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Closed since 1974, In this issue: the Armstrong Cork Company buildings are being rehabilitated by 2 McCaffery Interests, Inc. Our Work: Recent Progress of Chicago to house 298 luxury apartments. 10 James S. Carr AIA & Spotlighting Main Street and Associates with Saving Our History Antunovich Associates are project architects. Charlie Uhl and 14 Richard Glance are Tiffany: historic preservation Who, What, and Why consultants. Plant Construction is the 20 general contractor and Events: Graciano Corporation September & October is the exterior masonry contractor.

• implementing a series of changes Preservation Easement Helps Save that would tighten appraisal require- ments and impose new requirements for second appraisals for large Armstrong Cork Buildings donation claims; For nearly 30 years, Landmarks worked entitled to a federal income tax deduc- bedroom, and three bedroom units • allowing the IRS to recognize with various developers to create a tion equal to the difference in the fair with large floor plans. The loft-style accreditation programs for easement- plan that would not only preserve market value of the property before and apartments will feature breathtaking holding organizations; but breathe life into the century-old after the restrictions are in place. In this riverfront views, 14-foot exposed • requiring that appraisers certify to Armstrong Cork buildings on 23rd case, the tax deduction was a significant ceilings, and washer/dryer sets in the IRS that the effect of existing and Railroad factor in making the numbers work. each unit. Select units will contain local historic preservation laws, if Streets in the This isn’t the first time that Landmarks stainless steel sinks, garden-style tubs, any, has been expressly considered, Strip District. has used a preservation easement to help and exposed brick walls. Among the disclosed, and addressed in the On January close a deal that will have a significant numerous amenities to be offered are valuation analysis; and 8, 2005, economic impact on the Pittsburgh a private party room in the restored • establishing a “safe harbor” percent- Big River region. Last year, it accepted an ease- engine room, a fitness room with age for easement donations that Development ment on the Heinz Lofts, a project that state-of-the-art equipment, a swimming would, with certain qualifications, L.P. announced will ultimately preserve five buildings pool, a 24-hour business center, and simplify the donation process for that it had in the original H. J. Heinz Company a conference room. The project is many property owners and reduce the obtained the factory complex on the North Side and scheduled for completion during the possibility of over-valued easements. necessary create hundreds of new apartments. summer of 2006. financing to “Preservation easements are a viable Landmarks and the National Trust convert the tool for preservation and economic for Historic Preservation recognize Armstrong development,” says Landmarks IRS Examines that the effectiveness of easements Cork complex President Arthur Ziegler. “In the end, Preservation as a tool for historic preservation into 298 loft they save a part of the community’s past depends in large part on the confi- apartments. and create a building block Easement Valuations dence of the public that they are A 422-space for its future.” In June 2004, the IRS issued a public being used for valid purposes. parking garage The Armstrong Cork notice indicating that it planned to look We remain committed to using and over Company traces its more closely at charitable deductions preservation easements for their 45,000 square roots to 1860 when taken for conservation easement dona- intended purposes, within the feet of retail shops will also be con- Thomas M. Armstrong tions. At the time, IRS Commissioner parameters defined by law. structed on an adjacent lot. The classic started a cork-cutting Mark Everson stated that the IRS had red brick façades and an historic silo business in Pittsburgh. uncovered instances where the Rendering by James S. Carr, AIA & Associates and engine room, along with other Following a disastrous tax benefits of preserving original details, are being restored and fire at its ten-story historic buildings had been incorporated into the redevelopment. building in the Strip F. J. Osterling “twisted for inappropriate A key remaining finance issue was District, a massive (1865–1934) individual benefit.” addressed when Landmarks agreed to multi-building brick While the IRS does not accept a preservation easement on the complex was constructed beginning in question the legitimacy of buildings. A preservation easement is a 1901. The two parallel sections, the 1901 charitable tax deductions voluntary legal agreement between originals, are the work of Frederick for qualified preservation Landmarks and the property owners, John Osterling, one of the busiest easements, it has called preventing unapproved alterations to Pittsburgh architects of the 1900 period; into question what it the historic façades of the buildings in the section between was added in 1913. believes are excessive perpetuity. The restrictions were The outside architectural treatment is valuations in certain recorded with the deed, and all future characteristic of its time, a relatively instances. Landmarks and owners are bound by the restrictions. massive masonry expression with simple the National Trust for In cases where restrictions are placed brick ornamentation. Historic Preservation share on structures listed on the National The Cork Factory Apartments the IRS concern, and, to Register of Historic Places, the owner is will offer studios, one bedroom, two address it, support: Page 2 PHLF News • September 2005 OUR WORK: Recent Progress

The Getty Foundation Awards Landmarks Major Grant for Historic College Study

On June 22, the Getty Foundation, based in Los Pennsylvania that have historic campuses with marvelous 19th- and early Angeles, approved a matching grant to the Pittsburgh 20th-century buildings but which might lack the capacity to apply for grants under History & Landmarks Foundation in the amount of the program individually. Therefore, we approached several Western Pennsylvania $185,000 for the preparation of conservation plans for colleges to see if they would like Landmarks to apply for such a grant on their behalf. Allegheny College, Slippery Rock University, Geneva Ultimately we were able to submit a proposal on behalf of Allegheny College, Slippery College, and Grove City College, with work to be Rock University, Geneva College, and Grove City College. In order to meet the pro- completed by the end of 2006. The grant requires a posal deadline, Tom Keffer, superintendent of property maintenance for Landmarks, $10,000 match from each college, and Landmarks is visited the four colleges in two days, driving 261 miles and taking 360 photographs. working with each college to discuss how the match can best be met. Associate Director Joan Weinstein and Program Officer Antoine Wilmering at the “The approach we used in applying for this grant was unique,” said Landmarks Getty Foundation worked with us to develop our proposal. Joan was once a member President Arthur Ziegler, “and we look forward to working with the four colleges to of the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh study their historic buildings and landscapes, and develop conservation and steward- Fine Arts Department. We thank both of them ship plans incorporating these historic assets.” for their willingness to talk with us and for Geneva College Several years ago, The Getty initiated the Campus Grants Program for colleges permitting us to use a novel approach. Here, This is our second-oldest college, founded in and universities. The University of Pittsburgh was a recipient of one of these architectural historian Walter Kidney introduces Northwood, Ohio in 1848 but located in grants. Landmarks realized that there were a number of small colleges in Western the colleges. Beaver Falls since 1879. We will study six buildings on a six-acre campus, as well as the old, now-deserted college railroad station. The oldest and most notable building is the Old Main of 1881, mid-Victorian Gothic. A little unexpected is a mansard-roofed wooden house, “Ferncliffe,” also built in 1881. The name of the New Castle architect William George Eckles appears three times in this modest building group: in the Johnstown Gymnasium, the McCartney Library, and McKee Hall, a women’s dormitory. Again, a campus study is part of the project, in this case involving a proposed highway realignment.

Old Main and “Ferncliffe,” a mansard-roofed wooden house, were both built at Geneva College in 1881.

Allegheny College’s Bentley Hall of 1820 and the Newton Observatory of 1901. Slippery Rock University When this institution began in 1892, it was the Slippery Rock Normal School; it became part of the State educational system in 1926. Our study includes three Allegheny College buildings from the Normal School days, notably the Sited in Meadville, 80 miles from Pittsburgh, this is the Richardsonesque Old Main of 1892; all were by a little- northernmost campus in our study, and the oldest. It was known architect, Sidney Foulk. Five buildings from the founded in 1815, and its 14 historic structures date from 1920s and ’30s, by the W. G. Eckles Co., will follow, over 120 years. Bentley Hall is a curious Federal-style as will an unexpected work of Modernism, the Miller building of 1820, with later additions in three phases. Auditorium of 1955; the President’s House of 1939, Charles Morse Stotz, in The Early Architecture of Western architect unknown; and the Hickory Schoolhouse, a Pennsylvania, treated Bentley Hall as the most significant wooden one-roomer of 1860 brought to the campus in educational structure in the area before 1860. Of the later 1988. The campus has no historic landscape as such, buildings, those that stand out are those by two architec- but we will make suggestions as regard planting. tural offices, Charles W. Bolton & Sons (Philadelphia) and M. H. Church (Chicago). The Bolton office produced Reis Hall, a darkly-handsome Classical work in terra cotta Slippery Rock University’s to house the library; the Ford Memorial Chapel; and Alden Old Main of 1892 and the Hall. The Church office produced a vigorous design for the Hickory Schoolhouse of 1860, Montgomery Gymnasium and the Newton Observatory, brought to the campus in 1988. walled with stone so rugged as to suggest a mausoleum for the stars. We will study these and the other buildings, and the 20-acre historic campus area where they stand.

Grove City College This is the newest college, founded in the late 1920s and established on a unified campus planned by Olmsted Harbison Chapel (1931) Brothers. Six of the eight buildings under study, dating and Crawford Hall (1938) from 1931 to 1941, are by William G. Eckles. The style at Grove City College, is Gothic of one variety or another, usually of red brick both designed by with limestone trim. Two buildings predate the College: William G. Eckles. Cunningham Hall, built in 1845 as a private home, and Carnegie Hall, a music hall given to Grove City by Andrew Carnegie in 1900. The Olmsted campus is 20 acres in area, and we will study it with an eye toward furtherance of the original design principles. PHLF News • September 2005 Page 3

Bibro Chairs PHLF Board Mark Stephen Bibro was elected Chair of the Board of the Pittsburgh History & National Preservation Conference Landmarks Foundation during a meeting of trustees on March 8. Mark succeeds Portland in 2005 and Pittsburgh in 2006 Philip B. Hallen, who had served as Chair since Landmarks and the National Trust for 2006 Pittsburgh Conference feedback on their Portland experience, to April 1998. Historic Preservation have had a close help guide in our planning for the 2006 working relationship since Landmarks’ Theme and Plenary Speaker conference. Scholarship recipients are: “Mark Bibro founding in 1964, but now, in the midst of Announced; Session Forms thoroughly last-minute arrangements for the 2005 Available Andrea Wright Banks understands the National Preservation Conference in The theme for the 2006 National Executive Director, Hill Community work and organiza- Portland and initial planning for the 2006 Preservation Conference in Pittsburgh Development Corporation tional structure of conference in Pittsburgh, staff members is “Making Preservation Work!” Rick Belloli Landmarks, having from both organizations are in touch daily. Executive Director, South Side Local Distinguished author and historian David served as treasurer The Trust’s National Preservation McCullough, a Pittsburgh native, has Development Company Mark Bibro Conference provides practical advice, since 1985,” said accepted National Trust President Richard Colleen Derda innovative ideas, and inspiration for President Arthur Ziegler. “Phil will Moe’s invitation to present the keynote Chair, Neighborhood Improvement people saving America’s historic places address. Esther Bush, David Barensfeld, Beautification Committee continue to represent Landmarks as and revitalizing communities. The annual and Phil Hallen, all trustees of Landmarks, Chairman Emeritus, serving as an event is the premier educational and Mark Fatla are leading the 2006 conference planning ambassador at meetings and events where networking opportunity for community Executive Director, CTAC committee; initial meetings are scheduled we need high-level representation and as leaders, volunteers, and staff of the historic Maya Haptas with the Trust in Pittsburgh on September host for the National Trust Conference preservation movement. 8 and 9. Associate Director, AIA Pittsburgh that is coming to Pittsburgh in 2006,” In Portland, during the last week of A brochure announcing the 2006 con- Keith Herriot September, Landmarks will have a ference is now available, as are field session Family Advocate, Children’s Hospital Arthur added. Pittsburgh booth introducing our city as proposal forms and educational workshop Margie Howard Mark brings experience in historic preser- the host location for the 2006 conference. forms. For copies, contact Cathy McCollom We’ll be giving away Pittsburgh pins and Community Development Specialist, vation and community service to his chair- (412-471-5808, ext. 516; [email protected]) CTAC gifts donated by local businesses and or visit: www.nationaltrust.org. manship at Landmarks. As Vice President cultural organizations to lure the 2,500 David McMunn and General Manager of Pittsburgh Portland attendees to Pittsburgh in 2006. President, Mexican War Streets Society Terminal Properties he is coordinating Landmarks members Sylvia Dallas and Landmarks Awards $12,000 Tara Merenda a $20 million restoration of a million- Peggy Standish worked with our summer in Scholarships to Help Program Coordinator—Renovation square-foot, 100-year-old building on interns (see page 7) to organize the Information Network, Community the South Side of Pittsburgh. Previously, Pittsburgh booth. We Local Preservationists Attend Design Center of Pittsburgh thank them for their Mark served as the Executive Director of Portland Conference Eric Milliron time and effort—and Northside Common Ministries and as A group of 28 Pittsburghers, including Project Manager, Allegheny County thank all the busi- some of Landmarks’ staff, several trustees Department of Economic Development Executive Director of Louise Child Care. nesses/organizations and members, and 14 representatives from Georgia Petropoulos Mark also heads the Board of the Friends who donated gifts. local preservation groups, will be attending Executive Director, Oakland Business We will include a the National Preservation Conference this of the Riverfront, and is President of East Improvement District complete list of September in Portland. “Funds from our End Cooperative Ministry, Vice-President donors in the next organization are helping cover conference Evan Stoddard of St. Vincent DePaul Society, Treasurer issue of PHLF costs,” said Cathy McCollom, chief pro- Board Member, Business Development of South Hills Interfaith Ministries, News. grams officer at Landmarks, “including, in Committee, SSLDC and Vice President of the Fundraising many instances, registration, air fare, and Kate Trimble Committee of the South Side Local hotel expenses. The conference is a valuable Executive Director, Lawrenceville Development Company. He served on educational and networking opportunity, Corporation the Boards of the Pittsburgh Chamber of and our scholarship program ensures that Connie White The Pittsburgh pin Landmarks preservation leaders from Pittsburgh will Commerce, Civic Arena, and David L. will be giving away in Portland. Board of Directors & Chair, be able to go to Portland.” Neighborhood Environment Committee Lawrence Convention Center, and was a Scholarship attendees will volunteer at Friendship Preservation Group founding member of the Center for Landmarks’ Pittsburgh booth and provide Creative Play, among other associations. His expertise in neighborhood develop- ment and social services will enable him to effectively oversee Landmarks’ ambitious agenda of bricks-and-mortar and educa- INTA Opens Pittsburgh Office Through tional programs. Landmarks’ Help Trustees Elected in 2005

