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PPublishedH for the membersL of the PittsburghF HistoryN & Landmarksews Foundation No. 172 April 2007

In this issue: 3 Four Getty Campus Heritage Reports Completed 5 PHLF Awards $87,245 to 22 Historic Religious Properties 10 Ready for Sale: Four PHLF-Restored Houses in Wilkinsburg 20 Membership Events: 2007

Market at Fifth, LP, is a downtown revitalization project of the Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation using “green”-building principles. Seven rental apartments and one commercial unit in three historic buildings at Market Street and Fifth Avenue are expected to be ready for occupancy this fall. Interested? Call: 412-471-5808, ext. 511; [email protected] PHLF Begins Work on Three Downtown Properties After eight years of controversy and buildings at Market Street and Fifth Environmental Design” (LEED) rating The Urban Redevelopment Authority misguided policies, redevelopment of Avenue, downtown, into residential based on more than 26 green features. of Pittsburgh was instrumental in facili- the Fifth/Forbes corridor downtown is and commercial space. “This is a major Sterling Contracting LLC is serving as tating Landmarks’ acquisition of these moving ahead, and several key projects restoration project that Landmarks general contractor; Landmarks Design buildings. According to Eugene Matta, are incorporating preservation and is undertaking to help spark the revital- Associates is project architect; and director of real estate and special “green”-building principles. ization of architecturally significant evolve is the green-building consultant. development programs at Landmarks, “Green” buildings are purposely historic buildings in the Fifth/Forbes The space within the three historic “The URA was exceptional in working designed to preserve the natural environ- corridor,” said Landmarks president buildings is being reconfigured to with us to acquire these buildings, and ment as much as possible and to provide Arthur Ziegler. “We are raising money function together and will contain their hard work has helped us get the healthy, productive places for people. to help fund the ‘green’ aspects of the seven upper-floor apartments and a project moving quickly.” Because of the quality building materials restoration and to subsidize the apart- commercial first-floor tenant, most In contrast to the Murphy administra- used in historic structures and large ments so they can be more affordable.” likely a restaurant. The residential units tion’s approach of trying to attract one windows and well-proportioned spaces, On January 9, Landmarks purchased have spacious layouts and exceptional master developer from out-of-town to the “greenest” developments are often 439 and 441 Market Street and designs. “Our two top units will feature revitalize the Fifth/Forbes corridor, those that reuse historic structures. 130 Fifth Avenue from the Urban a dual-floor layout with private decks Mayor Luke Ravenstahl is following After co-sponsoring the “Greening of Redevelopment Authority for $257,000. overlooking a ‘green’ rooftop garden,” the approach set by the late Mayor Bob Historic Properties National Summit” “Unfortunately, these buildings were said Michael Sriprasert, Landmarks’ O’Connor in allowing local private on October 30, 2006, the Pittsburgh permitted to deteriorate severely under assistant for real estate programs. developers to tackle the redevelopment History & Landmarks Foundation is the former Mayor Tom Murphy’s The purpose of the green roof is to of many City-owned buildings. According putting many of the recommendations administration,” said Arthur. One, the absorb moisture and reduce water to Michael, who led a team of Heinz discussed that day into practice as it former home of Alexander Graham Bell run-off. Rents will range from about School students to study the housing transforms three endangered historic Café, suffered a fire; then the adminis- $1,100 for a one-bedroom/one-bath market in downtown Pittsburgh in tration did not repair the roof and it unit to about $1,900 for a two-bedroom/ 2005, “This approach leads to more eventually two-bath unit. “Having a development creative and sustainable solutions fell into the project in the center of an emerging because those developers who are locally basement, housing market is very exciting,” said based have a better grasp of the local taking three Michael, “and it’s our goal to have these market, are used to dealing with the floors with it. units leased soon after they’re completed intricacies of the local political system, Market this fall, if not before.” and are invested in the Pittsburgh at Fifth is Plans are still in the works for the region.” Millcraft Industries, Inc. of seeking a commercial space, but the concept is Washington County and PNC Financial “Leadership for a restaurant that will provide a Services Group––both headquartered in in Energy and comfortable space for both the business the Pittsburgh region––are making executive and the casual diner. Market significant investments in the Fifth/ at Fifth is located within the Market Forbes corridor, thus proving the logic Square Historic District and will face a of a local development strategy. new park being developed by PNC across the street on Fifth Avenue. Page 2 PHLF News • April 2007

