Protecting the Places that Make Pittsburgh Home

Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation Nonprofit Org. 1 Station Square, Suite 450 U. S. Postage Pittsburgh, PA 15219-1134 PAID www.phlf.org Pittsburgh, PA Address Service Requested Permit No. 598 PHLF News Published for the members of the Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation No. 162 March 2002

In this issue: 6 Awards in 2001 10 Richard King Mellon Foundation Gives Major Grant to Landmarks’ Historic Rural Preservation Program 16 Remembering Frank Furness 19 Solidity & Diversity: Ocean Grove, New Jersey

More on Bridges

Bridges, roads, and buildings were ablaze in light in 1929, when Pittsburgh joined cities across the nation in celebrating the Pittsburgh’s Bridges: fiftieth anniversary of the lightbulb. Architecture & Engineering Walter C. Kidney to Landmarks to pay for the lighting of The following excerpt from a recent Duquesne Light Funds the Roberto Clemente Bridge. The grant review in The Journal of the Society may also be used for certain mainte- for Industrial Archaeology might nance costs so taxpayers will not have to encourage you to buy Walter Bridge Lighting bear all future maintenance costs. Kidney’s book on bridges if you We have appointed a Design Advisory have not already done so (see page 9 Committee, headed by our chairman In the summer, the Roberto Clemente Bridge will be lighted, thanks to a generous for book order information): grant from Duquesne Light Company and the cooperative efforts of Landmarks, Philip Hallen, that will work in cooperation with the Urban Design For his book, Kidney was able to the Riverlife Task Force, Councilman Sala Udin, and many interested parties. Committee of the Riverlife Task Force. draw on the rich photographic resources This will be the first step in a major bridge-lighting campaign for Pittsburgh that We also have communicated with many of city, county, academic, corporate, Landmarks—and others—have long advocated. interested parties, including the U. S. and private collections in the Pittsburgh Army Corps of Engineers, the Barge area. His depth of knowledge, clarity of The Riverlife Task Force particularly glad to see a call for lighting Owners Association, and local exposition, and keen eye for photo- Leads Planning Effort Pittsburgh’s bridges. astronomers. Our goal is to develop a graphic quality, coupled with good In 1984, Landmarks and our associates plan that is beautiful and acceptable design and high-quality reproduction, The Riverlife Task Force has been at Station Square lighted the Smithfield from everyone’s point-of-view. have resulted in a beautiful, readable working for several years to develop Street Bridge. When PennDOT restored book. For the IA community, it is a plans for the river edges in Pittsburgh, the bridge in 1995, they relighted it The Broader Context sound resource and will open the eyes and particularly on the North Side. and also painted it in its appropriate We want the lighting of the Clemente, of the uninitiated to the richness of As part of its work, the Task Force was historic colors, rather than in the Aztec Seventh, and Ninth Street Bridges to be Pittsburgh’s bridges, indeed to all gold used ubiquitously on our down- bridges, as cultural artifacts. town bridges. in full harmony with the lighting of the North Shore Riverfront Park. The Landmarks was very pleased, “To the Point” therefore, to be asked by the Riverlife Riverlife Task Force shares this goal and Task Force to become the administrative so does Councilman Sala Udin, who “To the Point” is a notebook of and implementing agency to light chaired an effort several years ago to information, color photographs, and Pittsburgh’s bridges. Landmarks will begin lighting Pittsburgh’s bridges. maps describing 175 bridges that act in concert with the Riverlife Task The Riverlife Task Force has span the twelve rivers (including the Force to develop a program to light the appointed a committee to be chaired by three rivers plus their tributaries) Golden Triangle bridges, beginning with Councilman Udin and our president, whose waters flow to Pittsburgh’s the Roberto Clemente Bridge, followed Arthur Ziegler, to coordinate all the Point. The well-organized reference public river lighting programs. by the Seventh and Ninth Street Bridges was written and compiled by Todd and, hopefully, others. The Smithfield Street Bridge of 1883, Wilson, when he was an eleventh- Pittsburgh’s oldest extant river bridge. Updates grade student at Allderdice High Clemente Bridge to If you are interested in following School. Now a senior, Todd intends asked to establish design standards for Be Lighted Landmarks’ progress with this to become a structural engineer. all riverfront park development in the No sooner had Landmarks accepted important activity, please check the We thank Todd for donating a city. When the Task Force released its this assignment than Duquesne Light “News and Alerts” section of our copy of “To the Point” to the James master plan last fall, Landmarks was made a magnificent grant of $500,000 Web site at www.phlf.org. D. Van Trump Library. Page 2 PHLF News • March 2002

2001 FACT

334 new memberships… Lawrence Marcello almost one a day! Mary Reis and family Richard T. Urbani Molly’s Trolleys and family Sari Reis Dr. R. Scott Van Zant National City Bank of Pennsylvania Nuveen Marwah Kimberly Rentler W. D. Vergot Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership John R. Matthews and Eric Resch Verona United Methodist Church family Tina Reuwsaat William F. Versaw Partners Constance E. Mayer Charles E. Rhoads Luetta C. Waddell Allegheny Valley Bank of Pittsburgh David McAnallen Peggy Rhodes Deepak Wadhwani BankPittsburgh Bette McDevitt Anne E. Richardson Rosemary Waggoner Beckwith Machinery Deborah McGrogan Rebecca M. Rieger Beverly R. Walter and family Bognar and Company Christine McIntosh and Daniel Reynolds Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Riordan Mr. and Mrs. Allan Wampler Bruce Plastics, Inc. Michelle L. McKain Donna Ritz Jean Ann Warren The Buncher Company Sharon and Mark McLauglin Joseph L. Roberts and family Kathryn B. Watson McNaugher Education Center Michelle A. Robinson-Austin Mr. and Mrs. Andrew L. Weil Burrell Group, Inc. Linnea McQuiston Charlie Roche Helene Weinraub and Geoff Clauss Cable Design Technologies Sandra Menosky Rachel Roebuck and family Terry and Jorg Weizorek California University of Pennsylvania Timothy W. Merrill, Jr. Mr. and Ms. Gerald Roeder Fred Wheeler Chatham Village Homes, Inc. Carol A. Metrovich and family Barbara and Dennis Ross Connie L. White and family Chubb Group of Insurance Companies Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Middleton Ellyn Roth and Harold Pincus Karen Farmer White Duquesne Light Company John C. Miller III Ann Fay Ruben Terri L. White Fayette Bank Eric N. Milliron, Jr. Joann Ryan Anthony Wilson Ferry Electric Company Natalie B. Monaco Water Sadauskas Arthur D. Wilson Forest City Enterprises, Inc. Rebekah Modrak and Nick Tobier St. Boniface Church and Holy Wisdom Mr. and Mrs. Bernard B. Winer Frank P. Hess & Company, Inc. Terence E. Moore, M. D. Parish Barry D. Wingard, Jr. Fulton Hotel Developer, L. P. Sharon Morris St. Elizabeth Ann Seton School J. D. Wintermantel and family The Gateway Engineers Rebecca J. Morrow St. Paul of the Cross Monastery Jim Wolf Graham Realty Company Eileen and Denny Mountjoy Fran Sakmar Simon G. Wu Great American Federal Savings & Bert Lee Mozena Michael P. Santmyer Rita M. Yeasted Loan Association Tom Murphy Leslie P. Schall and family Susan M. Zeff and Norman W. May The Healey Company Joshua Musicante Ray Schinhofen Zen Center of Pittsburgh Hilb, Rogal and Hamilton Company Peter P. Namisnak Richard E. Schmitz Charles Zinsser, Jr. and family Horty, Springer & Matters, P.C. Lane Neff George Schnakenberg and family Dennis J. Ziolkowski and family IKM, Inc. Jean Ann Niethamer Bob Schnarrenberger Christopher Zurawsky and family M. Noullet Gail Schrott K. P. Builders, Inc. Joan Novitsky Mary Lou Seaburn Keystone State Savings Bank Janet R. O’Connor Joan J. Seibert Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Judy Oliver Shady Side Middle School Landmarks Design Associates Mary Oppel Charles Shane, Jr. and family Corporate Laurel Bank Michelle C. Pagano Christopher Shane and family Laurel Savings Bank Armand J. Panson Daniel Shane and family Members in MBI Tours, Inc. Pauline and Jim Parker Roberta Shope Mellon Bank Ken Pasterak Kelli A. Sikorski Neville Chemical Company Jeanette Patsakis Deborah M. Simak Landmarks Nordic Fisheries Susan Peake Doris Simich NorthSide Bank Ellyse H. Pearlstein Teresa L. Siwicki New members in 2001 are designated Penn Liberty Association K. Henry Pearson Jacob N. Skezas by an asterisk. Perkins Eastman Architects, P.C. Priscilla Pearson Doug Skowron *Pittsburgh Fire Fighters Local #1 Aubrie and David Pecore and family Carol Slagle Benefactors Pittsburgh Hilton & Towers Christine and Anthony Phillips Douglas F. Smith CB Richard Ellis/Pittsburgh Port Authority of Allegheny County William Picciotto Jon Smith Columbia Gas of Pennsylvania, Inc. *Quantapoint, Inc. Jean Piroth Lynn and Joseph Smith Eat ’n Park Hospitality Group Rossin Foundation Debra Pisciuneri and family Mr. and Mrs. R. Banks Smith Ellwood Group, Inc. Sargent Electric Company A. M. Pitcher South Allegheny School District Federal Home Loan Bank of Pittsburgh Shirley A. Pittman South Side Community Council, Inc. Sesame Inn Restaurants Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield Pittsburgh Board of Public Education Tom Spencer, Esq. *Seton Hill College Matthews International Pittsburgh New Church and School Ruth Sproull and Richard Pantalone and Tempus Creative Services Marylynne Pitz family Mylan Laboratories, Inc. TRACO Windows Samantha E. Plisak Stacy and Robert Stanton Omni William Penn Hotel *Troy Hill Fire Station #39 Shane A. Policastro Station Square Gallery Oxford Development Company *Urban Design Associates Charles M. Porter and family Mark Steele Pittsburgh Steelers Sports, Inc. A. J. Vater & Company Preserve Croatian Heritage Foundation Mr. and Mrs. James T. Steen PNC Bank Verizon Sandra Preuhs and Larry Sachs Kenneth R. Stiles Sota Construction Services, Inc. *W. Penna. Laborers District Council John L. Price Matthew S. Stypula Victoria Hall West View Savings Bank Michael Pucci Robert J. Sullivan, Jr. and family Workingmen’s Savings Bank, F. S. B. Pamela and Emil Quatchak Daniel S. Szuhay Patrons Frank S. Quinn, IV Mr. and Mrs. John Szuhay Dollar Bank Associates Indigo Raffel Mary Tabasko Greater Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce Day & Night Press Kathryn Rampy and family Amit Tiwary Greater Pittsburgh Convention & Visitors Pytlik Design Associates Richard P. Rauso, ASLA Township of Reserve Bureau Regional Educational Support Center Cynthia Turich

A view of Pittsburgh from Mt. Washington, c. 1905, and of three bridges now gone: the Union Bridge of 1874 (left), demolished in 1907; the first Point Bridge (center), demolished in 1927 after the second Point Bridge had been constructed; and the Wabash Bridge (right), demolished in 1948. PHLF News • March 2002 Page 3

