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In this issue: Easements: 2 A Preservation Our Work: Recent Progress 8 Tool for the 2003 Awards: Historic Landmark Plaques & Present and Historic Religious Properties 10 Future From the First Sentence To explore the structure, process, Until Now and benefits of preservation easements for historic commercial buildings, 15 Landmarks, in association with A Spring Visit to Oakmont real estate development company CB Richard Ellis/Pittsburgh, sponsored Michael Ehrmann, principal of Jefferson & Lee Appraisers, and Landmarks trustee a breakfast meeting on January 15, Martha Jordan, during the January 15 easement meeting. 20 2004, for owners of historic properties, Special Events Preview realtors, developers, bankers, architects, city planners, and community leaders. Lofts Demonstrate the Speakers included Landmarks president Our experience in Value of Easements Arthur Ziegler; Jack Norris, CEO and historic preservation over the When five of the historic H. J. Heinz chairman of CB Richard Ellis/Pittsburgh; past 40 years has taught me Company buildings became available Michael Ehrmann, principal, Jefferson that there are only two sure ways for conversion into loft housing, devel- & Lee Appraisers; and Martha Jordan, to save a building: oper John Ferchill and Landmarks Duquesne University Law School undertook to explore how easements professor and a member of Landmarks’ you either have to own it could protect the buildings and benefit Easement Committee. or protect it through an the developer. A preservation “easement”—the easement. Prohibiting façade changes and fore- meaning of the word requires some ––Arthur P. Ziegler, Jr. stalling potential development rights of explanation—is a voluntary legal agree- a property is viewed as an economic ment between a building owner and hardship, but one that is compensated Landmarks that will protect architec- Commercial building owners may for by tax relief. A professional turally significant or historic property also wish to protect the building by appraisal determined that the property for a specified number of years or establishing a “development rights ease- value of the Heinz buildings diminished in perpetuity. ment” (that may include “air rights”), modestly if a façade easement was Preservation easements may be while owners of historic farmland may taken; moreover, the property value used to protect residential buildings, apply for an “open space easement.” declined substantially if the development commercial property, and farmland. For a fee to cover monitoring expenses, easement––which included air To be eligible, the property must be on Landmarks, in turn, will assume rights––was taken. By accepting these the National Register of Historic Places, responsibility to see that the terms of two easements, Landmarks gave the individually or as a contributing struc- the easement are met and enforced. developer a significant charitable con- 2004 ture within a National Register district. All easements must be approved by tribution that closed a major gap in A building owner may establish an Landmarks’ Easement Committee, financing the project. Without the Old House Fair easement in conjunction with Landmarks chaired by trustee George Yeckel. easement, Mr. Ferchill would not have to protect the façade of a building; this Easements have become an important been able to complete his adaptive-use in the new is known as a “façade easement.” and effective preservation tool because project and the Heinz buildings might they can provide financial gains through have been lost. David L. Lawrence the tax code, making preservation of a Since easements benefit different Convention Center historic structure economically beneficial properties in different ways and at to a building owner or developer. different values, it is important that It’s part of the Pittsburgh Home interested owners get the information appropriate to their situation. & Garden Show! For a copy of Landmarks’ Five of the historic H. J. Heinz Company buildings on Preservation Easement brochure or March 13 & 14 Pittsburgh’s North Side will now be protected through for additional information about Saturday: 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Landmarks’ easement program. the easement program, contact Jack Miller (412-471-5808, ext. 538; Sunday: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. [email protected]). General admission: $9 per person Children 6–12: $4 each Children 5 and under: free

See page 20 for a partial list of speakers, vendors, and events.

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Landmarks Launches New Dollars/New Partners

Thanks to funding support from Land- Each church pays a $500 fee to participate. marks, parishioners from nine congrega- The following congregations are participat- tions are participating in a training ing in the training program: program designed to give them the skills • Allegheny Unitarian Universalist Church and resources they need to determine the (North Side) “public value” of their historic religious property, assess the condition of their • Bethel Presbyterian Church building, interpret congregational history, (Bethel Park) develop new partnerships, establish a • Calvary United Methodist Church case for capital support, and identify (North Side) prospective partners and funders in the • Calvert Memorial Church (Etna) larger community. • Emmanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church This program, New Dollars/New (Castle Shannon) Partners, has been created by Partners Parishioners from nine congregations are working with Landmarks and Partners for • First Baptist Church of Pittsburgh for Sacred Places, a -based Sacred Places to learn how to build a case for support for their historic religious property. (Oakland) national non-profit and non-sectarian center devoted to the stewardship of • Mulberry Presbyterian Church (Wilkinsburg) We will stay in touch with these churches further information, contact Cathy historic religious properties. Staff members and feature their progress through the McCollom, chief programs officer: • St. Andrew Lutheran Church (Shadyside) from Partners came to Pittsburgh on New Dollars/New Partners program in 412-471-5808, ext. 516; [email protected]. February 2 to present the first session • Zion Christian Church (Carrick) subsequent issues of PHLF News. For at First Baptist Church in Oakland.

Transportation Committee Builds Support for Innovative Concepts

Route 28 Legislation Committee of the Senate, these bills were Red: Back and forth on Grant the corners of the Benedum, Heinz, and held over to 2004. We are hopeful that Orange: Back and forth on Smithfield Byham Theaters. At the request of Dr. George R. White, they will pass into law due to strong Yellow: Up 5th, down Forbes White presented his ideas to the Port chair of Landmarks’ Transportation co-sponsorship. Green: Up and down Liberty/7th Authority Board of Directors on November Committee, Landmarks’ attorneys drafted Norfolk Southern is aware of this poten- Blue: Back and forth on Ross/6th/7th 26, 2003. PAT General Manager Paul legislation authorizing eminent-domain tial Statute, and expressed its Tan: In 9th, down Penn, over Stanwix, up Skoutelas told his Board that he felt the taking by Allegheny County of 26 feet opposition to this law during a meeting Allies & reverse proposal was “unworkable.” In subsequent (half) of the Norfolk Southern Railroad with Landmarks’ Transportation The reason for calling these bus routes discussions, he informed White that the right-of-way adjacent to Route 28. Added Committee on December 17, 2003. to the 42-foot-wide “death stretch” from “subway style” is that, by running buses plan was “too big… . Wasn’t a more Millvale to Chestnut Street, this taking often (one-minute wait during rush hour; modest start to through-routing possible?” would allow PennDOT to rebuild a full Color-Corridor Through two minute waits during mid-day) and Accordingly, White has prepared a first- speed Route 28 without disturbing either Bus Routes always along a designated track, riders phase proposal calling for the Yellow, can easily transfer to reach any Triangle Green, and Tan corridors. St. Nicholas Church and Grotto or the Ever since streetcar days PAT bus service destination, while the buses run “straight- By law PAT management is responsible Troy Hill hillside. All access for properties has provided a marginal replica of those through” just as New York subways do. only to the PAT Board. However, City alongside Route 28 is banned by Federal routes, with short loops barely penetrating There are three principal advantages to government has the authority to approve/ Regulation of the funding, so all roadside the Triangle and long loops congesting color-corridor through routes: disapprove all bus stops in Pittsburgh. property will be condemned and taken by traffic within it. Many potential riders County government provides $22 million PennDOT, except for St. Nicholas Church choose to walk, because they have no way • PAT will attract as many as 20,000 com- of annual funding to PAT, and this triggers and Grotto, where auto access and parking of knowing where the Triangle buses are muters out of cars and into buses, with a three times more in State funding; approval would be provided from the rear by a street going on their 3,000 daily miles and when $15 million increase in revenue as a result from the Governor/legislature is required from Troy Hill Road. they are coming. of better access to downtown work sites; to release State funding. White is meeting Representative Don Walko and 16 co- Landmarks’ recommendation, conceived • The density of buses clogging the with representatives from all these groups sponsors introduced Landmarks’ draft by Transportation Committee Chair Dr. Forbes/5th area will be cut to below to promote support for his concept and legislation as House Bill 2151, and Senator George R. White, is to embrace “subway- 50%, resulting in a more attractive retail to encourage them to see that PAT Jim Ferlo and six co-sponsors introduced a style” color-corridor through routes for ambience for redevelopment; thoughtfully consider our proposal and be companion Senate bill. Assigned to the all buses traveling through the Triangle. • Transit access to theaters in the Cultural urged to think boldly, since downtown Local Government Committee for the The public would quickly learn the color- District will significantly improve, with needs substantial help. House and to the Transportation coded buses: three of the six color corridors right at

Landmarks Nominates Five Carnegie Branch Libraries as City Designated Historic Structures

During the January 7 Historic Review they were designed by a significant or its furnishings. Nor does designation Alden & Harlow building vacant. Commission (HRC) meeting, Landmarks architectural firm, are associated with a require that the owner or lessee continue No plans have yet been announced for the nominated five Carnegie branch libraries significant person, and are associated with operations in the building. All five library Mt. Washington, West End, Lawrenceville, designed by Alden & Harlow between important cultural events in local, regional, buildings are owned by the City of South Side, and Allegheny Regional branch 1898 and 1910 for consideration as City and national history. Only one criterion is Pittsburgh and leased by The Carnegie libraries. (The Allegheny Regional branch Designated Historic Structures. They are needed for designation. The HRC recom- Library of Pittsburgh (CLP). library is already a City-Designated the Lawrenceville (1898), West End (1899), mendation to designate the five libraries The CLP is to be commended for Structure, and the South Side branch Mt. Washington (1900), Hazelwood will be approved or rejected by City recently renovating and restoring the library is part of the E. Carson Street City (1900), and Homewood (1910) branch Council this spring. Homewood Library (see page 16), but its Historic District.) libraries. Walter Kidney, architectural Designation would mean that these five plans for its other branch library buildings Landmarks remains willing to work historian, and trustee David Vater spoke on libraries could not be demolished, nor are less clear. Regretfully, the CLP has with the CLP to advance a plan that results behalf of the nomination for Landmarks. could their exteriors be altered without the announced plans to relocate the in the continued use and care of the Alden The HRC ruled that the branches likely approval of the HRC. Such designation Hazelwood Library to the second floor of a & Harlow buildings. meet at least three of the criteria because does not protect the interior of the building building three blocks away, thus leaving the

Lawrenceville, 279 Fisk StreetWest End, 47 Wabash Avenue Mt. Washington, 315 Grandview Avenue Hazelwood, 4748 Monongahela Avenue Homewood, 7101 Hamilton Avenue PHLF News • March 2004 Page 3

