating the borhood school system that is at the H. Schwan. The Classical Revival buff or visit: www.phmc.state.pa.us. The blandness of the former while contribut- heart of the school district and, in many brick building is distinguished by a following organizations also have infor- ing its own handsome profile to the ways, of the community. Six of the prominent central entry pavilion with mation on renovating historic schools: enlarged campus. seven recently renovated schools were double-story Ionic columns. completed to designs by the prominent Already determined to be eligible • www.edfacilities.org • www.nationaltrust.org • www.preservationpa.org • www.preservationaction.org Setting the Stage for the Reuse of Some Pittsburgh Public Schools • www.achp.gov • School districts interested in renovat- The Pittsburgh Public School District has drawn up a plan, nominations for some of the buildings that will be closed. ing historic buildings according to based on much public input, that requires the closing of a Getting the closed school buildings listed on the National “green building” design principles can number of historic schools due to the declining school district Register will help the School District sell those buildings to contact Pittsburgh’s internationally population and the need to focus limited financial resources on developers. If a building is listed on the National Register, then recognized Green Building Alliance for academic achievement rather than on maintaining a relatively a developer is able to take advantage of federal tax credits and advice: 412-431-0709; large physical complex. easements in renovating the historic structure for a new use. www.gbapgh.org. Landmarks understands the need for the closings and is For details about benefits of National Register designation, allocating $25,000 this year to complete National Register visit: www.cr.nps.gov/NR/. PHLF News • April 2006 Page 17

Holiday’s visual language—a blend of Pre-Raphaelite medievalism and Renaissance classicism (shared with Edward Burne-Jones, Walter Crane, and others)—appealed to Willet, as did Holiday’s conviction that the artist had to assert his authority over the “absolutely destructive” division of labor within the glass-making process. Holiday’s view that stained glass windows must not “fight with the architectural forms” but were intrinsic components within the architectural context empowered Willet to repudiate the prevailing American practice of designing self-referential windows that mimicked naturalistic oil paintings in opalescent window glass, typical of American glass design from 1880 to 1915. I discovered Willet’s indebtedness to Holiday while preparing a lecture for the Charles J. Connick Stained Glass Foundation in Boston, presented on November 7, 2005 in the Undercroft of Trinity Church. Connick, one of America’s most important and influential stained glass artists, traced his artistic awakening to seeing stained glass windows by English Arts & Crafts artist Christopher Whall in Boston and by William Willet in Pittsburgh, where Connick had served his stained glass The Presentation, Episcopal Church of the Nativity, Crafton, Pa., 1908–09 apprenticeship. The invitation to give the Connick Foundation’s Orin Charity, Rodef Shalom, E. Skinner Annual Lecture on Stained Pittsburgh, 1901 William Willet in Pittsburgh Glass was an opportunity to explore connections between these two William Willet (a student of 1897–1913 Albert M. Tannler important American stained glass LaFarge), early won distinction in artists who spent their formative Eastern workshops. I worked for a creative years in Pittsburgh. The thirteenth century artist drew quaintly, often grotesquely, but it was his own short time under him. . . . [He] was Charles Connick (1875–1945) one of the pioneers in American natural drawing, full of life and vigor. The conceptions portrayed in his glass apprenticed with Rudy Brothers stained and painted glass. He were often naïve and childlike, but they were his own genuine conceptions. glass shop in Pittsburgh in 1894 at the followed precedents in a manner of The work he produced was a full expression of the best that was in him. The invitation of J. Horace Rudy. In 1897 his own and combined traditions of fourteenth and fifteenth century artists worked in the same spirit, they differed Willet arrived in Pittsburgh as art early work in France and England director of the Ludwig Grosse Art with an exquisite detail in painted widely in technique and feeling, and these differences found full expression