Recent Contributions & Gifts Major Donors There are many ways to give to Landmarks. Our members and friends make contributions in support of specific programs or in memory of a loved one. They also give memberships as gifts or donate goods or services. We thank the following people and in 2001 corporations for their recent contributions: We thank the following Lifetime Memberships Hornbostel Contributors (continued) Program Support (continued) people, businesses, and Mr. and Mrs. George C. Dorman Henry Phipps Hoffstot III • The Hillman Foundation, for its contri- foundations for generously bution to support the Homestead Katherine Hudak Golobic Lloyd Hornbostel, Jr. contributing to the Milton G. Hulme Charitable Foundation Restoration Fund. Judith K. Harvey Pittsburgh History & Cheryl Der Norsek Hurley • The Estate of Frances M. Holland, for a Lynne Holt gift to support our educational programs. Jendoco Construction Corporation Landmarks Foundation: Mr. and Mrs. John Hudak • Richard King Mellon Foundation, Mr. and Mrs. Tasso Katselas Mary Ann and Anthony Kopczynski for a grant to Landmarks’ Historic Rural Kim T. and Janice Menke Abraham Mr. and Mrs. William Collins King April Langevin Preservation Program (please see p. 10). The Estate of Charles Covert Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Nevin, Jr. Lami Grubb Architects • Mistick, Incorporated, for its Arensberg Anne Tooke MacLachlan, Cornelius & Filoni, Inc., contribution to support the Historic Anne and Charles Shaw Arensberg Architects Lucille C. Tooke Religious Properties seminar held on Vivian Garrison Arensberg Mary A. McDonough October 8, 2001. Minnette Boesel William F. Versaw Perkins Eastman Architects • Evelyn Bitner Pearson, for gifts to support Barbara W. Bonnett Charles H. Booth, Jr. Corporate Matching Gifts Sota Construction Services, Inc. our educational programs and preserva- tion efforts for historic religious proper- Mr. and Mrs. David M. Brashear We thank: TEDCO Construction Corporation ties and neighborhoods. Mr. and Mrs. James E. Brashear Mr. and Mrs. John R. Thorne • The Buhl Foundation, for matching a gift • Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Carl Wood Brown from Dr. and Mrs. Albert C. Van Dusen. The Walden Trust Commission, for its grant to support The Buhl Foundation • Chevron Corporation, for matching a gift Bruce and Sheryl Wolf Homestead. Cable Design Technologies, Inc. Chevron Corporation from Stephanie G. Sladek. Arthur P. Ziegler, Jr. • Ringgold United Methodist Church Cub The Anne L. and George H. Clapp Scout Pack #290, for its contribution to • R. R. Donnelley Foundation , for If you have not yet contributed to Charitable and Educational Trust matching a gift from Rolland Beatty. support our student tour programs. the Hornbostel book, please do so by Mary DeWinter Family Fund • Mrs. William Stouffer, for her contribu- completing the form on page 17. Your Dollar Bank Gift Memberships tion in honor of Reverend and Mrs. W. A. support ensures a quality publication. George Dorman We thank: Jones and Mr. and Mrs. John P. Moore. Duquesne Light • Bob and Karen E. Thomson, for their Eat ’n Park Hospitality Group • Tom Armstrong, for the gift of membership Named Funds to Tom Spencer, Esq. contribution in honor of Cathy Federal Home Loan Bank of Fifteen Named Funds have been estab- McCollom and Kent Edwards. Pittsburgh • Martha Bright, for the gift of membership • The Versaw Foundation, for a contribu- The Grable Foundation to Robert J. Sullivan. lished at Landmarks to help support the cause of historic preservation. We thank tion to support our preservation efforts. Marion V. Green • Carol and James Campbell, for the gift of the following people for their recent Alice Patton Greller membership to Randall Campbell. Philip B. Hallen gifts: • Phil Hallen, for the gift of membership to Doris M. Harris Dr. R. Scott Van Zant. • Kim T. and Janice Menke Abraham, Memorial Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield The Hillman Foundation • Martha Jordan, for the gift of member- Michael J. and Karen Menke Paciorek, Contributions Henry Phipps Hoffstot III ship to Sr. Melanie DiPietro, Sally Miller and Betty and Jack Zierden, for contribu- The Estate of Frances M. Holland and David Heastings, Ella Kwisnek and tions to the Audrey and Kenneth Menke Honor Mr. and Mrs. Thomas O. Hornstein Tsenolo Leche, and Joan Mosey and Named Fund for Education. Milton G. Hulme Charitable Jim Plakidas. • David and Janet Brashear, for their contri- bution to their family fund. Landmarks’ Foundation • Jack Miller, for the gift of membership to The Roy A. Hunt Foundation • Richard A. Brunermer, Marion V. Green, Marlene and Chuck Docherty, Fran Haus, First Chairman Cheryl Der Norsek Hurley and Henry Phipps Hoffstot III, for contri- Jr., Bethel Kean, and John C. Miller III. Martha Jordan butions to the Mary DeWinter Fund. We thank the following people and • Evelyn Pearson, for the gift of member- organizations for their donations in Monna J. Kidney ship to her children: Christine Hicks, • Henry Phipps Hoffstot III and Vinnie 2001 through February 20, 2002 in Grant McCargo Linnea McQuiston, K. Henry Pearson, D. Ziegler, for contributions to the memory of Charles Covert Arensberg Pamela K. McCarter Priscilla Pearson, and Cynthia Turich. Emma Ziegler Fund. Mary A. McDonough • Tod M. Hunt, Sr., for contributions to (1913–2001), who served as our • Loretta and Charles Shane, for the gift Katherine Mabis McKenna the Torrence M. Hunt Sr. Named Fund chairman from 1964 until 1994. of membership to Charles Shane, Jr., Foundation, Inc. for Special Projects. Mellon Bank Christopher Shane, and Daniel Shane Dede and Homer Alexander and their families. • Frank L. Stanley, for contributions to the Mistick, Incorporated Shady Brook Fund. Anne and Charles Shaw Arensberg Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Nevin, Jr. • Roschel Holland Stearns, for the gift of Vivian Garrison Arensberg Michael J. and Karen Menke Paciorek membership to John F. Holland. Program Support The Buhl Foundation Evelyn Bitner Pearson • Mr. and Mrs. John W. Szuhay, for the gift We thank: Grady E. Clay and Judith McCandless Mr. and Mrs. Edward V. Randall, Jr. of membership to Daniel S. Szuhay. • The Estate of Charles Covert Arensberg, Heather and Brian Dant and family Randolph Engineering Margaret Pollard Rea for a contribution to support our preser- Dispensers Optical Service Corporation Memorial Gifts vation efforts. Richardson, Pennington & Skinner, Annette Dunkelman P.S.C. We thank: • The Anne L. and George H. Clapp Barbara and Jim Durham Mr. and Mrs. Daniel M. Rooney • Elena Howald, for her gift to the Charitable and Educational Trust, for its Lee C. Gordon Elizabeth Smith Historic Religious Properties Fund, in contribution to support our preservation Alexander C. and Tillie S. Speyer memory of Emily Stanwyck. and educational efforts. Sandra and Frank Hack Foundation Christine and William Harned • Dollar Bank, for its contribution to James and Colleen Standish Hornbostel in Pittsburgh support the reprinting of “The African- Sherrill and Bill Herm Frank L. Stanley Book Contributors American Legacy in Allegheny County: Rose and Mick Kern Susan deBary Stanton Our fund-raising campaign to support A Timeline of Key Events.” Lois and Larry Marmilot Margaret S. Stouffer the fall publication of Hornbostel in • Duquesne Light, for its contribution to The staff of the Pittsburgh History & The Sumner Foundation, Inc. Pittsburgh, by Walter C. Kidney, is well support the bridge lighting project (please Landmarks Foundation Bob and Karen E. Thomson see page 1). underway. We thank the following for Planned Parenthood of Louisville, Inc. Versaw Foundation their recent gifts: • Eat ’n Park Hospitality Group, Inc., for The Walden Trust Pytlik Design Associates Mr. and Mrs. James M. Walton Mr. and Mrs. Walter J. Blenko, Jr. its contribution to support the Homestead Façade Program. Randolph Engineering, Inc. Arthur P. Ziegler, Jr. Brian Homes, Inc. • Cynthia A. England, for her contribution Mr. and Mrs. William H. Rea Vinnie D. Ziegler Barry L. Chad to support our preservation efforts. Peri, Jordan, and Wayne Richardson Mr. and Mrs. Jack Zierden The Anne L. and George H. Clapp • Girl Scout Troop #1427 from North Richardson, Pennington & Skinner, P.S.C. Charitable and Educational Trust Hills, for its contribution to support our Kate Rudd and Steven R. Sarfin Mr. and Mrs. John P. Davis, Jr. student tour programs. Mollie Smith The Mary DeWinter Family Fund • John A. Habel, Jr., for his gift to support Susan deBary Stanton Timothy C. Engleman our educational programs. John H. Stites III Philip B. Hallen • The James H. and Frances C. Hardie The Sumner Foundation, Inc. Family Fund of The Pittsburgh The James H. and Frances C. Hardie Dr. and Mrs. Albert C. Van Dusen Family Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation, for contributions to support Nancy H. and Thomas M. Woodcock Foundation our educational programs. Page 4 PHLF News • March 2002

Recent Planned Gifts

Leveraging Their Legacy

George and Eileen Dorman support a easements that assist in preserving number of community causes, but properties for their current use. preservation is at the top of their list. “You can go to Europe and see During the past 20 years, they have churches that have stood for centuries,” watched farmland disappear as a popu- said Eileen. “That glorious architecture lation wave moved toward property and those magnificent stained glass they own on the tip of Long Island in windows give you a sense of the rela- New York; and they’ve followed the tionship of the builders to their Faith efforts of the late Constance Oliver and their God, a relationship that O’Neil, a trustee of Landmarks who continues to this day. provided major grants to underwrite our “George and I wanted to contribute Historic Religious Properties Initiative. something to that spirit in Pittsburgh. As a result of some creative planning, Besides, a building that’s always used the Dormans have made their own long- Eileen and George Dorman made a gift never feels old.” term financial commitment to Landmarks to Landmarks that is a major boost for Added George: “It would be our that will strengthen our Historic the Easement and Historic Religious wish, in ten years from now, to look Religious Properties Program and help Properties Programs. George is a back and see architecturally significant us to expand our Easement Program. churches and historic farms still here, long-time trustee of Landmarks. More than a decade ago, George was doing what they were designed to do.” Eileen’s father had an office in the elected to the board of a local corpora- Thanks to the Dormans and the Landmarks Building when it was the tion. As a member of its compensation decision they made 12 years ago to 5238–5240 Lotus Way, Lawrenceville headquarters for the Pittsburgh & committee, he championed a Directors’ forego a source of income in favor of Charitable Award Program (DCAP). Lake Erie Railroad. a major gift to charity, that wish may Through this program, he was able to just come true. direct payment for his service to an said George. “The only downside was A Historic insurance policy that established that I had to die or retire before any If you serve on a corporate board, charities as the beneficiaries. charitable organization could collect. inquire if a Directors’ Charitable Gift of a While on the corporate board, Fortunately (from my standpoint), Award Program is an option for you. George served on just about every retirement came first.” It’s a great way to leave your mark on Non-historic committee, attending as many as 20 As a result of the Dormans’ foresight, Pittsburgh and help Landmarks protect meetings per year. Each time, his direc- Landmarks will receive a significant the places that make Pittsburgh home. Nature tor’s fee went to the DCAP. When he annual gift for each of the next ten retired in 2001, a significant sum had years. Eighty percent of the gift will be What motivates a brother and sister been accumulated. directed to Landmarks’ Historic to give their childhood home in “Eileen and I decided early on that Religious Properties Fund and the Lawrenceville to Landmarks? In the my director’s fees could do a lot more balance will be used to underwrite the case of John Hudak and Katherine good for the community than for us,” Easement Program, particularly those Hudak Golobic, it was a way to pay tribute to two loving parents. John Sr. and Mary Hudak worked hard all of their lives. John was the first of his generation to be born in America. Trusting Landmarks

For nearly a half century, Lucille Tooke and her late husband Your Jack cared for their 64-acre historic farm in Gibsonia, PA as Gift if it were a member of their family. When it came time to retire she needed to sell the property to generate income. Could Be The stumbling block: developers wanted to buy the 165-year- Your The late Mary and John Hudak, Sr. old farm last year and replace it with tracts of new housing. After exploring her options, the life-long Landmarks member decided to Legacy Mary came to this country from Austria when she was 16. Both lived by a strong transfer her farm to a charitable remainder unitrust (CRUT). work ethic. The couple raised three children: A CRUT allows a donor to place highly appreciated assets in a trust where they can John, Katherine, and Mary Ann. be sold without incurring capital gains taxes. The proceeds are then invested in a diversified Together they faced the challenges of Mary Ann’s Downe’s Syndrome, portfolio that must pay the donor an annual income stream of at least five percent for life, or a period of years. periodic layoffs associated with being a Because charity must be the ultimate beneficiary of a CRUT, a donor also receives a charitable income tax welder for U.S. Steel, and having to help staff John’s parents’ neighborhood deduction equal to the present value of the gift. grocery store. But no obstacle could stand in the Lucille Tooke chose Landmarks as the irrevocable beneficiary of her CRUT. Landmarks purchased the way of providing for their children. property and then sold the farm to a buyer who was willing to place a protective When the grocery store closed, John Sr. worked more overtime at the mill and easement on the farm. Hidden Valley Farm was the Mary, then in her forties, enrolled at the first property saved through Landmarks’ Historic Pittsburgh Beauty Academy. She gradu- ated at the top of her class and generated Rural Preservation and Easement Program. extra income from “beautician work.” Their combined incomes put a son through college and a daughter through For more information on nursing school, and enabled Mary Ann creative gifts that meet your to receive the best care possible. When John Sr. was diagnosed with cancer, objectives and help Landmarks Mary cared for him in the only home preserve the places that make they had ever known, until he died in Pittsburgh home, please call 1995. Jack Miller at 412-471-5808, (continued on page 5) ext. 538; or visit our Web site at www.phlf.org. Hidden Valley Farm, Gibsonia PHLF News • March 2002 Page 5