Landmarks Advances Preservation Efforts in the City and County

Point Park University Receives trees can be re-planted, monuments restored, and a partial endowment for the Lead Restoration Grant Cemetery’s monuments and landscapes As a result of Landmarks’ partnership with established. Ziegler appears in a video Point Park University in developing a that has been created for the fund-raising restoration plan for the first-floor exterior, campaign. The goal of the campaign, lobby, Gothic staircase, and original main titled “Recover, Restoration, and 1109-15 dining room of Lawrence Hall, the Renewal,” is to raise $10 million. Federal Street, Allegheny Foundation awarded a $100,000 North Side lead grant to the University in December 2003 to help fund restoration work. Lawrence Hall (originally the Keystone Athletic Club), located on Wood Street between 3rd Avenue and the Boulevard of the Allies, was completed in 1929 to designs by Janssen & Cocken. For more details about the restoration plan, see Federal Street Properties Woods House Discussed PHLF News, October 2003. Endangered, North Side at Public Officials Three More Courthouse Landmarks is assisting the Central Design Institute Benches Sponsored Northside Neighborhood Council (CNNC) Landmarks joined with Sustainable in its efforts to save 1113 and 1115 Federal Pittsburgh and the Community Design The Allegheny County Historic Properties Street from demolition. Two other build- Center of Pittsburgh on October 23, 2003 Committee, chaired by Landmarks’ presi- ings––1109 and 1111––were recently to host a Design Institute at the Manchester dent Arthur Ziegler, created a program to demolished by the Urban Redevelopment Citizens Corporation. Representatives from Shown here is the end elevation of a replace the assortment of well-used chairs Authority with little warning and before a East Liberty, Etna, Hazelwood, Shadyside, Pennsylvania barn, a bank barn with a scattered throughout the Allegheny County full evaluation of their redevelopment and West End attended, along with City cantilevered forebay. Courtesy of Landmarks Courthouse with more appropriate seating. potential could be assessed, and in spite of Council representatives Doug Shields, Design Associates County architect Sam Taylor designed an an assessment by an engineer hired by Alan Hertzberg, and Bill Peduto. oak bench that is in keeping with the Landmarks indicating that they could be Participants discussed problems in their Oliver Miller Homestead, historic character of the Courthouse. rehabilitated. A large open lot now fills the communities with a panel of experts in South Park Each bench is constructed by Jerry Wilson void left by 1109 and 1111––and that lot architecture, historic preservation, finance, of Wilson & McCracken and is inscribed will be all the larger if 1113 and 1115 are transportation, and urban design. With assistance from Landmarks and the on the front with the donor’s name. demolished. The CNNC fears that the very support of Tim Murphy, when he was State Landmarks recently ordered a bench large vacant lot will attract a big-box representative, the County was able to to honor Richard M. Scaife, who has been retailer, whose development would not be secure $500,000 in State funds to under- the lead donor of funds for the restoration in keeping with the historic scale of the write various restoration needs at the of the Courthouse for almost 30 years, neighborhood. Oliver Miller Homestead and the construc- beginning with the transformation of the Tom Keffer, superintendent of property tion of a barn on the property. In 2003, the courtyard from a parking lot to a maintenance at Landmarks, is hoping County asked Landmarks to manage the public space. that the URA will join with Landmarks in project, and Landmarks is working closely We thank Mrs. Elsie Hillman and Reed funding the restoration of these endangered with the Oliver Miller Homestead Smith LLP for recently sponsoring two properties, continuing the successful model Association to undertake the work. Courthouse benches. That brings our total of a similar partnership we created with Landmarks Design Associates recently of new benches to seven: James Roddey, the URA and neighborhood development completed construction documents for the Judge Raymond Novak, Carl Wood groups in Bloomfield-Garfield and design of a barn based on 18th-century Brown, and Landmarks have sponsored the Friendship in the case of the 5400 block building traditions. Construction is other four. We need 13 more sponsors in of Penn Avenue (see PHLF News, expected to start this spring, although Cathy McCollom of Landmarks fields order to reach our goal of 20 new benches. February 2003). design modifications might be necessary to comments during a Design Institute keep the project within budget. Meanwhile, If you would like to sponsor a bench brainstorming session. for $2,700, contact Cathy McCollom the Oliver Miller Homestead Association (412-471-5808, ext. 516; [email protected]). The Woods house of c. 1790, at 4604 has begun purchasing artifacts and antiques Your gift will help improve Pittsburgh’s Monongahela Street in Hazelwood, was to add to the furnishings of the stone most famous architectural landmark. one of the topics discussed. Landmarks is manse, constructed in 1808 and 1830. working with the Hazelwood Initiative and Historic Lighting Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) to Landmarks’ Grant to Grant for Courthouse find a use for the forlorn-looking structure Allegheny Land Trust Helps that is holding fast because of its simple, We thank the Allegheny Foundation for a solid stone construction. It is one of only Preserve “Elkhorn Slopes” $15,000 grant to purchase lighting fixtures several surviving 18th-century structures in As part of our Historic Farm Preservation that will be used in the restoration of the the City. Program, Landmarks made a $2,500 grant Allegheny County Courthouse. During the Design Institute, participants in October 2003 to the Allegheny Land suggested that control of the Woods house Trust (ALT) so it could purchase and Strawberry Way Plaque be transferred to the Hazelwood Initiative protect 212 acres in Forward Township. and that the URA transfer an outstanding The property, consisting of three miles When you next walk along Strawberry grant of $37,000 to the Initiative to of steeply wooded slopes along the Way, stop and read the historical plaque St. Michael’s Church and Rectory on moth-ball the building until further funds Monongahela River, has massive oak trees created by Landmarks and manufactured S. 15th and Pius Streets, before its can be raised. and commanding views of the river valley, by Matthews International. The plaque conversion into condominiums. Landmarks underwrote a structural and provides a beautiful backdrop for the summarizes the distinguishing character of analysis and restoration plan for the house city of Monongahela across the river. and landmarks along the “Way.” We thank Angel Arms Condominiums, in 2003. The URA owns the Woods house, The land adjoins several historic farms Verizon-PA Corporation for permitting us South Side Slopes and RIDC is working with Landmarks and and was originally part of them. to install the plaque on their building. others to develop a master plan for its Landmarks was especially pleased to St. Michael the Archangel, built to designs restoration and reuse. learn that the ALT dedicated the “Elkhorn by Charles Bartberger in 1857–61, and its Slopes” property in the name of Joshua C. Byzantine Rectory were closed by the Whetzel, Jr., a longtime Landmarks Roman Catholic Diocese in 1992 and sold Restoration member, a past president of the Western to Tom Tripoli & Associates for conversion Pennsylvania Conservancy, and ALT’s into condominiums. When Tripoli & Landmarks continues to assist the 2003 Community Conservationist. Associates had difficulty receiving prelimi- Allegheny Cemetery Historical Association Partnering with the ALT has helped nary financing, Landmarks advanced a in its fundraising effort to repair all the Landmarks leverage contributions and $50,000 loan in 2001. Tragically, after damage caused by a ferocious storm in maximize their impact on preservation. work was well under way, a fire swept May 2002, which uprooted many 100- For example, as a result of a major founda- through the Rectory on March 27, 2002 year-old trees and damaged monuments tion grant, Landmarks has partnered with and work had to begin again. Landmarks and landscapes. Landmarks president the ALT and Allegheny County to prevent then augmented its original loan to Arthur Ziegler and several trustees visited one inappropriate commercial develop- $60,000. Work is nearing completion, and the Cemetery after the storm, and a ment, preserve five historic farms, and three condominiums are under agreement massive clean-up job was initiated. save more than 1,300 acres of historic with closings expected in March. Since then, Ziegler has been working Western Pennsylvania farmland. with the Cemetery to raise funds so that Page 4 PHLF News • March 2004 OUR WORK: Recent Progress (continued)

Preservation Grants and Loans

Through our façade grant and preservation loan fund programs, and our con- tinuing involvement with the Homestead Municipal Building, Landmarks is encouraging renewal efforts in the Homestead area. On Saturday afternoon, May 22, Landmarks will lead a membership tour to Homestead (see page 20) to see all that is happening, thanks to entrepreneurs, dedicated preservation- ists, and non-profit groups that are working with us.

• Keystone Grant (Pennsylvania Historical The LifeSpan project at 308–14 E. 8th Avenue is combining restoration, new construction, & Museum Commission) and façade improvement. Courtesy of Renaissance 3 Architects • Pennsylvania Heritage Parks Program The front façade of a severely deterio- • Waterfront Embroidery (412-931-2026), • Pennsylvania Historical & Museum rated three-story brick building of c. 1920 an embroidery and silk screening business Commission is being restored and combined with a at 233 W. 8th Avenue, is open. Owner • RMSIS Foundation newly constructed three-story building Chris Farmakis reports that they posted a • USX Foundation behind it to accommodate eight units of profit in their first year of business, and senior housing on the upper floors, and a have forged good relationships with many Landmarks will continue to raise funds senior citizen center and LifeSpan offices on business owners on Main Street. for this restoration project that has an the first floor. • Joe Small, owner of Advantar initial budget of approximately $700,000. Landmarks Assists in Landmarks approved a loan of up to (412-462-1123), a digital media business The Borough of Homestead signed a $230,000 in 2000 to renovate the existing at 218 W. 8th Avenue, is busy producing Homestead Municipal preliminary contract with Landmarks façade of the 308 building. The $1.4 million a CD/DVD project for The Talent Group, Building Restoration Design Associates in September 2003, project is now under way and work is to be and is building a Web site for the and restoration work is scheduled to Landmarks is pleased to announce that it completed by May. Carla Worthington, Homestead-area Economic Revitalization begin this spring. has entered into a formal agreement with associate of Renaissance 3 Architects, said: Corporation. Interior restoration work on the Borough of Homestead to advise on “We are excited to be a team member in the second floor of the Advantar building restoration work for the Municipal Two Preservation Loan Fund this project with LifeSpan. We integrated is nearing completion. Building of 1904. We believe that the Projects Move Ahead our design with the historic nature and restored Municipal Building will anchor character of the Homestead Historic District CVS Pharmacy Plans the restoration of historic properties along On December 2, 2003, Landmarks and the needs of our client. Hopefully, E. 8th Avenue and help spur the restoration awarded a $20,000 loan to the Bulgarian- this will encourage more restoration along We continue to keep a watchful eye on the of the older, notable housing in the Macedonian National Educational & E. 8th Avenue.” CVS/Gustine plan to locate a pharmacy in Homestead area. Cultural Center, Inc. at 449–451 W. 8th the historic 100 block of E. 8th Avenue, For several years now, Landmarks has Avenue to support property renovations. News from Our 8th Avenue and to support a compromise plan similar This loan is in addition to the $5,000 been assisting the Borough of Homestead Façade Grant Recipients to one submitted by us several years ago. in carrying out the planning and fund- façade grant that Landmarks gave the raising necessary to restore the historic Cultural Center earlier in 2003. In the October 2003 issue of PHLF News, landmark at Amity Avenue and E. 9th LifeSpan, Inc., a nonprofit agency we announced the successful completion of Street. Grants to date have come from the serving senior citizens, is combining our façade grant program for nine historic following sources: restoration, new construction, and façade buildings on 8th Avenue. Since then, we improvement in order to dramatically have the following good news to share: • Allegheny Foundation change three contiguous parcels of property • Department of Community & Economic at 308–14 E. 8th Avenue. The development • Alexander Graham Bell Cafe Development (through Allegheny County) team includes Mullin & Lonergan (412-969-4099), a restaurant and tavern, Associates, Inc., Renaissance 3 Architects, has opened at 224 E. 8th Avenue. Enjoy • Hillman Foundation PC, and MBM Contracting, Inc. dining in an opulently restored space.

News from the James D. Van Trump Library

PHLF News Indexed to Landmarks because of its efforts to preserve more than 25 industrial artifacts We are fortunate to have Landmarks in the late 1970s and early 1980s. These Heritage Society member Judith Harvey artifacts were moved to Station Square volunteering once a week at the James D. when Landmarks developed the mixed-use Van Trump Library. After almost two years riverfront project and were displayed as of work, she has completed a computer part of the Riverwalk of Industrial index for every issue of PHLF News. Artifacts. Landmarks trustee Tod Hunt was Members visiting the library can type in a a strong supporter of the Riverwalk project key word and the computer responds by (see page 5). listing the articles relating to that topic. The Bessemer Converter is painted by Dino Guarino, a noted Pittsburgh artist Duquesne Light Company and historian whose work is sold through- Archives Donates Photographs out the United States, Canada, and Europe. The Blowing Engine was painted by George White praised the collection and and History Robert Daley, a professional artist who unveiled a plaque acknowledging the Allegheny Foundation Awards We are grateful to Richard M. Sieber, studied at the and generosity of the donor. Mr. Fairbanks director of marketing communications at shared his motivations and experiences in Two-Year Grant owns his own studio-gallery. Duquesne Light Company, for the gift of Although Landmarks sold Station assembling the collection, which docu- Landmarks has received a $24,000 grant The Power of Pittsburgh: History of Square in 1994, it retained ownership of ments 20th-century rail transportation in from the Allegheny Foundation to fund a Duquesne Light Company and 58 photo- the industrial artifacts. The Bessemer the United States through books, periodi- temporary, part-time position to catalog graphs of historic light fixtures detailing Converter has been moved to the center cals, timetables, photographs, trip logs, and organize a variety of library collections various styles and hardware. of Station Square, where it is closer and artwork. over a two-year period. Kelley Stroup, to the river and easily visible from down- The collection is being cataloged and who has been a volunteer with the Industrial Artifacts town Pittsburgh. will be open to library users when that Education Department, will hold the Commemorated in Painting work is complete. Until that time, however, position for a nine-month period between Fairbanks Archive Dedicated in order to guarantee the integrity of the January and August 2004, prior to entering On August 19, 2003 the Bessemer holdings, the Fairbanks Archive is not a graduate program in architectural history. Converter Committee chaired by Jerry The Frank B. Fairbanks Rail Transportation available for use. Peckich, president of Jerart, Inc., presented Archive in the Library was dedicated on Landmarks president Arthur Ziegler with October 29, 2003. About 75 members and paintings by artists Dino Guarino and Bob friends attended the opening reception. Daley. The oil paintings of the Bessemer Chairman Philip Hallen and trustee Converter and Blowing Engine were given PHLF News • March 2004 Page 5