in Glass Company; he established his own figures and faces that showed the their work. Neither thought of copying his predecessors. He gave his own best. firm in 1899, about the time Connick influence of later schools . . . . He could do nothing else, because he was an artist. All good work is modern moved to Boston. William Willet had a genial nature work when it is produced. In 1901 Willet combined opalescent that sometimes concealed his strong glass with traditional hand-blown convictions; but his work in many tirring words—published in connected to tradition but properly “antique” glass (noted for transparency Pittsburgh and Philadelphia churches, “Our Church Windows” in The “modern”—belonged first to another and pure color) in three wonderful in West Point and Princeton, is SPresbyterian in 1902. The author artist, who expressed himself in exactly windows in Rodef Shalom. By 1904 eloquent of talent and sincerity that is identified as Mrs. A[nne] L[ee] Willet, those words six years earlier. Much he was using antique glass almost have long encouraged every American co-owner with her husband William of of “Our Church Windows” is taken exclusively in his church windows. craftsman in stained glass. the Willet Stained Glass Company of verbatim from Stained Glass as an In 1933 Connick recalled: “I returned Pittsburgh. The article, which appeared Art, by English artist Henry Holiday to Pittsburgh in 1903, and found more on October 29, twenty-one days after (1839–1927). of a serious school there than I had been William left on his first European visit, Holiday’s treatise was published aware of in Boston.” It is likely that the may be regarded as a collaborative in 1896; his windows, however, had Willet windows that impressed Connick effort; it certainly expresses William’s been installed in U.S. churches as early so deeply were made during these years, aesthetic viewpoint. It also demonstrates as 1878. As Peter Cormack wrote in prior to Connick’s return to Boston the nature of William and Anne’s his 1989 Henry Holiday exhibition around 1908. relationship, unusual for its time; they catalogue: “his work was greatly Although Willet’s path-breaking both saw their marriage as an artistic admired [in America] and he found 1904 –05 window in First Presbyterian partnership. By 1910 all of the firm’s American clients—whose artistic (and Church has been poorly maintained, his glass would be credited to “William theological) requirements were less hide- finest work between 1905 and 1910 can Willet and Anne Lee Willet.” bound than their English counterparts— be seen at St. Paul Cathedral in The view of the artist espoused by particularly congenial. American Oakland, Calvary Episcopal Church in the Willets in 1902—high-minded, architecture was also less subject to Shadyside, and the Episcopal Church confident, disdainful of commercialism, neo-Gothic orthodoxies; often inspired of the Nativity in Crafton. Willet’s by Classical or Early Christian best-known windows are the chancel Research forms, it provided a perfect window at the Cadet Chapel at West setting for Holiday’s stained Point (1910) and the Seven Liberal Compendium glass.” Trained in Brooklyn, Arts, Procter Hall, Princeton University Published New York, and Philadelphia, (1913), made in Pittsburgh just prior After researching William Willet’s Willet must have seen and to his moving to Philadelphia. William Pittsburgh career, Al Tannler prepared studied numerous Holiday Willet died there at the age of 53 in a research compendium, William Willet windows in these cities before 1921. Today Willet Studios is operated in Pittsburgh 1897–1913. To order the he moved to Pittsburgh. by Hauser Art Glass Company. 48-page booklet ($10.00 less 10% In his autobiography, Adventures in membership discount), contact Frank Light and Color (1937), Connick wrote: The Annunciation, Lady Stroker (412-471-5808, ext. 525; Chapel, Calvary Episcopal [email protected]). Church, Pittsburgh, 1908. Exhibited at the Architectural League of New York as designed by Anne Lee Willet. Page 18 PHLF News • April 2006