(continued from page 4) One Gift Annuity to Go...Hold the Charitable In 2001, cancer also claimed Mary. But her final days were made less painful Headaches, Double the Income Update because Katherine cared for her while John took care of the house and bills. Tony and Mary Ann Kopczynski never and their son’s knowledge of electrical Jack Miller When deciding what to do with the had a lot of money, but for more than engineering would prove invaluable in Phone: 412-471-5808 ext. 538 family home after his mother’s death, a decade they were rolling in dough. the plant. E-mail: [email protected] John consulted Katherine. Since each That’s because in 1985 the couple With all that going for them, the lived out-of-state, selling the house purchased and ran Pizza Plus, a small Kopczynskis decided to buy the busi- • In September 2001, Landmarks would be difficult. That was when their pizza manufacturing business in McKees ness. In a few years, Pizza Plus, compet- sold Hidden Valley Farm to realtor suggested giving Landmarks the ing with national companies, doubled its Rocks. William Versaw, who has placed Lawrenceville property. “For 25 years, I was district sales sales by providing a quality product and long-term protective façade and “Giving the house to Landmarks in manager at General Foods,” said Tony. excellent service. scenic easements on the property memory of our parents became a “Then, Phillip Morris bought out the in Gibsonia, PA, assuring that wonderful answer to our dilemma,” said company and gave me the choice of John. “Everyone in the family supported relocating to Cleveland—or unemploy- future generations will be able to the idea, even our children.” ment. Since we would never leave enjoy the 1835 brick farmhouse With the tax savings realized from the Pittsburgh, I negotiated a silver and its adjoining 64 acres. gift, John Jr. and Katherine were also parachute.” • To make it easier to explore able to direct additional cash to Mary At the time, daughter Judy was planned gift benefits in the pri- Ann for her long-term care and give married and living in Virginia; son Tony vacy of your home, Landmarks something back to the community that was a successful electrical engineer at has created a planned gift calcu- had meant so much to them and their PPG Industries in Pittsburgh; and the lator on its Web site. To locate, parents. severance package made it possible for click on www.phlf.org. Then If appropriate, Landmarks tries to the couple to pursue the dream of own- click on Programs & Services. restore the exterior of properties such as ing their own business. Then click on Gift Planning: this to reflect the original architectural Now, it just so happened at that time, style. Even though this property is not of that the family of their son’s friend was Mary Ann and Tony Kopczynski Creating a Legacy. Scroll down historic or architectural significance, it is thinking about selling its McKees Rocks and click on Planned Giving Gift still significant to Landmarks. pizza manufacturing business. Buying When health issues for the Kopczynskis Calculator under “To Learn “When we eventually sell the building the business interested Tony, but Mary led to their retirement, no buyers could More….” to a reputable buyer, we’ll apply the Ann was skeptical. So Tony worked at be found who shared the Kopczynski’s • Members wishing to request a proceeds to an unrestricted endowment the company for three months without enthusiasm for their business. That’s planned giving speaker or want- account,” said Landmarks’ president pay to get a feel for the business. when they decided to sell their plant and ing to receive our development Arthur Ziegler. “The gift will then “Originally, I was opposed to the office building and dissolve the business. newsletter, Landmark Legacies, generate income to support our preser- idea,” said Mary Ann, “but we found a Enter Landmarks. should contact Jack by phone or vation mission in memory of John and good lawyer and CPA who showed us “While the property was not of archi- by e-mail. Mary Hudak.” how we could build the business if we tectural or historic significance, it met Katherine and John Jr. hope to call were willing to work hard.” Landmarks’ need for additional storage • Landmarks thanks those who Pittsburgh “home” again one day. The Kopczynskis welcomed hard space,” said Landmarks’ president notified us in 2001 that they But whether or not they return, their work and had business experience. Arthur Ziegler. “There was also office have included Landmarks in generosity has assured that the spirit of Mary Ann had been a bookkeeper for space we could use or lease.” their estate plans. We appreciate the Hudak family will always reside at Allegheny Plywood prior to becoming a Because of the mutual benefits it your commitment to our Landmarks. fulltime homemaker. Tony knew sales offers, Landmarks proposed accepting mission. the buildings as gifts to fund a charit- able gift annuity. In other words, in • If you have included Landmarks return for the property, Landmarks in your will and have not yet would pay the couple a fixed annual notified us, please feel free to All That Glitters Is Not Goldby income for as long as either of them contact Jack. All requests for lives. confidentiality will be honored. Landmarks Generally, Landmarks will not accept Based on their ages, 6.3% of the recently accepted a gift of tangible personal property value of the Kopczynskis’ gifted prop- an 11-volume unless its maintenance and care are erty will annually be direct-deposited to collection of endowed at the time the gift is made. their checking account in quarterly pay- dated Pittsburgh Landmarks must also inspect the gift to ments and they will receive a significant ...... cutouts and post- be sure it relates to our mission and to current federal charitable income tax cards, donated by determine if it meets the conditions of deduction for the gift portion of the Membership member Harry C. our gift acceptance policy. property transfer. Goldby, formerly Because this collection of historical So where do the Kopczynskis go Referral of Pittsburgh, images of Pittsburgh is invaluable to our from here? Landmarks depends on Harry C. Goldby now residing in research, we are deeply gratified to “We’re going to become snowbirds,” membership support for its Carlisle, PA. receive it. said Mary Ann. “We’ll stay in Florida existence. Help us strengthen Mr. Goldby’s act of kindness empha- On behalf of our members who now during the winter, then return to our organization by referring sizes that significant gifts don’t have to have access to this collection in our Pittsburgh for the rest of the year. your friends, relatives, and be cash or securities. When such gifts library, Landmarks thanks Mr. Goldby We could never totally leave Pittsburgh. business associates to us as are related to a charity’s mission, they for finding a way to share a part of We were born here, met here, refused potential members. Please also qualify for a full market-value Pittsburgh’s past with its future. to relocate, and plan to be buried here. complete this form and return charitable income tax deduction. We just love this town.” it to Mary Lu Denny at “I feel good about the gifts we made Landmarks. A postcard of Dollar Bank, from one of Harry Goldby’s albums. over the years to support our nonprofit E-mail: [email protected] customers,” said Tony. “Now, this gift Fax: 412-471-1633 to Landmarks not only allows us to give something back to the community that Prospective Member Name gave us so much, but it relieves our stress ______while providing retirement income.” Mary Ann added: “Really, Landmarks Address ______was the answer to our prayers.” City ______In short, when it comes to our donors, Landmarks delivers. State______Zip______Telephone ______For information on how a planned gift can help you and support Landmarks’ Yes, you may use my (our) mission, please call Jack Miller at name(s) as a referral: 412-471-5808, ext. 538 or contact him via e-mail at [email protected]. ______(Please print your name) Date ______Page 6 PHLF News • March 2002 Year-End Gifts Exceed $15,000 Thanks to the year-end gifts from the following members and organizations, Landmarks will be able to sponsor its Historic Religious Properties Program for the seventh consecutive year and strengthen Awards in 2001 its education programs. We are grateful for this program support. Historic Religious Property Grant

Dr. David H. Archer Conrad C. M. Arensberg Recipients Joanne E. Bald Esther L. Barazzone On October 8, 2001, the Pittsburgh In addition to Brown Chapel A.M.E., Mr. and Mrs. James S. Beckwith III History & Landmarks Foundation the following churches received grants Mr. and Mrs. G. William Bissell awarded $41,000 in grants to 19 his- of up to $3,000: John W. Bittner, Jr. Dear Mr. Ziegler, Mr. and Mrs. H. Vaughan Blaxter III toric religious properties in Allegheny County for bricks and mortar projects. Bellefield Presbyterian Church, Elizabeth R. Bradley Just a little note to say a big Susan E. Brandt Trustee and committee chair Alice Oakland Sara M. Brown thank you to you and the Greller announced the grants during Calvary United Methodist Church, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Burgunder PHLF for having a vision to Landmarks’ sixth annual Historic Allegheny West Mr. and Mrs. Bruce D. Campbell help churches maintain Religious Properties Conference, Calvert Memorial Presbyterian Mrs. Henry Chalfant sponsored for the first time by the Church, Etna Basil M. Cox their properties....[I] can tell Janet and Frank Coyle Church Restoration Group, a division The Church of the Good Shepherd, Margaret Shadick Cyert you that your efforts are of Mistick Construction. Landmarks is Hazelwood Mr. and Mrs. John P. Davis, Jr. making a difference here in able to fund the annual grant program Emsworth United Presbyterian Day & Night Press because of year-end contributions it Church, Emsworth Carrick. The Mary DeWinter Family Fund receives from members and friends. Episcopal Church of the Nativity, Mr. and Mrs. Seymour Drescher The following letter from Reverend Crafton Mr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Edmunds —Pastor Dan Cramer Lawrence A. Thompson, pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Castle Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Edwards Zion Christian Church, Mr. and Mrs. George W. Erny Carrick Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church on the Shannon, Castle Shannon Edith Hall Fisher North Side, expresses the value and Monumental Baptist Church, Hill Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Fletcher, Jr. impact of Landmarks’ Historic District Dolores K. Gluck Religious Properties program: New Life Community Baptist Harry C. Goldby Church, North Braddock Edward J. Greene January 17, 2002 Old St. Luke’s, Scott Township Alice Patton Greller Pittsburgh North Side Church of Mr. and Mrs. James Hanchett Dear Ms. McCollom, Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Herchenroether, Jr. God, North Side Mildred C. Hoffmann This letter comes to just thank you St. James A.M.E. Church, East End Henry Phipps Hoffstot III again for the wonderful support and St. Matthews A.M.E. Zion, Sewickley Margaret P. Huessener financial assistance given to this church St. Stephen Parish, Hazelwood Milton G. Hulme Charitable Foundation by PHLF. I have pastored here for Verona United Methodist Church, Mr. and Mrs. Jay K. Jarrell five years and I can see the difference Verona Martha Jordan Mr. and Mrs. William C. Keck this has made in the morale of this Wesley Center A.M.E. Zion Church, Shelton F. King congregation and the appearance of Hill District Elizabeth M. Klimchock this church structure. Zen Center of Pittsburgh, Sewickley Barbara Koszka We invite you to come in and see the Zion Christian Church, Carrick J. Joseph Lackner work that has been completed in the Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Levine Sanctuary with the grant monies For information about this year’s Richard L. Linder Anne and Joel Lubenau awarded to us in October, 2001. Historic Religious Properties Dorothy K. Lynch Our church rallied behind this effort Conference and Grant Program, financially, and a number of our men Dom Magasano please contact Cathy McCollom: Mr. and Mrs. Douglas B. Marvin chipped in with the painting, and the Evelyn A. Mason grant monies assisted us in hiring pro- Phone: 412-471-5808, ext. 516 Matthews Educational and fessionals to plaster and paint the upper E-mail: [email protected] Charitable Trust Brown Chapel A.M.E., walls and ceiling. A small platform was Applications for grant awards this John R. Matthews North Side Mary A. McDonough built to hold all [musical] instruments. year will be accepted through August, Mr. and Mrs. Edward S. McKenna The Sanctuary looks beautiful and I at least. Melissa M. McSwigan count it a joy to pastor people who take Mary K. Michaely pride in how their church looks.... Mary Anne and Bill Mistick John A. Moraca Muriel R. Moreland Mr. and Mrs. P. F. Muck Thomas M. Mulroy Mr. and Mrs. B. Gordon Nelson III Awards of Merit Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Nevin, Jr. Susan M. Olaharski About 140 people attended Landmarks’ member- Jeffrey E. Orman ship reception on October 22, 2001 honoring Evelyn Bitner Pearson Award of Merit, Historic Landmark Plaque, and William F. Picciotto Historic Religious Property Grant Recipients. The Mr. and Mrs. John T. Radelet event took place at Sacred Heart Church in Mr. and Mrs. William Y. Rodewald Shadyside and Esther Bush and Mark Bibro, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel M. Rooney trustees of Landmarks, officiated. Edmund S. Ruffin III Virginia W. Schatz Award of Merit recipients were: Allegheny Mr. and Mrs. A. Reed Schroeder County, Family Division of the Court of Common Fred I. Sharp Pleas; the Art Institute of Pittsburgh; Artists and Laurie Graham Shearer Cities, Inc.; Associated Artists of Pittsburgh; Myrna and Lee Silverman Bethlehem Haven; Carol Brand, Susan Walters G. Harton Singer III Strahler, Behula Shah and the Landscape History Furman South III Collaborative; Eckerd Corporation; The Emmaus W. Paul Spencer Alex Speyer III Community; Friendship Development Associates William J. Stack, Jr. and Friendship Preservation Group; Hampton Mr. and Mrs. William L. Standish Hall Condominium; Holy Wisdom Parish; Nanci Mr. and Mrs. Garrett L. Stauffer and Peter Kountz; Frank Y. Liu; Richard J. and Mildred M. Stevenson Annette C. Mich; Mom’s House; Pittsburgh Parks Louise and Martin Sturgess Conservancy; Renaissance Pittsburgh Hotel; Gerald E. Surmacz Sacred Heart Church; St. Mary of the Mount Mr. and Mrs. Louis M. Tarasi, Jr. Eliza Nevin, chair of the 2001 Award of Merit Committee, and Church; St. Stanislaus Church; Sewickley Public Nancy C. Tranter Dittakavi Rao (left), Professor Frank Y. Liu (center), who took R. Scott Van Zant Library; and Kate Young, Jean Thomas, and James R. Wardrop Andrea Doyle of Dear Friends and Ceci Sommers. the lead in restoring the Allegheny County Law Library in the Mr. and Mrs. Bruce P. Wells Congratulations to one and all! City-County Building, and Dr. Joel Fishman (right). Frances H. Wilson Wilda J. Wilson Mary Wohleber Mr. and Mrs. Jack R. Zierden PHLF News • March 2002 Page 7

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“Cities Cooperating to Compete in a Global Economy” The Hague, the Netherlands June 23–26, 2002 Conference purpose: To discuss how the unique qualities of historic cities can be preserved, strengthened, and made relevant in a Students from Miller African-Centered Academy who participate in the after-school Miller/Mercy fast-changing world, and to discuss enrichment program are nominating their school for a Historic Landmark plaque. Miller School how cities in particular regions can in the Hill District was designed in 1905 by John Blair Elliot with an auditorium/gymnasium cooperate together so they are able addition of 1939 by Marion Markle Steen. On February 21, 2002, students presented a play to A detail from the representatives of Mercy Hospital and the Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation, to entrance lobby to the to compete in a global economy. inform them about the architectural significance of their school. They presented a convincing auditorium. case. Here, students are performing Capoeria, a Brazilian martial arts form and dance, on the Applicants must: stage in the Art Deco auditorium. • live in Allegheny County and be active locally in historic Historic Landmark Plaque Awards in 2001 preservation, urban planning, Walter C. Kidney and economic development. • submit a career resume and a Our committee began its new century St. Michael’s Russian Orthodox Greek after 1917), in Shadyside, and Wilpen one-page statement describing with a long list of plaque applications to Catholic Church (1903–10) in the Hill Hall (George Orth & Brothers, review, and happily, we found almost all District. 1897–1900) in Sewickley Heights. The his/her interest in this subject the candidates worthy. Bridges also did well: the Hot Metal newest of this group is the Frank house and how he/she will be able to use The Buhl Planetarium (Ingham & Bridge of 1903, actually a pair of in Shadyside, a work of 1939–40 by the knowledge gained from this Boyd, 1939) on the North Side was bridges across the Monongahela at the Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer. obvious for designation, a cool and site of the former J&L Pittsburgh Seventeen Pittsburgh public schools conference to help Pittsburgh and elegant piece of Stripped Classical that Works; the Homestead High Level were given plaques: schools already nearby cities create a competitive has won the affections of the public as Bridge of 1937; the Seldom Seen Arch designated City Historic Structures or well as of architectural historians. of 1903, penetrating an approach to the within City Historic Districts. urban region. Churches figured notably in our 2001 now-gone Wabash Bridge across the Finally, are a few buildings belonging Organizations may also submit plaque designations. Two Homestead– Monongahela; the Sixteenth Street to no class, but having much class: Troy nominations. Munhall churches were honored: Bridge of 1923, with architecture of Hill Fire Station #39 (Joseph Stillburg, St. Mary Magdalene, the Frederick sorts by Warren & Wetmore and 1901); the Federal Reserve Bank of For further information: Sauer church of 1895 that Lamont sculpture by Leo Lentelli; the West End Cleveland, Pittsburgh Branch (Walker Button remodeled lushly in 1936, and Bridge (1930–32); and the Schenley & Weeks, Henry Hornbostel, and Eric Visit our Web site at: www.phlf.org St. Michael Archangel of 1927, the not- Bridge (1897), which conducts you Fisher Wood, 1930); the Pittsburgh Or contact Cathy McCollom quite-Romanesque church by Comes, under municipal guard from the Children’s Center (formerly the Gulf Perry & McMullen with Vittor’s St. Carnegie Institute to Carnegie Mellon Research Laboratory; Ludlow & Phone: 412-471-5808, ext. 516 Joseph the Worker on its tower. St. John University. Schwab, 1930) in Oakland; and the E-mail: [email protected] the Baptist in Lawrenceville, is now of Houses, as usual, were numerous. Penn Avenue Entrance of Allegheny course the Church Brew Works, dedi- Among the oldest were the home of Cemetery (Dull & Macomb, 1887). Deadlines: cated to Gambrinus the Beer God but James Powers (1797 and after), reputed In all, 42 buildings received plaques. still (apart from its razed campanile) as to have been the earliest settler in If you would like to nominate a struc- • Applications must be postmarked handsome as it was in 1903, when John O’Hara; the Muse house (1820 and ture in Allegheny County that is older no later than April 25, 2002. Theodore Comes designed it and the later) in McKeesport; the Walker house than 50 years for a Historic Landmark • One award will be announced by Beezer Brothers took the credit. The (1844) in Elizabeth; the Forsythe house Plaque, please contact Cathy McCollom: Stewart Avenue Lutheran Church in (1850) in Carnegie; and the Gilfillan Phone: 412-471-5808, ext. 516 May 5, 2002. Carrick was also a happy addition: a farmhouse (1857) in Upper St. Clair. E-mail: [email protected] work of O. M. Topp, a rather colorless From later times come two Scheibler Applications are accepted on an on- architect whose office outdid itself here groups: “Meado’cots” in Homewood going basis and a meeting is held once in 1927, at the height of Eclecticism. (1912) and Parkstone Dwellings (1922) a year. The Holy Virgin Russian Orthodox in Point Breeze. Other homes of distinc- Greek Catholic Church of 1920 in tion are the Andrew W. Mellon house Carnegie was given a plaque, as well as (MacClure & Spahr, 1897; E. P. Mellon,