Your Support Is Having an Impact Named Funds Support Preservation Programs and Grow in Value Sixteen Named Funds have been established at Landmarks and are endowing historic preservation in Pittsburgh. Named Funds enable a donor to establish a fund in a family name, to honor an individual, or to provide a memorial. The donation serves as an endowment for a specific program or for Greg and Jamini Davies Create a variety of programs that may change Named Fund from year to year. Staff members work with donors to Landmarks is fortunate to have outstanding ensure that their wishes are honored and to board members who contribute their time, protect and grow the corpus of the funds Tod Hunt (left) and Whitney Snyder at the dedication of the aluminum resources, and expertise to promote our for continuing use. Only the income from reduction pot at Station Square in 1990. mission. In January, one of those board the invested endowment fund is used to members, Greg Davies, and his wife Jamini, underwrite the annual cost of the desig- showed the extent of their commitment by nated program. establishing the Jamini and Greg Davies In Memoriam: Named Fund. Program Support Torrence M. Hunt, Sr. Originally from England, Davies settled In 2003, investment income from Named in Pittsburgh in 1998 when he was named Funds at Landmarks helped underwrite the (1921–2004) president & COO of Corporation. following special projects and programs: Three years later, he was named president We were deeply saddened to hear of Tod Hunt’s death on February 8. A trustee & CEO. Since then, he and his wife have Landmarks Scholarship Program and member of Landmarks for more than 30 years, Tod recognized that historic not only acted as ambassadors for • Brashear Family Named Fund preservation was a means of celebrating Pittsburgh’s heritage. He was proud of Landmarks but have chosen to reside in a this city’s heritage because of the influential role his family had played through hillside house on Mt. Washington that they Restoration studies for Point Park successive generations as entrepreneurs and leaders in the corporate and philan- have expanded and restored. University’s Lawrence Hall, formerly the “Since arriving here,” says Davies, Keystone Athletic Club thropic worlds. He ably continued that family tradition. “we have been struck by Pittsburgh’s • Shadybrook Named Fund Tod helped create the Riverwalk of Industrial Artifacts at Station Square, and melting pot of backgrounds and enormous • Dolores M. Smith Named Fund arranged for ’s gift of an aluminum reduction pot to the Riverwalk. As the historic tradition that is reflected in its • Patricia Thauer Named Fund chairman and president of the Allegheny Cemetery Historical Association, Tod architecture. Pittsburgh combines the best Historic Religious Properties Program commissioned Landmarks to write a history of Allegheny Cemetery; he dedicated elements of our American tradition, and is • Mary DeWinter Named Fund a historical landmark in itself. Our gift is to the 1990 publication by Walter C. Kidney to his parents. By establishing the thank Landmarks for its role in keeping Manchester and North Side survey of Torrence M. Hunt, Sr. Named Fund for Special Projects at Landmarks in 1997, Pittsburgh a historically vibrant place.” vacant and abandoned buildings Tod was able to directly support the Riverwalk and historic preservation Landmarks thanks the Davies for • Carl Wood Brown Named Fund programs in perpetuity. creating a gift that will support its • Thomas O. Hornstein Charitable Tod carried on his family’s tradition of service to the Pittsburgh community mission in perpetuity. Named Fund with dignity and graciousness. He was a true Pittsburgher and philanthropist. We Book acquisitions, James D. Van will miss his involvement, leadership, and commitment to historic preservation. Trump Library A Gift that Keeps on Giving • Richard D. Edwards Named Fund Landmarks recently learned that it will Grants Awarded receive a $60,000 gift annuity. This planned gift will provide the donor with an 11.3% Two of Landmarks’ Named Funds made income stream, an immediate federal grants to other organizations. income tax deduction, and the satisfaction • The Mary DeWinter Named Fund New Date Set for Landmarks that comes with making a projected gift to awarded small grants to: Landmarks of nearly $40,000. While Heritage Society Tour Asbury Place Foundation, for historic requesting anonymity, the donor permitted The exclusive Landmarks Heritage Society building restoration us to make this announcement as an tour that was cancelled due to inclement Beginning with Books example to persons on a fixed income. weather in 2003 has been rescheduled for Bidwell Training Center For more information on Landmarks’ April 30. Anyone who has either made a Church of the Redeemer, for a book on Charitable Gift Annuity Program, contact gift of $1,000 or more to Landmarks stained glass, in memory of Bernard Jack Miller at 412-471-5808, ext. 538 or within the past 12 months, created a Markwell [email protected]. Information is also available Named Fund, or notified Landmarks that it Lincoln Highway Heritage Corridor, for the on our Web site at www.phlf.org. is a beneficiary of a will or planned gift will Coffee Pot building restoration be invited to attend. Mars Railway Station, in memory of the 1896 Tudor gatehouse of the former Henry Robinson Rea estate Keeping in Touch with DeWinter sisters National Aviary Historic Sewickley Home Out-of-Town Members Scenic America for Sale Jack Miller, director of gift planning, Union Project, to convert a church into a recently served as an ambassador for community center 5 acre site. Leaded-glass windows, original molding, and hardwood floors. Central air. Landmarks. While vacationing in Lake • The Emma Ziegler Named Fund awarded 3 bedrooms, 11/2 bathrooms, double living- Wales, Florida, he made a slight detour to small grants to: room, 2 fireplaces, dining room, den, Leesburg to deliver a special certificate of Dormont Historical Society original eat-in kitchen, large wrap-around appreciation to Landmarks Heritage deck, car porch. Society member and long-time supporter Duquesne Incline Doris Harris. Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf Save the Redwoods League Mrs. Harris has not lived in Pittsburgh Landmarks’ architectural historian For further details, contact: for three decades, but she keeps in touch Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy Walter Kidney will lead the bus tour Prudential Preferred Realty with Landmarks through PHLF News and Botanical Society of Western Pennsylvania through Pittsburgh’s East End, past notable 412-741-6312 other mailings. Heritage Society members Investing in Historic Preservation landmarks, to Mrs. Betty Abrams’ show- will be able to read more about Mrs. Harris case home, designed by internationally when her story appears in the next issue of The value of our other Named Funds was famous architect Robert Venturi. There, Landmark Legacies. allowed to grow in 2003. They are the: Board chairman Philip Hallen and Beverly McQuone, ext. 208 • Barensfeld Named Fund Landmarks president Arthur Ziegler will Susan Reuter, ext. 204 • Torrence M. Hunt, Sr. Named Fund for discuss preservation issues and challenges in [email protected] Special Projects the new year. Betty Abrams and Landmarks • Audrey & Kenneth Menke Named Fund trustee David Vater will discuss the archi- for Education tectural significance of the house. For more • Verna Slaughter Shields Named Fund information, contact Jack Miller (412-471- • Helen E. Simpson Family Named Fund 5808, ext. 538; [email protected]). • Robert L. Spear Library Named Fund Page 6 PHLF News • March 2004 OUR WORK: Recent Progress (continued) EDUCA Pittsburgh Architecture Inspires Student Poetry and Art Since Landmarks began “The Poetry and Art of South Side (or Pittsburgh) Landmarks” in January 2003 with the assistance of freelance instructor Diane DeNardo, 317 elementary and middle school students from six Pittsburgh Public Schools and one parochial school have participated in a field trip to Carnegie Mellon University to see Douglas Cooper’s mural of Pittsburgh, followed by an in-school workshop. Students are introduced to the art of sketching with charcoal––and are given the chance to compose a poem about (and to complete a sketch of) an architectural landmark. Landmarks then reproduces the poems and artwork in a class booklet that is given to each student. The students’ poetry and artwork––composed during one 45-minute period––are always remarkable. Here is a selection.

Braking The hills of Pittsburgh are like concrete waves. Commuters ride their cars like surfers in the summer Just to get from one place to another. ––Todd Rupp, South Hills Middle School, November 2003

Hide-and-Go-Seek The houses amidst the trees Rooftops make me think someone The rooftop makes me think of when sprinkled them across the land. I would sit on top of my roof The buildings look like flowers staring at the stars. sprouting up high. I wonder what could be out there–– Neighborhood Assistance Program: “Eye Spy on the South Side” The houses seem like they are playing and if I would be able to see hide-and-go-seek what is out there. in the trees. I stare at the top of my house ––Madison Kress, Phillips Elementary School, eating one of my favorite treats, licorice. December 2003 Paint brushes scrape the sky, Reminding me of the times The Latest News I would paint at home. Landmarks’ educational programs engage people of all ages in local history ––Richard Schott, Philip Murray School, January 2004 and architecture. And, in the process, students are able to improve many skills, teachers are able to fulfill academic standards, and our members Building Images and visitors are better able to appreciate the city and its neighborhoods. The bricks are as red as the blood Recent programs (some of which are illustrated above) include the following: in my body. The design of the fountain on the doorway Reminds me of a frozen fountain CMU’s Academy for Steel Valley High School in the winter. Life-Long Learning Design Challenge The shape of the building is like Carnegie Mellon University’s Academy Thanks to a grant from the PNC two crooked bricks. for Life-Long Learning offered a new Foundation, Landmarks is partnering The shadows on the walls are like secrets course in January and February 2004, led with Rivers of Steel Heritage Area and you will never find out. by Landmarks president Arthur Ziegler. MacLachlan Cornelius & Filoni to Participants learned about “Historic sponsor an architectural design challenge ––Kristina Staus, Philip Murray School, Preservation in Pittsburgh” through lectures for 25 Steel Valley High School students in January 2004 and discussions presented by Arthur and Randy Zirkle’s computer-aided design other staff members. (CAD) classes. On March 25, students will The School’s Secret present their models and plans to a jury of God’s Design Scholarship Opportunity architects. Steven Paul of the Homestead- The secrets behind my walls The stained glass window makes me think area Economic Revitalization Corporation, Are different from my looks. for Seniors of a star with beautiful designs. architect David Lewis, and several 8th- You may say I am a school, Seniors in high school who are college- There are millions of stars and millions Avenue business owners also have volun- But look behind my walls bound and care about Pittsburgh can apply of designs you can imagine. teered their time and expertise during the And you will see that I am an apartment. to the Landmarks Scholarship program, When I look at the window, I think field trips and brainstorming sessions. I am like a gift that is not yet unwrapped. funded through the generosity of several of God’s soft side. trustees. Contact Louise Sturgess I think if I built this I would have ––Sara Brogan, Philip Murray School, Architectural Apprenticeship (412-471-5808; ext. 536; [email protected]) a lot of pride. January 2004 for an application. The application deadline Twenty-six high school students interested This is part of the South Side pride. is Friday, April 23. Award recipients will in pursuing a career in architecture partici- be notified by May 27 and will receive a pated in a series of five all-day sessions in ––Melanie Hopfer, Phillips Elementary School, the fall of 2003. They presented their ideas December 2003 $4,000 college scholarship, payable over four years to a college of their choice. for an in-fill design problem in the 1200 Since the program’s inception in 1999, block of Penn Avenue, and toured Carnegie Landmarks has awarded 15 scholarships Mellon University, Carnegie Institute, and to Allegheny County students. the following architectural firms: Bohlin Cywinski Jackson; Celli-Flynn Brennan Turkall; IKM; and MacLachlan Cornelius & Filoni. Jonathan Green of no wall PHLF News • March 2004 Page 7 TION

How You Can Help

Your involvement as a member and your financial support help us SAVE historic buildings and places, ADVOCATE the economic value of historic preservation, and PROMOTE a preservation ethic through our work in education and in providing financial and technical assistance to local organizations and Students from Miller African-Centered Academy are “Building Stuff” and “Building worthy projects. Character” with their mentors from Mercy Hospital. If you are not yet a member, please join Landmarks by completing the form on page 19. If you are a member, please encourage your friends to join, or contact Mary Lu Denny (412-471-5808, ext. 527; [email protected]) so she can mail membership information to them.

If you are interested in making a contribution to Landmarks, or would like to learn more about our gift planning opportunities, contact Jack Miller (412-471-5808, ext. 538; [email protected]).

Landmarks can put your assets to work while bringing you:

• Lifetime income from your gift; Pittsburgh Public Middle School students Steel Valley High School on a field trip in Homestead. aboard Voyager. • Federal and estate tax savings;

• Avoidance of probate costs; productions, Jason Vrabel of the Neighborhood Assistance Myrtle Avenue Community Design Center of Pittsburgh, Program Elementary School • Disposition of real estate and and Tom Demko of Burt Hill Kosar elimination of ownership costs and Rittelmann assisted Landmarks in teaching Landmarks and the Silver Eye Center for Fifty-five third grade students at liability (minimum value required); the Apprenticeship. Photography partnered in the fall of 2003 Myrtle Avenue Elementary explored to create “Eye Spy on the South Side.” Castle Shannon with their teachers and Philip Murray students were the first to Landmarks during a walking tour on • Honorary life membership in High School Student Tours participate, thanks to the South Side Local September 30, 2003. They found matches Landmarks (minimum Fox Chapel Area, Gateway, Highlands, Development Company’s Neighborhood to 99 photographic details, which they contribution required); and Johnstown High School, Mt. Lebanon, Assistance Program. During a scavenger then pasted on a huge neighborhood map. and South Highlands toured downtown hunt along Carson and Bingham Streets, They compared historic photographs to • The satisfaction of making a Pittsburgh and various neighborhoods students solve riddles and search for photo- present-day views and toured Jaro with Landmarks in the fall of 2003. graphic “matches” to decipher facts about Interiors––formerly a bank and the site of a significant gift to preserve our Check out some of the tours on our South Side history and architecture. Back well-documented robbery in 1917. Western Pennsylvania heritage. Web site: www.phlf.org; click on “For Kids at the Silver Eye, they create collages in the and Teachers” and then click on the style of African-American artist Romare “Photo Album of Some Education Bearden. For additional information, visit our Programs in 2003.” Central Catholic Volunteer and Help Us Out! Web site: www.phlf.org High School students will be participating Miller African-Centered in our “Urban Survival” program again If you have some free time and enjoy this April, as they have for several years. Academy working with people, During a monthly after-school enrich- then consider volunteering with Pittsburgh Public ment program with mentors from Mercy Hospital and Landmarks, Landmarks. We are offering a Middle Schools elementary students at Miller are docent-training program in March. On Saturdays in October, November, and “Building Stuff” and, in the process, Contact Mary Lu for details: December 2003, middle school students “Building Character.” After learning from Greenway, Milliones, Pittsburgh some basics about architecture, they are 412-471-5808, ext. 527; Classical Academy, South Brook, and South using cardboard boxes to construct some [email protected]. We need Hills strengthened math and literacy skills of the buildings in . you––and you’ll find your volunteer during tours with Landmarks in downtown On May 20, they plan to unveil their work invigorating, rewarding, Pittsburgh, at Carnegie Mellon University, “city” during a special performance. and aboard the Voyager. and enriching! Page 8 PHLF News • March 2004 OUR WORK: Recent Progress (continued)