INTA—the International Urban in over 50 countries. INTA encourages The following people also were elected Development Association—is con- the exchange of information, experience, to serve on the Pittsburgh History & sidering Pittsburgh as the site for its and best practices on urban develop- Landmarks Foundation Board: Scott L. North American Headquarters, and ment and renewal across the world. Brown, Vice President, Community has opened a temporary office at “Through INTA we gain an enormous Investment Manager, Citizens Bank; Station Square, on the fourth floor of variety of useful information on urban Eric F. Dickerson, Vice President & The Landmarks Building, adjacent to regeneration to use here at home,” Deputy Director of Community Landmarks’ offices. “We have been said Arthur. A Pittsburgh office for Investment, Federal Home Loan Bank of involved with INTA for a number of INTA will bring economic benefits and Pittsburgh; Carla Frost, Vice President, years,” said Landmarks President expertise to our city as it deals with National City Bank; Phipps Hoffstot III, Arthur Ziegler. “Phil Hallen, our major urban problems and searches for Chairman Emeritus, and members of good solutions. Chief Financial Officer of Landmarks; our staff have attended INTA confer- INTA is committing funds, as is Matthew Sanfilippo, Information Systems ences and seminars, and Landmarks has Landmarks, to its new office for a Executive, Michael Baker, Jr., Inc.; also awarded conference scholarships to six-month basis. Additional funds must Howard B. Slaughter, Jr., Director, local planning and public officials. be raised both for operations and for FannieMae Pittsburgh Partnership; and When we learned that INTA had major conferences that INTA is planning Mark Vernallis, Chief Financial Officer, screened Canadian and U.S. cities to hold in Pittsburgh, one on Arts and Logic Library, Inc. for a possible North American Culture and one on Urban Sports. Three new trustees were elected to serve headquarters and was narrowing its Lucia Gerdes and Paul Hickman, in Funding meetings are being held with on the Board of Landmarks Development focus on Washington, D.C., we pitched Suite 420 of The Landmarks Building. government agencies, local foundations, Pittsburgh,” said Arthur. and national foundations. Corporation, a subsidiary of the Pittsburgh Landmarks hosted a reception at the For more information visit: History & Landmarks Foundation: Duquesne Club on May 11 to introduce and North American Manager Paul www.inta-aivn.org. Deb Gross, Principal, Percolater, Inc.; foundation and community leaders to Hickman. Headquartered in The Hague, H. Mark Hall, Vice President, Hall the non-profit association is an interna- INTA President Mohamed Mbarki, Industries; and Matthew J. Ragan, tional network of about 1,000 members Secretary General Michel Sudarskis, Assistant Project Manager, Mellon Financial Services. Page 4 PHLF News • September 2005 OUR WORK: Recent Progress (continued)

Landmarks also helped the Friends of Hartwood secure Seven Years of Service a grant from Tobacco Free Allegheny to implement a Philip B. Hallen served as Chair of Landmarks smoke-free environment at Hartwood. The Allegheny from April 1998 to March 2005. He was the third County Parks Department is publishing various brochures with the tobacco-free message; a new chairman of Landmarks since its founding in 1964, brochure is being designed for Hartwood Mansion the first being Charles Covert Arensberg and the that will carry the tobacco-free theme; and benches and second Albert C. Van Dusen. cigarette urns have been Phil assumed chairmanship of Landmarks at ordered for designated about the time when he retired as President of the smoking areas outside the Maurice Falk Medical Fund. His deep commitment mansion. to Pittsburgh and thorough knowledge of its neigh- Located on Saxonburg borhoods, social institutions, and leaders made him Boulevard in Indiana an effective leader of Landmarks. Wherever he Township, Hartwood was went—whether in Pittsburgh or elsewhere—Phil the country estate of Mary was always armed with membership brochures and Landmarks supervised the construction of the Flinn Lawrence (featured literature about Landmarks to offer to acquaintances. Oliver Miller Homestead barn, designed according in Where Women Made He will continue this practice, no doubt, as he repre- to 18th-century building traditions. History—see page 9) and sents Landmarks at the National Trust Conference her family from the late in Portland this September (see page 3) and as he 1920s to 1969, at which time she sold her estate to welcomes conference attendees to Pittsburgh in 2006 Oliver Miller Homestead Allegheny County. Since then, the County has operated as host of our conference planning committee. Hartwood as a cultural and recreational center open Much was accomplished during Phil’s chairman- Barn is Finished to the public. ship. Historic properties were restored in Homestead, Center spread photos in the January 2005 issue of Lawrenceville, Manchester, and South Side through PHLF News showed an 18th-century-style barn-raising our Preservation Loan Fund and façade grant pro- at the Oliver Miller Homestead in South Park, a project Year-Round Assistance grams, and we became involved with the South Side supervised by Landmarks Local Development Company and PNC Bank in a for Allegheny County, in to Historic Religious “Neighborhood Assistance Program/Comprehensive cooperation with the Service Program,” sponsored by the Department of Oliver Miller Homestead Properties Association. The barn is a Community and Economic Throughout the year, Tom Keffer and Cathy McCollom replica of the original, which Development (see page 10). of Landmarks meet with owners of historic religious was built in the 1770s and We launched a Historic Farm properties to advise them on building maintenance razed by Allegheny County Preservation Program with great and restoration issues. Here we describe some of the after it bought the Miller success (see PHLF News, requests for assistance they have answered since farm in 1927. Construction on the barn is now complete, February, to show the diversity of problems historic September 2004), an easement and designs for interior furnishings and educational religious properties face. program (see PHLF News, displays are taking shape. Art Farley constructed a scale March 2004), and from 1998 model of the barn, complete with mortise-and-tenon • After inspecting the wet through 2005 awarded more joints for the timber framing, and donated it to basement beneath the than $380,000 to historic religious Landmarks, which in turn donated it to the Oliver Miller exterior stair at Bellefield properties through our annual Homestead so the model can be part of the educational Presbyterian Church in grant and technical assistance displays. For tour and event information about the Oakland, Tom recom- program. We opposed the Mayor’s Oliver Miller Homestead, a National Register of mended that the church initial plan for Fifth-Forbes, Historic Places site, contact: 412-835-1554; hire a masonry contrac- opposed the development of big- www.15122.com/OliverMiller. tor to repair the deterio- box retailers on historic main rated sandstone stair. streets, and opposed PennDOT’s Phil Hallen at Miller • Tom encouraged the pas- initial plans for widening Route School, May 16, 2002 tor of Hawthorne Avenue 28. However, in each case, we Landmarks Creates Church in Crafton to offered constructive alternatives and advanced Revolving Loan Fund make sure that the principles that, in time, have become widely accepted. contractor maintain We funded physical improvements at the Neville for Farmers proper ventilation when House in Collier Township (a National Historic Landmarks has allocated $15,000 from its Historic Farm Stair, Bellefield Presbyterian making improvements Landmark and house museum owned by Preservation Program to create a revolving loan fund to the basement. Landmarks), and became involved with Allegheny with Allegheny County to help farmers pay for surveys • The Christian Fellowship Center owns the former County in supervising the construction of an 18th- and closing costs associated with placing agriculture century-style barn at the Oliver Miller Homestead. McClure Avenue Church in Woods Run, an development easements on their historic farms. architectural landmark designed by Longfellow, Alden With the Allegheny County Historic Properties Assuming a farm is approved for the program, Committee, Landmarks continued to oversee the & Harlow in 1887. The small congregation is still the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania will reimburse struggling with maintenance and utility problems; restoration of the Allegheny County Courthouse, Landmarks for these costs at closing. however, a Mennonite group has agreed to install a the renovation of the old Jail, and the creation of “This is small dollars with a high payback and sound new roof if the congregation can pay for the cost of the Jail Museum (see page 5). logic,” says Ron Beinlich, chairman of the Allegheny materials. Tom and Cathy have encouraged Reverend Twenty Pittsburgh Public Schools were designated County Farmland Preservation Board. “Two-thirds of Frank Tillman, Jr. to apply to Landmarks’ Historic as “City Historic Structures” during Phil’s chairman- the fund has already been committed for new surveys on Religious Properties Grants program. (For information ship, and many thousands of students participated two farms on which we plan to purchase preservation about the conference and grants program on October in community-based education programs. When easements,” he added. 20, see page 20). students from Miller African Centered Academy in “This revolving loan fund is another example of the Hill unveiled a Historic Landmark plaque for how nonprofits and government can work together to • After Tom visited the Hazelwood Christian Church, their school, Phil was there to lift Kufere Laing up promote sensible growth,” says Landmarks President Jim Herbst wrote: “Thanks so much for your help. so he could unveil the plaque. We launched the Arthur Ziegler. “We hope funders will follow our It really meant a great deal to us. It gave us hope “Making Cities Work” lectures series in 1998, and, example and support our efforts in preserving historic that our building problems are not unmanageable. I’m even excited about the many things we can do on as a result, 23 nationally recognized speakers have farms and farmland in and around Allegheny County.” our own and about scheduling volunteer work groups come to Pittsburgh to speak; in 2004 we initiated A grant from the Richard King Mellon Foundation in 2002 in support of Landmarks’ Historic Farm to help us.” the “Architecture & Historic Preservation Abroad” Preservation Program made it possible for Landmarks lecture series (see page 20). • Zion Christian Church in Carrick welcomed Cathy to make this allocation. Most importantly, Phil established a more extensive and Glenn Avick, president of Loftus Engineering, and effective committee structure, enabling trustees to to the May 15 church service. Pastor Dan Cramer work more closely with staff on program development. thanked them for playing an “indispensable role” He encouraged Board discussion about preservation Improvements at in getting their cafeteria stove working again. priorities and stressed the importance of integrating Historic religious property owners are urged to attend our education programs and preservation services. Hartwood, Thanks to Landmarks’ Conference and Grants Program on October As Chairman Emeritus, Phil will continue to Landmarks and Tobacco 20 from 8:00 a.m. to Noon at The Pittsburgh New represent Landmarks at conferences in Pittsburgh Church at 299 LeRoi Road in Point Breeze. For more and elsewhere; at this time, we thank him for his Free Allegheny Grant information, contact Cathy: 412-471-5808, ext. 516; years of service as Chairman. [email protected] Acting on the advice of Tom Keffer, superintendent of property maintenance at Landmarks, 12 volunteers with the Friends of Hartwood restored 37 windows on the mansion at Hartwood Acres. They spent a total of 130 hours between April and June stripping, priming, chalking, and top coating all the windows. PHLF News • September 2005 Page 5

Miller and Kim Family In Memoriam Named Fund Aids North Side Church Frank B. Fairbanks, Jr. (1930–2005) A grant from Landmarks’ Miller and Kim Family Named Fund—plus a three-to-one matching gift from Frank B. Fairbanks, Jr., a trustee of Landmarks, Jack and Donna Miller who established the Named died on March 30 after a lengthy respiratory illness. Fund in memory of their parents—has resulted in a gift He will live on in the memory of Landmarks’ this year of $2,000 to Incarnation of the Lord Catholic members and friends, though, Parish on the North Side. because his extensive collection The church is conducting a capital campaign to of rail and transportation replace an 80-year-old roof that was damaged by memorabilia is housed in our fire on May 19, 2002. The original altar was destroyed James D. Van Trump Library also, and the fire caused tremendous smoke damage. Attending the unveiling of the Salk Polio Vaccine histori- on the fourth floor of The building, the former Nativity of Our Lord Church cal marker on April 12 were, from left to right, Arthur The Landmarks Building at at 4071 Franklin Road, was designed in 1925 by Ziegler, president of Landmarks; Marilyn Ross Peckich; Station Square. Dr. Julius Youngner; Dr. Peter Salk; Marlene Silverman; Carlton Strong. It features a dramatic, painted beam A 1950 graduate of MIT and John Robinson of the Pennsylvania Historical and roof. A stained glass window from the former and retired CEO of Horix Annunciation Church has been installed in the area Museum Commission. Manufacturing Company, behind the new altar. The church serves the community Frank traveled worldwide for of Observatory Hill and the North Hills. Salk Vaccine Plaque more than 50 years to collect rail miles. “Every single mile of his train travel in Dedicated—and a America, South America, Africa, Russia, and else- Historic Landmark where is precisely documented,” said Landmarks Tribute to Jerry Peckich member and librarian Judith Harvey, who is Plaque Unveiling cataloguing the Fairbanks collection. “His collection The Graf family, owners of Pittsburgh’s Grand Hall at (1935–2005) of ticket stubs, employee timetables, huge rail line The Priory, celebrated the unveiling of a Historic One of our most intrepid members, the late Jerry maps, color slides, photographs, books, magazines, Landmark plaque on May 19 with employees and repre- Peckich, who with Art Silverman donated the Bessemer and correspondence with other rail-mile fans shows sentatives from converter to Landmarks, realized that no State historical the engineering precision of his mind. He was consis- Landmarks. Pittsburgh’s marker had been erected to commemorate Jonas Salk tent, absolutely precise, and by the time of his death Grand Hall, formerly and the Salk Polio Vaccine. He began to pursue the nom- had accumulated one of the highest rail-mileages in St. Mary’s German ination with the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum the country,” Judith added. Catholic Church, was Commission, and coincidentally learned that the Frank and his wife Joan were the guests of honor designed by Father John University of Pittsburgh was planning a symposium on at the dedication of the Frank B. Fairbanks Rail Stibiel in 1854; architect April 11 and 12 commemorating the 50th anniversary of Transportation Archive in our library on October 29, Sidney F. Heckert added the Salk vaccine. Funds were raised and the historical 2003. The archive will open to members and friends the vestibule in 1906. marker unveiling was set for April 12. Unfortunately, next year, once the cataloguing process is complete. In 1995, Ed and Mary Jerry died suddenly of cancer on February 4. “Frank’s decision to entrust Landmarks with his Ann Graf purchased the When the plaque was unveiled in Salk Hall at Pitt, collection and endow its maintenance is a great long-vacant landmark at Landmarks President Arthur Ziegler paid tribute to contribution to our community,” said Landmarks Pressley and Nash Jerry, who had: acquired buildings on East Carson Street Streets in Deutschtown and converted it into a banquet when Landmarks first initiated the revitalization President Arthur Ziegler. “All those who visit the and conference facility. program there in 1968; established the Major General archive to conduct research or to browse through the Anthony Wayne Foundation on the site of Wayne’s collection will quickly become absorbed in Frank’s encampment in Baden, Beaver County; and secured a life passion. His donation forms a significant and historical marker commemorating the Clinton Furnace unique collection.” Jail Museum Opens; site at Station Square (see PHLF News, January 2005). Members interested in making a contribution in “Jerry was a historian and good businessman whose memory of Frank can direct gifts to: The Frank B. Public Tours on Mondays work was interwoven with civic interests. We remember Fairbanks, Jr. Named Fund at the Pittsburgh History Connie Przybyla, supervisor of support services for the him as the model of good spirits, good business, and & Landmarks Foundation. The Named Fund Juvenile Section of the Family Division, Ed Urban, good work,” said Arthur. supports the archive Frank established. deputy warden and historian, and representatives of Landmarks officially dedicated the “Old Allegheny County Jail Museum” during a public ceremony on July 12. Several years in the making and funded largely John Murdock (1934–2005) through a $100,000 grant to Landmarks in 2000 from Pittsburgh lost a champion of historic preservation the Drue Heinz Trust, the Jail Museum is located in the when John Murdock died of congestive heart failure former Allegheny County Jail on Ross Street, designed in on March 25. In an eloquent tribute on April 2, 1883 by H. H. Richardson with additions in 1904 by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette critic Patricia Lowry wrote: Frederick J. Osterling. The jail held inmates from 1886 “Wherever there was a preservation battle to be until 1995, after which time it was renovated to house fought, Murdock was Johnny-on-the-spot, a the Family Courts Division. During the dedication, Ed thanked Arthur Ziegler and Cathy McCollom of grandstander and showboater in the finest tradition. Landmarks and members of the Allegheny County Except he always had the goods to back it up—the Historic Properties Committee for their “faithful restora- facts, the figures, the history, whatever he needed to tion.” Ed also stated that Landmarks was the “driving prove his case. force” to preserve the old jail, enabling it to be reno- “Murdock…was a big man with unruly white hair, vated in a historically appropriate manner. The display a booming, cigarette-deepened voice and a wry wit. cases, located between two banks of jail cells, contain All were tools he put to good use at public hearings, handcuffs, leg irons, an escape log, and juvenile court Several Thousand Attend where his testimony could trigger rolling eyeballs, artifacts and information. Landmarks is offering public smiles, belly laughs, admiration, and applause…. tours on Mondays in August and September, between Landmarks’ Tenth Annual “To Murdock…the salvation of Pittsburgh’s 11:30 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. For reservations: historic architecture, from high-style churches to 412-471-5808, ext. 527; [email protected] Old House Fair common row houses, was serious business….” Landmarks held its Old House Fair on March 12 and In a booklet that was published for John’s memorial 13, in conjunction with the Pittsburgh Home & Garden service on April 16, Landmarks President Arthur Show at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center. Ziegler wrote: “We admired John, who provided There were lectures, demonstrations by craftsmen, and all of us with enormous leadership and inspiration, exhibits and booths of over 40 vendors and purveyors and a fierce preservation commitment that never of materials and services relating to the restoration faltered. He articulated every instance of his preserva- of old houses and small commercial buildings. tion advocacy with the best of words in the best The Community Design Center of Pittsburgh’s manner. In his presence, in his commitment, in his Renovation Innovation Network sponsored free words, he established the ideal for all of us.” one-on-one consultations between homeowners and architects or landscape architects, and Landmarks’ Walter Kidney helped homeowners identify the styles of their houses. Page 6 PHLF News • September 2005 OUR WORK: Recent Progress (continued)