Pittsburgh Hosted “One of the Best Ever”: 2,404 Attended National Preservation Conference 2006

It was worth the work. The National Trust for Concluding reflection Historic Preservation’s annual conference, held in Pittsburgh 47. The point which continually struck me during the week was from October 31 through November 5, 2006, was a success, about the base of support for preservation. In the UK the main thanks to our corporate sponsors, led by Sy Holzer of PNC base is a control system of long standing, imposed at national Bank; public officials, including State Senator Jim Ferlo, level and to some extent administered at national level, and Mayor Luke Ravenstahl, and County Executive Dan Onorato; the main sources of funding are from national public bodies. Cathedral of Saint Paul, Minnesota community, preservation, and cultural organizations, including In some ways this is a narrow base which is quite remote from the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust; and our trustees, members, ordinary people, although some of them get heavily involved and volunteers. The conference, “Making Preservation Work!,” in individual controversial cases. In the USA the control system The National Trust drew the third highest attendance (with Savannah in 1998 and is much more recent, and much of it depends on decisions at Goes to St. Paul: Boston in 1994 taking first and second places, respectively). more local level[s]. Because the main source of funding at Pittsburgh’s historic neighborhoods and outlying communi- [the] national level is a tax credit it is not discretionary, and a We Recommend ties provided fertile ground for 30 field sessions; more than much wider variety of private sources of funding are involved. 50 educational sessions were held downtown. Bill Strickland, Volunteers may or may not be relatively more numerous the Trip president and CEO of the Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild and in the sector in the USA, but they are almost certainly more Bidwell Training Center, David McCullough, Pulitzer-prize influential. The base of support for preservation therefore Arthur P. Ziegler, Jr. winning historian, and Arthur Ziegler, president of Landmarks, seems broader and more local, which seems in some ways The great domed Cathedral of Saint Paul spoke eloquently about the importance of place and local healthier. In an area like Pittsburgh, where there is a lot of still reigns over this remarkable northern history in renewing peoples’ spirits. One Pittsburgh place— enthusiasm, the results were very impressive. In other parts city. While neighboring Minneapolis the Children’s Museum—received one of 14 coveted National of the USA, where there is not the same enthusiasm, the lack has sprouted high-rise after high-rise Preservation Honor Awards for showing that “progressive of central imposition presumably means that important places (many of interesting contemporary design can coexist with preservation” and infuse new life are at greater risk. into a community. design) and has lifted its people above Pat Murphy, executive director of Oberlin Heritage Center, the winter streets with its lengthy and summed up many people’s comments by writing: elaborate skywalk system, St. Paul still What Conference Attendees Said feels like a traditional mid-size American Dear PHLF staff and volunteers: Many thanks for rolling out John S. Graham, chief executive of Historic Scotland and one the red carpet for preservationists from near and far––a fabulous city with its historic buildings composing of six international conference scholarship recipients, e-mailed time was had by all. You are an inspiration to us and we so a substantial part of the architectural an 11-page summary of notes to Arthur Ziegler in January appreciate and admire all fabric of the town. New buildings have 2007. Insightful excerpts from you do…. arisen—not always of inspired contem- his 47 points include the porary design—but they tend not to be following: high-rise towers, rather mid-rise struc- 25. Charitable funding is clearly tures that are imbedded in an historic Update: more important to preserva- architectural community. tion work in the USA than Greening The Cathedral, sited on the high in the UK. Pittsburgh of Historic ground of the Summit Street area, seemed to have a lot of looks out over the city and has the wealthy foundations––a Properties supremacy of height long enjoyed by legacy of its rich past. National