Landmarks Gives Landmarks Receives Grant to Repair Eagle Renaissance Award Sculptures On November 15, 2001, Landmarks’ president Arthur Ziegler accepted the “Renaissance CEO In January, Landmarks made a grant of $3,025 Communicator of the Year, Not-For-Profit to the Pittsburgh Children’s Museum so the Organization” award from the Public Relations three eagle sculptures from the Manchester Society of America. The award was given in recog- Bridge could be restored. Over the years, the nition of Landmarks’ success in communicating structural bolts that have kept the mighty birds’ wings intact have an alternative vision for the revitalization of weakened. L & J Erection, Inc. is completing the repair work at their Fifth and Forbes Avenues, downtown. shop in Houston PA. Page 8 PHLF News • March 2002 Preservation Scene Conference Presentations On March 9, Cathy McCollom and Elisa Cavalier of Landmarks military museum has drawn consider- participated in the AIA Pittsburgh able attention in itself. TRI-State Regional Convention. Renovations will include water- They discussed the criteria that proofing, air conditioning, and facilitating make a property historic and tax movement within the building. The cost of solving these problems is estimated at credits for historic preservation. $5,000,000. Chartiers Valley Partnership On March 1, Cathy spoke on is coordinating the effort and funding “Marketing for Non-profits” during sources are still being sought. the Allegheny Trail Alliance World- Mayfair Drive, Mt. Lebanon. wide Conference in Greensburg. South Side Fire Station Rendering by Frederick H. Carlson Historic Preservation Reused A New Nationality Plan for Mt. Lebanon Nancy Wells and Nick Kratofil have Room Within a few weeks, the Ad Hoc Software converted Fire Station No. 11 at Albert M. Tannler Historic Preservation Committee of Mt. 900 Bingham Street into office space, Discounts for Lebanon will submit a plan to the including an art studio for Mr. Kratofil. The invitation to attend a meeting of Commissioners calling for the creation Zarro & Associates was the architect the proposed Swiss Nationality Room Non-Profits of a permanent Historic Preservation for the restoration and Three Rivers committee was irresistible to someone Board to: of Swiss descent, and so, of course, State-of-the-art technology is Restoration was the contractor. Two • strengthen the municipality’s thousand square feet of renovated office I accepted. necessary to maintain a economy, both in the public and space is still available. Contact Nick Chancellor John Bowman intended competitive edge in today’s private sectors; Kratofil at 412-343-1181. the Collegiate Gothic Art Deco sky- marketplace. However, the costs • stabilize and improve property values The Fire Station began life in 1874 scraper Cathedral of Learning that associated with hardware and in the municipality; and was “rebuilt” in 1939. It is a well- Charles Z. Klauder designed for the software often keep up-to-date proportioned work in the all-purpose University of Pittsburgh to be a visible • identify and protect those portions of symbol of higher education for the technology out of reach of the municipality which reflect the Mid-Victorian Romanesque style that children of Pittsburgh’s multi-ethnic cultural, economic, social, political, served the Church of St. Michael the non-profit organizations that are communities. and architectural history of the Archangel, nearby on the South Side focusing their funds for charitable To further cement the relationship municipality, state, and nation; and Slopes, just as handily as it did a more purposes. Fortunately, many com- utilitarian building such as this. and to celebrate the countries-of-origin • educate citizens about the significance panies offer product discounts to and ethnic heritages of Pittsburgh’s and value of the municipality’s history students, educational institutions, citizens, Chancellor Bowman conceived and architecture. of functioning classrooms each deco- and non-profit organizations. One of the first activities of the rated by and in the traditions of a given In an effort to reduce Board will be to undertake a profes- nationality. technology-related expenses at sionally directed survey of historic Certain modern educational tools are resources. Louise Sturgess, executive Landmarks, Ron Yochum, CIO, required in each classroom such as director of Landmarks and a resident of audio-visual equipment. The décor, by contacted all of the software Mt. Lebanon, served on the Ad Hoc statute, however, may not be later than suppliers that we use. “Microsoft, Committee. Arthur Ziegler, Elisa 1787, when the University was founded. via their Charity Open License Cavalier, and Walter Kidney, all of Landmarks, offered valuable advice. The proposed Swiss Nationality Program, offered us a very com- A view of two former Mellon Bank Room will exhibit traditional Swiss petitive discount for their Office buildings along Oliver Avenue. interior design c. 1700. The date is that suite if we license five or more of an original c. 1700 map of Switzerland copies,” Yochum said. “This Mellon Bank’s (then consisting of 13 cantons) that will be donated by Dr. Heinz W. Kunz, amounted to an 85% discount Last Day Honorary Consul of Switzerland and compared to purchasing the This photo, taken on December 2, 2001, Swiss Nationality Room Committee product off the shelf.” actually shows two former Mellon Bank chair. Although plans are still tentative, Last December, Ron was corre- branches: the grand banking hall of the room may contain portraits of 1924 (now Lord & Taylor’s) and the sponding with FileMaker, Inc., Rousseau and Pestalozzi and displays newer branch of 1997 in the Three makers of the popular relational highlighting Switzerland’s four lingual Mellon Bank building, that replaced the traditions. database software FileMaker Pro. grand banking hall. Here, workers If you would like any information “FileMaker had volume discounts, Andrew Carnegie remove the Mellon Bank signage, about the Swiss room or any of the but no program to address the Free Library replacing it with the new green of Nationality Rooms, contact Dr. E. Citizens Bank. unique financial concerns of the Plans are underway to renovate the Maxine Bruhns at 412-624-6150. non-profit community. We were Andrew Carnegie Free Library in finding it difficult to continue using Carnegie, built in 1899 to the designs of Struthers & Hannah. One of the FileMaker due to the economics omnibus libraries that Carnegie built, involved in licensing the product.” this has not only the 33,000-volume In January, FileMaker library, but a music hall (said to be announced special pricing on acoustically perfect), a lecture hall, a Specializing in design and production of traditional its FileMaker Pro software to gymnasium, and a G.A.R. Post. The non-profit organizations. For architectural millwork for residential, commercial, and Landmarks, this represents a ecclesiastical restoration. Assisting in the preservation of 34% discount to the normal historic properties throughout the Pittsburgh region and upgrade price. nationwide. “These special prices are part 5255 Butler Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15201 of our focus on serving even better Phone: (412) 784-1772 Fax: (412) 784- 8015 the needs of price-sensitive work- [email protected] groups,” said Dominique Goupil, www.wilsonandmccracken.com FileMaker president. Interested non-profits should contact American Queen Riverboat • Aspinwall Presbyterian Church • FileMaker Inc. at 1-800-725-2747 Broadway Baptist Church (Texas) • Burke's Building • CMU Center for Art & Technology • Calvary Episcopal Church • for information. Cannonsburg United Presbyterian Church • Carnegie Museum, Heinz Architectural Center • Carnegie Science Center • Contact your software Clayton • Duquesne Club • First Lutheran Church • vendor to inquire about First United Methodist Church • Fox Chapel Golf Club • non-profit discounts. The Indiana University of PA, John Sutton Hall • Le Pommier Restaurant • Longue Vue Country Club • Saint Andrews Episcopal Church • likelihood is that they either Shadyside Presbyterian Church • Southminster Presbyterian Church • have a discount program, or Station Square • Saint Johns (Georgia) • St. Mary's on the Highland if they don’t, will work with (Alabama) • Saint Peter's and Paul's (Georgia) • Saint John's Roman Catholic Church (Fenelton, PA) • you to find a solution. Twentieth Century Club • Third United Presbyterian Church (Washington, PA) • Trinity Cathedral • WQED FM PHLF News • March 2002 Page 9 Preservation Loan Funds Need a Good Book?

Then purchase one of Landmarks’ books featuring local history and architecture. Place your orders for Eighth Avenue any one of the following books by Loan Fund Makes contacting Frank Stroker: Phone (412) 471-5808, ext. 525 Its First Loan E-mail: [email protected] The former West Homestead Fire Hall will get a new lease on life, Or, place your order on-line by visit- thanks to the Eighth Avenue Loan ing our Web site at www.phlf.org. Fund which made its first loan on February 8, 2002 in the amount of $50,000 dollars. Michael Fox and Members receive a George Klose purchased the 1902 10% discount on building and intend to restore it to its all book orders! former glory. The current plan is to replace the missing second-story windows, to remove the garage door and replace it with custom-made mahogany doors, and to clean the exterior masonry. When the building 855 Beech Avenue, Allegheny West is finished, it will be leased as office space. Quick Action From Landmarks The Eighth Avenue Loan Fund, administered by Landmarks, makes Aids Allegheny West Civic Council below market rate loans to viable historic restoration projects located On January 14, Landmarks extended a window and roof-top turret. According in the Homestead National Register $70,000 loan to the Allegheny West to neighborhood lore, Allegheny City’s Historic District. The loan fund pro- Civic Council, so the non-profit neigh- first mayor once lived in the home. For motes historic preservation, economic borhood association could purchase years the house was known as the development and the removal of the historic building of c. 1880 at “green house” because the red brick blight in the Homestead, West 855 Beech Avenue when it became had been painted green. Homestead, and Munhall boroughs. available through an estate auction. The house was used as a boarding From start to finish, the loan process house for a time, so it has suffered great was completed within one month, interior degradation. But it can easily be even in the midst of the holiday season. re-designed as either a roomy duplex or “This is one of the main strengths of restored as an urban mansion. Landmarks’ Preservation Loan Fund,” Anyone interested in restoring the said general counsel Elisa Cavalier. house as rental property can take “We can be fast, flexible, and responsive advantage of the 20% Federal Historic when a historic property is at risk.” Preservation Tax Incentive Program. The approximately For more information about 6,000 square-foot 855 Beech Avenue, call the masonry home has a Allegheny West Civic Council second-story bay 2001 FACT at (412) 343-7881. 401 West Eighth Avenue, Landmarks West Homestead committed $717,000 in grants and loans to aid neighborhood Call Rhonda Brandon at 412-323-1743 restoration programs. if you are interested in purchasing a restored Liverpool Street property. In Memoriam Sarah Evosevich and James Knox, both long-time trustees of Landmarks, championed the cause of historic preservation in Pittsburgh at a time when it was not a popular cause. Because of their leadership and influence in the community, many buildings were saved, and the North Side and South Side neighborhoods in particular were strengthened. We remember Sarah and Jim with great fondness and pay tribute to them now.

Sarah Vukelich Evosevich her life—her family, her friends, her brought his thoughtfulness, political (1912–2001) business, and her neighborhood. She experience, and qualities as a gentleman Many Pittsburghers—and visitors to was proud to be an American citizen to all of our decision making. Pittsburgh—remember Sarah, propri- and reminded all of us of the opportu- Always well dressed and full of etress of Sarah’s Ethnic Restaurant at nities and liberties that came with being stories, Jim was a life-long resident of Tenth and East Carson Streets on the an American. Emsworth (and a 64-year member of South Side. Sarah was famous for her We will always remember Sarah as a the Emsworth Volunteer Fire Serbian and Balkan cuisine, for her person who was full of energy, full Company). He graduated from the sparkly clean, family-style restaurant. of ideas to improve her neighborhood, University of Pittsburgh, worked as a She expected the most from her and full of love for anyone who came steel worker, and eventually became a customers—men were required to wear to talk with her or enjoy a meal in commanding officer aboard an LST coats and ties—and she gave everyone her restaurant. during World War II. Back in much in return. Pittsburgh, he served as the controller “Sarah’s Restaurant became the James W. Knox (1919–2001) of Allegheny County for five terms and headquarters of our neighborhood Jim Knox was a member of Landmarks’ was chairman of the Allegheny County effort in the l960s to restore East board for more than three decades. A Democratic Committee. A historian, Carson Street and the wonderful man of integrity and kindness, he set author, and orator, he was active on South Side housing,” said Landmarks’ standards for Landmarks of civility and many committees and was deeply president Arthur Ziegler. “And in firmness of principle amidst controversy involved with the Nationality Rooms 1987, thanks to a grant from Sarah, and political exigencies. program at Pitt (he helped establish the Landmarks was able to publish her When Landmarks was trying to save Irish Room) and with his church, memoirs.” the Old Allegheny Post Office on the St. James Lutheran, in Emsworth. Sarah arrived in Pittsburgh in 1931, North Side, Jim went to Mayor Barr Above all, Jim was devoted to his wife, to be with her husband Dmitar. and asked him to use his authority to Valerie, and to his family. “Nick” died when Sarah was 25; she save the historic landmark. That meet- We will remember Jim as a teacher was the mother of four young children. ing helped immeasurably in our ability and leader who inspired us by example Sarah overcame much hardship, learned to make a deal to buy and restore the to value our families, our neighbor- to speak English, opened her restaurant, building. As chairman of our finance hoods, and our city—and to serve all and always focused on the “riches” of and nominating committees, Jim with integrity. Page 10 PHLF News • March 2002

Richard King Mellon Foundation Giv Landmarks’ Historic Rural Preserva

The new year brought good news to Landmarks in its effort to help slow From left to right: Edward Feigel, sprawl and save farms in Allegheny district manager, Allegheny County County that are listed on or eligible Conservation District; George Gregg, for the National Register of Historic regional director of the Pennsylvania Places. In a letter of January 31, 2002, Department of Agriculture; Bill Versaw, the Richard King Mellon Foundation the new owner of Hidden Valley Farm; informed Landmarks’ chairman Phil Arthur Ziegler, president of Landmarks. Hallen that the Foundation had approved a $500,000 grant in support of Landmarks’ Historic Rural Preservation Program. “We are grateful to have the Foundation’s support,” said Mr. Hallen. “There is an urgent need for a program that assists area farmers.” According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, only 116 full-time farms (including both historic and non-historic) remained in Allegheny County in 1997, compared to nearly 500 in 1982, resulting in a net Roy Kraynyk, executive director of the loss of more than 20,000 acres of farm- Allegheny Land Trust. land. Most of the lost farmland was used for new housing and commercial Hidden Valley Farm in Gibsonia, PA is the first historic farmhouse and property development, leaving the remaining that Landmarks has saved through its Historic Rural Preservation Fund. farmers with increased pressure from urban sprawl. The farmers who remain the easement usually causes a loss in Landmarks also is continuing its find themselves in a position of having property value, a farm might be sold at discussions with the Allegheny County to sell their farms to commercial a loss. Given the high cost of acquiring Conservation District (ACCD) in regard developers in order to offset operating farm properties in sprawl-affected areas to the State’s agricultural conservation deficits and to ensure that they have and the resulting decrease in property easement purchase program. The ACCD funds for their retirement. value, the grant from the Richard King administers the program that allows the Through its Historic Rural Mellon Foundation will allow us to State to purchase easements on farms. Preservation Program, Landmarks purchase historic farms that we might Since the ACCD must pay for upfront can purchase threatened properties or not otherwise be able to save. costs such as surveys, title searches and Greg Yochum, Landmarks’ horticulturist, obtain control through planned giving Proceeds from the sale of each farm appraisals prior to State approval of an and Ed Reno, a member of Landmarks. techniques such as gift annuities or property will be rolled back into easement, Landmarks suggested to charitable trusts. Then, these properties Landmarks’ Historic Rural Preservation County executive Jim Roddey that we will be protected with preservation ease- Fund, similar to our revolving loan lend operating funds to the ACCD so ments (as was the case with the Hidden fund. Landmarks will measure its the program can be administered. Mr. Valley Farm in Gibsonia––see success by the number of historic farms Roddey has expedited the matter. Such a “Charitable Update,” page 5). Since saved. Within hours of receiving notifi- loan can facilitate several hundred thou- cation of the grant, Landmarks had sand dollars of easement acquisitions proposals out for three farms. over the next several years.