The following excerpts from an article that appeared in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review on May 9, 2005 are reprinted with permission.

Making Downtown More Livable Laura Perella

...In order to attract people to live in the downtown, Pittsburgh needs to attract and more important, retain the investment of companies in creating and maintaining a presence in not just the region but in the central downtown area….

But the City of Pittsburgh has not been able to retain most of the out-of-town companies the region does attract. Companies that come here locate in the suburbs, which means their employees usually reside in the suburbs. But what if home and work were both located in the An old trolley barn on South Craig Street, opposite what is now St. Paul’s Cathedral, was converted into Duquesne Gardens Fifth & Forbes Downtown corridor? in 1899. The Gardens, shown here in the 1950s, had a large and adaptable space with surprisingly good acoustics. It accommodated ice hockey, ice skating, roller skating, tennis, boxing, and even opera. Schumann-Heink and Caruso sang there, and Victor Herbert Imagine how that story might and John Philip Sousa conducted there. The Gardens came down in 1956. Courtesy of The Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania otherwise play out.

If my employer were located Downtown Images of America: Oakland and I could get a nice apartment or condominium for a “reasonable” Member Donations Make Publication Possible amount of money, and I could have a place to park my car for a reasonable The Pittsburgh History & Landmarks 1930s, when he lived with clouds, and an occasional sum, and I could walk to work, and I Foundation and Carnegie Library of his parents in a “clumsy whistle sound—the organ tone could leave work and spend my money Pittsburgh have partnered with Arcadia old house” in a sooty of a steamboat, the shout of Downtown—imagine how the city Publishing to produce Oakland, as part of Victorian neighborhood, a locomotive—reached us could be revitalized. its Images of America series. The book will a half mile away from from a mile away and a couple be illustrated with 191 archival photographs the Civic Center and hundred feet below.” that trace the neighborhood’s origins in the adjoining Schenley By November, Oakland: One might ask, how do we pay for this? the 1790s and on into the 1950s. Chapters Park that initiated Images of America will be Tax subsidies, tax abatements—they are devoted to Schenley Park, the Carnegie Oakland’s role as available from local book- all cost money and that money comes Library of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon Pittsburgh’s show- stores. We thank the following from somewhere. But if we can attract University, the Civic Center, Schenley place. He recalls individuals and organizations new companies and new residents to Farms, and the University of Pittsburgh the “brass-colored for responding to our request and Medical Center, among others. evenings, with the cicadas rasping in to underwrite our costs in Downtown, then we can recoup that Walter C. Kidney, Landmarks’ architec- their insistent, rhythmic way; and the nights obtaining photographs for the book. investment in the form of property tural historian, is author of the book. that smelled at times of coal smoke, when Their gifts made this publication possible. and retail taxes over time. His memories of Oakland go back to the Bessemer flares reflected shakily from the

If the city can give tax abatements to Contributors Bernard Goldstein and Joel and Toba Levinson Wilfred T. and Ruth O. Rouleau Lazarus and Lord & Taylor to build Russelyn Carruth Elsa Limbach Ann Fay Ruben Thomas W. Armstrong Steve and Carolyn Graffam H. Lewis and Katherine Laffey St. Thomas Church retail shops that don’t exist five years Claire Ashkin Douglas B. and Marilyn P. Ham Lobdell Eleanor L. Schoenberger later, why can’t it give a tax reduction Jeanne Berdik Geraldine E. Hamilton Edward D. Loughney Shady Ave Magazine Minnette D. Bickel Robert and Catherine Hardesty Jeffrey Markel and Carol Robinson Laurie Graham Shearer or subsidized rent or free parking to Rachel Kirk Bobo companies willing to locate their Clyde Hare Bill and Sue Marszalek Furman South III Denise S. Bogden Mr. & Mrs. John Campbell Harmon Christopher and Susan Martin Thomas S. Stevenson, Jr. offices in the Fifth & Forbes corridor? Mr. & Mrs. Allen D. Bowers John and Caddy Harper Doug and Angela Marvin Mary Ann Stuart-Templeton Why can’t the city give wage tax and David and Janet Brashear Mr. & Mrs. Henry L. Hillman Pamela K. McCarter Martin and Louise Sturgess David R. Braun property tax reductions to people Joseph S. Hornack and Robert E. McCue Carol Campbell Swinston Carl Wood Brown Carol A. Kowall Thomas and Anne Medsger Paul J. Tellers who elect to buy or rent Downtown? Robert Bruno Jeffrey Hritz and Ann Kelton Mr. & Mrs. Edison Montgomery Louis and Kathleen Testoni Mr. & Mrs. Frank V. Cahouet Cheryl Hurley Muriel R. Moreland Mrs. Le Roy Thompson Thomas C. Camarda Harry and Eileen Hutchinson Noel Marie Newell 29th Ward Carrick Block Watch Yes, it will take five or 10 or more Barry Chad years to find out if these ideas, once George and Jeanne Illig Russell E. Orme David J. Vater Rev. & Mrs. Richard W. Davies Mr. & Mrs. William C. Keck Tom and Mary Beth Pastorius Mark and Stacey Vernallis implemented, really can revitalize John and Mary Davis Walter C. Kidney Ray Pendro Mr. & Mrs. Gerald J. Voros Downtown. But if we never try, Sabina E. Deitrick Agnes Dodds Kinard Point Park University The Walden Trust William J. Dixon we won’t ever know. Catherine Baker Knoll Charles and Jo Ann Queenan James and Ellen Walton William and Pat Eldredge Sam and Barbara Kolmen John and Marirose Radelet Helen A. Wilson George and Roseann Erny Edward and Nancy Krokosky Dr. & Mrs. Keith S. Reisinger Richard K. Wolford And imagine if we would have started Marc J. Eubanks William E. Lafranchi Nicholas and Dorothy Rescher David B. Wood Laurence A. Glasco this concept five years ago…. Meryl K. Lazar Rodef Shalom Congregation Dorothy Younkins Harry C. Goldby Lawrence and Claire Levine Gerald M. Roeder PHLF News • September 2005 Page 7

Support Our Cause: Establish a Peabody and Fox Chapel Area High School Students Named Fund Win Landmarks’ Brashear Family Scholarship Named funds are targeted endowment contributions. Although the ultimate After reviewing 55 Each scholarship applicant is required to been designated a City Historic District and responsibility for allocating income worthy applications write an essay describing what the history, is listed on the National Register of Historic and much discus- architecture, and/or landscape design of Places. He describes his neighborhood as from Landmarks’ endowment rests sion, Landmarks the Pittsburgh region means to them. “an amazing blend of new and old, which with our trustees, donors who Scholarship Nick described how he became familiar makes me feel special to live there.” establish Named Funds are able Committee, chaired with the Pittsburgh area by traveling with Since 1999, Landmarks has awarded to work with staff members to by trustee David his parents on the color-coded beltways and 19 scholarships to students in Allegheny suggest how income from their fund Brashear, awarded Light Rail systems, and by participating in County who share a love for the Pittsburgh might be used. $4,000 scholarships Landmarks’ tours with his high school. region and understand the value of historic (payable over four These events helped spark his interest in preservation. Most of the scholarship recip- You can establish a Named Fund with Bennett Smith years) to Bennett architecture and engineering. The fact that ients are pursuing degrees in architecture or a gift of $10,000 or more to Landmarks, A. Smith, a graduate the Pittsburgh region is in a state of transi- engineering, while others are majoring in and you––and others––can continue of Peabody High tion intrigues Nick and has made him feel communications, biology, or psychology. School, and a greater sense of commitment to the area. Landmarks’ Scholarship Program is funded to contribute to that fund over time. Nicholas E. Grego, “While we hear that many young people by gifts from several trustees who are Or you can create a Named Fund by a graduate of Fox who grew up here or were educated here committed to connecting with a young making Landmarks a beneficiary of Chapel Area High intend to leave the area, I on the other generation of people who care about this your will, living trust, IRA, or life School. Bennett hand intend to stay and want to experience region. Scholarship recipients have gradu- insurance policy, or through other will attend Temple its future.” ated from or are attending Brown, CMU, University this fall In his scholarship essay Bennett described Chatham, Columbia, Cornell, George planned gifts that provide additional to study engineering, his work with the Student Conservation Washington, Howard, Kent State, benefits to you and/or family members. and Nick will attend Association. Spending time cleaning trails Syracuse, and the universities of Cincinnati, Support historic preservation in the Nicholas Grego Carnegie Mellon by “moving logs, planting flowers and trees, Pittsburgh, and Virginia. University to study and restoring some features that went We welcome contributions from others Pittsburgh region by establishing a architecture and civil engineering. An annual neglected for years” gave him a “sense of to support this worthwhile program. Named Fund. For more information, luncheon was held on June 10 so Bennett pride in restoring the park for everyone The application deadline for Landmarks’ contact Jack Miller, director of gift and Nicholas could meet some of the previ- to enjoy.” Bennett is a resident of Alpha 2006 Brashear Family Scholarship will be planning: 412-471-5808, ext. 538 or ous scholarship winners and talk with staff Terrace in East Liberty, an area that has in April of that year. [email protected]. The following members and trustees. Named Funds have been established at Landmarks: Students Volunteer Time and Talent to Landmarks • Barensfeld Family Named Fund, supporting North Side religious Landmarks involves high school, college, and graduate students as properties restoration volunteers throughout the year, but particularly during the summer • Brashear Family Named Fund, months. Amy Fisk and Sara Randall from the University of Pittsburgh supporting Landmarks Scholarship volunteered at Landmarks during the first half of the year, and 14 more program students assisted our staff between May and September. We thank the following people for helping with our educational programs; for helping • Carl Wood Brown Named Fund, plan the Pittsburgh booth at the Portland conference (see page 3); for supporting neighborhood preservation assisting with our publications; for historic religious property research; for meeting with preservationists in Swissvale (see page 13); for helping • Jamini and Greg Davies Named Fund, with surveys in Wilkinsburg and on the North Side; and particularly undesignated for helping with the Cultural Resource Survey in Mt. Lebanon (see • Mary DeWinter Named Fund, page 13), funded by a matching grant from the Pennsylvania Historical supporting special project grants and Museum Commission. We thank Abigail Carlin, a Harvard graduate; Wayne Chatfield • Richard D. Edwards Library Named from Slippery Rock University; Todd Henry from Cornell University; Fund, supporting the James D. Van Heather Hogan from Roger Williams University; Marianne Kupin Trump Library from Nazareth College; Margot List from Carnegie Mellon University; • Frank B. Fairbanks, Jr. Named Fund, Interns, from left to right, first row: Abigail Carlin, Heather Jennifer Mastri from Ball State University; Joseph Medwid who will be Hogan, Ben Boss. Second row: Todd Henry, Joe Medwid, attending the University of Virginia; Emily Schantz from the University supporting the Fairbanks Rail Melissa Simonetti, Jennifer Mastri, Wayne Chatfield, and of Pittsburgh; Melissa Simonetti from Cornell University; Leanne Transportation Archive Stelluto from Kent State University; Mahra Whitelock from Schenley Zsolt Zavodszky. Not pictured: Amy Fisk, Marianne Kupin, • Thomas O. Hornstein Charitable High School; and Zsolt Zavodszky from the University of Pittsburgh. Margot List, Sara Randall, Emily Schantz, Leanne Stelluto, Named Fund, supporting neighborhood and Mahra Whitelock. In addition, Ben Boss completed an internship with Landmarks through the Mennonite Urban Corps program. preservation Thank you all for sharing your time and talent with us. • Torrence M. Hunt, Sr. Named Fund for Special Projects, supporting the Riverwalk of Industrial Artifacts and other programs