Summit the Philadelphia City Hall. Designed by A source of funding we The solutions developed during Emmanuel Masqueray and built between do not have in the UK is the “Greening of Historic 1906 and 1915 as the modern Roman easements…. Properties National Summit,” Catholic Church for the Archdiocese 32. …the candlelight house tour co-sponsored by Landmarks of Minneapolis-St. Paul, the Cathedral one evening provided access and the Green Building Alliance contains three stained-glass rose windows to some 15 houses [on the on October 30, 2006, were North Side], many of them by Charles J. Connick and four delicate compiled into a draft paper that restored with great atten- mosaics by the Vatican Students. was reviewed by conference tion to period detail. …In postindustrial Pittsburgh, smoke When standing on the monumental attendees at the National 40. One of the main points of front staircase leading to the Cathedral, Preservation Conference in interest was the different did not get in our eyes, but an abundance you look out over the city, the down- Pittsburgh. Since then, comments protection regimes in town, and the industrial buildings along of stunning architecture did. The density from the National Parks Service, the different boroughs the Mississippi River together with the Association for Preservation [in the Sewickley area]. of fine buildings––many by celebrated new housing construction that is being Technology, and the National We discussed the difficulties developed. To your left, you see the designers, many not––could be tops in Trust for Historic Preservation of enforcement in boroughs Minnesota Historical Society, housed have been integrated into the with a tiny staff and all the in the new Minnesota History Center. the nation. (H. H. Richardson’s Allegheny final “white paper.” pressures which go with The new museum struggles to be a Ryan Snow of Green Building small communities…. County Courthouse and Jail struck me as Alliance presented the National contemporary building in its own right 42. There was an interesting the most sublime of the lot.) Plus, the city’s Summit findings on November with a central tower echoing the classical series of presentations 15–17, 2006, at the United Minnesota State Capitol building located about the project to create a hills let one view them from all sorts of States Green Building Council’s a few blocks beyond, and yet it feels cycle way extending all the national conference in Denver. medievalistic with its HVAC plant way from Pittsburgh to angles and distances. To gaze at downtown’s More than 100 people attended lodged outside a front section of the Washington D.C., largely skyline from atop the Duquesne Incline, the session and responses to the building in a dark-screened structure. using abandoned railway findings were solicited through Behind the Cathedral on Summit Street tracks and giving access to a stop on conference tours, was to feel surveys. is a charming and extensive neighbor- some splendid pieces of very lucky indeed. On May 3, Landmarks and hood called Ramsey Hill, listed on the railway architecture…. the Green Building Alliance will National Register of Historic Places. 43. There was a gripping ses- ––Arnold Berke, Executive Editor host a continuing education sion of presentations and “Preservation” (January/February 2007) On the street’s edge, facing out toward program at the American discussions about 9/11, the Mississippi, are the great mansions, Institute of Architects’ national featuring the controversy including that of James J. Hill, a conference in San Antonio, over how much of the Romanesque pile that is now open to Texas. Ellis Schmidlapp, president of Landmarks Design limited physical remains of the twin towers should be the public. It is remarkable that so many Associates, Rebecca Flora, executive director of the Green Building preserved during the redevelopment…. of these mansions still exist, some single- Alliance, Ralph DiNola, principal with Green Building Services, 46. I attended the awards dinner of the African American family, some converted to condominiums and Tommy Lindstroth, director of sustainability at Melaver, Inc., Preservation Alliance, which seeks to promote the and apartments. will discuss “Practical Solutions to the Greening of Historic preservation of African-American cultural heritage and Moving in from the escarpment and Properties.” historic places….It was the only event [I] attended at which behind the Cathedral are blocks and To download a copy of the white paper visit: people sang. blocks of marvelous frame and brick www.phlf.org/events/preservationconference/greenhistpres.html Victorian and early 20th-century houses and apartments, pleasantly mixed