Lucy Rippel and Ron Beinlich, chair of the Allegheny County Agricultural Land Preservation Board.

Greg Yochum, Landmarks’ horticulturist, and Ed Nehrig, regional director of the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture.

George Braun, a Hidden Valley Farm neighbor. PHLF News • March 2002 Page 11

When at First You Do Succeed, Do It Again Barry Hannegan ves Major Grant to September 21, 2001, saw the opening of the exhibition of submissions to Landmarks’ first design competition for young local designers. The show was installed at the Mattress Factory, which had partnered with us in our initiative ation Program to encourage young designers to display their talents by redesigning any one of a selected group of significant historic public spaces in Pittsburgh. Submissions included drawings, plans, a sketch-note book, and a scale model of the chosen Forty Farmers Attended “According to the most recent census site. Awards of $5,000, $2,000, and $1,000 were conferred on the jury’s choice December Meeting statistics,” said Arthur, “farm acreage in of the three most interesting and thoughtful submissions. To promote awareness of its Historic Allegheny County dropped by nearly The first prize went to Nathan Hart, an architect with Desmone & Rural Preservation Program, as well as 35% between 1987 and 1997 and most Associates, for his proposal for Oakland Square. The second prize was programs of other agencies, Landmarks likely another 20% since then. Our only awarded to Nick Tobier and Rebekah Modrak in recognition of their startling sponsored a meeting on December 11, hope to preserve what’s left is to work revisioning of the convergence of five streets on Troy Hill, just in front of the 2001 at Hidden Valley Farm. Forty together and maximize our resources in historic fire station. A team comprised of Thad Bobula, Keny Marshall, farmers attended the meeting to learn meeting these farmers’ needs.” Carin Mincemeyer, Laura Shaffalo, and Chris Siefert received the third prize. how they could realize the full value of Arthur has been asked to discuss this Most of this group is associated with the Pittsburgh Children’s Museum, and their farms without having to sell their innovative effort with 600 members of their team advanced a new idea for the sunken plaza in front of the former properties to developers. the Allegheny League of Municipalities Buhl Planetarium. Representatives from the Pennsylvania at its spring conference on April 5. Building on the interest engendered by this competition, Landmarks has Department of Agriculture and the announced a second design competition for all designers and architects under Allegheny County Agricultural Land the age of 35. The goal is to elicit ideas for orphaned bits of space in the public Preservation Board discussed the realm—awkward, leftover fragments of land, usually untended—that detract State’s easement program that 1997 Census of Agriculture from the appearance of the surroundings and which, if thoughtfully treated, focuses, in part, on the soil quality Number of Allegheny County Farms could enrich rather than diminish the image of the city. of a farm. Representatives from By the February 1 deadline, Landmarks had received some 60 letters of the Allegheny Land Trust discussed 1987 1992 1997 intent to enter from individuals and teams. The rather fluid definition of the tax deductions available through 1000+ acres 5 4 1 competition goals seems to have generated enthusiasm which has likely been scenic and conservation easements. fueled, as well, by the prize fund of $10,000 which can be awarded in any way Landmarks’ presentation focused 500–999 acres 3 2 3 the jury sees fit. on historic preservation. These 180–499 acres 45 32 33 The preview opening of the exhibition of the design submissions and the complementary programs provide announcement of the prize winner or winners will take place at the Mattress 50–179 acres 180 127 123 farmers with cash, tax deductions, Factory on the evening of Thursday, April 18. The exhibition will be on view and/or reduced property tax bills. 1–49 acres 218 173 174 during the Mattress Factory’s regular schedule from April 19 through May 10. “The remaining farmers in Allegheny Call the Mattress Factory for further details (412-231-3169). Members are Total 451 338 334 County have become land rich and encouraged to stop by and see the models. cash poor,” said Landmarks’ president Arthur Ziegler. “We want Allegheny County Farm Acreage them to know that they have options 1987 1992 1997 2001 Winners: First Place other than selling their property to 42,686 32,526 26,944 Nathan Hart’s first prize submission for developers or losing it to estate Oakland Square is shown here in his model taxes.” of the site. He called for the construction of Now that these farmers know that a monumental pergola at the Square’s they have choices, the next step is to ravine end, providing a transparent screen meet with them individually to discuss that calls one toward the view out into their interests and needs. Through this Schenley Park. He further provides collaborative effort, it will now be terraces and broad stairs that would link possible to match a variety of the Square to the amenities of Junction preservation tools to meet the specific Hollow (Panther Hollow Lake is down there) and create another important needs of the individual farmers. link to the network of trails and greenways that is being developed in the city. For the other end of Oakland Square, Nathan proposed a carefully designed residence for seniors, a socially constructive idea that allows the community elders to be a part of the neighborhood life, rather than shipping them off to some facility built in the remote exurbs. Nathan also calls for a general revival of the community qualities of this somewhat directionless part of central Oakland by including a new elementary school and a desperately needed food market. His scheme, although extending beyond the refurbished Square itself, calls for interventions and improvements that would give this neighborhood a new, strong sense of identity.

Second Place The second prize was awarded for a rather novel addition to the attractions of Troy Hill. The buildings, all of some interest histori- cally, remain untouched; the central space is unaltered save for the introduction of a large, delicately formed circular podium, perhaps of cast iron, that would provide the mooring for a hot air balloon which would afford its passengers with unparalleled vistas of the city and its mysterious terrain. As improbable as this idea may appear, it does wed later 19th-century architecture and space to a venerable mode of transportation, now widely practiced for recreational enjoyment. The totality of the proposal has more than a bit of Jules Verne about it. One of the designers admitted to a strong sense of needing to continue moving upward after traveling up Rialto Street to the site; hence, the balloon ascension.

Third Place The third prize winner disproves the axiom of a committee not being able to arrive at good design. The site here is the much discussed and often re-designed space on the North Side, now part of Allegheny Center. The proposal seems to call for a giant, benign hand passing across the existing sunken plaza, softening the hard edges and burying the remaining concrete under gentle earth to create a pastoral park, still containing a well-defined yet naturalistically treated circular pond, fed by a rill, and introducing a welcome grove of trees. The network of paths that crosses this pasture repeats the circulation patterns of earlier parks on the site, a bit of archaeology, perhaps, an act of memory as well, and a tactful, playful gesture of historic re-creation. Page 12 PHLF News • March 2002

Landmarks’ Educational Programs Inspire Thousands of Teachers and Students

Martin Luther King School On September 25 and 26, 2001, fourth graders from Martin Luther King School toured the Mexican War Streets. Once they found the house that McMurray Elementary School matched their particular photograph, they sketched the house and learned To prepare for their Odyssey of how to describe it using architectural terms. Back in school, they created the Mind building competition paper-bag buildings of the Mexican War later this spring, a group of Street houses. This was the fourth students and parents from year that Carole Malakoff’s Peters Township met with art students participated Landmarks on December 15, in this program 2001. They built structures combining social out of cards, paper, studies, art, and and newspaper language skills. and tested the strength of each construction.

Making a City Mural Michael Whitelock, and his sisters and parents, helped create a city mural on December 8, 2001 at Fifth Avenue Place. Last year Landmarks offered this art activity during neighborhood festivals in Munhall, Homestead, and Uptown, and downtown during “Sparkle Season.” Architectural Apprenticeship Twenty students from 17 high schools participated in Landmarks’ Architecture Apprenticeship, an annual program since 1982. During their five sessions Junior Achievement Day together, students toured CMU, the Convention Center construction site On February 15, 2002, four students from (thanks to Michael Baker Corporation), Station Square, and the offices of Penn Hills Senior High School and East the Design Alliance and Perkins Eastman. Tom Demko of Burt Hill Kosar Junior High School shadowed Landmarks’ Rittelmann helped the students learn various sketching techniques, and Kathy staff to learn more about architecture, Cienciala (pictured below) reviewed the students’ design assignments with them. historic preservation, and urban planning. Students talked with Diane Greco of Forest City about the new construction at Station Square; they toured the offices of Landmarks Design Associates Architects; and they rode the incline to Mt. Washington for a view of the city.

Miller/Mercy After-School Enrichment For the fourth consecutive year, Landmarks is teaching an after-school enrichment program at Miller School, sponsored by Mercy Hospital. The third- through fifth-grade students are learning about their school and applying for a Historic Landmark plaque (see page 7). PHLF News • March 2002 Page 13

Sixth Annual Design Challenge for Quotes Westmoreland County Students from 2001 Here are just a few of the hundreds How can the façade of the Allegheny Regional Branch of the of positive comments we received Carnegie Library be enlivened, and how can the library space be from the people who participated restored and/or adapted for new uses? This was the challenge that in our tours and special educa- 112 students from Westmoreland County addressed on February tional programs last year. 26 and 27, 2002. Eleven high school teams and 12 middle school teams of between two and 12 students unveiled their models and discussed their ideas with a jury of architects, neighborhood We received rave representatives, and staff members from the Pittsburgh Children’s reviews from all our Museum and Carnegie Library. Everyone was impressed with the poise that the students showed while making their oral presenta- participants and trust me, tions and with their skillfully crafted scale models. they all have opinions. “The library is very interested in the ideas presented by the students,” said Tom Smith, department head of the Allegheny Rice Design Alliance Regional Branch Library, “and will take them into consideration (after a five-day trip to Pittsburgh) as we move forward.” Most students suggested keeping the library, but wanted to create a more lively environment by adding cafes, restaurants, art galleries, and mini-museums, as well as a I have lived in Pittsburgh for space for art and music activities, or a day care center, or a almost 60 years and never bookstore (where you could buy a favorite library book). Other knew about these places! students renovated the building and redesigned spaces to include Thank you for introducing me a bed & breakfast for bikers, or a discotheque, or a high- to them. technology computer center, movie theater, and basketball court. 2001 FACT Through photo display boards, floor plans, and models, students 14,000 people eloquently expressed their ideas for this North Side landmark. Elderhostel Program participated in This is the sixth year that Westmoreland County students and (monastery/church tour) Landmarks’ teachers have participated in an architectural design challenge educational hosted by Landmarks. Each event includes an orientation tour of programs. the project area in the fall, including a presentation by Tom Most of the people I know Demko of Burt Hill Kosar Rittelmann about the design process. never stop to look at the Then, for the next several months, students work in school and wonderful architecture in on their own to figure out solutions to the design problem. Pittsburgh: now we will.... “Each year I have more and more students wanting to partici- pate and willing to spend time after school,” wrote one teacher. You really captured the “I enjoy the program,” remarked one student, “because I learn a attention of the children and lot and have fun seeing my ideas come to life in a model.” engaged them.

Teacher (Downtown Dragons Walking Tour) The orientation session in October 2001 with Tom Demko, at the Allegheny Regional Branch Library. My daughter had the tour two years ago and remembered a lot about it. The other day in the car, the kids pointed out an architectural item to their dad. Final project presentations: February 2002 Parent (Downtown Dragons Walking Tour)

The class opened the door to so many ideas and possibilities to take to my district. Seeing what other students have done was very inspiring. Thank you.

Teacher (The Power of Bricks and Boards In-service) Five students from Franklin Regional Middle School created a display board of photographs and floor plans to accompany I learned that young people their model. can make a difference in their community, and that building things and constructing things in your mind is a good way to learn.

Steel Valley School Student (Architectural Design Challenge)

Had a good time today on the South Side Stoll....I truly enjoyed the tour of the Renaissance Hotel....What a Three students from Greater Latrobe Junior loss it would have been if it High School received the High School’s First had been torn down.... Place Award and the Student Voted Winner Thanks...for two enjoyable Award. The clock actually worked and the Five students from Burrell High School received the experiences in my “ole home award for “Most Creative Use of Materials.” Balsa bells in the tower chimed! The ingenious town.” wood dowel rods were glued to the foam core model to model cost only $10 to make, was fashioned create the Romanesque columns, arches, and detailing. out of recycled corrugated cardboard, and Bee Jay Kastory, member The model was then sprayed with a granite-like finish. was easy to assemble and disassemble. Here, it is shown disassembled! Page 14 PHLF News • March 2002

2002 Explore Your City and Its Neighborhoods Get some exercise. See some incredible sights. Voice your opinions on urban planning issues.