Historic Landmark Plaque Recipients Walter C. Kidney

On November 19, Landmarks’ Historic Plaque Designation Committee, chaired by Richard M. Scaife, reviewed the 2003 nominations and awarded plaques to the following 27 sites: The Emsworth Locks and Dam were awarded a plaque because they establish a major geographic fact about Pittsburgh, its situation 710 feet above sea level. The Liberty Tunnels Ventilation Plant received a plaque, not so much because of Stanley Roush’s treatment of this conspicuous, utilitarian The former Allegheny Social Hall structure as because of its presence as a grand The McKees Rocks spatial device, interacting visually with the clouds and the valley walls to superb effect. construction demonstrated that it is possible (Roush’s portals for the Armstrong Tunnels to have extravagance without brashness; received a plaque for more conventional Mount Assisi in Ross Township, showing architectural reasons.) Edward Weber’s wizardry in materials; the A pair of engineering works that crisscross Powder Magazine of the old Allegheny on Washington Boulevard were given a joint Arsenal in Lawrenceville, greatly remodeled plaque, again for their visual power: the but with some distinctive masonry left; and Brilliant Cut-off Viaduct of the Pennsylvania St. Josaphat’s Church, whose Baroque tower Railroad and the Lincoln Avenue Viaduct roof is a powerful object against the South built by the City. And, for the same reasons, Side Slopes. plaques were given to the East Street Bridge Also given plaques were: the 5800 block of and the McKees Rocks Bridge. Pierce Street, a brick house row in Shadyside; Another unusual award was to the house at the Highwood apartment house in East 6661 Aylesboro Avenue in Squirrel Hill, where Liberty; the Allegheny Country Club in a rather tall, gaunt house of the 1880s had Sewickley; the Allegheny Social Hall on the been remodeled in the 1920s to lose its second North Side, now to be the Photo Antiquities story while keeping much of its Victorian Museum; the former St. Michael’s Maedchen detailing. The 1920s detested Victorian Schule, part of that big Victorian church architecture, so that an adaptation like this, complex on Pius Street on the South Side which works very well, is worthy of note. Slopes; and two other churches—St. Luke’s The chapel at Mount Assisi Other houses given plaques included La Evangelical Lutheran Church in West View, Tourelle, Edgar Kaufmann’s Fox Chapel house and the First United Methodist Church by Benno Janssen with Yellin ironwork; the of Wilmerding. George Leber house in Crafton; and the George J. Schmitt house in Ben Avon. Henry Hornbostel figured three times: for ur Historic Landmark Plaques do not Thaw Hall on O’Hara Street at University protect a building from demolition or Place in Oakland, all that survives of his grand Oalteration; they simply identify the site hillside plan for the University of Pittsburgh; as a significant part of our local heritage. his North Park Golf Club House, a confection Landmarks orders the plaque but the owner of concrete, brick, and sheet metal with must pay for the cost of the plaque. More than Grecian Doric columns in the last of these 450 sites in Allegheny County are identified materials; and the South Park Golf Club with a Historic Landmark Plaque. House, which leaves one a little stunned: a tall If you would like to nominate a remarkable concave corbelled archway that opens up a piece of architecture, engineering, construc- view coursewards as if curtains were parted, tion, landscape design, or urban planning that The Allegheny Arsenal Powder Magazine and bas-relief pictures made in raised brick is 50 years old or more and within Allegheny that seem to capture golfers in mid-swing. County, then contact Cathy McCollom Other notable works given plaques were: (412-471-5808, ext. 516; [email protected]) to the Union Station, now the Pennsylvanian, a request an application form or download a piece of architectural oompah whose “rotunda” copy from our Web site: www.phlf.org. has in fact had its own plaque since 1976; 2003 AWARDS the Fulton Building, now the Renaissance Pittsburgh Hotel, downtown; the Sewickley Public Library, a quietly Manneristic piece of design that was recently augmented by a big, bold annex that suits it well; the Mellon Institute in Oakland, the manner of whose

The Allegheny Country Club in a historic photo of 1902

St. Josaphat’s Church PHLF News • March 2004 Page 9

Landmarks Awards 17 Historic Religious Property Grants

On October 28, 2003 George Dorman, chair 8. First English Lutheran Church of of Landmarks’ Historic Religious Properties Sharpsburg, Sharpsburg 2003 Accomplishments Committee, awarded $61,000 to 17 churches 9. First United Methodist Church of • Helped save five historic farms with nearly and synagogues during our Historic Religious Pittsburgh, Shadyside 1,400 acres, and thereby helped prevent urban Properties Grants and Technical Assistance sprawl in Allegheny and Westmoreland Counties. Awards program at Wesley Center A.M.E. 10. Old St. Luke’s, Scott Township Zion Church in the Hill District. • Awarded $61,000 in grants and technical Since the program’s inception in 1994–95, 11. Our Lady of the Angels Parish assistance to 17 historic religious properties Landmarks has awarded a total of $404,798 to (St. Augustine), Arsenal in Allegheny County so congregations could 80 religious properties in Allegheny County. 12. Poale Zedeck Congregation, undertake various restoration projects. Landmarks’ Historic Religious Properties Squirrel Hill • Awarded $45,000 in grants to nine businesses Program assists architecturally significant reli- on 8th Avenue in Homestead so the owners 13. St. Nicholas Orthodox Church, gious properties that have viable congregations, could appropriately renovate their historic McKees Rocks provide social services in the neighborhoods, building façades. and are able to match Landmarks’ grant. 14. Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, • Hosted a symposium involving 285 people Grant funds are used to carry out a variety of Downtown Pittsburgh addressing the issue of “Abandoned Buildings and architectural restoration projects. Vacant Land,” as well as an Old House Fair for Landmarks’ Historic Religious Properties 15. Valley View Presbyterian Church, East Liberty over 700 people, and a series of “Making Cities Committee met on October 9, 2003 to review Work” lectures for about 225 people. 34 applications for grants and technical assis- 16. Wesley Center A.M.E. Zion Church, tance. Requests totaled $267,700. • Continued our work to help restore the Allegheny Hill District County Courthouse and to create a museum in 17. Zion Christian Church, Carrick the former Jail. A seminar preceded the awards, featuring • Offered advice in regard to a variety of historic speakers who offered information on mortar buildings and urban issues, including the and stone restoration and cleaning. Sarah expansion of Route 28, the creation of a new Peveler, director of special projects for Partners entrance for Phipps Conservatory, and the for Sacred Places, spoke about a new program renovation of Point Park University’s Landmarks is launching in 2004 called New Lawrence Hall. Dollars/New Partners (see page 2). • Offered technical assistance to dozens of neighborhood organizations, government agencies, The Historic Religious Properties grants and individuals regarding preservation issues, program is funded through year-end contribu- and helped secure funding for the first phase of tions from Landmarks’ members and trustees, a Cultural Resource Survey in Mt. Lebanon. foundation grants, and from general funds Reverend Glenn G. Grayson (left) of Wesley Center budgeted by Landmarks. Thanks to the • Educated more than 10,000 people about the A.M.E. Zion Church accepts a Historic Religious support of many people, we have been able to significance of the Pittsburgh region through a Property grant from Committee chair sustain this program for many years––and variety of tours, architectural design challenges, George Dorman. help historic property owners properly care and exhibits, and received a 2003 Historic for their landmark structures. Preservation Award for one of our programs. The 17 grants Landmarks awarded in 2003 • Published a 272-page casebound book, Oakmont: ranged from $500 to $5,000 and included 100 Years, on the occasion of the centennial of funding to repair and restore stained glass Oakmont Country Club, one of eight National 2004 Historic Religious Properties Historic Landmarks in Allegheny County. windows and roofs, re-paint exterior trim, and Grants Schedule restore a church dome. A technical assistance grant will help one congregation prioritize • Grant applications will be mailed to historic restoration projects and establish a preventative religious properties in June, or download a maintenance program. copy from our Web site: www.phlf.org Thank You June 6 • Completed applications must be returned to Symposium Sponsors The following historic religious properties Landmarks by August 2. The October 2003 issue of PHLF News included were awarded grants: • Our trustee committee will meet in an article on our successful “Pittsburgh 1. Allegheny Unitarian Universalist Church, September to review the applications. Symposium on Abandoned Buildings and Vacant North Side (technical assistance) • Grants will be awarded in October. Land,” held on June 6, 2003 at the Soldiers & Sailors National Military Museum and Memorial 2. Bellefield Presbyterian Church, Oakland Hall. We neglected to acknowledge the symposium 3. Calvary United Methodist Church, North sponsors, and therefore want to recognize the Side (made in memory of Alice Greller, following corporations and organizations in who chaired Landmarks’ Historic Religious this issue. The conference would not have been Properties Committee from its inception possible without the financial support and in-kind until her death in 2003) contributions from: 4. Calvert Memorial Presbyterian Citizens Bank Church, Etna Fannie Mae Pittsburgh Partnership 5. Emmanuel Evangelical Lutheran Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, Church, Castle Shannon Pittsburgh Branch 6. Epiphany Church, Hill District Iron and Glass Bank Local Initiatives Support Corporation 7. First Baptist Church of National City Bank of Pennsylvania Pittsburgh, Oakland PNC Bank Parkvale Bank Pittsburgh Community Reinvestment Group Pittsburgh Partnership for Neighborhood Development Sky Bank Urban Land Institute Pittsburgh District Council

First English Lutheran Church of Sharpsburg: a 2003 grant recipient. Page 10 PHLF News • March 2004

From the First Sentence Until Now Louise Sturgess

The first newsletter of the Pittsburgh History & • work was under Our library now includes over 8,000 Landmarks Foundation, founded 40 years ago in way on preparing a books, and is based primarily on the per- 1964, was published in March 1966. It was a single preservation code sonal collections of Jamie Van Trump and 81/2 by 11-inch sheet, typed on both sides. The first for the City, and Walter Kidney, but was recently expanded sentence and paragraph of that newsletter read: plans were being made to purchase properties for through a gift from trustee Frank Fairbanks (see page restoration. “We want to demonstrate how this 4). Our education programs serve well over 10,000 This is the first in a series of informal newsletters for process might work, its usefulness, and our own people each year (see pages 6 & 7), and every service members. Through them the officers and staff will commitment to restoration. We will establish a is itemized in a report that, in 2003, totaled 27 pages. report to you on local preservation events and issues, revolving fund from which we will pay for the At the same time, we have added successful and we will describe some of our own work and houses and into which we will put all accrued programs such as the Historic Religious Properties progress. in resale.” Initiative (see pages 2 & 9), a historic farm preserva- tion program, and the Old House Fair. Our Web site The newsletter content was organized around six (www.phlf.org) connects us on a daily basis with over main headings, typed in capital letters: SURVEY 1,000 people from around the world who are inter- AND REGISTRY; HISTORY FOR CHILDREN; Who We Are Now ested in historic preservation, heritage education, and DEMOLITION WITH TEARS; FLASHES; Pittsburgh history and architecture. LIVERPOOL STREET; NEW PROJECTS. From that modest beginning grew an influential non- Brief stories mentioned that: profit organization that, as of February 2004, included 75 trustees, a staff of 22 full- and part-time employees, • co-founders Jamie Van Trump and Arthur Ziegler a corps of about 100 volunteers and interns who lead had driven over 3,000 miles around the County educational programs and help with special events and A Member’s Perspective identifying landmarks of architectural/historical library and office work, and a membership of about Landmarks has become a complex organization significance, and that they were gathering their 2,500 that supports our efforts and participates in whose character is often hard to describe. Laurie notes to publish a book; our tours. Sixteen members have established Named Cohen, who has become familiar with Landmarks • thanks to the help of the Junior League, a slide Funds (see page 5) because of their commitment to over the past 10 years as a member and volunteer lecture program (based on buildings discovered dur- our mission. editor, captured the essence of “who” the organiza- ing the survey) was being offered to all fifth grade The influence of our organization has grown well tion is in her recent paper for a class at the University classes in the Pittsburgh public school system; beyond Pittsburgh. Arthur Ziegler, president, and of Pittsburgh: Stanley Lowe, vice president of preservation pro- This is a grass-roots alliance of people who are just • the North Side Market House was demolished, grams, are well-known throughout an international as motivated to provide a grant to Zion Christian “despite the profound and extensive public interest community of urban planners and preservationists. Church in Carrick as they are to publish a book on in preserving it;” the Risher springhouse of 1830 Ziegler has been awarded the National Trust for the history of Oakmont Country Club. Their pro- in was razed to make parking room for two Historic Preservation’s highest award, the Louise grams range from conducting symposiums on aban- trucks; Avery College (1860) on the North Side was duPont Crowninshield Award, and serves on the doned buildings and vacant land to suggesting to be demolished; it was hoped that Emmanuel boards of many organizations, along with other alternative routes for expanding Route 28 (without Church (H. H. Richardson, 1885) would be staff members. destroying the country’s first Croatian Roman spared—[it was and is now a National Historic If we compare our work now to that outlined in Catholic parish). Landmarks holds workshops on Landmark]; and the Fourth Avenue Post Office was the first issue of Landmarks’ newsletter, a pattern of methods of house restoration, and runs design to be demolished, but Landmarks would be able to consistent growth is evident. The purpose of our competitions directed at public spaces and squares for save some fragments, thanks to a grant. newsletter is still the same, although our large-format architects under the age of 35. They raise funds by 20-page issues are now packed with information that • Landmarks’ first membership campaign was off to offering tours of historic buildings and districts, and is often difficult to organize around basic headings. a good start, with 50 new members joining at the publish books on local architects, neighborhoods, and Between 1979 and 1984, staff members updated outset; structures. Landmarks provides college scholarships the original Van Trump/Ziegler survey, and the third to local students so that they can study historic • a “good architectural library at the office” opened, edition of Pittsburgh’s Landmark Architecture is preservation [or a subject of their choice], and their thanks to a book loan from Mr. Van Trump; now in print. members go out to public schools to show children We continue to assist communities who are • several prestigious planners and preservationists how important the architecture around them is. interested in conducting comprehensive surveys from “throughout the English-speaking world” had …Landmarks is a good example of what can be (see page 14), and our Revolving Fund has grown applauded Landmarks’ first preservation planning accomplished when an organization is properly and from a concept to an essential historic preservation study, published in 1965 on the row houses in the honestly managed. 1300–1335 block of Liverpool Street on the tool with a lending capacity of $2 million (see pages 4 North Side; and 14). By extending loans and sharing our technical expertise, we have helped dozens of neighborhood organizations in the Pittsburgh area restore and adaptively reuse many historic structures. Our work in the neighborhoods and as the prime developer of The work of the Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Station Square is often cited in historic preservation Foundation is part of preservation literature. textbooks.