James D. Van Trump Library Welcome New Members (July 1, 2005 through December 31, 2005) The Engineers’ Society of Western Pennsylvania: Celebrating Members are vital to the work and growth of Landmarks. Many members volunteer 125 Years of Engineering their time to help with educational programs, office work, and preservation Tim Palucka and Sherie Mershon, authors projects. By joining, each person demonstrates his/her belief in our mission— Pittsburgh: Engineers’ Society of Western and contributes to a strong, collective voice for historic preservation in Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania, 2006 Unlike many anniversary publications, this Ken and Harriette Apel Mary S. Sepulveda 256-page book provides fascinating and Mary Baldwin Vera Shelton and family wide-ranging information about Pittsburgh Richard Barsam Dr. & Mrs. Fred Sherman and Western Pennsylvania. Readers are Reena Blumberger David Shoffstall and family introduced to a group of men—and eventu- Wendy Bott Robert Simpson ally women—who confronted and altered, E. H. Braughler Ronald F. Smutny often for the better and often with great Robert Burick Matthew C. Smuts difficulty, the physical, economic, and social environment Myron Bushnick Evan and Janet Stoddard of this region. Society members were not only affiliated with the major Victor Capretto Jean Stoehr and David Mayer branches of practical engineering—civil, electrical, mechanical—but S. Joy Cardyn Ruth Tarantine Louis and Lynn Chandler Janice M. Thompson represented astronomy, architecture, public policy, and scientific research Community Technical Assistance Center Glynis Tweddell and teaching. We learn how wars, economic depressions, industrial Colleen Derda Vanadium Woods Village decline, and urban renewal impacted the engineering profession and Elizabeth Seton Elementary School John and Debbie Warden development of Pittsburgh. We follow emerging technologies in steel, Rita Emerick and family West Jefferson Hills School District aluminum, construction, transportation, and energy—issues whose First Baptist Church of Glassport Robert B. Williams and family local importance and treatment often had national implications and Virginia E. Gaul Carol R. Yaster consequences. Barbara George Frank Ziaukas Landmarks helped edit the publication and a copy has been donated John E. Gocinski to the James D. Van Trump Library. The casebound book ($95.00) Alan Greenberg includes a CD with the complete contents of the Engineers’ Society’s Holly E. Groschner Corporate Members 50th-anniversary book, Pittsburgh, published in 1930. The 2006 Irene Habermann Robert Harbord anniversary book, therefore, is two books in one. To order, contact Benefactors Rick and Julie Harris Molly’s Trolleys the Society: 412-261-0710; [email protected]. H. William Helwig Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership Keith Herriot Mark A. Holte and family Patrons Pursuing Peace Across the Alleghenies: The Rodef Donna Kearns Greater Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce Shalom Congregation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Patricia M. Kennedy Partners 1856–2005 Julie Lind ALCO Parking Corporation Walter Jacob, editor and co-author Patrick Loughney and family Beckwith Machinery Company Pittsburgh: Rodef Shalom Press, 2005 Jim and Linda Ludwig and family Bruce Plastics, Inc. Kimberly Manning This history of Rodef Shalom Congregation Chatham Village Homes, Inc. Robert Meyers Forest City Enterprises consists of 12 articles and three appendices by Missionary Temple Church of God IKM, Inc. Walter Jacob and ten other authors, and covers in Christ Kirkpatrick & Lockhart, Nicholson, 200 years of Judaism in Pittsburgh. The range Robert A. Mock Graham, LLP of subjects is impressive, indeed, formidable: Donn and Peggy Neal South Side Chamber of Commerce Pittsburgh’s Jewish community from 1806 New Brighton Middle School Urban Design Associates to the present; the history of Rodef Shalom Oakland Business Improvement District A. J. Vater & Company Congregation; its building, and its Biblical Aike O. Okolo Ellen M. Ormond Associates garden; Jewish immigration; issues of identity Hanson Design Group and assimilation; Jewish education, the rabbinate; John R. Owen and family Mr. & Mrs. Carroll R. Quinn TRACO Zionism; and Holocaust memories. Prominent individuals and their Heather Sage and Jason Vrabel relationships are profiled, among them Rabbi Levy, painter Aaron Joseph P. Salandra Gorson, and Rabbi Freehof. The articles were apparently written at various times (Richard L. Rosenzweig’s essay on the building was written in 1996). The editor does note in footnotes some, if not all, changes which have taken place between writing and publication. The 370-page book ($15.00) is available from Rodef Shalom. Contact Terri Ruggeri: Thanks from a member... 