• Audrey and Kenneth Menke Named Landmarks Fund for Education Richard welcomes • Miller and Kim Family Named Fund, supporting North Side preservation Liberto CB Richard Ellis/Pittsburgh projects Citizens Bank Landscape • Shadybrook Named Fund, THE SOCIETY FOR Designer Highmark Blue Cross undesignated Blue Shield THE PRESERVATION OF • Verna Slaughter Shields Named Fund, Matthews Educational and undesignated Landscape Charitable Trust • Helen E. Simpson Family Named Design Molly’s Trolleys Fund, undesignated Mylan Laboratories Planning • Dolores M. Smith Named Fund, Oxford Development Company supporting special preservation projects Consulting Steve Dora, Inc. • Robert L. Spear Library Named Fund Dedicated to the preservation of for their generous support as • Patricia Thauer Named Fund, Corporate Member 412.321.4427 undesignated that which cannot be replaced Benefactors. ngardens@telerama.com • Emma Ziegler Named Fund, For a membership www.telerama/~ngardens Thank you for helping us supporting special project grants protect the places please phone 412-381-1665 that make Pittsburgh home. Page 8 PHLF News • September 2005 OUR WORK: Recent Progress (continued)

Why No Students Evaluate Pressley Plan for Point PHLF News Since January? Models Show Solutions for a No, you didn’t miss an issue of PHLF News. It’s just that our education staff (which is also our publications staff) received a wonderful grant What Westmoreland County Students Recommend opportunity—see pages 10 and 11 for details about the Save Our History For the ninth consecutive year, about the site recommended in the Pressley plan, complimented the Fort Pitt Museum program—on top of a full schedule 150 middle and high school students or on a different site in Point State Park, and affirmed the proposed location. of tours, special programs, and other from Westmoreland County participated as long as they justified their decision. Some teams agreed that it was sensible to publication commitments (such as in an Architectural Design Challenge This was the most complex design fill in the moat so special events could take Images of America–Oakland: see hosted by Landmarks. Their challenge in challenge Landmarks had ever posed place closer to Commonwealth Avenue; the 2004–05 year was for each team of for any students. others strongly disagreed and suggested page 6). So, what have we been doing? students to (1) evaluate the Point State Park On February 9 and 10, 35 teams of that the moat be saved. Riverlife Task Comprehensive Master Plan that was students presented their models to a jury Force members listened attentively to the prepared by Pressley Associates, Inc. in of architects and staff members from lively exchange of ideas and took notes. 2003-04 for the Riverlife Task Force Landmarks, CMU’s School of Architecture, Perhaps some of the students’ comments (www.riverlifetaskforce.org/main.php); the Fort Pitt Museum, and the Riverlife will influence the final plan for Point (2) discuss how they agreed and disagreed Task Force. Some of the concepts for the State Park. with the plan; and (3) build a model Visitor’s Center were daring and bold and These photos show a few of the models showing their plan for a Visitor’s Center. located on sites other than that recom- that were presented: They could locate their Visitor’s Center on mended in the Pressley Plan, while others

Mt. Lebanon second-graders explore Washington Road

Lectures, Tours, and Teacher Inservices Students from Connellsville Area High Valley High School students designed two Since January, our staff, docents, and School created a beautifully crafted model structures joined by a courtyard garden. interns have presented 20 illustrated showing a glass and steel Visitor’s Center A metal trapezoid structure would contain lectures, 29 private group tours, located in front of and continuing into the a gift shop, a ticket purchasing counter, Team 2 from Franklin Regional High School existing portal. The center would include 60 school tours (reaching just over and restrooms. A 100-foot-high glass pyramid designed a “relatively inexpensive and an information desk and accommodations would contain a fountain, Starbucks, and a 2,000 students, teachers, and parents), space-efficient” Visitor’s Center with a for a wireless network. Team members Primanti’s. Although the pyramid would steel rib cage, 9 teacher workshops, 5 membership developed sketches and a study model take up lots of space, it would make the solar panels, events, and 33 public tours in down- before constructing their final model. park usable all year round and be a popular and other town Pittsburgh and on the South Side. destination for Pittsburghers and tourists. elements Plus, we have involved about 1,200 of “green” architecture. more students, teachers, and parents The Visitor’s from four South Side area schools in a Center host of community-based education would be programs through the South Side Local cantilevered Development Company’s Neighborhood out over the terrain so the Assistance Program/Comprehensive main floor would not be damaged by Service Program, sponsored by flooding. The center would include a small PNC Bank and the Pennsylvania café, producing revenues for the park, an Department of Community and information desk, travel brochure rack, Economic Development. Team 7 from Franklin Regional restrooms, and panels illustrating moments High School constructed a in Pittsburgh’s history. Visitor’s Center that mirrored the shape of Fort Pitt Museum and Miller School Publication was purposely small because the group felt “the main attractions should be the Point Celebrates 100 Years and the city.” The center would contain a topographical map of Pittsburgh, brochure shelves, an information desk, and café with examples of Pittsburgh’s art and glass- Burrell High School students located their We also worked with students from blowing. A steel sculpture constructed by a local artist would be located outside. Visitor’s Center on the site of the Flag Miller African Centered Academy and Bastion, adjacent to the existing parking lot mentors from Mercy Hospital to and pathway-and-tunnel system leading to publish Memories from Miller. the Fort Pitt Museum. The brick-and-glass structure would rise five stories at its The 32-page booklet includes essays Rostraver Middle School central peak to accommodate the flag pole. and collages by the students and Team 1 designed “Sky mentors describing what Miller School Point,” a triangular- shaped Visitor’s Center means to them. (The original section of with a 450-foot tower the school was designed in 1905 by and an observation deck John Blair Elliott, hence the centennial on top. Designed to act publication.) The collages, inspired by “as a landmark for Pittsburgh” that would the work of African-American artist attract visitors to the Point Romare Bearden, incorporate photo- and Fort Pitt Museum, graphic details of the school, historic Sky Point would include a photographs of neighborhood scenes, large 360-degree projector maps, scraps of wrapping paper, and all room, food vendors, multiple computers for sorts of other images and materials. internet access, and a large conference room for big business presentations. (Continued on page 9) PHLF News • September 2005 Page 9

State Park: (Continued from page 8) In addition, Patty Sughrue, a graduate student at the University of Pittsburgh, researched the history of Miller Visitor’s Center School and of public education in Pittsburgh’s African-American community; a portion of her essay is included in Memories from Miller. Visit our website to see the booklet: www.phlf.org/pub.html. Visit the James D. Van Trump Library to read Patty’s entire paper: “The History of the Miller African Centered Academy, formerly Miller Elementary School” (June 2005).

Where Women Made History The Pennsylvania Commission for Women asked Landmarks to prepare the text and gather photos for a travel guide featuring places in the Pittsburgh region associated with notable women. Helen Norfleet (back center), with Pittsburgh Gifted Center Students Landmarks worked with the Senator John Heinz What Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Regional History Center, Rachel Hunt Gifted Center Ladies United for the (1882–1963) Preservation of Students Recommend Endangered Cocktails (a group devoted to celebrating women’s history), Ten teams of students in Helen Norfleet’s and several local historians to compile “Think Tank” class at the Pittsburgh the travel-guide information. On July 1, Gifted Center also evaluated the Pressley we submitted concise biographies Associates plan for Point State Park, constructed models showing their concepts activity center “filled with crafts and history and getting rid of it will make on 65 women and information on for a Visitor’s Center, and created story fun activities to do while learning about Pittsburgh a lot less great than it really is. 80-some places—plus more than boards showing their scale drawings and Pittsburgh’s history.” One group suggested How many other cities have moats in their 100 photographs—to the Commission. written reports. This was the first architec- that a telescope be placed on the roof of downtown areas?” One group located their If all goes according to plan, a travel tural design challenge for the students, their three-story Visitor’s Center so people guide will be designed, printed, and and they strengthened team-building and could more easily see Mount Washington, distributed throughout Pennsylvania academic skills in the process. the North Side, Downtown, and even On February 15 and 17, students Oakland. One group envisioned their multi- later this year. Visit www.phlf.org presented their models and discussed story Visitor’s Center as a “trip through to see the list of women and places their ideas with a jury of architects time,” beginning in the 1950s (a soda that we recommended. Photo of Rachel Hunt and staff members from Landmarks, fountain would be mounted on the roof) courtesy of Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation Fort Pitt Museum, and CMU’s School of and ending in 2000 (a non-alcoholic sports Architecture. Groups envisioned a Visitor’s bar would also be on the roof). Center with a photo gallery of Pittsburgh’s While most of the Westmoreland bridges, maps showing Pittsburgh’s County students had never been to A Guide to Pittsburgh’s neighborhoods and parks, a Heinz exhibit, Point State Park before their orientation Modern Architecture and information about famous Pittsburgh tour with Landmarks, all the Pittsburgh A plan for the Visitor’s Center in the area We just updated and reprinted a artists and writers and the ethnic origins of Public School students were familiar with of the Music Bastion. Pittsburgh’s people. Others thought to the park and had memories of exploring it 32-page booklet by Al Tannler: A List include an arcade, a “sports corner,” with their families. They felt strongly about one-story Visitor’s Center on the Music of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County artwork from the Andy Warhol Museum keeping the moat intact. One team wrote: Bastion surrounded by the moat, and Buildings and Architects 1950–2005. and Carnegie Museum of Art, a café “The Pressley’s Plan wants to fill up the suggested filling the moat with water and New entries include the Children’s serving British, French, and American food moat and build an amphitheater in its constructing a drawbridge as an entrance (one group suggested), a theater, and kids space. The moat is part of Pittsburgh’s gate. They also suggested constructing a tall Museum of Pittsburgh (Koning glass elevator that visitors would ride to see Eizenberg Architects, 2004), the “views that only Mt. Washington could David L. Lawrence Convention match.” Another student actually wrote a Center (Rafael Vinoly, 2003), the letter to Pressley Associates saying she was Creative and Performing Arts High not in favor of filling up the moat because If you want to involve your students in an Attention teachers: “when I was 3 or 4 years old my father School (MacLachlan Cornelius & Architectural Design Challenge, then e-mail [email protected] or call 412-471-5808, carried me through the moat and from Filoni, 2003), and the First Avenue ext. 537 and request a copy of a 28-page booklet that Landmarks recently produced then on I loved to walk through the moat. Light Rail Transit Station (L. D. in cooperation with Carnegie Mellon’s School of Architecture. My idea for a solution to this predicament Astorino and Associates, Ltd., 2002). Architectural Design Challenges: Connecting is to put the Peace Garden and some lights To obtain a copy for $5.00 (less a 10% Architecture and Urban Design to Classroom in the moat.” membership discount), contact Frank Learning includes a series of worksheets based on According to Helen Norfleet, “the great the design process, model-making tips from students, value of Landmarks’ Architectural Design Stroker: 412-471-5808, ext. 525; and a photo album of models from design challenges Challenges is that they motivate students [email protected] sponsored by Landmarks. Publication of the to analyze a problem, develop ideas in booklet was made possible by a grant from the cooperation with others, and propose a PNC Foundation, which supported an Architectural constructive solution to a real urban Design Challenge for Steel Valley High School students problem. In the process, students develop in 2003–04. intellectual and citizenship skills.” The booklet is free to members of Landmarks and can be purchased by non-members for $5.00. Page 10 PHLF News • September 2005

Save Our History PARTNERS Participating Schools Arlington Elementary Bishop Leonard Catholic Spotlighting Main Street Philip Murray Elementary Phillips Elementary Roosevelt Elementary Louise Sturgess develop an extensive offering of Westwood Elementary innovative community-based education he Pittsburgh History & programs for four South Side area Sponsors & Prize Raffle Participants Landmarks Foundation made schools: Arlington (K–8), Bishop The History Channel T national news on January 20, Leonard Catholic (K–8), Philip Murray Comcast 2005 when The History Channel (K–6), and Phillips (K–5). We knew we PNC Bank announced that it would award a could count on the principals, teachers, $10,000 inaugural Save Our History and students in those schools to help us grant to Landmarks so it could carry carry out a Save Our History program. out an “innovative educational project Since 2005 is the 25th-anniversary year designed to bring communities together of the National Trust’s Main Street and engage children in the preservation program, Landmarks focused commu- of their local history.” Those were the nity attention on the importance of stated goals of the Save Our History saving historic main streets because initiative, and of the quality of life that was, in they support—and fact, what in particular, on the South Side businessman Cyril Esser Landmarks importance of saving teaches Philip Murray School students accomplished the historic core of the art of planting flowers. through its East Carson Street. “Spotlight on Each student, teacher, and collected memories about East Cathy Niederberger of PNC Bank Main Street” and principal did his/her Carson Street; and created artwork announces the name of a winner during educational part, and the project and poems based on East Carson the prize raffle. program. gained momentum and Street buildings. Some students also One of only came together with worked with the Western Pennsylvania Airheads Balloon Art 29 organiza- great impact. We thank Conservancy to plant three gardens April 7 press conference with The History Brashear Association, Inc. tions selected all those who helped along East Carson Street, and with the Channel at Phillips Elementary School. CMU School of Architecture out of a pool of make “Spotlight on Brashear Association to help clean-up Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh— 699 applicants, Main Street” a success Ormsby Park. South Side Landmarks worked with the South Side (see the sidebar). By mid-May, when the • About 300 people participated in a Dairy Queen community from mid-January through grant period had come to an end, we community celebration on April 30, Cindy Esser’s Floral Shop May to make the most of this presti- had involved more than 1,000 people in from 6:00 a.m. to Noon, based at the The E House Company gious grant opportunity. a variety of activities and ended up with South Side Market House. The cele- KOCH Vision Landmarks was able to submit a first- three permanent resources. Results bration included a live radio broad- The Local History Company rate proposal to the Save Our History included the following: cast by The Saturday Light Brigade Molly’s Trolleys grant program because of its participa- • About 740 students from six schools (WRCT 88.3 FM), performances by Nakama Japanese Steakhouse & tion, since 1998, in the South Side Local Sushi Bar participated in field trips, in-school Westwood Elementary Chorus and Development Company’s Neighborhood programs, and community events singer/songwriter Jay Hitt, a scavenger New Video Assistance Program/Comprehensive Pittsburgh Pirates incorporating lesson plans and hunt along main street including free Service Program (NAP/CSP). Sponsored activities from The History Channel’s rides aboard Molly’s Trolleys, and a The Pretzel Shop by the Pennsylvania Department of Ron’s Pizza Palace Educator’s Manual. Students toured prize raffle. Community and Economic Development The Saturday Light Brigade and learned about East Carson Street and PNC Bank, the NAP/CSP program (WRCT 88.3 FM) buildings; interviewed family members Senator John Heinz Pittsburgh Regional has given Landmarks the chance to History Center Silver Eye Center for Photography South Side Chamber of Commerce South Side Local Development Company Tom’s Diner UPMC South Side University of Pittsburgh Architecture Club WQED Western Pennsylvania Conservancy

Local Media Support We thank Comcast, The History Channel, KDKA-TV, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Pittsburgh Tribune- Review, South Pittsburgh Reporter, Landmarks partnered with The Saturday Light City Paper, and the Pittsburgh Public Brigade in the Save Our History project. The Schools for publicizing our Save Our opportunity to collect, record, and broadcast History program. oral history added an exciting new dimension for everyone involved. Radio host Larry Berger (above) facilitated chat sessions with students and community members and broadcast live from the South Side Market House during the April 30 community celebration.