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Support for Preservation The New Century Grows As the 21st century unfolds, can citizens, organiza- tions, communities, and governments unite in support After 40 years of grassroots work in the Pittsburgh of a preservation ethic and really change the way region and beyond, we are not alone in our fight to much development occurs in our aging cities and advance the cause of historic preservation. In fact neighborhoods? three organizations in Pittsburgh are now solely Although the grassroots tide continues to turn in devoted to historic preservation: our organization; favor of historic preservation, it will take tremendous Preservation Pittsburgh; and the Young Preservationist effort and perseverance by many to affect such a Association of Pittsburgh. change in attitude. In Preserving the World’s Great Many other community development and Cities, Anthony Max Tung summarizes the legacy of neighborhood organizations have been created over the 20th century: “The 20th century was the the years. They work with us to advance historic century of destruction. This is the first and foremost preservation principles because historic preservation fact concerning the preservation of historic cities promotes community development, tourism, “smart around the world. It was a century of dramatic urban In 1999, when the City announced its Fifth-Forbes growth” and “sustainable development.” expansion, improvement, and redefinition, but it was plan, Landmarks presented an alternative vision giving In the City of Pittsburgh, over 50% of the housing also a century when urban architectural culture was priority to restoration and loft housing. units were built before 1939 and over 75% were built destroyed at a rate unmatched in human history.” before 1960. Those figures from American Fact And many more historic buildings, neighborhoods, Finder 2000, U.S. Census (June 24, 2003) vividly and cities would have been demolished if it had not The Challenge Continues show why we maintain, together with community been for the rapid growth of the historic preservation development corporations and neighborhood organi- In spite of Landmarks’ growth and success, we movement in the 20th century, and for the many zations, a major focus on urban housing preservation continue to fight to save architectural landmarks that federal, state, and local policies/agencies that were and restoration. Demolition is not the answer. give character to our community, and we continue to created to promote historic preservation. Restoration creates interesting, attractive, unique question––and suggest feasible alternatives to––major places in which to live. urban planning visions that do not begin at the grass- When distinguished author and historian David Landmarks’ goal in moving forward in the new roots level, that do not value existing historic build- McCullough came to Pittsburgh in June 2003 to century, according to president Arthur Ziegler, “is to ings, and that do not proceed in realistic, incremental open a conference at the Senator John Heinz use our experience of 40 years to shape some of the stages. On a daily basis, we are active in a wide range Pittsburgh Regional History Center, he said that future.” We have learned over the passage of time of preservation efforts throughout the county and city “preservation is a strong, growing, vibrant move- that, in terms of real preservation, the only thing that (see page 3). ment, and never more so than now.” He stressed guarantees preservation is ownership: therefore we Landmarks has been a leading player in articulating that “you can use history to rebuild communities.” are expanding and emphasizing our easement pro- a viable concept for the Fifth-Forbes area downtown. Bruce Katz, vice president of the Brookings gram (see page 1). And, we have learned that it is Our vision for Fifth-Forbes was most recently Institution, continued that theme when he came to effective to use our funds, together with funds granted summarized in Patricia Lowry’s Sunday Magazine Pittsburgh in December to present the findings to us, to leverage preservation/restoration commit- feature (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, February 8, 2004). released in Back to Prosperity: A Competitive ments by others. Our partnership with Point Park In response to Lowry’s question, “What would you Agenda for Renewing Pennsylvania. He encouraged University (see page 3) is an excellent example of that do if you were mayor,” Ziegler responded: Pittsburghers to “invest in assets that drive innova- strategy. “Advocacy, education, and all else come • Take any available funds, publicly held land, and tion, such as downtowns, main streets, and historic after those two efforts,” adds Ziegler. suitable buildings and make them available for preservation.” He cautioned that “if you undermine “For every project Landmarks takes on,” says housing; older places, you undermine the very assets of the Ziegler, “there are probably ten more equally worth- place.” while projects that must stay on the drawing boards. • Support a great market house in Market Square. Sustainable Pittsburgh, a non-profit group whose It is only through the generosity of our members and If Market Square must remain open space, use the advisory chair is Landmarks’ Cathy McCollom, private foundations that we are able to bring many of G. C. Murphy building. A stunning new building released Southwestern Pennsylvania Citizens’ Vision our ideas to life. We are fortunate to have a devoted would symbolize a positive Downtown renewal and for Smart Growth in August 2003. Many recommen- and dedicated group of people who do not give up, answer the No. 1 question of potential residents: dations in that report reinforce recommendations in but continue to believe in the value of our cause.” Where can I buy groceries? the Brookings Institution report––and both reinforce According to Landmarks chairman Philip Hallen, • Do not limit housing to the Fifth and Forbes area, basic principles of historic preservation. Court Gould, “There is an energy, creativity, and versatility among but encourage it, preferably with its own parking, executive director of Sustainable Pittsburgh, spoke our trustees, staff, and members that has always everywhere Downtown, especially on the to Landmarks trustees during its February 2 board distinguished Landmarks. Those qualities will con- riverfronts. meeting. He noted that Pittsburgh is a “rebound” tinue to shape the character of this organization–– town and that “today’s legacy is in ‘Restoration- and Landmarks will continue to positively affect the • Adopt the excellent plan prepared by Stan Eckstut aissance’––a new form of regionalism and efficiencies quality of life in the Pittsburgh region.” that Landmarks submitted [in 1999] as a guide. based on restoring and preserving our competitive A revitalized downtown is also dependent upon assets, addressing anything that rusts, crumbles, improved public transportation, and our Trans- decays….It’s all about preserving our existing com- portation Committee, chaired by trustee Dr. George munities….In doing so, we advance self preservation R. White, has taken the lead in advancing an excellent and build landmark places.” proposal (see page 2). Transportation is an important issue for preservationists to address: if a place is not accessible to the public, then the future of that place is in doubt. And if the city and county are not linked by a reliable and efficient public transportation system, then many people cannot get to the places where the job opportunities are, and the region becomes fragmented into isolated, quietly dying parts. 1998 Landmarks tries to shape urban policy by bringing nationally recognized leaders in historic preservation and urban planning to Pittsburgh. Our “Making 1997 Cities Work” lecture series, co-sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, Pittsburgh Branch, is now in its sixth year. On March 24, experts from the City of Baltimore will speak about their success in revitalizing down- town Baltimore (see page 20). In celebration of its 40th anniversary, Landmarks hopes to invite Arcadi Nebolsine to talk about preservation abroad. Formerly of the University of Pittsburgh, Nebolsine has been active in preservation efforts in Italy and recently published a book on preservation in Russia. Page 12 PHLF News • March 2004 PRESERVATION SCENE GOOD NEWS

The Union Trust Building: Yesterday and Today

Between 1901 and 1929, a trio of build- ings was erected on Grant Street: the Frick Building, designed by Daniel Burnham of Chicago; the Union Arcade by Frederick J. Osterling and Pierre Liesch of Pittsburgh; and the William Penn Hotel, built in two stages by Pittsburgh architect Benno Janssen and his partners. All three properties were developed by Pittsburgh industrialist Henry Clay Frick, and all three build- ings have been thoughtfully cared for by their current owners. Two were recently in the news because of restoration accomplishments and architectural sig- nificance. (See the story below, and see the “Book Review” on page 16.) The Landmarks Library is fortunate in having a collection of photographs documenting the construction of the Above left: Digging the founda- Union Arcade, beginning in 1915. tion for the Union Arcade––July When the ornate 15th-century Flemish 15, 1915. The team of horses and Gothic style wagon in the center of the photo building are dwarfed by the vast space, and opened in by the crane in the foreground. April 1917, it was the Above right: May 11, 1916––The largest shop- become brittle and cracked; the interior had Ambridge, Pa.)—have solved the problem. steel frame is nearing completion ping arcade in so much leakage that the tenth floor could The repaired and restored building is now lit as the mansard roof structure takes the world, not be occupied. at night—and is breathtaking. The restora- shape. On the lower stories, the housing some New steel, waterproofing systems, replica- tion of Two Mellon Center now restores terra cotta facing is hung on 200 shops. tion of terra cotta elements and sculptures in much of the glory of the Union Trust and the frame. Graciano supervisors The arcade— GFRC—glass fiber reinforced concrete (by ensures its future preservation. Larry McIntyre (left) floors 1 to 4 Architectural Restoration Castings of Left: November 29, 1916––The and Bill McCracken plus the base- building is nearing completion. reassemble one of the ment—was Apart from the roof deck, every- repaired terra cotta set within thing visible in the building is gargoyles that peer an 11-story terra cotta: baked refined mud down from the mansard office building capable of taking the most delicate housing roof. Photo by Armand Wright shapes. Terra cotta was king in 700 offices downtown architecture. Beyond and occupying an entire city block. the Union Arcade rooftop, The building was known after 1923 as everything visible in the Oliver the Union Trust, and is today also Building (1908–10) is of terra known as Two Mellon Center. cotta, and so is the light-colored Five years ago detailing of the William Penn Corporation hired architects Raths, Hotel, just opened. Raths & Johnson of Chicago and masonry contractor Graciano Corporation of Pittsburgh to make major repairs to the building. Ever since it opened, the building has been plagued by interior and exterior water damage: roof tiles and façade terra cotta had

Omni William Penn Hotel Renovation Photo by Ed Massery Omni Hotels spent $22 million to renovate the historic William Penn Hotel, designed by Janssen & Abbott in 1914 and enlarged by Janssen & Cocken in 1927. The results are, quite simply, splendid. More than a facelift, this renovation restores many of the building’s original elements. The façade, in particular, boasts several replicated features, most notably the canopies of the main entrances on William Penn Way and Grant Street. Original terra cotta cornices, brass hanging lamps, and other façade decorations were recast or replicated. The lobby renovation is less a restora- tion than a respectful and appropriate redecoration using fine marble, metal- work, furniture, and rugs. The Massaro Company of Pittsburgh and Culpepper, McAuliffe & Meaders of Atlanta performed the renovation.

Left: May 15, 1915—The steel frame of the William Penn Hotel with the terra cotta facing being installed. Above: The splendor of the renovated lobby in 2003. PHLF News • March 2004 Page 13

Photos by Ed Massery Honors College Renovation Melanie Lore A recent graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, Melanie volunteered as an intern with Landmarks during her senior year.

As you descend the new staircase that leads from the 36th to the 35th floor of the University of Pittsburgh’s Cathedral of Learning, it’s hard to The Honors College of the University of imagine that the space was recently two Pittsburgh occupies the 35th and 36th separate floors of dimly lit, boxy spaces. floors of the Cathedral of Learning. The home of the University Honors On a clear day, you can see for miles! College was extensively renovated to reflect the college’s high standards school.” The depth and character of of achievement and its unique lofty the Cathedral of Learning and the newly location. Under the direction of princi- renovated Honors College will surely pal architect Ken Doyno of Rothschild inspire students for generations to come. Doyno Architects in Regent Square, Funding for the project included yield the two floors have become a beacon from endowments from the Richard atop the Cathedral. King Mellon Foundation and from Founded in 1987, the University the Lerner Chair Endowment of the Honors College housed administration, Honors College, as well as from alumni faculty, and approximately 800 students contributions and University capital on the 2,500 square foot 35th floor. construction funds. When offices on the 36th floor were vacated, Dean Alec Stewart saw the Cathedral drawings, materials, and behind the 36th floor reception desk. To see the space: From the ground floor opportunity to expand, however, the history, finding inspiration in the first Relating to the masterful wrought or main-floor of the Cathedral of “communal spirit” that the close floor Commons Room, as well as in the iron work of found Learning take an elevator that goes to the quarters had fostered was critical to Nationality Rooms, the building exte- throughout the Commons, Vic Reynaud 35th or 36th floor. Visitors are welcome the program’s success. rior and building site layout. A stone of Technique Manufacturing fabricated from 9 to 5, Monday through Friday. The challenge of connecting the two quatrefoil medallion from the parapets layered panels of laser cut steel. A rich floors was met by cutting two signifi- of the Gothic Revival building became a oxidized iron finish draws out the cant openings in the 36th floor to create source for the project’s glass and railing material so intimately interwoven More Nationality new two-story spaces. A reading room design. with the University’s history. Engineers, Rooms Planned now encompasses the top of the central carpenters and craftsmen from Burchick The oak and cherry wood details and The University of Pittsburgh has Gothic arch facing Forbes Avenue, while Construction shared their enthusiasm the limestone and slate flooring relate approved planning of additional a central staircase and overlook has for the project, realizing the significance the space to the natural resources of the Nationality Rooms in the Cathedral of become an active community space of creating a new landmark within this region as well as to the original building Learning. Design work is in progress connecting the floors visually, socially, University icon. materials. Wood and glass partitions for Finnish, Danish, Latin American, and physically. Stewart said of the project, “This filter natural light through the space, a Swiss, Turkish, Welsh, and Using their Design Sketchbook renovation advances the convictions contrast to the inwardly focused space Philippine rooms. process, the architects engaged the staff of the Commons Room. Glenn Greene of Chancellor Nordenberg and Provost and students in connecting the Honors Glass collaborated with Doyno to design Maher that preservation, restoration, College mission to the design of the the leaded glass panels that culminate in and expansion should result in inspira- space. The architects studied the original the four-seasons quatrefoil stained glass tional places for students to go to