For complete details AND to * June 9 confirm these tours and dates: Shadyside Walk: A Controversy in • check our Web site at www.phlf.org Stone and Glass—Exploring Sacred • or contact Mary Lu Denny Heart and Calvary Episcopal Phone: 412-471-5808, ext. 527 Churches E-mail: [email protected] 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. • or call Pitt’s Center for Lifetime Beginning and ending locations: Walnut Street and Shady Avenue. Thank You Dollar Bank, Victoria Learning (CLL) at 412-648-2560 for all Enrollment is limited to 25 people. tours designated by an asterisk.* Call 412-648-2560. Hall, and Molly’s Trolleys. Our thanks to Dollar Bank for sponsoring Landmarks Seventh Annual Old Fees are charged for the six special tours July 2, 3, 9, 10, 16, 17, 23, 24, House Fair on February 23 at Victoria Hall. Over 1,000 people attended the six- offered through Pitt’s CLL, and members 30 & 31 hour event––a record high! Fifty vendors offered information and advice about do NOT receive any discounts. Downtown Walking Tour: home restoration and historic neighborhoods. Speaker topics included getting started on your home restoration project, financing the project, caring for your Tours go rain or shine. Advance reserva- Penn-Liberty Cultural District roof, and restoring stained glass. Several architects were on hand in the “Ask tions are not required for the downtown Every Tuesday, 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. weekly walking tours, but would be Every Wednesday, Noon to 1:00 p.m. the Experts” room to answer specific questions, and non-professionals talked appreciated. Contact Mary Lu Denny. Meet at Katz Plaza, Seventh and Penn. about lessons they had learned in home restoration. About 140 people enjoyed Free for members; $3.00 for non-members neighborhood tours throughout the day aboard Molly’s Trolleys. Also contact Mary Lu if you would like us to add you to an e-mail list for August 6, 7, 13, 14, 20, 21, members. Then, we will send you news 27 & 28 about special events and tours on a * October 19 & 26 regular basis. Downtown Walking Tour: Fourth Avenue and PPG Place Bus Tour to Thornburg and Other Places: The Arts & Crafts PLUS Every Tuesday, 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Tradition in Pittsburgh * April 20 Every Wednesday, Noon to 1:00 p.m. The same tour is being offered on two A Walking Tour: Pittsburgh’s Meet at Smithfield and Fourth, at the different dates. North Side Walks parklet adjacent to Dollar Bank. Architectural Heritage, 1835–2000 9:30 to 1:00 p.m. Free for members; $3.00 for non-members Allegheny West 9:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Beginning and ending locations: Station Saturdays, April 6 through October 26 Beginning and ending locations: Cathedral Square, at the steps outside Chauncey’s, 10 to 11 a.m. September 3, 4, 10, 11, 17, across from the parking garage. of Learning, Fifth Avenue entrance, 18, 24 & 25 Meet at the Allegheny Avenue entrance to information desk (inside). Enrollment is limited to 23 people. Calvary Methodist Church Call 412-648-2560. Enrollment is limited to 20 people. Downtown Walking Tour: Free to members; $3.00 for non-members, Call 412-648-2560. Fifth & Forbes and Market Square October 22 payable in the exact amount to the tour Every Tuesday, 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. guide. * Author’s Reception: Hornbostel May 3 Every Wednesday, Noon to 1:00 p.m. Downtown Walking Tour: Meet at the clock in Market Square. in Pittsburgh South Side Strolls Grand Interior Spaces Free for members; $3.00 for non-members 7:30 to 9:00 p.m. East Carson Street Rodef Shalom, Shadyside 9:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Saturdays, June 1 September 12 & 14 Details to come. We also will be announc- Bring Beginning location: In front of The through September 28 ing a tour to local buildings designed by 10:30 to 11:45 a.m. binoculars Landmarks Building at Station Square at Pittsburgh’s Bridges: Lecture and Henry Hornbostel. the level of the Smithfield Street Bridge. Boat Tour Meet in the city and cameras garden at 12th and Ending location: Gateway Center “T” Exact times, meeting locations, and tour October 27 Station. (If you want to return to Station fees to be announced. East Carson Streets when you tour Square, we will give you a “T” ticket.) Halloween Hunt for Downtown Free to everyone! Enrollment is limited to 20 people. * September 17 Dragons...and Other Creatures with us! Call 412-648-2560. Church Hopping: Divine Diversity Carved in Stone May 13–17 Downtown 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. 9:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Meet outside the Shops at Station Square, Preservation Week Walking Tours: near the Cheese Cellar. Beginning location: Church of the Fourth Avenue Frolic Epiphany, 1018 Centre Avenue, across Free for members; $3.00 for non-members. Monday through Friday, Noon to from Chatham Center. Bring the kids! Ages 8 and above, or strollers for younger children. 1:00 p.m. Ending location: First Presbyterian Church, Tuesday evening, 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Sixth Avenue, across from the Duquesne Meet in the parklet at Smithfield and Club. Thank you Fourth Avenue, adjacent to Dollar Bank. Enrollment is limited to 20 people. LANDMARKS • Giant Eagle, for donating Free for everyone! Call 412-648-2560. Welcomes cameras for * May 14 ______Eat ’n Park Hospitality Group students and teachers to use East End Bus Tour: A Trinity of The Ellwood Group, Inc. during our Roman Catholic Churches by Observatory Hill Federal Home Loan Bank of Pittsburgh educational programs. Three Pittsburgh Architects House Tour Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield 1:00 to 4:30 p.m. • Dollar Bank, for sponsoring Beginning and ending locations: Station Sunday, May 19, 2002 Mylan Laboratories, Inc. Square, at the steps outside Chauncey’s, 1:00 to 6:00 p.m. PNC Bank the Old House Fair across from the parking garage. Pittsburgh Steelers Sports, Inc. and for contributing to Enrollment is limited to 23 people. Tickets: $12 in advance Renaissance Pittsburgh Hotel the reprinting of the Call 412-648-2560. $15 on the event day Sota Construction Services, Inc. African-American Timeline. June 4, 5, 11, 12, 18, 19, 25 & 26 For tickets or additional Victoria Hall Downtown Walking Tour: Grant information: And we thank: Street and Mellon Square Park Call 412-231-2887 as Corporate Every Tuesday, 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. http://trfn.clpgh.org/orgs/obhill/ Member Benefactors • Omni William Penn Hotel Every Wednesday, Noon to 1:00 p.m. • Renaissance Pittsburgh Hotel Meet at US Steel Tower Plaza. Proceeds help Observatory Thank you for Free for members; $3.00 for non-members Hill, Inc. rehabilitate helping us create a future for helping sponsor our neighborhood buildings. for Pittsburgh by preserving its past. 2002 and 2003 tour program. PHLF News • March 2002 Page 15

2001 FACT 43 docents volunteered South Side Building Pride 2,180 hours!

For the fifth consecutive year, Landmarks is offering a series of educational Our Docents programs through the Neighborhood Make So Much Assistance Program that build pride in the South Side by Possible helping students and adults learn about South Side history and architecture. Thank you, one The Neighborhood Assistance Program/Comprehensive Service and all: Program is sponsored by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania’s Bob Bennett Department of Community and Kathy Brennan Economic Development in partnership Virginia Carik with PNC Bank and the South Side Kathy Cienciala Local Development Company. JoAnn Conner Five schools—and about 1,500 Marian Cook students and teachers—are participating Each year Landmarks’ creates a T-shirt for students who participate in the South Ann Decker in field trips and in-school programs Side educational programs. This year’s T-shirt is a collage of South Side images, Bob Digby through June of this year. Students from broadly suggesting the silk-screen technique of Andy Warhol. Our T-shirts are Evvy Diamond Arlington Elementary, Bishop Leonard, modeled here by students from Prince of Peace school. Peggy Dimperio Philip Murray Elementary, Phillips Arlene Dorow Elementary, and Prince of Peace are Molly Eggleston talking with senior citizens and seeing a Below: Seventh- and eighth-grade collection of artifacts, touring the South students from Prince of Peace Mary Eror Side, journeying up the Monongahela turn their underpaintings of John Evosevic River aboard the Voyager, and visiting St. Casimir’s and the Duquesne Wilha Fallon the Andy Warhol Museum. At the Brewery clock, and of the Tenth Annie Futrell Warhol, they are learning to see reality Street Bridge, into silk-screen art. Bill Garrett in an artistic way, by creating silk Right: Students take a moment to Renae Geraci screens of familiar South Side scenes. relax in the Silver Cloud room at Karin Glass the Warhol. Martha Grottenthaler Frances Hardie Kate Hornstein Bob Kenaan Bette Landish Carol Lewis Bob Loos Terri Lucas Audrey Menke Denny Mountjoy Eileen Mountjoy Eliza Nevin Lisa Pilewski Beth Reiners Loren Rosenbach Linda Schaum Marion Schorr Ted Soens Ruth Sproull Tour Pittsburgh on the Web Roberta Stackawitz Check out www.phlf.org/dragons/ for an interactive timeline of Stacy Stanton Pittsburgh history and downtown walking tour. Ruth Stauffer Nancy Stewart Thank You Joanna and Micah Barbara Stull Kathy Testoni Joanna Steinman, a junior at the University of Pittsburgh, is Dorothea Thompson volunteering with Landmarks through April 2002. She is Peg Volkman assisting with Landmarks’ educational programs, updating Frank Ziaukas materials and handling lots of organizational details. Jack Zierden At Pitt, she is pursuing a BA with a double major in Anthropology and Japanese, as well as an Asian Studies Certificate and a Minor in German. In July and August 2001, Schenley High School student Micah Slavkin noted changes that had occurred to architecturally significant structures in Shadyside, since Landmarks’ survey of 1981. Some of the changes were subtle, others were quite apparent, and four buildings had been demolished. Micah’s complete report is Landmarks filed in our library. Needs You! Attention High School Students Thanks to the the Brashear Family Fund, Landmarks is offering a four-year college scholarship award to a If you have time to graduating senior who is a resident of Allegheny County. The award is based on a student’s academic achieve- volunteer on ment, community service/work experience, financial need, and interest in the history, architecture, and/or land- weekdays, contact scape design of the Pittsburgh region. Mary Lu Denny at: Apply by April 26, 2002 phone: 412-471-5808, Questions? E-mail: [email protected] ext. 527 Call: 412-471-5808, ext. 536 E-mail: [email protected] Page 16 PHLF News • March 2002

One Thing Leads to Remembering Another: Adding to Our Frank Furness Architectural Albert M. Tannler Knowledge (Norton, 2001). Too late, that is, memoir or in other portions of the Albert M. Tannler for the first edition; but not for the quoted letters. I have reproduced second edition, or for subsequent Mr. Nirdlinger’s punctuation, capitaliza- scholarly inquiry. tion, and spelling, adding clarifying The Contact –– It is likely that Frank Furness material in brackets. and Teamwork designed four buildings in Pittsburgh. When a granddaughter of Three—Baltimore & Ohio Railroad February 26, 1963 Pittsburgh architect Louis Stevens Station (1887), Farmers Deposit Dear Mr Massey: e-mailed the Carnegie Mellon National Bank (c. 1885, c. 1887, and Permit me to congratulate you for your University 1895 have been suggested), and East article . . . which carried me back to the Architecture Liberty Pennsylvania Railroad Station three happiest years of my life. (1905)—are documented and long ago Archives, I served three years as a student in the demolished. The legitimacy of the archivist Martin offices of Furness & Evans 1897 to 1900, remaining building, the Edgewood Aurand sent her at which time two of us were put on the information and Pennsylvania Railroad Station (1903), pay roll, but a few months later I accepted also referred her remains in doubt since references identi- an offer by a Pittsburgh Architect. to Landmarks. fying it as a work by Furness cannot be …An Auto [sic] Biography of this He knew that a verified. The building displays affinities outstanding architect would be of great Stevens-designed with similar small railroad stations Pittsburgh value to our Architects of today. architect tomb and several designed by the Furness firm. Louis Stevens houses are Maximilian F. Nirdlinger (c. 1881–?) Sincerely, included in was born in Indiana. In 1897, he joined Maximilian F. Nirdlinger Walter Kidney’s Pittsburgh’s the architectural firm of Furness & copy to Charette Landmark Architecture: The Evans in Philadelphia as an office boy; Historic Buildings of Allegheny he was an apprentice when he left in 1899. He married c. 1901 and he and County (1997), and that the March 19, 1963 his wife Elsie had three children—Mary, garden of one of these houses is Dear Mr. Nirdlinger: the subject of an article Barry Elsie, and Max, Jr. The Nirdlingers lived …To think that you worked in the Hannegan had written for PHLF in the Ohio River suburbs of Avalon and Bellevue, then moved to Pittsburgh’s Furness office 66 years ago! This is really News. Also, a house Stevens remarkable and, if I may say so, of great designed for his family in East End. After 1930, a second family is recorded, consisting of wife Adelaide historical interest, as there are no office Brentwood had been awarded records surviving. Could I ask your help in and children Dorothy and Eugene. one of Landmarks’ Historic my research on Furness? Your assistance Nirdlinger had a long and apparently Landmark plaques in 1992. would be of great value. Would you make a successful career in Pittsburgh (he was I had come upon an article by The Farmers Deposit National Bank list of buildings you recall to be by the Stevens and two articles about stood at 220 Fourth Avenue, across listed in city directories from 1902 to Furness firm, particularly those “on the him, but we had no obituary from the Benedum-Trees Building; 1967). A number of his buildings, most boards” while you were there? Any on file. Lu Donnelly, co-author the site is now a garage. notably the Medical Arts Building at reminiscences about Furness, his office, of the forthcoming Buildings Fifth Avenue and Atwood Street in or his partners would also be very much of Pittsburgh and Western Oakland, are known, but his work has appreciated.… e’ve known for some time that the not been systematically studied. Pennsylvania, checked a Web site Sincerely, devoted to Philadelphia architects James D. Van Trump Library at In January 1963, the architectural W James C. Massey and buildings and found a Landmarks held Pittsburgh architect journal The Charette, edited by reference to Louis Stevens and his Maximilian F. Nirdlinger’s reminis- Landmarks’ co-founder James D. Van cc. Mr. Van Trump year of birth. His granddaughter, cences of his apprenticeship in the office Trump, published the first in a three- Kathryn Stevens Lujan of of the celebrated Philadelphia architect part series on Frank Furness by James Hawthorne, California, provided Frank Furness. The location and C. Massey, “Frank Furness in the April 6, 1963 Stevens’ birthplace and his birth character of these reminiscences were 1870s,” The Charette 43 (January Dear Mr Massey; unknown, however, despite a thorough 1963), 13–16. That led to a correspon- and death dates, and with the …I have located a photo’ of a portion of dence between Nirdlinger and Massey. latter I was able to find an search in 1999 in response to an inquiry the F&E draughting room including a At Van Trump’s suggestion, Nirdlinger— obituary in the Pittsburgh Press. from Michael J. Lewis, then preparing portion of the ANTIQUE blueprinting As we reviewed and pulled his Furness biography. then about 82 years of age—prepared a frame; counter-weighted, as the frame together the various items, it The Nirdlinger material has been two-page typewritten “memoir” about was raised up into skylight. became clear that Louis Stevens found and the mystery has been solved, working for Furness. The complete The working force was as follows, George was a more significant designer, too late for Professor Lewis’ provocative memoir and abridged versions of the and moving book, Frank Furness: correspondence follows. The omitted W. Casey was Chief Draug. Messrs Dingee particularly of residential architec- and Herman Klingfelter, Draughtsmen, Architecture and the Violent Mind text contains information given in the ture, than had been realized. Harry Metsger specification writer, We still don’t know whether he Earnest Yardley, Wm Riebenack, Charles attended architecture school and Osmond[,] David Watts, Edward Evans where he trained or apprenticed. (nephew) and yours truly, students. Still, a combination of family resources, Pittsburgh libraries and The Clients I recall; were. Mr A. J. Cassatt, researchers, and the internet have President Penna’ R. R. Mr Frank Thompson. President. Penna’ R. R. given us a broader picture of the Mr Edward Bayers, Mr T. De Witt Cuyler, man and his architecture. The and Mr S. F. Nixon. information about Louis Stevens is typical of what we have compiled . . . Mr Furness designed the Broad St on several Pittsburgh architects. Pennsylvania Station, the West End We hope to compile, enlarge, and building with bridge across Market Street, refine this kind of information for and our East Liberty Penna’ Station many more local architects. although Wilson Bros are given credit for the structure.…