Students had the opportunity to become actively involved in learning about South Side history and life. They were able to ask questions and form their own ideas…see their artwork reproduced…and see information they had gathered on the website, along with photographs taken of the field trips and programs they had participated in. —Dr. Norma Ratti, Philip Murray Elementary School PHLF News • September 2005 Page 11

Student Wisdom and Saving Our History Young people have a way with words. Here are a few comments from students about • Art Institute graduates Jesse Wilson the value of saving history. Visit and Kevin Rim created an extensive and impressive website www.spotlightonmainstreet.com (www.spotlightonmainstreet.com) for more student quotes: incorporating student artwork and information, audio clips from radio • Save this building because it’s a “chat sessions” and the April 30 Pittsburgh landmark. It has community celebration, activities been here for more than 100 and games based on student artwork years. Do not waste the bricks. (that are great fun to play), resources for teachers, and much more. The website • If you don’t cherish it, it might includes more than 1,000 images and 200 pages of information. be gone tomorrow, and you can’t get it back. • Several sets of note cards featuring 99 • I’m glad this building is being student drawings re-used because it’s a waste to of East Carson Street buildings destroy something that has been were printed. a place full of life. SLB Radio save endangered local historic Above: the April 7 press conference at Productions treasures. “Spotlight on Main Street” Phillips Elementary School. Through the • Buildings help produced a CD energized the South Side community Save Our History national grant program, us remember with nearly 30 and gave hundreds Landmarks spotlighted East Carson Street, things that a “Great American Main Street” (so desig- minutes of young people happened, and of music nated by the National Trust for Historic the opportunity it is important and sound bites from South to help save Preservation in 1996). More than 1,000 Side citizens, students, and local history, people participated in documenting, gather- to take care of community leaders. research ing information about, and celebrating the them so they enduring value of East Carson Street. We thank The History and sketch stay useful. Channel for sponsoring a significant national grant program that main street • Exploring supplements the teaching of buildings, and buildings is a history in America’s classrooms, connect with great way to their community through volunteer educates the public on the importance learn about history. of historical preservation, and motivates projects. communities across the country to help • The best way to save our history is to care about what we have. • The world changes and not everyone experiences the same things. Sharing a memory lets you be a part of the past even if you weren’t there. • We learn a lot from history books, but it is nice to do an oral interview. When people talk about how they felt and what they were doing, it almost makes you feel like you were there. • You can find facts about places on the internet or in books, but There was such a fun and good feeling out there, especially when you will never find out about the scavengers “swarmed” Carson Street….it was wonderful…to how much fun people had in see so many people looking UP and IN and AROUND. those places unless you ask. —Cheryl Towers of The Local History Company, commenting on the April 30 “Spotlight on Main Street” event

“Spotlight on Main Street” in National Spotlight

South Side resident Stanley Zaidel heard about • The History Channel invited Landmarks and Phillips Elementary School to create a main street walking tour Landmarks’ quest to collect information about lesson plan for inclusion in a new edition of its Educator’s Manual, to be distributed to schools and community the South Side for its website, so he shared his groups across the nation. collection of more than 70 poster boards of • Larry Berger of the Saturday Light Brigade showcased “Spotlight on Main Street” while leading a session on South Side history and news. Community Collaborations and Partnerships at the 30th annual National Federation of Community Broadcasters (NFCB) in Baltimore, Maryland, April 14 to 16. He also talked about the South Side program with senior staff from the National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities. • Louise Sturgess, executive director of Landmarks, will speak about the Save Our History program on September 24, during an educational session at the American State and Local History Conference in Pittsburgh. Visit www.spotlightonmainstreet.com Page 12 PHLF News • September 2005 PRESERVATION SCENE

Longue Vue Listed on the Good News National Register The Longue Vue Club in Penn Hills Township is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The National Register nomination was prepared in 2004 under the supervision of Landmarks with funding support from members of Longue Vue Club. The 350-acre property includes the 1925 clubhouse designed by Benno Janssen, the landscaped grounds originally designed by Albert Davis Taylor, and the “Restore America” Grant 18-hole golf course designed by Robert Helps Highland Park Houses Chatham Village Designated a East Liberty Development, Inc. and the Highland Park Community Development National Historic Landmark Corporation are renovating three Victorian Highland Park On April 5, the United States Secretary of houses in the 800 block of Mellon Street, Entrance the Interior, Gail R. Norton, signed docu- thanks, in part, to a $60,000 “Restore Restored ments designating Chatham Village on America” grant from HGTV and the Mt. Washington as a National Historic A restoration pro- National Trust for Historic Preservation. ject, when finished, Landmark. This is the highest historic The goal of the “Restore America” pro- recognition awarded by the Federal govern- always looks beauti- gram is to demonstrate that preservation ful and effortless. ment. Fewer than 2,500 properties in the is critical to building and renewing nation are so designated, out of more than So it is important to communities. include a “before” 78,000 listings in the National Register of The identical brick-and-shingle turreted Historic Places. photo to remind White. Listing on the National Register of houses designed in the Queen Anne style the viewer of the Chatham Village was built as a project of Historic Places is an honorary designation were built c. 1880 by James Parker, a the Buhl Foundation in three phases: 1932, tremendous work that by itself imposes no restrictions on the water-tank manufacturer and descendant and funding required to make any restora- 1936, and 1956. In 1960 the development property owner. It does confer potential tax of Navy Lieutenant James Parker who died was sold to Chatham Village Homes, Inc., tion effort a success. Hence, this compari- benefits, access to grants, and protection of in Veracruz, Mexico during the Mexican- son of Highland Park in the early 1990s a member-owned cooperative housing the property against development projects American War. The turrets on the houses association. (above) and in June 2005 (top). The in which federal or state money is used. were constructed with the same technology Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy is to be com- The 46-acre Chatham Village Historic Parker used to build his water tanks. District includes: 197 townhouses on land- mended for its renovation of the Highland In essence, they are water tanks with Park entry gardens, in collaboration with scaped terraces and courtyards; Chatham windows. HGTV is featuring these houses, Manor, a 19-unit apartment building; seven the City of Pittsburgh and several other and 10 other projects nationwide, in its project partners, including the Highland commercial storefronts; Chatham Hall, a series “Restore America.” When HGTV community center that was originally the Park community. The restoration of the came to Pittsburgh for filming in June, fountain and garden walkways gives the Thomas J. Bigham house of 1849; four Trustee David Vater met with them to acres of playgrounds; and Chatham Wood, park, begun in 1889, a dramatic entrance discuss the positive impact of preservation once again. a 25-acre nature preserve. on neighborhoods. The planned community was designed East Liberty Development, Inc. is also by Clarence S. Stein and Henry Wright, renovating a group of row houses on the who have since been acknowledged as 700 block of Mellon Street, two substantial America’s foremost urban planners of the Victorian homes at 807 Mellon and Garden City movement. The buildings were Oakland Square Becomes 923 North Negley, and an apartment designed by Pittsburgh architects Charles T. City Historic District building at 839 Mellon Street. The total Ingham and William Boyd. The gardens cost of these projects and the three turreted On June 14, the Oakland Square neighbor- and green spaces were designed by Ralph E. houses is $4.2 million. For sale prices and hood was designated a Historic District by Griswold and Theodore M. Kohankie. more information: 412-361-8061; Pittsburgh City Council. This designation Chatham Village is one of the most http://www.pittsburghmoves.com celebrated and influential projects to result will help protect the architectural character from Stein and Wright’s highly creative ten- of the small neighborhood that includes the year collaboration, and further developed 3400 to 3700 blocks of Parkview Avenue Phipps Conservatory Opens their earlier planning concepts at Sunnyside and 3602 to 3728 Dawson Street. The core New Entrance of the District includes 67 homes built from Gardens in New York City and Radburn, Visitors to Phipps Conservatory now enter New Jersey. At Chatham Village, Stein and 1889 to 1896 by developer Eugene O’Neill and builder Charles Chance. O’Neill was the glasshouse designed in 1893 by Lord & Wright devised a new model for hillside Burnham via a new entrance designed by housing, a compact walkable neighborhood likely inspired by residential squares in London and his native Dublin. IKM Architects: the firm, incidentally, that plan with separate pedestrian and vehicular grew out of Ingham & Boyd, mentioned on ways, dedicated areas for recreation, and this page in regard to Chatham Village and a natural wooded greenbelt. The Buhl the Buhl Planetarium. This new entrance, Foundation also developed innovative offering space for a gift shop, café, and methods of cost analysis, mass-production restrooms, replaced an earlier entry struc- construction techniques to reduce building ture built in the 1960s. Landmarks offered costs, and new concepts for the management Oakland Row Houses Rehabbed advice and comments throughout the of rental housing. Immediately acclaimed as The Oakland Planning and Development design process. an ideal demonstration of neighborhood Corporation (OPDC) has renovated 26 planning and cost-efficient housing, Chatham brick row houses (and had sold 22 as of Village also has become a sound for-profit the end of July) on Chesterfield Road in financial model for a long-term investment Visit Oakland. When the non-profit organization with a steady limited-divided return. bought its first house on Chesterfield in Chatham Village influenced the develop- Woodville 1996, only three of the 96 properties were ment of design standards used by the Former Buhl Planetarium owner-occupied. The rest were blighted Plantation Federal Housing Administration (FHA) Designated a City Historic and overpopulated, mostly by college to approve large-scale rental housing in A National Historic Landmark students. OPDC’s investment has sparked suburban areas for federally-insured mort- Structure private development: today 37% of the Sundays through October 23 and gages. It also helped to shape the design On July 26, Pittsburgh City Council desig- homes are owner-occupied, about the same goals and construction techniques of the nated the former Buhl Planetarium and November 6 and 13 percentage as the rest of West Oakland. first federally-funded public housing projects Institute of Popular Science as a City 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. The houses, with three-bedrooms and all under the Public Works Administration Historic Structure. Glenn A. Walsh, a for- new interiors, sell for $85,500. For more in the 1930s. mer planetarium employee and preservation Speaker Series information contact OPDC: 412-621-7863; A good example of a neighborhood advocate, initiated the nomination. During September 11, October 16 www.oaklandplanning.org. that has benefited from rigorous design- a February 2 testimony before the City and November 13 control standards and a comprehensive Historic Review Commission, Walter Kidney of Landmarks described the plane- maintenance policy which makes repairs For details: 412-531-0559 to match the original work whenever tarium as “the masterpiece” of architects possible, Chatham Village has survived in Ingham & Boyd. Completed in 1939, the pristine condition while also being an planetarium was in use until 1994. After 1735 Washington Pike active living community. To tour Chatham being vacant for 10 years, it was Bridgeville, PA 15017 Village, see the side bar on page 18. renovated and returned to use in 2004 as part of the Children’s Museum of www.woodvilleplantation.org Pittsburgh. PHLF News • September 2005 Page 13

Duquesne Light Brightens the borhoods surrounding Markham and of Pittsburgh Historic Review Commission interns with Landmarks, visited the site, Howe elementary schools. More than for the recent addition and renovation photographed the partially-demolished Cultural District 5,500 properties will be recorded during to the elementary school, designed by house, and discussed with Robert how Duquesne Light Company has partnered the comprehensive three-year survey that Edward J. Weber in 1932. this loss might prompt the Swissvale with the Downtown Living Initiative and will aid in historic designations and com- community to develop a preservation plan. building owners to illuminate the façades munity planning efforts. The Mt. Lebanon USS Steel Sign Stays in There was better news next door. of 17 buildings in the 800 and 900 blocks Historic Preservation Board is overseeing There, a neighbor was in the process of of Penn Avenue in the Cultural District. the survey on behalf of the municipality; Homestead removing vinyl siding and restoring a The lighting on the buildings, running from Landmarks’ executive director Louise Augie Carlino, president and C.E.O. of multi-unit home back into a single-family dusk to 1:00 a.m., highlights the architec- Sturgess serves on the Board. Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area, dwelling. The neighbor had, in fact, salvaged ture and gives a unified look to the Joe Chiodo (below right), owner of the the brackets from the 7450 McClure Avenue neighborhood. Duquesne Light president former Chiodo’s Tavern, and actor David house with the intention of using them as Morgan O’Brien has become a leader in Conrad (below left) were among the crowd decorative elements on his restored house. using lighting to make our city safer and of people who celebrated the July 7 dedica- more attractive. The corporation donated tion of the U.S.S. Steel sign, recently substantial funds to Landmarks to light the Roberto Clemente Bridge in 2002.