Richard Landmarks Cash in on a Welcomes Membership Benefit Liberto Buy a Book and receive a 10% Citizens Bank Landscape discount. Titles include: Designer Blue Cross Blue Shield • Pittsburgh’s Landmark Mylan Laboratories, Inc. Architecture and THE SOCIETY FOR Landscape • Pittsburgh’s Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership THE PRESERVATION OF Design • Henry Hornbostel: An as Architect’s Master Touch Planning Corporate Member • Clyde Hare’s Pittsburgh Benefactors • Chronicle of a Pittsburgh Consulting Family And many others, too! Dedicated to the preservation of Place a credit card order with 412.321.4427 Frank Stroker: that which cannot be replaced ngardens@.com Thank you for helping us 412-471-5808 ext. 525 www.telerama/~ngardens protect the places [email protected] For a membership that make Pittsburgh home. Or order on-line: www.phlf.org please phone 412-381-1665 Page 14 PHLF News • March 2004 PRESERVATION SCENE

able to all who travel E. Carson Street. A Ohioview Acres, Stowe handsomely detailed brick and stone wall GOOD NEWS (continued) now covers what was once an eyesore, and Township effectively extends, by several blocks, a Ohioview Acres, designed by renowned welcoming entrance to the South Side. New York architect-planner Clarence S. Work accomplished in the first phase Stein, will be demolished this March/April included a new track and turf, sidewalk, by the Allegheny County Housing and banners. Stadium renovations during Authority. Stein was a recipient of the the second phase included the addition of a prestigious AIA (American Institute of press box, a secure entrance, handicap Architects) Gold Medal, and many of his accessible access, and lighting. A concession planned communities are listed on the stand and sound system will be added in the National Register of Historic Places. third phase, to be completed by fall 2004. He is remembered best locally for his work The project team includes STRADA with Henry Wright in designing Chatham Architecture, Gurtner & Sons (general Village on Mt. Washington. contractors), Newman Plumbing, East West Ohioview Acres was built in 1941 by Manufacturing Supply, and Moletz Electric. the U.S. Federal Government as defense industry housing. The neighborhood was Mt. Lebanon Municipality laid out on a hilltop site, and included curving tree-lined streets, 68 buildings Launches Survey with 250 units, and a community center. Thanks to a $15,000 matching grant from Some of the gable-roofed Colonial Revival the Pennsylvania Historical & Museum structures were of brick; others were of Commission, Eliza Smith Brown of Brown frame with clapboard siding. Carlisle & Associates is directing the first After Ohioview Acres was sold by the phase of a three-year Cultural Resource government in 1955, it became a public Survey in Mt. Lebanon. The Mt. Lebanon housing complex. A Federal Hope VI Grant A view along Jacksonia Street showing the Mattress Factory expansion in the foreground. Historic Preservation Board (MLHPB) is is financing demolition work, and 196 overseeing the project. Louise Sturgess, rental units and 15 occupant-owned units Landmarks’ executive director and a will be constructed on the site. Mattress Factory Expansion, member of the MLHPB, assisted with the North Side grant application and helped secure the Reed Building, Kilbuck funding. “This is one of only two survey In September 2003, the Mattress Factory grants awarded this year in Pennsylvania,” Township dedicated a $1.28 million addition, said Louise, “and it is the only survey grant The Reed Building of the former providing 6,000 square feet of administra- awarded to a community in the western Dixmont State Hospital is to be demolished. tive space and 780 square feet of educa- part of the state.” Designed by architect Joseph W. Kerr and tional space. Located in the Mexican War Volunteers are now researching the built in 1862, it served as the first mental Streets, the Mattress Factory is regarded as history of Mt. Lebanon and are beginning a institution in Western Pennsylvania and set the best facility for installation art in the windshield survey. For further information a national example for the humane and United States. or to volunteer, contact Susan Morgans, the sanitary treatment of patients. Landmarks helped facilitate the museum Municipality’s public information officer: An Emsworth development company expansion. When a building directly behind The stair tower and a second-floor window 412-343-3780; [email protected]) plans to build a Wal-Mart Super Center the Mattress Factory was placed on the are angled in plan, and these are roofed, on the site. market in 1997, executive director Barbara respectively, with a shed and a gabled roof, Luderowski saw an opportunity to expand so that the rectangularity of the original the museum by moving administrative structure is opposed. TO BE offices to the Jacksonia Street building. Landmarks Design Associates (LDA) Therefore, in November of that year, served as project architect, and Rycon DEMOLISHED LOSSES Landmarks extended a $75,000 acquisition Construction was the general contractor. Demolished: January 2004 LDA’s work built upon preliminary plans loan to the Mattress Factory to expedite the Greyhound Bus Terminal, Mary Immaculate Hall developed by architect Jennifer Lucchino purchase of 509 Jacksonia Street. Then in Downtown 45th Street (near Penn Avenue) 1999, Landmarks extended a $35,000 loan and Barbara Luderowski. so the Mattress Factory could acquire The Greyhound Bus Terminal, designed in Lawrenceville 511 Jacksonia Street. 1959 by Arasmith & Tyler Architects of 40th Street Bridge Plaques As reported in PHLF News (June 2003), it Now that the expansion is complete, the Louisville, KY, will be demolished this year. was our hope that this imposing landmark architecture both reveals and conceals the Are Restored Construction on a new bus terminal at the of 1931, designed by Schmidt, Garden & Mattress Factory’s past. The original six- Slow down when you next drive across the Liberty Avenue and 11th Street site will be Erikson (Chicago) could have been adapted story brick structure, a stark industrial 40th Street (Washington Crossing) Bridge under way by the fall. for new use by the Children’s Hospital of affair built in 1900 for the Italo-French of 1924, and pay particular attention to the Pittsburgh. Originally constructed as the Macaroni Company, became a mattress 292 cast-iron plaques adorning the Mellon National Bank & Trust Nursing School and for nurses’ housing, factory later on. When the building passed handrails. They were restored in October Company, Oakland into its present use in 1977, it had to be 2003, thanks to the efforts of more than adapted and added to, but the present 100 Boys Scouts and adult volunteers, and The University of Pittsburgh plans to additions are the first positive architectural PennDOT and Massimo Construction, demolish this building at 5th Avenue and gesture. The new addition consists of three in a restoration project orchestrated by the Craig Street, designed c. 1960 by Loeffer, buildings on Jacksonia Street and a con- Senator John Heinz Pittsburgh Regional Johnson, Lundberg & Associates. A six- necting structure linking the Jacksonia History Center. Work was completed in story office building, with three levels of buildings to the original brick structure. time to kick off a series of special events underground parking, will be erected in The connecting element includes an commemorating the 250th anniversary its place. outdoor patio on the third floor. of Major George Washington’s and The existing structure is a significant The central element on Jacksonia, a Christopher Gist’s crossing of the Allegheny modern building with an innovative thin historic three-story brick building, was River on December 29, 1753—and of the shell concrete hyperbolic paraboloid roof. reused and added to. The existing structures French and Indian War. The structure has only two centrally located on either side of it had to be demolished, T-shaped concrete piers that splay out into Mary Immaculate Hall was the most and two new structures were constructed. sleek vaulting to become the entire roof Gulf Tower, Downtown architecturally impressive of the St. Francis The educational studio and library, located structure of the rectangular building. The buildings and was vividly described in in one of the new structures, was designed The exterior brass trim of the Gulf Tower exposed interior concrete work is painted Walter C. Kidney’s Pittsburgh’s Landmark in the style of the frame building that once entrance and store front windows has been white and was once dramatically up-lit at Architecture ( PHLF 1997): “Here is a occupied the site. (Inside the studio, the restored and polished to a bright finish. night. The exterior walls include a simple building from a moment in architectural fictitious front door and its accompanying Built in 1930–32 to designs by Trowbridge glass-curtain wall with stainless steel history when incongruous forces might windows float in a wonderfully bizarre way & Livingston (New York), the 44-story mullions, and exterior side and knee walls contribute to a single design: craftsmen above the new floor level.) The other new Gulf Building was the tallest in Pittsburgh of flame-finished and polished granite clothing a steel frame brick by carefully building, adjacent to the Mattress Factory until 1970. panels. A decorative granite screen wall laid brick, ornament affectedly modern on a parking lot, has a brick veneer façade along 5th Avenue conceals a parking lot tall building with a medieval silhouette.” facing Jacksonia, while the parking-lot wall and provides benches for the bus stop. George K. Cupples Stadium, Alas, another landmark reduced to mere and other walls are of concrete block. This The building will be a loss because it is South Side words and photos! implies two compositions, and the parking- one of only a very few thin-shell poured-in- lot front, which includes the new main The Pittsburgh Board of Public Education is place structures in the region. It was designed entrance, has a light effect, with a good bit to be commended for a handsome renova- by structural engineer Walter Frick. of clear glass and, on the new stair tower, tion of Cupples Stadium, the site of most panes of translucent fiberglass. This front, major Pittsburgh Public School sporting then, is in marked contrast with the stolid events. Phase II of a three-phase project has brick bulk of the old macaroni factory. been completed and the results are notice- PHLF News • March 2004 Page 15

New A Spring Construction: Visit to Cercone Village Oakmont on the Park On October 20, 2003, the Cercone- Scullion family—and 600 officials and On Saturday, April 24, Landmarks friends—celebrated the opening of a three-story professional office building will sponsor a tour of historic sites at 4727 Friendship Avenue in in Oakmont, 14 miles northeast of Bloomfield. Culminating 11 years of Pittsburgh. Here, our members and work, project developer and historian Janet Cercone-Scullion said that “the friends will explore a community building is a tribute to the immigrants where a trustee of Landmarks has who came to Pittsburgh with little but been intimately involved in a their ambitions and a desire to work museum restoration, and where our hard to make Pittsburgh a wonderful place to live.” staff has given advice to a historic The state-of-the-art facility, designed religious property, supported a The Dr. Thomas R. Kerr Memorial Museum, 402 Delaware Avenue, Oakmont by IKM and constructed by Dynamic fund-raising campaign for the Building Corporation, provides local residents with convenient access to the renovation and expansion of the Carnegie Library, and published a St. Thomas Episcopal Church Tour Details For reservations/information: Contact book on the country club that is a Across the street from the Kerr Museum is St. Thomas Episcopal Mary Lu Denny ([email protected]; National Historic Landmark. Church, designed in 1906 by Pittsburgh 412-471-5808, ext. 527). architect Robert Maurice Trimble, The tour begins and ends in Date, time, meeting location: Saturday, best known as the designer of the Sarah Oakmont, and includes guided April 24, 12:30 p.m.—Meet at the Heinz House and of Taylor Allderdice Kerr Memorial Museum, 4th Street and tours of four historic landmarks School. The Gothic church is listed in Delaware Avenue. The Twin Boro Bus Pittsburgh’s Landmark Architecture, by and discussion about current will transport everyone back to the Walter C. Kidney. Father Jeff Murph historic preservation issues. Kerr Museum by 5:00 p.m. will talk about the significance of the church and its restoration needs. Tour fee: $25 for members of Landmarks; $40 for non-members. Kerr Memorial Museum Oakmont Carnegie Library This per person fee enables Landmarks Cercone Village on the Park, Bloomfield The tour will begin at 12:30 p.m. at the The 1901 Oakmont Carnegie Library to give contributions to the Museum, recently opened Dr. Thomas R. Kerr designed by Alden & Harlow is in the Library, and Church (in support of their Memorial Museum, at 402 Delaware midst of an ambitious expansion restoration efforts), and includes the highest quality medical care in the Avenue (at 4th Street), just a short walk program (PHLF News, October 2003). Twin Boro Bus transportation and light region. Western Pennsylvania Hospital from Boulevard. The We will see a model of the addition and refreshments at Oakmont. affiliates located in the building include museum was the home and office of a hear about the work in progress from two primary care practices; a bariatrics prominent Oakmont physician, and Getting to Oakmont: Participants must head librarian Jan Beiber. Sue Martin, provide their own transportation to and practice, dermatology specialists, a consists of the 14-room house of 1897 a member of Landmarks and former pediatrics practice, and oncology and an adjacent office building erected from Oakmont. If you are driving to library trustee, will tell us how the Oakmont, park near the Kerr Museum specialists. The medical office/history in 1905. library raised nearly two million dollars center building is fully occupied. Occupied by the family until 1994 at the corner of 4th Street and Delaware to fund the renovation/expansion Avenue (just a short walk from Cercone Village also includes the when it was given to the borough, project. offices of the Bloomfield Preservation the Kerr Museum Allegheny River Boulevard). Users of public transportation can and Heritage Society. Thanks to the has been beautifully Oakmont Country Club cooperation of the Senator John Heinz restored and provides easily get to the Kerr Museum on Oakmont Country Club is celebrating Pittsburgh Regional History Center an extraordinary the Port Authority’s Oakmont bus 77A its centennial this year—and is the and the Smithsonian Institution, a (and rare) encounter which operates every hour and stops subject of an exquisite book just photographic exhibition, “Pane & with middle-class life at Delaware Street. For bus information published by the Fownes Foundation, Lavore” (Bread & Work): A History at the turn of the contact PAT (412-442-2000; in cooperation with Landmarks. of Western Pennsylvania Italian 20th century. www.ridegold.com). The Fownes Foundation will host our Americans, is on display in the first- Anne Genter, a tour of the 1904 clubhouse, designed floor hallway through June 2004. trustee of Landmarks, by Edward Stotz. Light refreshments Under the direction of Janet, stained has worked closely will follow, and Marino Parascenzo, glass, bricks, woodwork, and stone with a team of author of the centennial publication, Join us from the former St. Luke’s Episcopal volunteers and Oakmont: 100 Years, will be on hand Church of 1875 (that was once on the craftsmen over the for the opening tour for a book signing. Parascenzo will site) were incorporated into the design past several years share some wonderful stories about the of the season. of the building and grounds. Janet also to ensure that the championship golf course and national created a Garden of Freedom with 10 Kerr Museum is appropriately restored tournaments played there. Copies of his historical markers describing the wars and furnished. She and museum director book will be available for purchase in which America has been involved, Jan Shoop will welcome and escort our ($84.00). from the Revolutionary War to the group through the gracious Queen-Anne Edward Stotz’s rendering of War on Terrorism. style home. Oakmont Country Club, 1904 Courtesy of MacLachlan, Cornelius & Filoni The Legacy Brick Project Contact Janet Cercone-Scullion (412-235-5808) if you would like to buy an engraved brick to be placed in the outdoor courtyard of Cercone Village. Bricks are either $35 or $60 (depending on size). This is not a profit-making venture, but is being done to give Pittsburghers the chance to recognize a family member, friend, or business in a memorable way. Page 16 PHLF News • March 2004

