Market Square-2017 (5-12).qxp_Grant Street-3/28/06 5/12/17 3:27 PM Page 1 There’s nothing like walking to get you in touch with a place. Downtown Pittsburgh Walking Tour 12 7/Eleven You see, hear, notice, explore, and discover. 42 9–431 Wood Street ––Laurence A. Glasco, author, historian, and PHLF Trustee Market Square Area Local architect George M. Rowland designed this elegant building Stanwix Street in 1925 for John M. Roberts & Company, a family-operated FREE TOURS & EVENTS jewelry store. PHLF restored the façade and entrance canopy in Old Allegheny County Jail Museum 201 4–15 through the Mayor’s Downtown Preservation Program with the URA. Open Mondays through October ( 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.) L ib (except for court holidays) e r ty 13 Kashi Jewelers A Downtown Pittsburgh and Oakland: Guided Walking Tours Graeme Street ve n 445 Wood Street u # e Every Friday through October 2 1 This rare surviving wood-frame façade, constructed after 1860, MEETING • Two different free walking tours are offered each month: 3 LOCATION and site 1 4 were restored by PHLF in 2013 through the Market Street one from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. and another from Noon to Mayor’s Downtown Preservation Program with the URA. 18 1 p.m. Join us for one, or both. e u • McMasters Way n Advance reservations are appreciated (see below). e Fifth Wood Building (including Kashi Jewelers) v 14 A 17 h t Fifth Avenue and Wood Street 4 f i DOWNTOWN’S BEST F e e Three PNC Plaza u This reserved corner building of 1922 was designed by George u n Special Places and Spaces in a 2-Hour Walk n 5 e e 16 v H. Schwan, a Pittsburgher. Look up to see the delicate Art v A Tower A Not free. Advance paid reservations are required. s h t Nouveau bud forms at the base of the columns above the first Two-Sixty e r b u r June through August: every Thursday, 10 a.m. to Noon. o and Hilton floor. “Fasces,” a Roman emblem of authority, adorn the o F F Garden Inn Other dates by appointment for groups of 10 people. One PNC Plaza upper-floor panels. The building is lit at night. 6 11 12 – 14 8 7 15 The Tower at PNC Plaza Wood Street DOORS OPEN PITTSBURGH 2017 300 Fifth Avenue 9 10 15 Oct. 7 & 8 (10 a.m. to 4 p.m., both days) doorsopenpgh.org Piatt Place Designed by Gensler to be the greenest office tower in the e e u u world, the 32-story skyscraper opened in October 2015 as n SPECIAL TOURS IN 20 17 e n e u v e n v A PNC’s new corporate headquarters. The one-of-a-kind breath - e Not free . Reservations are required. Space is limited. A v s r A e june fridays at noon e b able double skin allows fresh air into the building and the solar h v r N t i June 15: Walking Tour: Riverview Park & f l o i F F chimney helps heat and ventilate the building. LEED-Platinum O Allegheny Observatory july fridays at 10 a.m. certified, The Tower at PNC Plaza is 50% more efficient than July 8: North Side Urban Hike typical skyscrapers. July 29: Squirrel Hill Bus Tour FREE one-hour guided walking tours, The shaded area represents the Market Square City Historic Sept. 12: Downtown Walking Tour: compliments of the Pittsburgh History 16 PNC YMCA (Market Square Place) District, designated in 1972 and subsequently expanded. 236 Fifth Avenue Hotels in Historic Buildings & Landmarks Foundation Numbers 4, 16, and 17 comprise Market Square Place. Sept. 16: Bus Tour: Churches & Art in Greensburg This restored Neo-Classical façade, designed in 1922 by Weary & Alford of Chicago who specialized in banks, is distinguished Oct. 28: Homewood Cemetery: A Walking Tour by its severe stone wall treatment. This kind of building would Market Square Area, Downtown Pittsburgh & Musical Celebration MEETING LOCATION have been designed in Italy and France around 1790. PNC Triangle Park 1. Market at Fifth and 10. 418, 420, 422 Wood Street WORKSHOPS & PRESENTATIONS Thompson’s Building 11. Skinny Buildin g (across from Fairmont Pittsburgh 17 Market Square Place Landmarks Preservation Resource Center 2. Camera Repair Service at 510 Market Street) 214–218 Fifth Avenue 12. 7/Eleven 744 Rebecca Avenue, Wilkinsburg, PA 15221 3. Market Square These rare cast-iron façades from the 1860s or 1870s (painted 13. Kashi Jewelers Visit www.phlf.org and click on Tours & Events grey) and the corner red-brick building have been restored and 4. Market Square Place 14. Fifth Wood Building for Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday programs. reused as part of the LEED-Gold Market Square Place. 4 16 5. CVS/pharmacy (including Kashi Jewelers) 6. Italian Sons and Daughters 15. The Tower at PNC Plaza FOR DETAILS & RESERVATIONS Buhl Building 18 of America 16. PNC YMCA 412-471-5808, ext. 527 or [email protected] 204 Fifth Avenue 7. Boutique La Passerelle (Market Square Place) Designed by Janssen & Abbott in 1913, this building is clad in 8. Former Weldin’s Building 17. Market Square Place blue and creamy-white terra cotta and decorated in Renaissance motifs. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. 9. Point Park University Center 18. Buhl Building www.phlf.org The owners have agreed to donate a preservation easement to PHLF to protect the façade in perpetuity. Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation For more information on local buildings and architects, Renewing Communities; Building Pride purchase one of our books: 412-471-5808, ext. 525; 100 West Station Square Drive, Suite 450 www.phlf.org . Click on Store . Pittsburgh, PA 15219-1134 © 2017 Market Square-2017 (5-12).qxp_Grant Street-3/28/06 5/12/17 3:27 PM Page 2 1 Market at Fifth and Thompson’s Building 3 Market Square 6 Italian Sons and Daughters of America 130 Fifth Avenue; 435 Market Street MARKET SQUARE AREA Market Square, or the “Diamond,” was laid out in 1784. 419 Wood Street Through the leadership and financial commitment of the Originally, this central square was the site of market stalls and Designed in 1929 by local architects Hunting, Davis & Invest in assets that drive innovation: downtowns, Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation (PHLF), and with the first Allegheny County Courthouse. Later, a market house Dunnells, this building became the home of the Italian Sons main streets, historic preservation. … If you support from Duquesne Light Company, The Laurel Foundation, and City Hall occupied the square. Finally, the Diamond and Daughters of America, a fraternal organization, in 1960. PHLF managed the façade restoration in 2012 –13, under undermine the older places, you undermine the and PPG and its Pittsburgh Paints, three historic buildings Market occupied the whole square and bridged Market Street. comprising Market at Fifth have been rescued, restored, and Since 1961, Market Square has remained open, a place for contract with the URA, through the Mayor’s Downtown very assets of the place. adapted to house seven apartments and two retail tenants: concerts, rallies, and relaxation. The recent redesign is by Preservation Program. In March 2012, the orange metal paneling that had long covered the upper stories was removed, –– Bruce Katz, Brookings Institution, 2003 Heinz Healey’s Gentlemen’s Apparel and Nettleton Shoe Shop. Klavon Design Associates, Inc. to the spontaneous applause of passers-by. Market at Fifth was one of the first revitalization projects in One wing of PPG Place actually fronts on Market Square. Redevelopment of the Market Square area is progressing. Pennsylvania to achieve LEED Gold certification while using The uniform black and silver upright elements look like a Boutique La Passerelle Key projects are incorporating historic preservation and Federal Historic Rehabilitation Tax Credits. Landmarks Design 7 Prussian regiment formed up to impress the peasants. 417 Wood Street “green ” building principles. Private local developers, the Associates was the project architect and evolve was the green- Primanti Brothers anchors a handsome block of vernacular LDC acquired (and PHLF obtained a preservation easement City of Pittsburgh, Urban Redevelopment Authority of building consultant. Market at Fifth won the Best Market-Rate buildings constructed soon after Pittsburgh’s Great Fire of on) this elegant commercial building of c. 1875, thanks to Pittsburgh, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the Residential “Timmy” Award in 2009, among other awards. 1845. Notice the Il Pizzaiolo building of 1905, with the elegant a generous donation from two members in 2011. preservation community are balancing new construction The City owned these three buildings and allowed them double windows recessed within an arcade across the top floor, to deteriorate. They were slated for demolition in 1999 under the ornamental birds on either side of the center top-floor with restoration, resulting in Pittsburgh’s first new 8 Former Weldin’s Building skyscraper since the 1980s (Three PNC Plaza on Fifth Mayor Tom Murphy’s plan to clear more than 60 buildings in window, and the slender columns that look a bit like palm 413 –415 Wood Street Avenue), The Tower at PNC Plaza on Wood Street the area of Fifth and Forbes avenues. This plan was defeated trees. The wave-like design above the ground floor is called in 2001 after vigorous opposition from PHLF, community In 20 11, LDC also acquired the J. R. Weldin Building (1883; (completed in 2015), and Tower Two-Sixty and Hilton a Vitruvian scroll. refaced c. 1905). From the ground-floor display windows to the stakeholders, and the National Trust for Historic Preservation.