First Phase of Allegheny Commons Nears Completion The restoration of the Allegheny Commons on Pittsburgh’s North Side has begun. The first phase of improvements to the section of the park between East Ohio Street and the Hampton Battery Memorial Andrew Carnegie Free Library (north of the Sue Murray swimming pool) is under construction. In this pilot project Wraps Up First Phase for future restoration, the central path of The Andrew Carnegie Free Library in installed outside of the old Homestead the East Commons has been reconstructed Carnegie has completed its first phase of Works Pump House. The sign had hung and is lined with historically appropriate renovation work by Landau Building outside of Chiodo’s Tavern until it was Looking eastward on Penn Avenue lighting. Thirty-one new shade trees have Company. Work included accessibility recently bought at auction by David been planted. Park benches, signage, improvements; upgrading the mechanical, Conrad, who donated it to Rivers of East Liberty High-Rise and perimeter railings will be added in electrical, and plumbing systems; renovat- Steel. The sign originally hung at the Apartment Buildings Phase Two. Additional phases in the ing restrooms on three floors; and restoring Homestead mill. park’s restoration will proceed as money the second-floor reception hall. Designed Many East Liberty residents and preserva- becomes available. To contribute, or for by Struthers & Hannah in 1899, the tionists throughout the city rejoiced over more information: 412-330-2569; library opened in 1901. The Design the demolition of two high-rise apartment [email protected] Alliance has prepared a master plan for Demolished buildings, beginning in June and continuing the library’s restoration, and $2.8 has through the summer. Constructed in 1968 been raised toward the $8.6 million project. to 1970 as part of the urban renewal effort To contribute, or for more information: in East Liberty, the apartment buildings are call Maggie Forbes, 412-247-5371. being replaced by smaller housing units in keeping with the architectural character of the historic area. Landmarks had argued against the “renewal” plan in the 1960s, to no avail; at last these unfortunate develop- ments are being removed.

7450 McClure Avenue, Swissvale Robert Rogers, architect and vice-president Mt. Lebanon Survey: Phase 2 of the Swissvale Historical and Genealogical Seven of Landmarks’ summer interns and Society, alerted Landmarks to the fact that nine Mt. Lebanon residents are working a late 19th-century house at 7450 McClure with project director Eliza Smith Brown to Mifflin Elementary School Avenue was being demolished at the end complete the second phase of the munici- of June. Once used as a convent for pality’s Cultural Resource Survey, funded Renovation Praised St. Anselm’s Church and recorded in by a $15,000 matching grant from the The Mifflin School and the architectural Landmarks’ Historic Resource Survey for Pennsylvania Historical and Museum firm Strada with John Martine, architect Allegheny County (1979–1984), the house Commission. Over 1,000 survey forms and principal of design, have received had been vacant for several years. On June have been completed this year, documenting historic preservation awards from 24, Jennifer Mastri and Wayne Chatfield, houses 50 years old or more in the neigh- Preservation Pennsylvania and the City

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Tiffany: Who, What,

and Why Albert M. Tannler

“Tiffany” — the name is synonymous in the U.S. with “stained glass.” Despite the notoriety, the high-prices, the constant stream of publications, the reproductions sold in museum shops, there is little understanding of what Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848–1933) actually did.

Sketch of a Life and U.S., written at the request a Career of the French Louis Tiffany was the son of government. Charles Lewis Tiffany (1812–1902) The firm who started the silverware and became Tiffany jewelry store, Tiffany & Company, Studios in 1902. in New York City in 1837. When his father Louis became a painter, studying in died that year, the 1860s with American landscape Tiffany became art painter George Inness and in Paris with director of Tiffany French Academician Leon Belly, best & Company, known for exotic Oriental paintings. while remaining Tiffany traveled throughout Europe, head of Tiffany and visited North Africa, which Studios, which Perhaps the earliest documented windows from Tiffany Glass Company are the 1889 Alumni Memorial particularly subsequently Window (shown) for Pennsylvania Female College, now Chatham College, and the three-panel 1890 intrigued him. introduced its own Hay Memorial at Emmanuel Episcopal Church on Pittsburgh’s North Side. It is not known who designed In the 1870s, line of jewelry. either window, although Jacob A. Holzer (1858–1938) followed D. Maitland Armstrong c. 1887 and Tiffany turned Tiffany retired in remained with Tiffany until 1896, when he was succeeded as chief designer by Frederick Wilson. toward the 1919. Although decorative Tiffany & Company arts. He began continued to prosper (and is still in ized by clear, bright color and Opalescent glass was known as modestly, business), Tiffany Studios declared variegated texture. “American Glass” or American stained teaching a bankruptcy in 1932. Tiffany died in 1933. During the Italian Renaissance, glass, to distinguish it from antique glass, pottery class painters explored perspective and traditionally called “stained glass.” for the Society Tiffany and three-dimensionality in their paintings. Opalescent glass is translucent, not of Decorative An early attempt to recreate this effect transparent, yet reflects light. A single Art led by Opalescent Glass in glass took place in the 18th-century pane may be richly multicolored, and the textile artist Tiffany was born with financial and when colored glasses were melted lack of transparency made this an ideal Candace Wheeler. artistic advantages. His successful into “enamels,” used as pigment glass for skylights, lamp shades, and Wheeler, Tiffany, and socially prominent mercantile and painted on clear glass panels. decorative windows in private homes. painter Samuel family could afford to support his La Farge disliked the opacity of La Farge applied for a patent in Louis C. Tiffany Coleman, and artistic training and extensive travel. enamel painting, but he was attracted 1879, and later sued Tiffany for patent decorator Many of his father’s customers became by the attempt to create perspective in infringement when Tiffany acquired Lockwood de his as well. his own patent in 1881. Forest joined in a series of interior Tiffany’s artistic sensibility was Many of Tiffany’s first commercial decorating ventures during the later shaped to a large degree by Edward C. opalescent glass windows were designed 1870s and early 1880s. Tiffany began Moore (1827–91), his father’s chief Tiffany’s workshops, by David Maitland Armstrong, later a to experiment with decorative glass. designer from 1868 to 1891 and an of course, leading U.S. glass artist, who worked He established Tiffany Glass Company avid collector of Japanese and Islamic made thousands for Tiffany from 1880 to 1887. in 1885 to make ecclesiastical and art (reflected in Moore’s metalwork). of windows. Tiffany commissioned window secular windows and, shortly thereafter, Moore was the first of many individuals designs from leading painters and lamps. (Tiffany & Company, his who, willingly or otherwise, con- A rare few were made illustrators, such as Elihu Vedder, but father’s firm, was independent.) tributed to Tiffany’s developing taste. from his own designs. the majority of the windows and the In 1892 Tiffany renamed his firm Around 1878 Tiffany met painter Most were from lamps and objets d’art were designed Tiffany Glass & Decorating Company John La Farge (1835–1910), who had (but not made) by staff designers such and established a glass manufacturing also studied in Paris, and who had designs by artists as Armstrong and many gifted but plant on Long Island run by glassmaker invented a new type of window glass on his staff. lesser-known women artists such as Arthur Nash. Vases were introduced, and a new glass-making process. Agnes Northrup, who joined the firm in as well as ceramics and metal-work. Traditionally, glass had been colored —Hugh McKean, 1980 1884 and designed the first opalescent The 1893 World’s Columbian with metal oxides and hand-blown landscape windows, and Clara Driscoll, Exposition in Chicago demonstrated into a tube, then cut and flattened into who started designing lamps in 1887, the nation’s growing fascination with transparent colored pieces. The glass glass. He invented what is called such as the now famous Dragonfly, the Renaissance ideal of a partnership was called pot-metal or “antique” opalescent window glass, made from Rose, and Butterfly patterns. of merchant princes, architects, and and the pieces were assembled into milky, iridescent opal glass combined Executing a Tiffany window design artists. Tiffany’s display brought him panes using lead. Facial features and with molten colored glasses, rolled into involved glassmakers, glass cutters, national acclaim. In 1896 Tiffany’s decorative details were painted on the large sheets. Leading was used sparingly artists who painted hands and faces, work was lauded internationally by glass using a blackish/brown ink-like to outline figures and perspective was “builders” who assembled the Siegfried Bing in Artistic America, a compound that adhered to the glass achieved by layering panels of different windows, and crews of installers first-hand account of the arts in the when fired. Antique glass is character- colored glasses. who set them in place. PHLF News • September 2005 Page 15

L. C. Tiffany—Artist of and exotic objects and furnishings, and Academic painters, as reinterpreted and Suggestions for the American Renaissance his firm’s products reveal him to be the elaborately and exuberantly presented in Further Reading: great art entrepreneur of the “American the U.S. between 1880 and 1920. Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, Louis The literature on Tiffany is extensive— Renaissance” era. Tiffany designed few of the windows and largely hagiographical. He is identi- Comfort Tiffany at the Metropolitan Tiffany transformed the Renaissance that bear his name. He supervised Museum of Art (1998) is a well- fied with the Arts & Crafts movement workshop and its successor, the 19th- the most important jobs. He was an when in fact his mechanized glass- illustrated, albeit uncritical, overview. century atelier, into an American factory. astute businessman and promoter James L. Sturm, Stained Glass From making process and his hierarchical As Siegfried Bing enthusiastically noted who employed a gifted staff. Historian division of labor are its antithesis. Medieval Times to the Present: in 1896, Tiffany Glass & Decorating James Sturm reminds us that the art that Treasures to Be Seen in New York He is celebrated as a Modernist although Company was “a vast central workshop bears L. C. Tiffany’s name “testifies to there is nothing modern, i.e., abstract, (1982), and Martin Eidelberg’s chapter that would consolidate under one roof the talent, lost in the shadow of their “Tiffany and the Cult of Nature” in about his artwork, while he himself an army of craftsmen … all working to employer’s reputation, of the designers denounced modern art. He was Masterworks of Louis Comfort Tiffany give shape to the carefully planned and craftsman at Tiffany Studios.” (1989) are more balanced accounts. influenced by early Art Nouveau; concepts of a group of directing artists.” Indeed, some of the finest opalescent many Tiffany objets d’art exhibit the Historian Martin Eidelberg observes: windows were designed and made by naturalistic, “organic” qualities found in “Tiffany’s figure windows after 1900 artists, with few or no ties to Tiffany. the Rococo-based glass of Emile Gallé, still bore the dulling effects of nineteenth- (See below). an influence Tiffany acknowledged. century academic propriety.” Tiffany Tiffany’s artistic sensibility was rooted windows are glass “paintings” derived in the Aesthetic Movement, which from Renaissance classicism and the juxtaposed antiquarian, contemporary, pictorial realism espoused by French

The opalescent window, Urania Opalescent Glass Artists in Pittsburgh (below), the Muse of Astronomy, Most American glass studios used opalescent glass exclusively from 1890 to 1920, was created in 1903 by Mary although some Americans made windows that combined traditional hand-blown Elizabeth Tillinghast (see page 16) antique glass with opalescent and other machine-made glasses. for the new Allegheny Observatory Two of Tiffany’s best window designers are known to have designed windows in on Observatory Hill in Riverview Pittsburgh. The Sermon on the Mount (1894) at First United Methodist Church, Park. It was but one of the generous East Liberty, and three windows (1893–95) at Calvary United Methodist Church, gifts of Allegheny residents North Side, were designed by Edward Peck Sperry (1850–1925) who worked for Jane and Matilda Smith to the Tiffany for 13 years. Frederick Wilson Observatory and to the Western (1858–1932) was employed by Tiffany University of Pennsylvania, later for over 40 years; he designed windows the University of Pittsburgh. in First Lutheran Church (Black Tillinghast and the Smith sisters Memorial, 1898), Downtown; Third are among 65 notable women to Presbyterian Church (Abraham & Isaac, be featured in Where Women 1903), Shadyside; and First Presbyterian Made History (see page 9). Church (1905), Downtown. Wilson’s 13 windows at First Presbyterian are unique, an unrepeated experiment that combined enamel painting techniques with opalescent glass. Among Pittsburgh’s noteworthy local glass artists were Henry Hunt (1867–1951), who worked with Leake & Greene in Boston and Pittsburgh from 1889 to 1905, and then founded his own studio; J. Horace Rudy (1870–1940), who studied with Frederick Wilson, and whose firm was established in 1893; and William Willet (1867–1921), who arrived in 1897 as art director of the L. Grosse Art Glass Company and formed his own firm in 1899. Willet, one of the first Americans to move away from opalescent glass, first combined antique and opalescent glass c. 1901, and later used antique Detail, The Resurrection, by Edward Peck glass exclusively. Sperry for Tiffany Studios, Calvary United Methodist Church (1893–95), Allegheny and Beech Avenues, North Side.

Distinguished Visitors (arranged chronologically) Ford & Brooks were from Boston; Healy & Millet were from Chicago; and the others listed below came from New York City. • [Edwin] Ford & [Frederick] Brooks, First United Methodist Church, East Liberty, 1894 • [George] Healy & [Louis] Millet, Church of the Ascension, Shadyside, 1898 • D. Maitland Armstrong and Helen Maitland Armstrong, H. K. Porter residence, 1900 (gone; status of window unknown) • John La Farge, Fortune, Frick Building, Downtown, 1903 • Mary Elizabeth Tillinghast, Urania, Allegheny Observatory, North Side, 1903 • Charles R. Lamb, Neville-Craig Memorial, First Presbyterian Church, Downtown, 1905 • Herman T. Schladermundt, Rodef Shalom, Shadyside, 1907 (see page 16) • Kenyon Cox, Memory and Hope, Third Presbyterian Church, Shadyside, 1908 • Clara Miller Burd, Transepts, St. Andrew’s Church, Highland Park, 1908–11 Page 16 PHLF News • September 2005

most notably Urania in Pittsburgh (see Landmarks’ page 15) and The Revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1908) in the New York Historical Society. She was one of the Research great glass designers of her era.