Photo by Ed Massery BOOK REVIEW

Kristen Schaffer, ed. Scott J. Tilden, Daniel H. Burnham: Visionary Architect and Planner. Photographs by Paul Rocheleau. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 2003. 223 pp., 206 ills. $95.00 cloth. There has been a general impression that Daniel Hudson Burnham, the Chicago architect, was a dim figure in American architecture compared with his partner John Wellborn Root: that Root was a creative artist who died prematurely while Burnham was a successful businessman to be sure but artistically retrograde. Not to mention November 22, 2003: Homewood Library re-opens. that the Classical façades from his office were not actually by him but by those who gave his firm name the “& Co.” that followed Burnham’s own. Since D. H. Burnham & Co. designed 20 buildings for Pittsburgh, of which 17 were executed, a reappraisal of this architect is a matter of local interest. This book is just out: a short read, but one that attempts to evaluate Burnham’s place in American architec- ture. And, incidentally, one that has much to say and show on the Pittsburgh work—through Paul Rocheleau’s striking photographs and a couple of Photo by Charles Rosenblum floor plans. As regards the façades, objections are possible, even obvious: the use of Classical ornamentation, created in Tradition or Technology: antiquity for structures of detached stones in the form of pillars, lintels, and arches, structures that actually bore The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh weight. The application of these forms to steelwork that was riveted together into rigid frames that went unexpressed, has seemed to many writers to be mere Tries Varying Renovation Strategies lying, and the waste of creative oppor- Charles L. Rosenblum tunities. They are repelled by the sheer dead mass of granite and terra This is the sixth in a series of articles by Carnegie Library of that was apparent throughout the reno- cotta––baked earth––that burdens these Charles L. Rosenblum, a member of Pittsburgh—Homewood vation process. Erik Hokansen, architect frames. (Rocheleau’s detail shots give Landmarks, an architectural historian with Pfaffmann + Associates, architects The Homewood branch of the Carnegie you a sense of how heavy these ornately and critic, and adjunct assistant professor for the renovation, said succinctly, Library of Pittsburgh is the first com- molded blocks can be.) at Carnegie Mellon University. “The Homewood Library is the place pleted chapter in the ongoing story of But Burnham was not a Howard where the community gathers.” Carnegie Library branch renovations in Roark, like it or not. He was a grand The building fulfilled these needs Pittsburgh. Some branches have renova- organizer, head of a large, complex while appearing as if nothing in it had tions that are planned or under way, office capable of designing great projects book can be timeless literature changed since its original construction. A while others, significantly, may yet be and seeing them to completion. that speaks meaningfully across the Of course, nothing could be further closed and relocated. Homewood, When the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893 generations, or insubstantial puffery to from the truth. The revived sense of though, is the first to be completed and was being planned, Burnham was given be forgotten after one beachside read- historical authenticity of the interior, as was rededicated on November 22, 2003. “effective control over everything at ing. Either way, though, unless it’s a well as enhanced functionality and user- If crowds are any indication, the build- the fair except the exhibits....design, textbook or an almanac, the words friendliness, is the result of a studied ing is a huge success. At the opening construction, engineering, landscaping, themselves will not change, regardless and meticulous work. celebration it was filled not simply with and maintenance. ...all corporation of the ensuing years. The building opened originally on dignitaries and library staff, but also employees. ...police, fire, and sanitation.” Libraries, though, are a different March 10, 1910 as the last of Pittsburgh’s with library users of all ages. Both All that, and he got the White City story. Even the recognized classics do eight original Carnegie library branches, adults and children read books and open on time. not enjoy the luxury of stasis. Like most the series that was intended as a test newspapers, used computers, did Burnham found Classicism a buildings, they invariably change to some run for the thousands of subsequent homework, and listened to a storyteller. language in which the great public extent over time to meet new demands Carnegie libraries around the world. They celebrated the library both as a buildings of a city could express their of users, even as historic preservation Although it is English Gothic in style monument and as an active and beloved central roles, and a means of packaging encourages consistency. Two Carnegie rather than in one of the Neoclassical part of the community, enjoying a status the mainly repetitive office spaces of a Libraries, the Homewood branch varieties of its siblings, its layout is still tall building. The author, in fact, and the main library in Oakland, are, proposes an interesting paradox: respectively, freshly renovated and “Europe, with its decaying empires, in the process of being renovated. was desperate for the refreshment of In surprisingly different ways, they new forms. The U.S., on the other hand, raise the issue of how and why historic was subject to [a multitude of] energetic libraries might change. forces.... Classicism, with the reassur- ance of culturally familiar forms, provided referents of stability and long- standing values.” As a partner of Root, D. H. Burnham knew the compulsive romanticism of the 1880s, faced with the problem of a large business building. Located at 7101 Hamilton Avenue, the And went beyond it. restored Homewood Library includes a fully updated 300-person auditorium for public use, updated meeting rooms, and new accessible restrooms. Photo by Carl Bergamini PHLF News • March 2004 Page 17

equally well thought-out features. The light touch on the interior features belies a complex programming study that evaluated the paths and activities of each visitor, staff member, and resource in the library, and reworked them significantly. Likewise, environ- mental and energy concerns led to significant changes in lighting and Let Us Know careful restoration of the windows for weather stripping as well as careful study of HVAC systems. Among The Carnegie Main Library, shown in What You green building considerations, though, a rendering by EDGE Studio. “Saving the building was the best move,” says Pfaffmann, referring to while trying hard to be sympathetic to Think the economic and energy savings of the original designs,” explains Gary continuing use. The structure also Carlough of EDGE Studio. Indeed, taught the architects unexpected lessons the new openness if anything enhances We at Landmarks have about natural ventilation. Pfaffmann the old Neoclassical orders. The signs, points out that natural airflow through angling and weaving through rectilinear reviewed the renovation plans the building is surprisingly good. space, seem to promise a dynamic for the main Carnegie Library In the end, the Homewood Library is counterpoint aesthetically while also a reminder of 19th-century French explicitly acknowledging that people in Oakland on the Web site architect Viollet-le-Duc’s cautionary that and resources move in the spaces. the best restoration might reflect the There will be other major new (www.carnegielibrary.org) and original spirit of the building without elements, including a cafe just to the exactly matching its original built form. right of the main entrance. “I’m not have continued to use the We know the architects have succeeded going into business,” Elish explains. because their ingenuity has reconnected “It’s a response to our surveys.” A new library during the renovation the original dignity of the structure with teen reading area will be just on the process. The library has been the current needs and continued effusive other side of it. Beyond the entrance to spirit of its users. the left, EDGE’s design will place an much less functional for us, outdoor reading room and connecting enclosed periodical room in an under- at least at the time of writing, used light court where bamboo will Photo by William Rydberg, PHOTON grow. Their drawings show this as but we are hopeful that that sculptural and as an insertion that takes advantage of precious light and air, will change once the renova- typical of the early branches: adult and while opening helpful lines of sight. children’s reading rooms flank a central A bridge across this space will connect tion is complete. entry and reference desk, behind which the central reading room more directly We have not been able a small book stack, originally intended to the Museum of Art. Like the signs, to be closed, radiates outward in a though, the modernity of this area should to fully evaluate how the hemicycle. While the building endured not conflict with the historic fabric. many small changes over the years, All of the opening and updating are renovation plan will affect the perhaps the most drastic was the addi- part of a campaign to make the library tion of a mezzanine in the early 1970s, a Carnegie Library of more user-friendly. “People find the building permanently, and move which lowered the ceiling in much library very intimidating,” says Elish. of the building and covered many of Pittsburgh––Main, “When people come in they need to will share our thoughts in a the windows. The mezzanine was an Oakland see easily where to go and be carried forthcoming issue of PHLF abomination, declares Carnegie Library At the Carnegie Library’s main through the spaces.” Director Herb Elish. Indeed, architect branch in Oakland, a similar need A wholesale reorganization underlies News. In the meantime, Rob Pfaffmann credits Elish with a for renovation of a larger and much this work. Generally, the first floor will clarity of vision on this project that made different library has led to a much be more devoted to higher-demand we would welcome hearing many of the improvements possible. different approach, in which modernity items including best-sellers, biographies, Most other changes were intention- and novelty play a much more promi- and fiction as well as newspapers, about the experiences of our ally much more subtle. The architects nent role. “The goal is to create a current music, and films. Departments ever-so-delicately inserted a handi- design that is dynamic and exciting on the upper floors will also be signifi- members as renovation work capped-accessible elevator into the left while enhancing the historic nature of cantly rearranged. Meanwhile the proceeds at the main Carnegie side of the building entrance at ground the building,” says Craig Dunham, library is switching from the Dewey level. The visually incidental feature Owner’s Representative, Carnegie Decimal System to a Library of Library of Pittsburgh—one of actually required a near-surgical Library of Pittsburgh. The $2.8 million Congress catalog; staff are being maneuvering within the existing build- project focusing on the library’s first retrained and departments are being Pittsburgh’s most historic ing fabric but allowed the architects to floor will not be complete until the shifted. Certain longtime users are avoid visually incongruous ramps. summer of 2004, but even now render- skeptical that their favorite experts or buildings. Some of the greatest creative and tech- ings and descriptions make certain resources, such as those in the music nical challenges are the least visible. aspects apparent. or art libraries, will not be so easily Changing use dictated other alter- The design by EDGE Studio for the accessible. Elish insists that these fears ations. To reflect the increasing variety revised Main Library will be a more are unfounded. of services offered by the library, the open, organized, and technological architects elected to replace the one facility. Among a variety of new design central circulation desk with two new elements, a network of glass panels with The real test will come with the desks to either side, opening the central changing text and animated messages in ongoing use of the renovated library. space for a reading area and the LED and LCD media hanging just It’s telling, though, that while the signs African-American section. The new below ceiling level will be the most and spaces of the interior have made desks are curvilinear, more modern in prominent. These will be gathered at accommodations for changes in infor- appearance. Still, the architects reused crucial interaction points or “synapses,” mation that are quite literally up to the some pieces to make changes look such as at the information desk, and minute, the renovation is still sympa- authentic while saving others for future will help guide users through the spaces thetic to an architecture where the use. Says Pfaffmann, “It’s possible that and toward the materials or people that names of the classic authors are still someone might want to reuse them they need. carved in stone. someday.” A similar approach to the These elements are also emblematic reading rooms—opening them but using of the renovation as a whole. Although historic wood as finishes—results in they bring a modish element of Times spaces that are newly open but look Square to the staid Main Library, they like they’ve always been that way. do so without affront to the historic Accompanying the visual improve- architecture. “We’re moving some walls ments are scores of less apparent but Page 18 PHLF News • March 2004

Ann Jenkins Invite Your Welcome Judith Jordan and family Corporate Kathy Koehler Members New Members Paul Kovach Friends to Join Beverly Fife Krieger Benefactors 337 new members (including corporations (October 1, 2003 through June Labovitz Citizens Bank and individuals) joined Landmarks in 2003. January 30, 2004) Allison G. Leak and family Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield Jennifer Mastri Mylan Laboratories, Inc. Almost one-third of those new members Rex A. Anderson and family Mark R. McAdams and Evan A. Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership joined as a result of a challenge set by Elizabeth Bauer Templeton Lorraine Bender Patrons Chairman Philip Hallen in which many David and Nancy Cain McCombe Bethesda Presbyterian Church Dollar Bank trustees, staff, and members participated. Jeanne McNutt Arthur Brandenburg Staff member Cathy McCollom brought Mark P. Mooney Margaret and Thomas Burley Partners Oakland Catholic High School in the most new members and won the Mr. & Mrs. John R. Cunningham African American Chamber of Commerce Our Lady of the Angels Church grand prize of a Pittsburgh Steelers Sunday, and family Bruce Plastics, Inc. John R. Owen III complete with tickets, shuttle boat trans- Julie and Dave Davis Chatham Village Homes, Inc. Rita and David Pollock Frank J. Demor, Jr. Continental Real Estate port, and dinner at the Grand Concourse. Mark R. Power June DeVinney The Gateway Engineers We thank Jim and Mary Lu Denny for Thomas and Dolores Quinn Cathleen L. Donne IKM, Inc. donating the grand prize! Anne Robb Michael and Esta Ehrmann Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Charles L. Rosenblum Emmanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church Landmarks Design Associates Matthew A. Sanfilippo Help us continue to encourage more Sandra K. Finley Laurel Savings Bank Michael J. Slinger and family people to join Landmarks in the New Year. Anna P. Futrell MBI Motorcoach and Tour Jon Smith Give a gift membership—or ask a friend to Mrs. R. B. Gilpatrick Parke Interiors, Inc. Mrs. Kay Stevenson Barbara Davis Glynn Parker/Hunter Incorporated join. The more people we have speaking Thomas J. Stokes and family Carol Goldstein TRACO Windows up for preservation and helping us fulfill Susi Thompson Susan Golomb Verizon our mission, the healthier our community Trinity Episcopal Cathedral L. Jon Grogan will be. Arthur Urbani Associates Diana Hallen Jason Wilburn and Annabelle Javier Custom Carpentry For a packet of membership brochures Lynne Harrison Carol Wooten For-Wood Group to distribute to friends, contact Mary Lu Willard A. Harvey, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Jim Wycoff Gerald Lee Morosco Architects, PC Denny: 412-471-5808 ext. 527; Shawn Heltman Wyland Elementary School Mariani & Richards, Inc. Hill House Association––Senior Center [email protected]. Tawnya Zemka Real Estate Enterprises Neal Hurley and family Stephen Casey Architects Karen James Wilson & McCracken

