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free guided tours 2019 update 3-18 copy.qxp 3/25/19 1:41 PM Page 2 Free Guided Walking Tours Pittsburgh-Area in Downtown Pittsburgh and Oakland Neighborhood Walking Tours Wednesdays and Fridays: May through October 2019 Explore City and County Neighborhoods with docents from the Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation. Two different free guided walking tours are offered each month: tours on Wednesdays are Most tours are offered on several dates. For meeting locations and details, visit www.phlf.org; click on Tours & Events. from 10:00 to 11:00 a.m. and tours on Fridays are from Noon to 1:00 p.m. The tours feature Tour fees: PHLF members $10 per person; non-members $20 per person. different areas in Downtown Pittsburgh and in the city’s Oakland neighborhood. Advance paid reservations are required: [email protected] or 412-471-5808, ext. 527. Advance reservations are appreciated: [email protected]; 412-471-5808, ext. 527. WEDNESDAYS FRIDAYS APRIL AUGUST All event details are South Side, Pittsburgh subject to change. 10:00 to 11:00 a.m. Noon to 1:00 p.m. 28: 4: Eastern Shadyside, Pittsburgh Two Faces of Urban Renewal: Visit www.phlf.org MAY 6: May 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 May 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 Gateway Center and Market Square, for up-to-date Grant Street Upper Penn-Liberty 4: Sharpsburg, PA Downtown Pittsburgh information and click ALSO: (from Sixth to Liberty Avenues) 5: Automobile Row (Bloomfield/Friendship), 20: The Courthouse & City-County on Tours & Events. Free Tours at Meet Downtown at 980 Liberty Avenue Meet Downtown on Grant Street near outside the August Wilson African American Pittsburgh Building in Depth, Downtown All walking tours are the Jail Museum: Pittsburgh Sixth Avenue, outside the entrance Cultural Center 11: Oakl and & Schenley Farms, Pittsburgh handicap accessible, OPEN MONDAYS, to the Omni William Penn Hotel 18: Carnegie, PA although we appreciate February through SEPTEMBER June 7, 14, 21, 28 21: Two Faces of Urban Renewal: knowing your needs October, for self- June 5, 12, 19, 26 Market Square Area Bridges & River Shores Gateway Center and Market Square, 15: Automobile Row 48 hours in advance. guided tours Downtown Pittsburgh (Bloomfield/Friendship), Pittsburgh Meet Downtown in PNC Triangle Park, Meet Downtown in front of the Renaissance Please contact (except on court East Liberty, Pittsburgh 18: Sewickley, PA across from the Fairmont Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Hotel at 107 Sixth Street 25: Mary Lu Denny: holidays) 21: Point Breeze, Pittsburgh at 510 Market Street 412-471-5808, ext. 527; Visit between July 5, 12, 19, 26 JUNE 24: The Courthouse & City-County [email protected] 11:30 a.m. and July 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 Oakland Civic Center 1: Point Breeze, Pittsburgh Building in Depth, Downtown 1:00 p.m. Oakland Civic Center Pittsburgh (Fifth Avenue Area) 8: Mexican War Streets, Pittsburgh 440 Ross Street, (Forbes Avenue Area) Mt. Lebanon, PA Meet in Pittsburgh’s Oakland neighborhood, 12: Sewickley, PA 28: Pittsburgh, PA 15219 Meet in Pittsburgh’s Oakland neighborhood, outside the main entrance of the Soldiers 16: Eastern Shadyside, Pittsburgh at the corner of Forbes Avenue and Schenley & Sailors Memorial Hall & Museum, Oakland & Schenley Farms, Pittsburgh Drive Extension, near the outdoor statue 4141 Fifth Avenue 22: OCTOBER 25: Point Breeze, Pittsburgh of the dinosaur 12: East Liberty, Pittsburgh August August 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 Carnegie, PA 7, 14, 21, 28 Gateway Center JULY 19: Fourth Avenue Historic District 20: South Side, Pittsburgh Meet Downtown at Gateway Station, 14: Fineview, Pittsburgh Meet Downtown on Smithfield Street at 22: The Courthouse & City-County on Stanwix Street near Liberty Avenue When the Allegheny Fourth Avenue, across from Dollar Bank 23: Two Faces of Urban Renewal: Building in Depth, Downtown County Jail was (under the One Oxford Centre sign) Gateway Center and Market Square, Pittsburgh September Downtown Pittsburgh Sharpsburg adapted to house the 6, 13, 20, 27 September Grant Street 65 4, 11, 18, 25 24: South Side, Pittsburgh Sewickley 28 Family Division of Upper Penn-Liberty (from Sixth to Fourth Avenues) the Court of Common 27: Mexican War Streets, Meet Downtown at 980 Liberty Avenue Meet Downtown on Grant Street near Pittsburgh Allegheny River Pleas, a portion of Ohio River one of the cell blocks outside the August Wilson African American Sixth Avenue, outside the entrance was preserved as the Cultural Center to the Omni William Penn Hotel Fineview East Liberty Old Allegheny County October 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 October 4, 11, 18, 25 Mexican War Bloomfield/Friendship Jail Museum. Streets Penn-Liberty Cultural District Fourth Avenue Historic District Shadyside Advance reservations Meet Downtown in Katz Plaza at the corner Meet Downtown on Smithfield Street at Oakland & Point Breeze are appreciated: of Penn Avenue and Seventh Street Fourth Avenue, across from Dollar Bank Schenley Farms Pittsburgh Downtown [email protected] (under the One Oxford Centre sign) 412-471-5808, ext. 527. Region South Side Our free walking tours are offered in cooperation with VisitPITTSBURGH Carnegie 51 Monongahela River Mt. Lebanon.