(continued on page 18) Most sincerely, Max Nirdlinger

Jamie Van Trump wrote that the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Station possessed “a sharp, tense angularity… [and] aggressive vigour.” PHLF News • March 2002 Page 17

April 7, 1963 Dear Mr Van Trump; I am happy to enclose [a] copy of my association with Mr Frank Furness “my memoirs” and a copy of my letter to Mr James C. MASSEY, also [a] photograph of a portion of the Furness & Evans draughting room. I trust the above will serve your purpose and that you and Mr. Massey will call on me should you require any additional Henry Hornbostel (1867–1961) information; please be free to add, or eliminate any portion of my report as you consider desireable [sic]. With kindest regards, PLEASE Yours truly, CONTRIBUTE Max Nirdlinger Edgewood Pennsylvania Railroad Station displays affinities with similar small to the 2002 publication of railroad stations designed by Furness.

MY MEMOIRS Hornbostel Messrs Dinge and Kleinfelter Architects due to the award of the [by Maximilian F. Nirdlinger] Draughtsmen, Harry Metaker commission to Joseph M. Huston a in Pittsburgh [see page 16 ], specification writer draughtman in the Furness and Evans During the years of 1897, 1898 and and W’m Riebenack, Earnest Yardley, [firm] during the Firm’s preparation of by Walter C. Kidney 1899 with Mr Frank Furness and his Chas Osmond, David Watts, Edward competitive drawings and during this firm; Furness and Evans & Co, as a Evans and yours truly “students”. time Huston prepared his drawings out student and draughtsman I enjoyed n the fall of 2002, Landmarks will side and off office hours. I daily association with Mr. Furness; Mr. Casey (after paper was stretched) publish a handsomely illustrated my employer and teacher. layed out floor levels, column spacing, Furness and Evans issued an open book devoted to the work of center lines etc, from which Mr. Furness letter exposing the unethical act and I was really his office boy the first two Henry Hornbostel. The book will would prepare his sketches (with Quill condemning the methods used by those years I was with the firm [,] and after include an essay on Hornbostel’s and ground ink.) in power; and later events confirmed I secured a commission for a twenty work here and elsewhere, followed their position. thousand dollar residential alteration Mr Karl Bitter the noted Sculptor was a by a catalogue of works in I think I was promoted to his protégé, frequent visitor to our office as Mr An investigation was started just before Pittsburgh, from 1904 to 1939, as my later assignments included Furness favored him for the sculptural the completion of the building and it of at least 80 designs. increased responsibilities. work required in his designs. Many of was shown that many deviations from Mr Bitter’s commissions are mentioned the plans and specifications were It was Mr Furness’ continued guidance, Please contribute by completing and in the Encyclopedia. evident; which resulted in the conviction criticisms and encouragement that returning this form. of the Architect and some of the resulted in all out efforts as a humble Mr Furness designed the original Contractors. appreciation. Farmers Bank on Fourth Ave (about Yes, I am (we are) making a contri- 1895) and pictures of the structure have In my letter to Mr James C. Massey [of bution to Hornbostel in Pittsburgh The firm occupied the entire tenth floor been located in the Carnegie Library. April 6, 1963] I have listed commissions in the amount of $______. of the Provident Life and Trust building intrusted [sic] to Mr Furness’ Firm My (our) check is enclosed, payable to “designed by Mr Furness” and consisted Furness & Evans received the commis- during my association with them. the Pittsburgh History & Landmarks of a 30' by 60' draughting room, sion to design one of the Ocean Liners entrance hall, reception room and used as a troop ship during the Spainish I left the Firm the latter part of 1899 Foundation and referenced Mr Furness’ study. [sic] War returned to passenger service. and Mr Furness’ parting words will live “Hornbostel.” with me forever: Max if you do not like Mr Walter Furness was treasurer, On or about 1898 considerable excite- it out there, come back and see me. I (we) understand that this contribution Mr George Casey, chief Draughtman, ment existed among Pennsylvania will be used to support the book’s publi- cation and does not entitle me (us) to a free copy of the book upon publication.

I (we) would like my (our) name(s) to be printed in the contributor’s list in the book as follows:

please print your name(s) clearly

All contributors will be invited to the book release party.

Please mail this completed form with your contribution to:

Louise Sturgess Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation One Station Square, Suite 450 Pittsburgh, PA 15219-1134

To make a contribution by credit card call Mary Lu at 412-471-5808 ext. 527.

Thank you very much for contributing!

A copy of the official registration and financial information The site of the East Liberty Pennsylvania Railroad Station is still a major transportation hub, but the station has been of the Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation may replaced by minimal shelter set within a desolate and decaying urban “renewal” concrete grid. be obtained from the Pennsylvania Department of State by calling toll free, within Pennsylvania, 1-800-732-0999. Registration does not imply endorsement. Page 18 PHLF News • March 2002

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The Architect Check Out These Resources for Architectural Louis Stevens (1880–1961) was born November 4, 1880 in West Research on the World Wide Web Brownsville, Washington County, PA, where his uncle, Andrew Kramer Albert M. Tannler Axton, operated a boatyard. According to information from University of Pittsburgh Libraries and Lu Donnelly, West Brownsville, Pittsburgh: the Historical Society of Western on the Monongahela River, was a • Carnegie Mellon University Pennsylvania. It provides access to his- major regional boat-building center. Architecture Archives torical real estate maps and insurance Stevens established his architectural www.library.cmu.edu/Libraries/ArchArch plat books, some census records, and practice in Pittsburgh in 1906; he • Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh books of historical interest, as well as retired in 1952. He died August 28, Music and Art Department—extensive finding aids to collections in the care of 1961; he was living at Lynn Run collection of architectural journals these institutions. Road, Rector, PA. www.carnegielibrary.org/clp/MusicArt A further comment by Lu—“What I’d • University of Pittsburgh/Historical really like to do someday is compile a His Residential Works: Society of Western PA biographical directory of Pittsburgh L. L. Banks residence, http://digital.library.pitt.edu/pittsburgh 712 Tenth St., Oakmont, PA architects” (see page 16)—paralleled my My introduction to the Philadelphia 4405 Bigelow Blvd. (c. 1915), own experience of being hobbled with- Philadelphia: Architects and Buildings Project Web out such a tool, and the related knowl- Schenley Farms, Pittsburgh • Philadelphia Athenaeum: Architectural site—instigated by Pittsburgh architec- edge that what little information exists Miss Dickey residence Archives [access to several Web sites] tural historian Lu Donnelly—led to an is not always reliable. So Landmarks [4200 block Center Ave., www.philaathenaeum.org exploration of other Web sites available will be talking with our colleagues at the Schenley Farms; demolished?] • Philadelphia Architects and Buildings to the architectural researcher. Some Heinz Architectural Center and the Dr. J. F. Edwards residence Project sites are finding aids, inventories, and Carnegie Mellon University Architecture [4330 Center Ave., Schenley Farms] www.philadelphiabuildings.org collection guides, most helpful prior to a Archives about ways in which we can Chester G. Fisher Residence personal visit to the repository. Others compile and make available information Washington, D.C.: Dr. Paul H. Franklin residence provide photographs, measured archi- about Pittsburgh architects on the Web. [4360 Center Ave., Schenley Farms] tectural drawings, and virtual tours of A short, selected list of major Web Library of Congress http://loweb.loc.gov/ 4309 Parkman Ave. (1915), historic buildings and places. resources in Boston, Pittsburgh, Schenley Farms The Carnegie Mellon University Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C., • American Memory: Historical William Robinson Residence Architecture Archives Web site, already appears below. Collections for the National Digital Joseph C. Sibley residence, indispensable for Martin Aurand’s guide Library: “River Ridge Farm,” Franklin, PA to architectural research, will provide an Boston: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ invaluable service to the researcher ammenhome.html Louis Stevens residence (1925) A Digital Archive of American when the entire run of the premier 4344 Brownsville Rd., Brentwood Architecture • Three relevant collections are: architectural serial, The Charette, is Dr. A. Stewart residence (Boston College) 1. Touring Turn-of-the-Century online. [4200 block Center Ave., www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/fa267 America: Photographs from the Schenley Farms; demolished?] “Historic Pittsburgh” is a joint Detroit Publishing Company, venture Web site established by the Mrs. W. McC. Wilson Residence 1880–1920: [175 photographs of Pittsburgh] John Worthington residence, The Smithfield Street Bridge, between 1901 and 1911, with its original portals. 5505 Forbes Ave., Squirrel Hill 2. Historic American Building Survey (1910/1915) and Engineering Reports 3. Architecture and Interior Design for Other Works: 20th Century America: Photographs Junior Order American Mechanics by Samuel Gottscho and William Building Schleisner, 1935–1955 Overbrook Municipal Building • Local History and Genealogy Overbrook School 1. Walsh, Barbara B. Telephone and Polk State School; Hospital addition City Directories in the Library of and Boys’ Dormitory, Polk, PA Congress: A Finding Guide. Research West Side Filtration Plant, Erie, PA Guide No. 37. Worthington Tomb, http://loweb.loc.gov/rr/genealogy/ Homewood Cemetery (1919) bib_guid/telephon.html