Over $175,000 Raised Through Year-end Gifts (October 1, 2003 through January 30, 2004)

Historic Religious Mr. & Mrs. Garrett L. Stauffer Education Funds (continued) Additional Gifts Properties Fund Louise and Martin Sturgess Milton G. Hulme Charitable Foundation $2,200 Dr. & Mrs. Albert C. Van Dusen George R. White, for underwriting costs $17,015 Frances H. Wilson associated with a special event with the Corporate Matching Gifts Mary M. Wohleber Opera Theater of Pittsburgh The Barbara and Marcus Aaron Fund of Arthur P. Ziegler, Jr. • The Buhl Foundation, for a matching gift The Pittsburgh Foundation Jack R. Zierden from Dr. & Mrs. Albert C. Van Dusen Mr. & Mrs. Conrad C. M. Arensberg General Preservation Services Fund • Dominion Foundation, for matching a Babcock Charitable Trust Mr. & Mrs. Randall W. Casciola gift from James B. Richard Alfred R. Barbour Sally Hillman Childs • PPG Industries Foundation, for matching Roger and Laura Beal Named Fund Donations The Anne L. and George H. Clapp a gift from Bruce C. Brennan John W. Bittner, Jr. $27,806 Charitable & Educational Trust The Buhl Foundation Richard D. Edwards Gift Memberships Thomas C. Camarda We thank the following people for donating Henry Phipps Hoffstot III • Alice Bright, for giving a membership to Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Cannon to Named Funds at the Pittsburgh History Milton G. Hulme Charitable Foundation Robert Sullivan The Anne L. and George H. Clapp & Landmarks Foundation: Grant McCargo Charitable & Educational Trust Mary McDonough • Judie Donaldson, for giving a member- • Carl Wood Brown, for a generous ship to Mrs. John Stecklein Mr. & Mrs. Henry C. Corson, Sr. donation to his Named Fund Daniel M. and Patricia R. Rooney Frank and Janet Coyle • Philip Hallen, for giving memberships to • Greg and Jamini Davies, for a generous Pittsburgh Steelers Sports, Inc. Mr. & Mrs. John P. Davis, Jr. Diana Hallen and Mark P. Mooney contribution to establish the Jamini and Walden Trust Mr. & Mrs. Irwin J. Dean, Jr. Greg Davies Named Fund • Martha Jordan, for giving memberships Mary DeWinter Named Fund James D. Van Trump Library to Lorraine Bender, June DeVinney, of the Pittsburgh History & • George and Eileen Dorman, for a and Kathy Koehler generous contribution to their The Allegheny Foundation Landmarks Foundation • Jack Miller, for giving memberships to James K. Donnell Named Fund in support of the Frank B. Fairbanks, for a contribution to Historic Religious Properties Initiative the Frank B. Fairbanks Rail Clarence Gerst and Mr. & Mrs. John C. James M. Edwards Miller III Lois Scott Emler and Easement Program Transportation Archive • Douglas L. Mills, for giving a member- George W. and Roseann Erny In addition, a contribution was made to Marirose and John Radelet, for a contri- ship to Douglas C. Chaffey Casey Gnage the Shadybrook Named Fund, and the bution to support the preservation of Harry C. Goldby following people contributed to the the James D. Van Trump recordings. • Shirley and Tom Phillis, for giving a Stephen C. Graffam Audrey and Kenneth Menke Named Fund membership to Mark T. Phillis Harold Hall for Education: Neighborhood Preservation • John and Deirdre Ralph, for giving a Philip B. Hallen • Kim and Janice Menke Abraham Services Fund membership to William and Suzanne Mr. & Mrs. James H. Hardie Milon • Audrey and Kenneth Menke Mr. & Mrs. Chares H. Booth, Jr. Mildred C. Hoffmann Pittsburgh Steelers Sports, Inc. • Adrienne Schmitz, for giving a member- Margaret P. Huessener • Michael J. and Karen Menke Paciorek ship to June Labovitz Milton G. Hulme Charitable Foundation • Betty and Jack Zierden Route 28 Transportation Issue • Carol Blaney Slinger, for giving a mem- David W. Hunter bership to Michael J. Slinger Mr. & Mrs. Harry T. Hutchinson, Jr. George R. White, for helping to under- • Nan Weizenbaum and Reza Vali, for Mr. & Mrs. Jay K. Jarrell write costs associated with work being giving a membership to Marilyn and Martha Jordan Program Support accomplished by the Transportation Norman Weizenbaum Mr. & Mrs. William C. Keck $130,375 Committee in regard to the proposed Kelly Art Glass Company widening of Route 28 Mr. & Mrs. Robert I. Long Allegheny County Historic Lifetime Membership Dom Magasano Properties Fund Jonas Salk Historical Marker Project • Mr. & Mrs. Jim Wycoff Melissa McSwigan Allegheny Foundation, for underwriting We thank the following people for • Ms. Sara Wyckoff Rina Marie Menegaz the purchase of appropriate historic contributing to a plaque honoring Jonas Mr. & Mrs. John C. Miller, Jr. lighting fixtures for the Allegheny Salk that will be erected in April in Bill & Mary Ann Mistick County Courthouse Oakland near the Salk Building, University Memorial Gifts John I. Moraca Elsie Hilliard Hillman, for underwriting of Pittsburgh, at Jock Sutherland Drive and • Elizabeth M. Klimchock, Patricia A. Philip F. Muck the reproduction of a historic bench for Terrace Street: Misklow, James W. Perrin, Jr., and Arthur Eliza Scott Nevin P. Ziegler, Jr., for contributions in memory the Allegheny County Courthouse Civil & Environmental Consultants, Inc. Marcia J. Nicol of Alice Patton Greller Reed Smith LLP Yale and Laura Gutnick Jeffrey E. and Nancy C. Orman Walden Trust Kenneth and Judy Miller Pauline and James Parker, Jr. Anonymous Jerry Peckich and Marilyn L. Ross Evelyn Bitner Pearson/H. M. Bitner Arthur and Marlene Silverman Charitable Trust Education Funds Vincent A. Vellella James W. Perrin, Jr. Anonymous Dr. & Mrs. Hussein S. Zaki John and Marirose Radelet Mr. & Mrs. Randall W. Casciola Daniel M. and Patricia R. Rooney The Anne L. and George H. Clapp Virginia W. Schatz Charitable & Educational Trust A. Reed Schroeder The Fownes Foundation, for contributions Fred I. Sharp to support the publication of Oakmont: Furman South III 100 Years, by Marino Parascenzo W. 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Lawrence 19th-century Howe-Child’s Gate House (where the architect will be on hand to talk about the recent restoration); the Abrams Cathy Donne, Empress Convention Center. Come meet with historic preservation specialists and discuss your home improvement plans. Bring the house, designed in 1984 by Robert Venturi; and the Testoni Mortgage Services kids––because we have a Kids Corner of educational programs, house of 1903, designed by Vrydaugh & Shepherd. Jim Galbraith, Careers in thanks to the volunteer assistance of Carlow College art and FREE to members (one of the benefits!); $3 non-members Preservation elementary education majors and volunteers from Landmarks. The Horticultural Society Fee: $9 general admission; $4 children (6–12) Sunday, June 13 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Tara Merenda, Renovation A Controversy in Stone and Glass: Information Network Wednesday, March 24 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Making Cities Work Lecture Series Sacred Heart and Calvary Episcopal Gerald Lee Morosco, AIA Bring your binoculars! By examining the iconography and Bill Pencek, director of Baltimore City Heritage Area, and Tyler Brian Sieffert, Take Pride Painting, ornamentation of two of Pittsburgh’s great Gothic Revival Gearhart, executive director of Preservation Maryland, will share Inc. & Platinum Design Group churches, you’ll come to understand the theological differences news about recent successes in revitalizing downtown Baltimore, between the congregations. Enrollment is limited to 25 people. Judy Soccio, Comforts By Design and will recommend some guiding principles for Pittsburgh’s Fifth-Forbes redevelopment. Tour guide: Christopher Milne, professor of architectural photography at Community College of Allegheny County. Location: Crawford Grill on the Square, Station Square Vendors For fee and registration information contact: Fee: $20 members; $25 non-members (including lunch) Charles Design University of Pittsburgh Learning Solutions For reservations: 412-471-5808 ext. 514; [email protected] Comforts By Design (412-624-6600; www.solutions.pitt.edu) Conservation Consultants, Inc. Saturday, April 24 12:30 to 5:00 p.m. 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Custom Carpentry A Spring Visit to Oakmont (see page 15) Tuesday, June 29 Empress Mortgage Services Tour four historic landmarks in Oakmont and meet Marino A Walking Tour of Oakland Churches Executive Chimney Sweeps & Parascenzo, author and well-known sports writer, who will talk During tours of Heinz Chapel, St. Paul’s Cathedral, St. Nicholas Cathedral, and First Baptist Church, you’ll learn about the Fireplaces about his book, Oakmont: 100 Years, as we enjoy light refresh- ments. The Fownes Fowndation is graciously hosting our reception. architects, architecture, and religious traditions of these Oakland Ferry Electric Company masterpieces. Bring binoculars! Enrollment is limited to 20. Fee: $25 members; $40 non-members Jim Galbraith/Belmont Tour guide: Christopher Milne, professor of architectural Technical College Saturday, May 22 1:30 to 6:00 p.m. photography at Community College of Allegheny County. Gilding Atelier of PA A Spring Visit to Homestead For fee and registration information contact: University of Pittsburgh Learning Solutions Harkness Home Inspections So much is happening in Homestead––and it’s not all happening (412-624-6600; www.solutions.pitt.edu) Jenkins Slate Roofing on the Waterfront. Join Landmarks, architect David Lewis, KP Builders preservationists, and entrepreneurs in Homestead to see the difference our façade restoration program has made, and to visit Monday, July 26 5:30 to 8:00 p.m. Kelly Art Glass the Bost Building and Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area. An Evening at Longue Vue Club Lead Safe Pittsburgh Fee: $25 members; $40 non-members Mark Vernallis, chairman of Longue Vue’s Green & Horticulture Mars Lumber, Inc. Committee and a trustee of Landmarks, is inviting our members McClelland Plastering Co. Wednesdays, June 2–September 29 Noon to 1:00 p.m. and friends on an exclusive tour of the 1920 clubhouse, gardens, and golf course. Participants will hear about clubhouse architect Gerald Lee Morosco Architects, PC Weekly Downtown Walking Tours Benno Janssen, landscape architect Albert Davis Taylor, and golf Prism Stained Glass Join Landmarks’ docents on four entertaining tours of downtown course architect Robert White. Golf carts will be available so we Pittsburgh. Each month the tour is different: June is Grant Street Red Clay Tile Works can ride out on the course to see some of the marvelous views up and ; July is the Penn-Liberty Cultural District; and down the Allegheny River valley. Renovation Information August is Fourth Avenue and PPG Place; and September is Fee: $25 members; $40 non-members (includes buffet supper) Network/Community Design Fifth & Forbes and Market Square. Center of Pittsburgh FREE to members (one of the benefits!); $3 non-members Rodriguez Art Glass Starz Interior Restoration For complete details AND to confirm this event information, check our Web site at www.phlf.org, or contact Take Pride Painting, Inc. & Mary Lu (412-471-5808, ext. 527; [email protected]). Reservations are limited: first come, first served! Platinum Design Group Western Pennsylvania Craftsmen’s Guild Wilson & McCracken

Neighborhood Organizations Friendship Development Associates Lawrenceville Corporation Manchester Citizens Corporation Mexican War Streets Society Our mission is to preserve Mon Valley Initiative historic crafts and properties through the service of exceptional craftsmen. North Side Leadership Conference South Side Local Development The Guild maintains an on-line gathering place where clients can find Company qualified craftsmen, benefiting historic properties, clients, and craftsmen alike. This “referral service” is free; the Guild accepts no fees or commissions. • Residential & Liturgical Special Events • Architectural woodwork Ask the Experts • Art glass Kids Corner • Gilding For a complete listing of trades, please visit us at Preservationists’ • Architectural plastering www.westpenncraftguild.com Chat Room • Custom tile work and meet the Craftsmen who can make What Style Is Your • Decorative painting your project a success. Home? • Slate roofing Or, if you prefer, you can leave a message at • Refinishing and carpentry 412-784-8015 and a member will return your call.

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Philip B. Hallen ...... Chairman Cathy McCollom ...... Chief Programs Officer Arthur P. Ziegler, Jr...... President Jack Miller ...... Director of Gift Planning Louise Sturgess ...... Editor/Executive Director Linda Mitry...... Staff Accountant Tom Croyle...... Comptroller Frank Stroker...... Assistant Archivist/Sales Manager Mary Lu Denny ...... Director of Membership Services Kelley Stroup ...... Library Assistant Mary Ann Eubanks...... Education Coordinator Albert M. Tannler ...... Historical Collections Director Jean Hardy ...... Secretary Sarah Walker ...... Secretary Phipps Hoffstot ...... Chief Financial Officer Marilyn Whitelock ...... Secretary Thomas Keffer ...... Superintendent of Property Maintenance Gregory C. Yochum ...... Horticulturist Walter C. Kidney...... Architectural Historian Ronald C. Yochum, Jr...... Chief Information Officer Stanley A. Lowe...... Vice President, Preservation Programs