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Four Getty Campus Heritage Society of Architectural Reports Completed Historians On February 27, Landmarks delivered four Andrew Miller, student govern- Holds Annual detailed reports to the Getty Foundation ment president of Grove City documenting the historic buildings and College, wrote on January 8: Convention in landscapes of Allegheny College, Grove …I thought it was very helpful City College, Geneva College, and Slippery Pittsburgh to learn the dates of building Rock University––and giving specific construction. The facts that the recommendations for the conservation of The 60th Annual Meeting of the PHLF shared about Grove City’s those resources. The reports were the result history aren’t common knowledge Society of Architectural Historians of 16 months of intensive work carried out among most students…. (SAH) is being held in Pittsburgh, by Landmarks Design Associates; Richard The study proposed a historic Liberto, horticulturist and landscape April 11 through April 15, 2007; preservation zone….This zone designer; and Landmarks staff members SAH last held its meeting in seems appropriate to me. PHLF Tom Keffer, Al Tannler, and Ron Yochum. recommended applying…for desig- Pittsburgh 18 years ago. Administrators, professors, maintenance nation…with the National Register personnel, and students from all four places of Historic Places, which will The Society is honoring Arthur informed Eugene Matta, Landmarks’ assist in preservation fundraising. Ziegler, co-founder and president of director of real estate and special develop- …There were many recom- ment programs, of their satisfaction with Landmarks, at the Opening Night mendations by the PHLF that the conservation the administration seemed to Reception and Lecture on April 11. plans. In an e-mail find helpful, [and] the dialogue “Pittsburgh would be a completely of December 12, between PHLF representatives and the 2006, Deborah different, and far less vital a city, Intrigued by the administration on the “hows” was fruitful. Strong of Geneva without the efforts of you and James possibilities that the One of the recommendations for the College wrote: “Campus Heritage building preservation included repainting They had an excellent eye for these things Van Trump,” wrote Pauline Saliga, “Thank you for all Grants” presented Ketler Rec’s Listerine green color back to and brought up workable solutions to all your hard efforts executive director of the SAH. for Southwestern something more historically appropriate of them.… to make the study Pennsylvania, Arthur (thank God!). Another interesting recom- “One of the most important factors possible. Ken Smith Ziegler, president mendation was to review the exterior for me in looking at colleges was the and our manage- of Landmarks, went lighting situation. I thought that this recom- campus. It was one of the main things ment team are very to Los Angeles to mendation was very good and is perhaps that induced me to come to Grove City glad to have it as meet with the Getty the one I’d like to see happen most…. in the first place….The atmosphere of a we look towards Foundation in 2005. The landscape recommendations were college campus can make or break a college the future while He suggested that a interesting as well. The PHLF representa- experience and I think projects such as the preserving the past.” grant be considered tive explained that our shrubs often are one the Getty Foundation has undertaken Robert M. for Landmarks, who “overly manicured,” and our smaller trees are excellent ways to preserve the beauty Smith, president would then assemble a are over-fertilized, creating “mushroom” of these campuses.” of Slippery Rock team of experts to shrubs and “volcanoes” at the base of the …the Getty Foundation’s sponsorship of University, wrote work with four colleges trees. This creates a cold atmosphere, [and] the PHLF Preservation Plan at Grove City on March 9: to complete conserva- puts the life of the shrubs in danger…. Luke College was very helpful, from a student’s “This report will tion plans. The Getty Juday, Grove City College’s freshman class perspective. I hope to see many of their guide our work Foundation agreed to president, agrees: “…I think the presenter recommendations take place here, and… (it already has!) this novel approach, was absolutely right when he said that this I hope to spread the wealth of knowledge and will provide and a partnership generation of college students appreciates that they have imparted. us a clear vision between Landmarks and craves the ‘natural’ and ‘real’ feeling. Eugene forwarded Mr. Miller’s comments Landmarks published a guidebook on for how we respect and the four colleges I think encouraging an older and more to Antoine M. Wilmering, program officer H. H. Richardson’s Allegheny County and develop the resulted in a most overgrown style brings that feeling. of the Getty Foundation, who wrote: Courthouse and Jail on the occasion of heritage district successful venture. Too much trimming and razing detracts “Thank you for