412-621-6566, ext. 115; [email protected]. December 8, 2005 Mr. Tannler, My wife and I want to thank you for your generous help with our Recent Library Donations photo study project of Monroeville’s residences…. We thank the following people for their donations: The leads you gave were quite valuable and I will follow up, • Kenneth Love, for donating “The Majesty of Man––Clyde Hare’s particularly with the architectural guides you suggested….Our goal Pittsburgh.” The DVD, produced by Love, includes a 26-minute film, is to add a set of architecturally-representative pictures to our 17-minute lecture, and 17-minute slide show. The content beautifully historical archives, which we hope to have on-line shortly. complements Clyde Hare’s Pittsburgh: Four Decades of Pittsburgh, We are pleased to be able to join the PH&LF and to support Frozen in Light, published by Landmarks in 1994. your valuable work. • Roger and Laura Beal, for donating 23 Pittsburgh-related videos, including Regards, various WQED/Rick Sebak productions. • PennDOT District 11, for donating a CD-Rom containing all the reports written for and associated with the I-279/I-579 Louis Chandler Expressway Project and the 2006 Archivist, Monroeville Historical Society “Byways to the Past” publication, Voegtly Church Cemetery: Transformation and Cultural Change Editor’s Note: The Monroeville Historical Society Web site went in a Mid-19th Century Urban Society. live in January 2006. It showcases more than 450 photos of the Monroeville/Patton Township area from the mid-1800s to the present. To purchase “The Majesty of Man” ($20 plus shipping), Visit: www.monroevillehistorical.org contact Kenneth Love: [email protected]. PHLF News • April 2006 Page 19

Membership Thank You for Contributing (July 1, 2005 through December 31, 2005, unless otherwise noted) Has Its Continuing support from members, foundations, and businesses enables us to quickly respond to community needs. Privileges New requests from groups throughout the region come in daily, asking for our help to reverse the decline of a historic main street, to save a specific building, to prepare a National Register nomination, to underwrite a feasibility study that would • Free admission to five events at identify a new use for a vacant building, to help school students explore their communities, etc. Your gifts support historic the 2006 National Preservation preservation programs and services throughout the Pittsburgh region. Conference in Pittsburgh (see page 3 for details) 2006 National Trust Conference James D. 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Saxer, for energy audits at Mulberry Ed and Mary Ann Graf architectural landmarks, and Presbyterian Church in Wilkinsburg and at New Hope The Estate of Walter C. Kidney a timeline of key events in Church in Marshall-Shadeland. Gloria Henning Pittsburgh and/or African- Eileen Hutchinson American history Corporate Matching Gifts Theodore C. Merrick Jack Miller • Free access to the James D. Van • H. J. Heinz Company Foundation, for matching a gift from Louis Monterossi Trump Library of architectural Carolyn M. Flinn Dr. & Mrs. Holt Murray and historical books, magazines, • Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP, for matching a gift from Eliza Scott Nevin photographs, and slides Teresa A. Beaudet Mr. & Mrs. Thomas V. Pastorius • Free use of more than a • SBC Foundation, for matching a gift from Colleen M. 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Gift Memberships Wal-Mart Foundation • Doris Ju, for a gift membership for Barbara Berger • Lynn Larson, for a gift membership for Wendy Bott Oliver Miller Homestead Project • Mary McDonough, for a gift membership for County of Allegheny Mr. & Mrs. Carroll R. Quinn JOIN • Shirley and Tom Phillis, for a gift membership for Mark Phillis (including neighborhoods) Preservation Services PITTSBURGH HISTORY & Historic Farm Preservation Fund Anonymous LANDMARKS FOUNDATION The H. M. Bitner Charitable Trust Laurel Foundation Denise C. Capurso Richard M. Scaife The Anne L. and George H. Clapp Charitable and Educational Trust Images of America: Oakland Book Anne Genter Anonymous H. P. Hoffstot III Hale and Nancy Holden The Gordon and Kate MacVean Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation Pittsburgh Steelers Sports, Inc. Dan and Patricia Rooney Sarah Scaife Foundation Steel Industry Heritage Corporation Page 20 PHLF News • April 2006