Bibliography Archives of American Art, • Hannegan, Barry. “Surrey-upon-Forbes.” Smithsonian Institution PHLF News 151 (September 1990): 1–4. Artists and associations of artists, some of • Kidney, Walter C. Pittsburgh’s Landmark whom lived and worked in Pittsburgh. Architecture: The Historic Buildings of www.aaa.si.edu Pittsburgh and Allegheny County. Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh History & National Park Service Landmarks Foundation: 366–67, 443, • National Register of Historic Places 453, 509. www.cr.nps.gov/NR • Mong, Margaret Anne, ed. “View of River Ridge Farm, Franklin, Pa.” 1925. Reprint 1999. • Pittsburgh City Directories 1905; 1906 20th Century Pittsburgh Architecture List Revised and Enlarged • [Reed, Mildred A.] “An Interview With Louis Stevens, A.I.A.” The Presbyterian A List of Pittsburgh and Allegheny “I began giving architectural tours in in a tour Landmarks’ co-founder Banner (March 5, 1925): 15. County Buildings and Architects 1993 and many of our visitors wanted Jamie Van Trump prepared for an • “Rites Slated for District Architect, 80.” 1950–2001 is the title of the newly to know about Pittsburgh’s later 20th- American Institute of Architects meeting The Pittsburgh Press (August 29, 1961): revised and enlarged brochure first century buildings,” Al Tannler recalls. in 1965. It listed Pittsburgh’s new, as Sec 1, 29. prepared by Al Tannler in 1995. The “Some cities have guidebooks to recent well as older, prominent buildings. • “Some Work of Louis Stevens.” 28-page, soft-cover booklet gives infor- architecture; Pittsburgh does not. “Much of my writing about The Builder 32:7 (October 1915); np. mation on approximately 100 “As I was researching buildings, Pittsburgh first identifies something of Photographs (no text): buildings designed by some 40 architects, neighborhoods, local architectural significance; I then try • Stevens, Louis. “Some Remarks on architectural firms in Allegheny and dates for my to present the subject in such a way that Church Building: Episcopal Viewpoint.” County through 2001. Public own use, I decided readers will want to explore it further. A The Presbyterian Banner (March 5, 1925): 15. sculpture in Pittsburgh has to make the informa- List of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County Buildings and Architects is a first step.” • “What a Beautiful Old House.” been included in this edition, tion available in a American Architect (March 20, 1927): and the bibliography has small, inexpensive Copies of the booklet may be ordered 90. been reorganized. The cost publication. One model by contacting Frank Stroker at is $4.00; members receive was An Architectural 412-471-5808, ext. 525, e-mailing a 10% discount. Tour of Pittsburgh, a [email protected], or visiting Landmarks’ pamphlet that originated Web site at www.phlf.org. PHLF News • March 2002 Page 19 Traveling Solidity & Diversity: IISNSN’’TT Ocean Grove, New Jersey Arthur P. Ziegler, Jr. RRESTORATIONESTORATION Consider these ingredients for a summer 114 remaining tents. The Association of holiday weekend, or more, if you have Ocean Grove continues to be a strong the time: organization. It still owns the land of WWONDERFULONDERFUL!! the town, although about 20 years ago • The broad beach of the Atlantic Ocean it ceded the streets curb-to-curb to Preservation is the business of and a wide boardwalk, without any Neptune Township. The Association saving special places and the quality tourist shops impinging on it; leases the lots for housing and the of life they support. It has to do • Charming Victorian architecture, Township collects taxes on the houses. with more than bricks....It has to do narrow streets, and a walkable town; The still remaining 114 tents with with the way individuals, families, and small wooden structures to the rear • A fine main street with small communities come together in good shops––an old-fashioned ice cream open on May 15 and close after Labor Lobby, Renaissance Pittsburgh Hotel parlor; a coffee shop with fine baked Day. Those who rent the tents (for only environments. 107 Sixth Street, Downtown Formerly the Fulton Building (1906) goods; restaurants; realtor, lawyer, and $3,500 a season, one block from the Richard Moe, President doctors offices––all beneath a canopy ocean) provide their own furniture and National Trust for Historic of trees; agree to be relatively quiet from 10:30 Preservation p.m. to 8:00 a.m. The “tent people” • Many inns, in Victorian and turn-of- generally participate in the continuing the-century buildings, or full-floor camp meetings at the great wooden rentals in frame cottages with nice auditorium erected in the heart of the elp us protect the places that make porches; H grove in 1894. Pittsburgh home. Contribute to Landmarks. • That old-time religious feeling, center- The Association now focuses on ing on a huge, handsome, wooden religious and cultural activities and has A gift of appreciated securities or real estate can camp meeting tabernacle of 1894; gently loosened its grip on lifestyle create lifetime income for you and provide the control: for example, while no liquor Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation with • Lectures, architectural walking tours, is served in Ocean Grove, restaurants and concerts; now permit BYOB and people can drink much-needed resources to restore historic houses, • Blocks of small, house-like tents with out-of-doors on their own property. churches, schools, parks, and gardens in the porches lined up side-by-side like Pittsburgh region. cottages, 114 of them; A National Historic • A heterogeneous population of the District Camp Meeting Methodists, African Ocean Grove was designated a National Landmarks Can Put Your Americans, gays, singles, couples, Historic District about 25 years ago, Assets to Good Work While families—all blended harmoniously. and in 1980 became more open to out- You’ve discovered Ocean Grove, siders. The town gates were no longer Bringing You: New Jersey. This amazing period town closed with chains from midnight was founded in 1869 by William B. Saturday until midnight Sunday, and • Lifetime income from your gift; Osborne, “for the purpose of providing wheeled vehicles were permitted for the • Public acknowledgment of your gift; and maintaining, for the members and first time on streets on Sundays. friends of the Methodist Episcopal An interesting form of town planning • Federal and estate tax savings; Church, a proper, convenient and took place when, in the 19th century, desirable permanent camp meeting the town was laid out so that on streets • Avoidance of probate costs; ground and Christian seaside resort.” perpendicular to the ocean the buildings Dr. Ellwood H. Stokes was the first closest to the ocean were placed farthest • Disposition of real estate and president. He selected this particular back from the street. In that way the sea elimination of ownership costs and location because a lake on each side of it breezes reached each house along these liability (minimum value required); effectively separates it from the adjacent streets as each stepped forward. This towns, and because there is no marsh arrangement also gave a view of the • The satisfaction of making a nearby, so “the infernal New Jersey ocean to the porches all the way along significant gift to preserve our mosquitoes are not present.” the first block of each street. Rigorous Western Pennsylvania heritage; Victorian design standards are still Camp Meetings imposed in the town and have become a • Honorary life membership source of some current controversy. Camp meetings in the 19th century were in Landmarks (minimum The Great Auditorium originally had contribution required). popular in the United States and drew seating for 10,000, but a recent renova- summer visitors from long distances. tion has resulted in more comfortable Contact Jack Miller to discuss these People from towns and farms went seats for 6,500 people. The structure is for days and weeks to participate in donor options 412-471-5808 ext. 538 a huge and handsome wooden building, e-mail: [email protected] communal hymn sings and “revival” a centerpiece as seen down the broad preaching, emotional renewals of faith. esplanade from the ocean. The faithful lodged under the trees, in The solid middle-class base created by temporary frame structures, and even the Association, the seaside location, the more often in tents. Many such places homogeneous and charming architec- for a time became permanent, but now ture, and the loosening of lifestyles have most have disappeared. served to attract a more diverse popula- Ocean Grove is one of the few surviv- tion than the founders could have imag- ing camp meetings in the nation. At its ined. Only in recent years has the town apogee the summer tents numbered 800. They are still sufficiently in demand: witness the eight-year waiting list for the (continued on page 20)

Since 1870, visitors to Ocean Grove have stayed in the house-like tent structures bordering the Great Auditorium. JOIN Page 20 PHLF News • March 2002 LANDMARKS

Support the Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation in its work to: • Identify, document, and work to save architectural landmarks, historic neighborhoods, and Solidity & Diversity: Ocean Grove, New Jersey historic designed landscapes in (continued from page 19) Allegheny County; • Provide loans and technical really been discovered and many of the assistance to community-based houses are now owned by year-round organizations that propose feasible plans for historic properties; residents. Property values have skyrock- eted. Summer rentals are available in the • Participate in urban planning houses, and there are a number of inns, issues as an advocate for historic preservation; some quite modern and some still of a vintage of the early part of this century, • Create educational programs still moderately priced but primarily for schools, community groups, because the latest fashion in lodging is members, and friends; still not widely available. • Continue a well-managed, A strange juxtaposition is Asbury responsive, and creative Park, just across the lake to the north, membership organization with the ability to implement these which once had marvelous architecture, goals on a long-range basis. an exuberant convention hall, and a fine boardwalk, as well as many good resi- Membership Categories dential buildings. Individual $25 or more Now the area nearest the ocean at Asbury Park is in ruins; the convention Family $30 or more center is simply rotting away; acres of Couple $30 or more land have been cleared of all buildings; Senior citizen and several new large buildings and a or student $15 or more parking garage stand partially erected Schools and but unfinished. Non-profits $35 or more Next door, Ocean Grove survives and School Districts $50 or more prospers. Strolling through the town The Great Auditorium of 1894 was recently renovated and now seats 6,500 people. Ambassadors $100 or more and looking at all the marvelous build- Corporate $250 or more ings, mostly wood and Victorian or Life Benefactor $5,000 Victorian-ized––the cottage effect—is a (a one-time gift) delight. Bicycling is also pleasant The Manchester Inn on the great “path- when she was five years old and has The portion of your dues exceeding $15 because traffic is not heavy. way” midway between the auditorium spent every summer there since; she is is tax-deductible. and the boardwalk was built in 1875, now 75! Diversity has a fine porch with the expected rock- The tents reinforce the cottage Town historian Ted Beayle told me that, ing chairs, and is currently being reno- architecture of the town. Standing side- while longtime residents and many visi- vated. I took a top floor, old fashioned by-side and forming continuous blocks, Pick up from previous tors are quite conservative, there is great room that had a small sink, a ceiling they create an urban streetscape with stability in Ocean Grove, even though light fixture, a tight metal shower stall, a tentative, improvised effect that is major demographic changes are taking and no room for a chair. I paid about simply amazing to see. place. While the town exudes a sense of $100 on an August weekend. But white middle-class solidity, it is changing uniquely decorated, updated rooms are Visit If You Can now available and are popular at the quietly and harmoniously. Mr. Beayle If you would enjoy an ocean vacation in inn, although if you wish to share a said about five percent of the population a quiet town with delightful buildings, bath, you can save some money. Fax Call Mary Lu Denny at is now gay and increasing, and African- where solid middle-class America has a service and modem hook ups were avail- 412-471-5808 ext. 527 for details Americans have begun visiting and high degree of civility, diversity, and able and while I was there a mystery on a multiple-year membership plan buying property. There is a marvelous tolerance; where the religious camp dinner evening was taking place. at a reduced rate, and for a listing feeling of comfort among everyone. meeting experience of the Dedicated On that same weekend the Historical of our membership benefits. It would appear to be a town that has mixes gracefully with “Outsiders,” Society held an architectural walking reached the sense of welcome and including the non-religious, perhaps Yes! Enroll me as a member of the tour and a lecture; under a boardwalk tolerance that we would wish for even the profane; where the old fash- Pittsburgh History & Landmarks pavilion a hymn sing occurred in late everywhere. Young, middle aged, ioned endures positively with the Foundation. I have enclosed a afternoon and again the next morning; a elderly, racially mixed couples, present; and where costs are moderate contribution in the amount of children’s group performed “Hansel and intellectuals, and Pentecostals all are and a car is unnecessary, try Ocean ______. Gretel” ($10) at the Tabernacle Friday accommodating diversity. Grove, New Jersey. evening; and a vast barber shop choir Name______performed Saturday night. At the My Experiences “Starving Artist” tea room The Mikado How to Get There Address______I visited Ocean Grove three times, the was being sung ($15 a ticket). A special • Driving: To get there: PA Turnpike to City ______last being in the winter when, to my concert on the huge organ installed in I-295 N to I-195E to 57N. amazement, I found the main street 1908, one of the largest in the world State ______Zip ______filled with people, almost all of the at that time, was a resounding success. • By air: USAir to Philadelphia; on to parking spaces taken at 11:00 a.m. and I missed an annual lecture by an archae- Atlantic City; New Jersey rail to Telephone (day)______Ocean Grove. (area code) the coffee shop flourishing just as it was ologist who spends each year in the E-mail ______when I was there in August. Middle East and reports on his findings • By rail: Amtrak to Philadelphia; Hotels and motels that one associates because I had planned to bicycle at that on to Atlantic City, New Jersey rail Method of Payment with the New Jersey seacoast do not time, but a woman sitting on the porch to Ocean Grove; taxi or walk to Check enclosed (payable to PHLF) exist in Ocean Grove. If you do not of one of the tents told me that I had your lodging. lease an apartment and choose to stay at Credit card: missed a very informative meeting. She one of the inns, you can expect to pay also told me that she was first taken to AmEx Visa anywhere from $60 to $150 a night. spend the summer in one of the tents Mastercard Discover

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PHLF News: A Member’s Comment The Editor’s Response ...whoever is putting out the PHLF News is Thanks for the kind words in regard to PHLF doing a superb job. The September issue was News. We also would like to take this opportu- great....And it was good to read a little Jamie in nity to apologize to all our members since we the News. I still miss him. have been so long in publishing this issue. After the September 2001 PHLF News, we had to turn our attention to the Hornbostel book

—Larry Givens, L. F. and to Pittsburgh Legends and Visions: An (Living Fossil) Illustrated History. Both books are to be Wexford, PA published this year. Savor this March 2002 issue. It will be several months again until we publish another issue!

—Louise Sturgess Editor and Executive Director New Members in 2001 THANK YOU FOR JOINING! Your membership strengthens our organization—and brings you benefits, too: discounts at several Bed & Breakfasts; free walking tours and postcards; and invitations to special events. For the most up-to-date news, check our Web site at www.phlf.org. New members enrolled since January 1, 2002 will be acknowledged in our summer issue.

Judy and William F. Aiken Marlene and Chuck Docherty Kevin T. Horner Charles R. Alcorn Laura Domencic Sharon and Ken Hruska Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Altman Deborah Doucette Janet and Steve Hudspeth and family M. Gloria Anderson East Liberty Development, Inc. Frances Huemmrich Jen Baselj Kezia L. Ellison Alan R. Huffman and family Lisa R. Battat, M.D. and family Emsworth United Presbyterian Church Miriam Hurley Teresa A. Beaudet and Cindy A. England Jeff Jacobs Gerald J. Giamportone Janet and James Engleson Jamestown Area School District Susan Belville Dorothy Enright Maia Javan Ben Avon Area Historical Association Siri N. Espy and family C. Lee Jefferson Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bent Andrew Falk The Jernigan Famly Paul R. Bernthal Crystal Finberg Deana L. Jirak Thomas Betzler Maureen Fischer and family Irene Johnson Susanna Bjorkman and family Jean B. Fleischauer Doris T. Johnston Norma Bluestone Mary L. Frain Marion E. Jorstad Gerald D. Blum Friendship Preservation Group Maria and Stephen Joseph Al Bowers and family Marcia Frumerman Joe Kane Karen Boucher and family Greg Fuhrman Karns City Area School Agnes Brandis Kristina E. Gardner Bee Jay Kastory David C. Brenenborg Mary Frances Gargotta Ellen S. Kaufmann Charles A. Brown Dana J. Gary Mrs. Bethel Kean Norma J. and Robert T. Brown Rebecca M. Gerken John Keeley Kathleen and Carl Bruning Jessica V. Gibbons Colin Kelley Patty Burk and Mark Burke Joseph Gibson Claudia and Warren Keyes Sr. Mary Michael Burns, S. C. Mary E. Gibson Donna L. Killmer Carmen Campbell Ann T. Gilligan and family Mary Ann and Anthony C. Kopczynski Lisa T. Carey and family Patricia M. Gordon Ann W. Korthage Mary Kathleen and Jerry Carothers Susan Gordon Samuel D. Kramer Russellyn S. Carruth and Dr. Marcus Gottlieb Elaine and Carl Krasik Bernard D. Goldstein Laurie Graham Michael R. Krebs and family David Case Caitlin Green Jeff Kumer Natalie and Robert Casey Pat L. Griffin Frank J. Kurtik Felix Caste Mr. and Mrs. Ed Grimm and family Mr. and Mrs. Roy Kurtzrock Margot Cavalier Martha M. Grottenthaler Marilyn L. Ladner Tom Chalmers HMNA/Historic Library Estates Mr. and Mrs. William Lambert Valerie Champlin Hampton Middle School Helen W. Lang Laura Charles Linda A. Hannon Lawrenceville Corporation Katherin Cienciala M. L. Hare Shawn Lawson Ann Cipriani and family Harmony Area School District Professor Lora Lee Dane S. Claussen Catherine and John Harper David K. Levdansky Wanda Forsythe Clay Robert Harper Henry B. Levith and family Carole A. Clifford Patrick F. Hassett Margaret K. Ligush John Cline Fran Haus, Jr. Stephanie S. Lind and family Bruce B. Colwell, II Catherine and D. J. Hebert Edward L. Linder Deborah Comay Jan Guilaive Hedquist and family Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Lipton and family Priscilla Comden Lori and Richard Hensler Phillip B. Little Marnie Conley Marilyn J. Herrlich Rae Anne Lockard Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Conner Patricia Anne Hickey and family Connie Lopez Michael P. Contento Christine Hicks Rachel and Jeffrey Lowden John Conti Sophia P. Hijjawi The Lowenstein Family Mallory Crawford Beatrice Hirschl Terri Lucas Joanne C. DeSanda and family Joseph M. Hohman Brett R. Lutz Jeffrey R. DiLucia, Jr. John F. Holland Curtis B. Magnuson Joan and D. J. Dillon Holy Wisdom Parish Manchester Historic Society Rosemary DeRiso Alexandra Hope and David Wheeler