sharing Andrew Miller’s the SAH Conference. To purchase a copy of our campus. from the campus and gives the college experience with us. It is really terrific to ($5.75 less 10% membership discount), You and your much more of a stiff and almost hospital- see that the impact of the project has contact Frank Stroker: 412-471-5808, colleagues have like feel.” gone much beyond preparing the preser- ext. 525; [email protected]. given us a defini- The report concludes with specific vation plans.” tion for our work that we did not have. recommendations for each historic area Since five more colleges are interested You have raised our awareness of the gift and building…. in partnering with Landmarks to have we have in our own backyard….You have Tracy Myers, curator of the Heinz GCC’s freshman class president also conservation plans prepared, Landmarks made an important contribution to our comments, “The presenters also did an submitted a proposal in early April to the Architectural Center, Carnegie future direction.” excellent job pointing out several eyesores Getty’s Campus Heritage Grants Program, Museum of Art, is presenting the Amie Homa, president of Slippery Rock on campus, as well as small inconsistencies now in its final year. University’s student government associa- opening lecture, “Up, Down, Over or structural issues that can be corrected. tion, wrote: “I find it particularly appealing and Around: An Introduction to to maintain and preserve our historic Pittsburgh’s Physical Environment.” structures and traditions of the campus. Thank you again and I look forward to The conference consists of two-and- sharing the study with other students.” Rockwell Hall of Science (W. G. Eckles Company, 1931), a-half days of sessions during which Grove City College. papers on all aspects of architectural history—ancient and modern, inter- national and American—are read and discussed; the Historical Preservation Colloquium will study the debate over the development/revitalization of Pittsburgh’s Fifth and Forbes corridor (see page 1); the plenary address, “An Englishman’s Reflections on American Architecture,” is being delivered by distinguished British architectural historian Andrew Saint; and four days of architectural tours are scheduled. Al Tannler, historical collections director at Landmarks and SAH local planning committee member, is leading three tours. Page 4 PHLF News • April 2007

Register by June 24 to attend the first national conference on realizing the potential of vacant properties as community assets. “Reclaiming Vacant Properties: Strategies for Rebuilding America’s Neighborhoods” September 24 & 25, 2007 Omni William Penn Hotel, Pittsburgh

Conference Sponsor: National Vacant Properties Campaign Work continues at Bedford Springs, even on a Principal Planning Partner: snowy March day. By summer, this scene will show a The Federal Reserve Bank fully-restored four-star resort on landscaped grounds. of Cleveland

Who should attend? Anyone committed to learning from and sharing experiences that Bedford Springs Summer Opening: Membership make America’s neighborhoods stronger and healthier. This two- Event Being Planned day conference will bring together practitioners, policy makers, The enormously complicated restoration the relocated dining room. and concerned citizens from of the great range of 19th-century buildings The former dining room on the throughout the country to share at Bedford Springs, closed and decaying second floor above the lobby, best practices and problem since 1987, is, quite simply, one of the great with its colonnade of white-wood solve through a mix of interactive restoration triumphs in Pennsylvania—and columns, will become the ballroom. sessions, plenaries, and tours of in the nation. In the oldest building of the local model projects in Pittsburgh. The $90-million renovation and expan- complex, adjoining the lobby to Arthur Ziegler, president of sion of the Bedford Springs Hotel to create the north, will be a new gourmet Landmarks, is on the conference a four-star destination resort and confer- dining room and a small meeting planning committee. ence facility has had to meet the standards room featuring the great original For details visit: for a luxury resort hotel, as well as those stone and brick fireplace. vacantproperties.org/ required by the Americans with Disabilities Beyond the immaculately reclaimingconference.html Act, contemporary life-safety codes, historic restored indoor swimming pool preservation tax credits, the Pennsylvania to the south of the lobby, a new Historical and Museum Commission, wing has been built in a style that National Register of Historic Places, and honors the old buildings and our organization. In 2006, Landmarks yet speaks quietly for our own accepted an easement on all the historic time. In it will be a spa and guest buildings and on the historic golf course rooms and