Brings James E. Allison Identified as Vandergrift Casino Architect Pittsburgh Thanks to the generosity of Landmarks’ trustee Richard Edwards, we were able National and to purchase, through his endowed book fund, a copy of the 1900 Pittsburgh Architectural Club catalog. Not only did International this catalog contain Thorsten Billquist’s perspective drawing and floor plan for Recognition the Allegheny Observatory, it also iden- tified the architect of the Vandergrift Unlike many other historic preservation Casino: James E. Allison of Pittsburgh. groups nationwide, Landmarks has Vandergrift, Westmoreland County, always devoted staff time and resources is the one Western Pennsylvania to architectural research and publishing. community designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr. and his sons while Al Tannler, historical collections director, Olmsted, Sr. was still active in the firm. is now leading Landmarks’ research The Casino—a theatre, library, and efforts and adding to the distinguished borough building—is the centerpiece of collection of work compiled by Landmarks’ the Vandergrift National Register first architectural historian, James D. Historic District. Van Trump, and current architectural James Allison opened his architectural historian and well-known author practice in Pittsburgh in 1894. In 1905 Walter Kidney (see page 6). The his younger brother David joined the firm, and they practiced together in following articles share news of recent Herman T. Schladermundt (1863–1937) designed all of the new windows for Rodef Pittsburgh until 1910, when they moved discoveries and recognition for Pittsburgh. Shalom in 1907. (The Hamberger, Gückenheimer, Gusky, and Klee Memorial windows to Los Angeles, California. Although designed by William Willet for the previous building were reinstalled as well.) Illustrated little-known here, Allison & Allison are here are the skylight (above), the Fifth Avenue entrance lunette (bottom; only the outer well-known in California. Their work is 2005 Connick Foundation bands are by Schladermundt, the center of the window was replaced in 1969), and two included in the principal Los Angeles Lecture ancillary windows (below right). architectural guidebooks. Al Tannler has been invited to present the 2005 Orin E. Skinner Annual Although no library in Western Mary Tillinghast Identified Lecture on Stained Glass, sponsored by Pennsylvania currently subscribes to the Charles J. Connick Stained Glass as Designer of Allegheny The Journal of Stained Glass, a copy of Observatory Window Foundation, Ltd. of Boston. The lecture the America Issue, published February will be held on November 7 in the 2005, has been donated to the James D. While searching through 1903 Undercroft of H. H. Richardson’s Van Trump Library and can be read Pittsburgh newspapers (on the track Trinity Church (1872–77). there by appointment. Copies may be of something completely different), purchased from Art in Architecture Al Tannler saw an article describing Journal of Stained Glass Press, 54 Cherry Street, North Adams, and illustrating a new glass window at America Issue MA 01247; www.aiap.com, for $45 the Allegheny Observatory. The artist The America Issue of The Journal of plus $6.95 shipping and handling. was Mary Elizabeth Tillinghast Stained Glass, Volume 28, 2004, Quantities are limited. (1845–1912) of New York City. published by The British Society of Tillinghast studied painting in Paris. Master Glass Painters, explores stained In 1878 she began a seven-year affilia- glass in the United States from the Rodef Shalom Glass Identified tion with New York artist John La Civil War to World War II. Three of While assisting in the preparation of Farge. She became an expert textile the six historical articles in this most Walter C. Kidney’s Henry Hornbostel: designer, served as manager of the La recent issue examine stained glass artists An Architect’s Master Touch (1997), Farge Decorative Art Company, and trained in Pittsburgh or important Al Tannler discovered that Herman T. learned the art of designing and making stained glass work in the Pittsburgh Schladermundt had exhibited the design opalescent windows from La Farge. area. (The cover illus- of the glass lunette over the main Primarily a window designer, she trates a section of a entrance of Rodef Shalom, as well as an also designed furniture and, in one case, window in Heinz unidentified “window,” at the 1909 was architect, decorator, and glass artist Memorial Chapel.) exhibition of the Architectural League for a private chapel. Her glass was The issue provides of New York. This information was exhibited and won gold medals at an international added to the works lists prepared for the several World’s Fairs. In addition to perspective on the book by David Vater, and a sketch of church windows, she designed windows importance of the artist—a leading New York muralist for residences, and for institutions, Pittsburgh’s and glass artist who designed the orna- architectural mental glass in the reading room of the glass artists Library of Congress—was added to the and studios in Associated Artists section of the book. the develop- William Willet created four memorial ment of this windows for the earlier Rodef Shalom art form in the 20th-century. synagogue on Eighth Street (1901–03), The three articles are: Joan Gaul, and since these were incorporated into “Pittsburgh 1894–1912: Five Artists” the new synagogue, many assumed that (46–60); Albert M. Tannler, “‘We only Willet was responsible for the windows have one window’: Stained Glass in the new building as well: this incor- and the Arts & Crafts Movement in rect assumption was repeated in Henry the United States” (61–78); and Peter Hornbostel: An Architect’s Master Cormack, “Glazing with ‘careless care’: Touch. Recently Rodef Shalom archivist Charles J. Connick and the Arts & Crafts Martha Berg and Al discovered that all Philosophy of Stained Glass” (79–94). of the glass in the 1906–07 Fifth Avenue In addition to historical articles on building, with the exception of the four Donald MacDonald of Boston, John La Willet memorials, was designed and Farge, and James Hogan, the 222-page made by Schladermundt. (The center of issue covers research and technology, the Fifth Avenue entrance lunette was contemporary stained glass in Britain, redone by Arnold Bank in 1969). and book reviews. PHLF News • September 2005 Page 17

This is a useful historic reference book. Worth Reading 144 pp., 127 illustrations (about half portraits), paper, $25.95. Saxonburg: Book reviews by Walter C. Kidney Howdy Productions, 2005.

Boldly Live Where New Classicism: Others Won’t: An The Rebirth of Introduction to Traditional Architecture Urban Pioneering Elizabeth Meredith Dowling Mark Harvey Smith We can look at new developments on the This is a book of advice North Shore, at South Side Works, and else- on “the practice of where around here, and wonder if we have rehabilitation in… any sense of architectural direction. Most of neighborhoods [with] the stuff looks as if it is vaguely, limply lower real-estate values, high rental to attempting to be in fashion, that is all. homeowner ratios, deferred property Some of us have gotten tired of Modernism, maintenance, and social decay,” but that have found it mute, a Barmecide feast, a are “at the ‘cutting edge’ of opportunity, self-righteous bore: the old fires kindled by Charette around 1950 have flickered out. poised for revitalization.” The profit motive Lakeside, Ohio, c. 1884 Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division. and altruism both are presented as motiva- But Post-Modernism has not quite given us tions for the potential urban pioneer, and what we have wanted either; it has been too Smith makes it clear that the work is arduous mannered, too frivolous. We have wanted Traveling: Lakeside, Ohio, and the profits modest (though the invest- something––classic, in a certain sense–– ments tend to be modest too); and that something that will always make a good, and Environs urban pioneering is “not for the faint of solid impression, in or out of fashion. August 31 to September 1, 2004 heart.” Smith himself lives in Wilkinsburg, Some manner of design that very possibly a Pittsburgh suburb frequently cited in uses features that have attained seeming Arthur P. Ziegler the 242-page book, and serves on its immortality: the pointed arch, the Five neighborhood revitalization committee. Orders, the gabled roof for instance. entered a wood gateway to Lakeside Village one evening, having never $19.95; Frederick, Md.: Publish America. We long too, perhaps, for a new Palladio been there, and I had an extraordinarily “resort” experience: I parked www.BoldlyLive.com to lead our architects. I my car and strolled along a quiet street looking at an ancient HOTEL You see the temptation of New Classicism, LAKESIDE sign with the old fashioned back-lighted frosted ivory letters. Allegheny Land Trust, rooted in the European and American past, Historic, but self-effacing, nothing like contemporary American signs. An Ecological and with precedents galore for present-day There stood an ancient wood hotel (now covered in vinyl siding but architects and versatile, capable of express- Physical Investigation of looking good) with a big L-shaped screened porch. The tall screens sur- ing simple but tasteful rusticity or civic rounded the wood porch on this historic building, which faces out to a Pittsburgh Hillsides grandeur in compositions weighty with fountain sending water up about ten feet and sounding pleasant as it falls. A study by Tim Collins, Roy Kraynik, detail. And, for that matter, ready to design Off to the right of the hotel is a pavilion under which one passes to go Stephen Quick, and others in Gothic, Gothick, out on a concrete wharf into Lake Erie. Flanking it, at a two-story house, That this is the most comprehensive or Art Deco on occa- are verandas which have chairs for the public. investigation of Pittsburgh’s steep slopes, sion; examples in this As I passed under the pavilion, a clock tolled 9 a.m. and carillon 11 percent of the total area, is easily book make that clear. began to play what I believe was perhaps a hymn. Lakeside is, after all, believable. The latter part of this printout Yet you may have a Christian community patterned after Chautauqua, New York. is an inch thick by the time you have folded misgivings. Old The season had been suspended because this was the week before its 28 long-format maps. It is a detailed study Modernist sentiments Labor Day and children had gone back to school; most of the houses of our uncommon topography, regarding may hang on and nag were dark, only a few rooms were taken in the hotel, and the dining room which Frederick Law “Olmstead” [sic], Jr. you in the direction was not going to function until Labor Day weekend. is quoted as saying, “No city of equal size in of, if not Roarkian I wandered out on the dimly lit pier, where a few people were sitting in America or perhaps the world, is compelled originality, at least the darkness, and I joined them. The water rippled quietly, and lights from to adapt its growth to such difficult compli- toward some sort of conformity to the the distant islands made it seem pleasant rather than forbidding, as large cations of high ridges, deep valleys and present-day Zeitgeist. To draw so much bodies of water at night can be. precipitous slopes as Pittsburgh.” upon the past may be like climbing into a I drove around the edges of this peninsula, out to Marblehead and The text dwells on the slopes themselves well-padded coffin and letting the lid down. back again to Port Clinton. I couldn’t find a single waterfront restaurant. and the spaces they enclose; on the neighbor- Furthermore––at least in this book––the One near the Hotel Lakeside, but not on the water, was functioning and hoods they delimit; on their usually-wild houses illustrated are those of the very rich, looked pleasant, but it served no alcohol. At Port Clinton, there was an character, and their plants and animals; and rightly or not can lead you to suspect assortment of restaurants that looked of dubious quality. The Tin Goose on their scenic quality and their more something parvenu and snobbish, a conscious on the main street was lively, but I chose to go to the Island House, utilitarian contributions to the environment. Aristocracy of Wealth. (I suspect that the because it is an old Victorian hotel, brick, three stories, with an old The study was made for the Pittsburgh Colonial homeowners whose rustic places fashioned lobby, dating from 1886. Hillside Committee of the City’s Planning are imitated by New Classicists were snobs The restaurant was pleasant if undistinguished, as was the food. A good Department, and with legislation to protect themselves, and would have unhesitatingly size piece of Walleye Pike with a baked sweet potato and iceberg lettuce the hillsides for the public benefit as one used sculpted Portland stone and marble, and an undistinguished glass of Cabernet ran $25. At the Tin Goose one goal. The maps are full of information not carved and painted wood, had they had could have had Walleye with French fries for $12. within the city limits. the means to get them.) At Lakeside, there was once a single-track railroad that brought people www.alleghenylandtrust.org One warms most, it may be, to the work to the Marblehead Peninsula and its quarries in its early days. The rail of Demitri Porphyrios, high-budget indeed station is large, board and batten, painted a handsome light tan and rich Pittsburgh Inclines and but spare and refined, relying mainly on brown and in excellent condition. It stands next to the campgrounds. Street Railways proportion and a few telling details, and to Curiously it seems to be located in a newer section of Lakeside, where Howard V. Worley, Jr. that extent emulable by anyone who can there are some brick houses, modern ranch style houses and a mixture of afford to build. And yet it is great to see less architecturally interesting places. The information given in this book is some of the grander essays in this book: for The next day I had a scone at a tea shop, which was operated by two spare—quite understandably, since it has instance, look at the all-out façade of the women who said they were going to experiment with being open through to discuss 44 incline planes in Allegheny Bass Performance Hall in Fort Worth, with the winter, a first. They said about 400 people are in Lakeside year-round, County at one time or another; 81 horse, its colossal trumpet-blowers dominating an and some of them live there full-time. Irish Tea, Coffee and Gifts in cable, and electric streetcar companies in abundance of Art Nouveau (or something) Lakeside is open year-round. Allegheny County; and nine other streetcar detailing. Or the Art Deco auditorium of Property values have risen to where the average cottage sells for around companies for Armstrong, Beaver, Severance Hall in Cleveland, half 1931 by $350,000. However, the ladies said that the Fountain Inn across the street Washington, and Westmoreland Counties. Walker & Weeks, half new by David M. is going to experiment with being open all winter this year. Indeed, the (Worley also lists, but does not discuss, Schwarz, and startling after the demure Fountain Inn is now an all-season hotel. 79 others, and says that there are probably Classical entrance front. There is a 3,000-seat wooden auditorium and a building used for still others yet unknown.) He gives a little New Classicism seems like a contribution educational programming with a heavy cultural schedule during the more attention to who acted in what role to an evolving architecture rather than an summer, including children’s programming, lecture and seminar series, in a company, to how much was spent embodiment, in its various works, of all classes, and the symphony. on what, and to the “characteristics of that we need. But it seems to have more Lakeside was an amazing experience. Not many Pittsburghers would the road,” i.e., where the streetcars went permanence to it, more to which people know that close at hand in Ohio is this marvelous Victorian Chautauqua. when—and if—the line actually got built. will respond, than the “starchitects” of Official documents are extensively quoted, our time have been offering. 240 pp., Website: www.lakesideohio.com and often it is as if we were back around 243 color illustrations and plans. $50.00. Phone: 1-866-952-5374 1890, waiting for operations to begin. New York: Rizzoli. [email protected] Page 18 PHLF News • September 2005