Landmarks MEMBERSHIP EVENTS: 2006 All free to members! Non-members are welcome on all tours, for a fee of $5.00 per person. For details or reservations: Gives to Others call 412-471-5808, ext. 527; [email protected], or visit www.phlf.org. From time to time, Landmarks is able We do NOT mail separate invitations to members for these events, due to the high costs of printing and mailing. to make contributions from the Call for details and join us as we explore Pittsburgh’s historic neighborhoods and architectural landmarks. Named Funds that our members have established, and from our organization generally. Our contributions support Special Tours: Stained Glass Walking Tour • July: Penn-Liberty Cultural District preservation and educational efforts Sunday, September 3 Meet in Katz Plaza, Penn Avenue and that are being advanced by others. Offered Only Once This Year 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. Seventh Street Gifts we made in 2005 included: Chicago Architects in Pittsburgh Meet at the Church of the Ascension, • August: Fourth Avenue and PPG Place 4729 Ellsworth Avenue Downtown Walking Tour Meet at Dollar Bank, Fourth Avenue and Smithfield Street Contributions from Wednesday, April 19 New Members’ Reception 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Monday, September 25 • September: Fifth & Forbes Our Named Funds: Meet outside Dollar Bank, Fourth Avenue 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. Meet at the clock in Market Square and Smithfield Street PHLF Offices, 4th floor, Barensfeld Family Named Fund The Landmarks Building, Station Square South Side Strolls • Allegheny Unitarian Universalist Church New York Architects in Pittsburgh Saturdays, June through September Downtown Walking Tour 10:30 to 11:45 a.m. Brashear Family Named Fund Wednesday, April 26 Tours Offered Meet at the Birmingham Mural, East Carson and 12th Streets • Contributions to underwrite eight 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Throughout the Year Free to everyone, thanks to the student scholarships Meet under Kaufmann’s Clock, Neighborhood Assistance Program Fifth Avenue and Smithfield Street Old Allegheny Carl Wood Brown Named Fund Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony County Jail • Allegheny Commons Restoration Project Oliver Miller Homestead, Museum Tours Special Tour of the Northside Leadership Conference South Park Mondays, February Opportunities • Geneva College, Campus Grants Program Friday, April 28 through October 10:00 a.m. Open between 11:30 a.m. National Preservation Conference Mary DeWinter Named Fund and 1:00 p.m. (except on October 31–November 5, Pittsburgh • Beginning with Books Point Breeze Walking Tour government holidays) Sunday, June 4 Members interested in signing up for any • Bidwell Training Center This is a free self-guided one of 30 exceptional half-day and full- • The Andrew Carnegie Free Library 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. tour, but a docent from Meet at Pittsburgh New Church, day tours of the Pittsburgh region, must • Cranberry Historical Society Landmarks is on hand to 299 LeRoi Road first register for the National Preservation • Mars Historical Society provide information. Conference. All tours (or “field sessions”) • Tarentum Historical Society Grand Opening of Schenley are described in the conference booklet, Downtown Walking Tours and there is a fee for each (in addition to • The Union Project Plaza, including a walking tour of Oakland’s Civic Center, and the Fridays, May through September the registration fee). See the ad on page • Urban League of Pittsburgh, for a study Noon to 1:00 p.m. presentation of Walter C. Kidney’s 13 for registration details. The field of B’Nai Israel Tours feature five different areas: Images of America: Oakland. sessions are • US/ICOMOS, for the Tsunami Heritage June (date and time to be announced) • May: Grant Street and Mellon Square well worth Recovery Meet in the Mellon Green parklet, attending. Lawrenceville Walking Tour Grant Street and Sixth Avenue The Miller and Kim Saturday, June 24 • June: Bridges & More Family Named Fund 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. Meet at Doughboy Square at Butler Street Meet at the Renaissance Pittsburgh • Incarnation of the Lord Catholic Parish and Penn Avenue Hotel, 107 Sixth Street The Shady Brook Fund • Allegheny Commons Restoration Project of the Northside Leadership Conference

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Emma Ziegler Named Fund • Dormont Historical Society • Friends of Ohio Barns • Lincoln Highway Heritage Corridor • Phipps Conservatory • Preservation Pennsylvania • Society for the Preservation of the Duquesne Incline • WQED • Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf, for renovations to the “Children’s Center”

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