Historic House Tours to Attend Welcome New Members (December 1, 2004 through June 30, 2005) Mexican War Streets House Highland Park House Tour Members are vital to the work and growth of Landmarks. Many members volunteer their time to help with educational programs, office work, and & Garden Tour Saturday, October 1 preservation projects. By joining, each person demonstrates his/her belief in our Sunday, September 11 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. mission—and contributes to a strong, collective voice for historic preservation 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Eleven houses will be showcased, in Pittsburgh. The 35th Annual House Tour including “Baywood,” the former King estate, and the Union Project. presented by the Mexican War Streets Aenne Barchowsky Stephen J. Lipnichan Society features restored homes, Tickets: $18 pre-sale; $20 on the day Patricia Barnett August Maier Corporate private gardens, and a midway hosted of the tour. Bill Bates Virginia M. Mance and family Members by vendors specializing in home www.highlandparkpa.com William Beining Joe J. Matusz renovation. Tickets: $18 pre-sale; [email protected] Linda Bosson John C. McDanel Benefactors $20 on the day of the tour. Bernard G. Brittner Jill McGlothlin and family CB Richard Ellis/Pittsburgh Karen J. Bryant Mary C. McGrellis and family Citizens Bank www.mexicanwarstreets.org Oditza Carrasco Ed Meena Highmark Blue Cross 412-323-9030 Casino Theatre Restoration & William J. Memmer Blue Shield Management Fr. David Misbrener Matthews Educational and Virginia Claxon Mt. Lebanon Baptist Church Charitable Trust Michael Connors Heidi Munn Molly’s Trolleys Friendship House Tour Brennan T. Danile and family Mary Ann Murphy Mylan Laboratories Oxford Development Sunday, September 18 Phyllis Davidson Judy Neelan William C. Davies Vincent E. Ornato, Jr. Company 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Richard E. and Harvette T. Daniel M. Pennell Steve Dora, Inc. Dixon Dave Pirain Nine homes and the Waldorf School Patrons Bernadette Donnelly Bob and Mary Lu Quehl of Pittsburgh (located in the historic Dollar Bank Weldon C. Doran III and family Michael P. Rectenwald and Lynch mansion) will be showcased Deutschtown House Tour Greater Pittsburgh Convention The Episcopal Church of the Kim Smith during the Friendship Development Sunday, October 2 and Visitors Bureau Nativity Allison Ruppert and family National City Bank Associates’ 12th Annual House 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Robert F. Fisher Joan Russell Tour. There will be trolley tours also, The East Allegheny Community The Frick Art Reference Library St. Germaine School Partners departing from the Waldorf School. Council will present eight meticulously Kenneth and Carole Fulton Cornelia I. Schott The Buncher Company Tickets: $12 pre-sale; $15 on the restored Victorians. The tour begins in Mr. & Mrs. Giles Gaca Stephen J. Sherman Burrell Group, Inc. day of the tour. the Grand Hall and Priory courtyard, Thomas Gigliotti, Jr. and family Mr. & Mrs. Howard Shockey Ferry Electric Company 412-441-6147 one of Pittsburgh’s finest outdoor Helen R. Golob Silver Eye Center for Graham Realty spaces, and includes a short walk Mary Anne Gorman Photography Kelly Art Glass Company Rear Admiral & Kevin Sims Laborers’ District Council of through the newly restored East Park. Mrs. Donald J. Guter Robert and Helen Sladack The tour brochure is loaded with Western Pennsylvania Maya Haptas Madeline S. Smith Laurel Savings Bank neighborhood facts and fascinating G. Jean Hardy John Soffietti and Judith Wolfe Michael Baker Corporation histories of each home. Off-street Volker Hartkopf Vincent Stanicar NorthSide Bank parking is available at the Grand Hall Christine Hartung Robert Stanton and family Port Authority of Allegheny parking lot. Tickets: $10. Catherine Hebert Ruth Stevenson County www.deutschtown.org Todd Henry Patricia and Harry Stump Rob Hohn and family Associates 412-321-1204 Charles R. Honse and Mr. & Mrs. J. T. Thomas Communication Research, Inc. Ted R. Janka and family Custom Carpentry Dan Horvath Raul Valdes-Perez Day & Night Press Arthur Humphrey Margaret M. Vincent For Wood Group Lawrenceville Hospitality Paul and Monica Iurlano William S. and Mariani & Richards House Tour David and Sue Jamison La Verne M. Vorhaben Real Estate Enterprises Chatham Village House Alan Kubrin R. M. Walton Shady Ave Magazine Sunday, October 9 Anthony M. Lacenere Roger Westman and Stephen Casey Architects & History Tour Noon to 5:00 p.m. and family William Stevens Saturday, October 1 The Lawrenceville Hospitality House Lynn Larson Marilyn Zawoyski 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Tour 2005 is a joint effort of the One tour group will begin at 11:00 a.m.; Lawrenceville Historical Society another tour group will begin at and Lawrenceville Stakeholders. January 18, 2005 2:00 p.m. Eight houses will be open. Centered in the 9th ward, the tour Refreshments and Chinese raffle. features 12 homes ranging from Mr. Walter C. Kidney: Tickets: $15 pre-sale by September 20; historically restored to contemporary. I wanted to let you know how much I thoroughly enjoyed $18 on the day of the tour. Refreshments will be served. your book, Pittsburgh’s Landmark Architecture. Reservations are recommended. Tickets: $8 pre-sale; $10 on the day I purchased it after I contacted Landmarks when my The tour is limited to 500 people. of the tour. husband and I were considering buying an 1870s 412-381-3400 (Ask for Margaret at www.lawrencevillehousetour.org JJ Bosley CPA) Italianate home in the Borough of Munhall….[Your 412-956-2612 book has] become an invaluable reference tool as we continue to search for our “new” home. A constant source of information and insight, the book has quickly become tattered and torn…and is peppered We’ve got 3 questions for you: with a rather odd assortment of “bookmarks” for our favorite homes. 1. Are you fascinated by Pittsburgh history Your book has taught me so much, not only about architecture and Pittsburgh’s neighborhoods and and architecture? history, but also about myself. While your book enabled me to recognize what 2. Do you have some free time? a real estate agent called a “funny roof” on a home in East Liverpool, Ohio as an imitation of thatch, it also led me to more personal discoveries. After believing for 3. Do you enjoy working with people? most of my adult life that I would love to own a Victorian home, I am surprised to realize that I would much more prefer a large “country home” with a simple infor- mality, or a stately Colonial Revival with English rural touches. I recently cried If you answered “Yes” to those questions, when we discovered, too late—it had sold, a 1903 Charles Barton Keen-designed then contact [email protected] home in Robinson, which, without your book, I would not have even considered. (412-471-5808, ext. 527) to learn more about So most importantly, I learned to not be confined by labels when viewing becoming a docent. houses, and to appreciate the beauty of a thoughtfully and well designed building We train you, and you set your own schedule in all manner of form and styles. For all this I am grateful to you and everyone at for leading tours with us. Landmarks, and I wish to thank you.

Sincerely,

Samantha Colclough With your help, we can involve more people in our award-winning educational programs (see pages 8–11). PHLF News • September 2005 Page 19

Membership Contributions & Gifts — Thank You Has Its (December 1, 2004 through June 30, 2005) Allegheny County Courthouse Bench James D. Van Trump Library Privileges • The Allegheny County Bar Association, for purchasing benches • The Allegheny Foundation, for a grant to support Landmarks’ • Free subscription to PHLF News for the Allegheny County Courthouse. archival efforts, and and a 10% discount on all of • Mr. & Mrs. Richard D. Edwards, for a donation to the Landmarks’ publications Corporate Matching Gifts Richard D. Edwards Named Fund in support of Landmarks’ library and architectural research efforts. • Invitations to preservation • The Buhl Foundation, for matching a gift from Dr. Albert C. seminars, lectures, and special Van Dusen; Jonas Salk Historical Marker educational events and tours • ChevronTexaco Matching Gift Program, for matching a gift from Jack D. Burgess; • Eugene N. Myers • Free walking tours • Dominion Foundation, for matching a gift from James Richard; • H. J. Heinz Company Foundation, for matching gifts from Lifetime Membership • Free materials upon request, Carolyn M. Flinn and James H. Parker; including Pittsburgh postcards, • Mellon Financial Corporation Fund, for matching a gift from • Anonymous colorful posters of various Jeffrey E. Orman; • Elizabeth Carroll architectural landmarks, and • PPG Industries Foundation, for matching a gift from Robert E. a timeline of key events in Fidoten; and Longue Vue Club Historic Pittsburgh and/or African- • UBS Foundation, for matching a gift from Jeffrey Lowden. Preservation Fund American history Gift Memberships • Gregory and Mary Benckart • Free access to the James D. 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Inspiration from Valparaiso, Chile On March 16, Landmarks and The Heinz Architectural Center, Sunday, October 2 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. Carnegie Museum of Art, co- EVENTS An Evening at Fox Chapel Golf Club sponsored the third lecture in its Building on the success of last year’s tour of Longue Vue Club, popular “Architecture & Historic September & October Landmarks and the Fox Chapel Golf Club are hosting a special Preservation Abroad” series. event for members and friends. Architect David Vater, a trustee To confirm this event information, visit www.phlf.org of Landmarks, Concha y Toro winery and will present an 1st Vanguard Mortgage Company illustrated lecture also helped sponsor the evening Saturdays, September 3, 10, 17, 24 10:30 to 11:45 a.m. on Brandon Smith lecture/reception by Todd Temkin, South Side Strolls (1889–1962), whose associate professor of 1930 design created This tour is free for all, thanks to the South Side Local Development the gracious club- the Catholic University Company’s Neighborhood Assistance Program/Comprehensive house we know of Valparaiso and Service Program, sponsored by the DCED and PNC Bank. today. The evening founder of the Meeting location: In the parklet at 12th and East Carson Streets will begin with Valparaiso Foundation. Reservations appreciated: 412-471-5808, ext. 527; cocktails (cash bar) [email protected] on the patio over- The Alden & Harlow clubhouse of 1925 “To my knowledge,” looking the golf said Landmarks course. Following the presentation, guests will be able to tour President Arthur Wednesdays, September 7, 14, 21, 28 Noon to 1:00 p.m. the clubhouse and grounds, see a display of historic photographs Ziegler, “our organiza- Fifth & Forbes Walking Tours and blueprints showing the original clubhouse of 1925 designed tion is the only The area around Fifth and Forbes Avenues has declined signifi- by Alden & Harlow, and enjoy a buffet supper in the club’s cantly over the past few years, as the result of misguided urban spectacular atrium. preservation group in Fee: $25 members (of Landmarks and of the Club); Todd Temkin the U.S. sponsoring such renewal plans, but much of the architecture is still worthy of attention. Discover more about the significant structures and $35 non-members a lecture series. So many elements of this historic district. For reservations: 412-471-5808, ext. 514; [email protected] exemplary preservation projects are Meeting location: The clock in Market Square Reservation deadline: Wednesday, September 28 happening around the world, and the Reservations appreciated: 412-471-5808, ext. 527; work and experience of others can [email protected] Thursday, October 20 8:00 a.m. to Noon inspire us here in Pittsburgh.” Last Historic Religious Properties Conference & year Arcadi Nebolsine shared news Thursday, September 8 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. about restoration efforts in St. Grants Program Landmarks Heritage Society Event Learn about the best practices in maintaining and restoring Petersburg, Russia, and Tasman Every year Landmarks hosts an exclusive event for people who historic churches and synagogues and congratulate Landmarks’ Storey discussed the Walsh Bay have either made a gift of $1,000 or more within the past 12 2005 Historic Religious Property grant recipients. project in Sydney, Australia. months, created a Named Fund, or notified Landmarks that it is Location: The Pittsburgh New Church Todd Temkin’s story of Valparaiso’s a beneficiary of a will or planned gift. This year, Heritage Society 299 Le Roi Road, Point Breeze members will tour the Heinz Lofts on Pittsburgh’s North Side For reservations: 412-471-5808, ext. 516; [email protected] rebirth since 1998 is evidence of the and meet with Peter Brink, senior vice president of programs at major role that preservation can play the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and Arthur Ziegler, in revitalizing a city. Discovered in president of Landmarks, to discuss preservation priorities in Sunday, October 23 2:00 to 6:00 p.m. 1536, the Pacific seaport grew Pittsburgh and nationwide. Historic Religious Properties Church Tour For details/reservations: Jack Miller (412-471-5808, ext. 538); spontaneously over time until it was Tour four churches to see the progress being made as a result of destroyed by a massive earthquake [email protected] Landmarks’ Historic Religious Properties Initiative. We will meet in 1906 and then further diminished at First Baptist Church in Oakland (1912) and tour that church, Mondays, September 12, 19, 26 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. and then travel by motorcoach to The Pittsburgh New Church in by the opening of the Panama Canal Point Breeze (1929), The Episcopal Church of the Redeemer in in 1914. The military/government Jail Museum Tours Squirrel Hill (1937), and Zion Christian Church in Carrick (1926). closed access to the waterfront in Bob Loos, a Landmarks docent, will open the Jail Museum in the Meeting location: First Baptist Church, North Bellefield 1976, and by 1994 Valparaiso led former Allegheny County Jail on Ross Street for public tours on Avenue and Bayard Street, Oakland. (Park in the church lot, Mondays in August and September (except for September 5). Chile in unemployment, urban Free for all. or take Port Authority bus 71A.) Fee: $20 members; $30 non-members decay, and economic stagnation. Reservations appreciated: 412-471-5808, ext. 527; For reservations: 412-471-5808, ext. 527; [email protected] Only five percent of the people in [email protected] Valparaiso liked living there. Reservation deadline: Wednesday, October 19 Fast forward to 1996–98, when Todd worked with the seven universities in Valparaiso, residents, and community officials to draft a master plan calling for: UNESCO World Heritage site status; a transportation plan emphasizing the trolleys, stairways (there are over 1,000), and 15 surviving funiculars; subsidized housing; sensitive water- Our mission is to preserve front development; and a new cul- historic crafts and properties through tural ministry and headquarters. the service of exceptional craftsmen. Preservation action followed: the The Guild maintains an online gathering place where clients can find universities began restoring some qualified craftsmen, benefiting historic properties, clients, and craftsmen alike. of the bars; students created design guidelines; artists painted murals This “referral service” is free; the Guild accepts no fees or commissions. on the many blank walls; the old • Residential & Liturgical marketplace was restored; homeless • Architectural woodwork and unemployed people were • Art glass • Gilding taught how to restore buildings; and For a complete listing of trades, please visit us at interested families learned how to • Architectural plastering www.westpenncraftguild.com • Custom tile work turn their houses into bed and and meet the Craftsmen who can make • Decorative painting breakfasts. your project a success. • Slate roofing Or, if you prefer, you can leave a message at In 2003, UNESCO unanimously • Refinishing and carpentry declared Valparaiso a world heritage 412-784-8015 and a member will return your call. protection site, and the Chilean congress declared the city the cultural capital of Chile. The city PHLF News usually is published three times each year for the members of the Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation. now includes seven National Historic © 2005 Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation. Designed by Pytlik Design Associates, Inc. Districts and the Valparaiso Mark Stephen Bibro...... Chairman Jack Miller ...... Director of Gift Planning Foundation is working to improve Arthur P. Ziegler, Jr...... President Marie Miller ...... Assistant legislation so historic neighborhoods Louise Sturgess ...... Editor/Executive Director Linda Mitry...... Staff Accountant are better protected. “We are a story Tom Croyle...... Comptroller Laura Ricketts...... Library Assistant Mary Lu Denny ...... Director of Membership Services Laureen Schulte ...... Library Assistant in progress—not a success story yet,” Mary Ann Eubanks...... Education Coordinator Frank Stroker...... Assistant Archivist/Sales Manager says Todd. “And yet, when we think Phipps Hoffstot ...... Chief Financial Officer Albert M. Tannler ...... Historical Collections Director about how far we have come, it’s Thomas Keffer ...... Superintendent of Property Maintenance Sarah Walker ...... Secretary Walter C. Kidney...... Architectural Historian Marilyn Whitelock ...... Secretary amazing. People are coming back to Eugene Matta . . . Director of Real Estate &Special Development Programs Gregory C. Yochum ...... Horticulturist discover this European city.” Cathy McCollom ...... Chief Programs Officer Ronald C. Yochum, Jr...... Chief Information Officer