suites overlooking to protect the complex in perpetuity the golf course. (see PHLF News, April 2006). The great wooden Doric Landmarks president Arthur Ziegler columns that held the Greek and Tom Keffer, property and construction Revival wood pediment above the manager, toured the site on March 7, main entrance were each restored when six inches of snow were falling and at a cost of $75,000, and one was accumulating, “but that made the highly replaced at a cost of $100,000. ornamented Victorian woodwork on the All the railings and fretwork quite small, so two new rooms with porches all the more attractive,” said Arthur. posts along the range of porches on the excellent bathrooms have been created in The hotel lobby is being recreated, and residential wings have been restored and the space of three original rooms. the original wooden benches and cushions are back in place, as is the flooring. Mark Langdon, lead owner of Bedford Woodville Plantation are still in place. Behind the lobby will be The rooms in these wings originally were Resort Partners, Ltd., has positioned Historic House Tours Bedford Springs to compete with the Sundays, May through October Homestead and Greenbriar. John Ferchill, 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. from Cleveland and developer of the Heinz Lofts in Pittsburgh, is serving as developer. A National Historic Landmark, Reynolds Contracting of Harrisburg has Woodville (c. 1780) is located in managed a crew of more than 200 each day Collier Township and is operated by for over a year to complete the work. the Neville House Associates. Jonathan Sandvick is the architect. Free to PHLF members “We are working with Bedford Resort $5.00 Adults; $10.00 Families Partners to plan a special weekend and Children under 12 are free. reception this summer for our members,” www.woodvilleplantation.org said Arthur. Members who are interested in knowing more can contact Mary Lu Denny: 412-471-5808, ext. 527; [email protected]. PHLF News • April 2007 Page 5

PHLF Awards $87,245 Plus Technical Assistance and Thank You! Gifts from the following people Energy Studies to 22 Historic Religious Properties and organizations, received between September 1, 2006 and February 20, George C. Dorman, chairman of the • Valley Presbyterian Church, Imperial 2007, helped underwrite Landmarks’ Pittsburgh History & Landmarks • Zion Christian Church, Carrick Foundation’s Historic Religious Properties 2007 Historic Religious Properties Committee, presented 15 grants, seven Grant Plus Technical Program. As a result, 15 churches technical assistance awards, and two energy this year are able to carry out specific conservation study awards to 22 historic Assistance Awards restoration projects. Your gifts, religious properties in Allegheny County Technical assistance is directed to assisting combined with others and with during an Awards Presentation on congregations in prioritizing restoration February 7. New members of Landmarks projects and establishing preventive main- funds from Landmarks, make this also attended the event, held at the Grand tenance programs. grant program possible. Thank you. Concourse Board Room at Station Square, since year-end membership contributions • Bethlehem Lutheran Church, Allentown Joseph M. Berenbrok help underwrite the annual program. • Old St. Luke’s Church, Scott Township Thirty-two historic religious properties Louise C. Bergstrom submitted grant applications in 2006 Technical Assistance Awards Mark and Pat Bibro requesting a total of $278,000, and Landmarks was able to award grants • First Baptist Church of Glassport Edward N. Blair of between $1,500 and $10,000, totaling • Grace Episcopal Church, Mt. Washington Barbara Bonnett George Dorman, chairman of Landmarks’ $87,245. Landmarks is the only organiza- • Grand View United Presbyterian Church, Historic Religious Properties Committee, David and Janet Brashear tion in the County that offers a continuing Mt. Washington presents an award to Thelma Young from Dr. & Mrs. John A. Burkholder program of technical and financial support Clark Memorial Baptist Church. • Lamb of God Christian Ministries, to architecturally-significant historic Homestead Thomas C. Camarda religious properties. • St. John Evangelical Church, Mars Bob and Jae Cannon “We continue to seek funds to support 2007 Grant Awards this program,” said Mr. Dorman, “because Randall W. and Cheryl A. Casciola • Bellevue United Presbyterian Church, Energy Conservation Study the need is great and our grants leverage Bellevue Frank and Janet Coyle matching contributions from active congre- • Bethel Presbyterian Church, Bethel Park Awards Susan O. Cramer gations that also deliver services to their Thanks to the Saxer Family Foundation neighborhoods.” As a result, stained glass • Clark Memorial Baptist Church, George and Eileen Dorman Homestead windows are repaired and restored and • Trinity Cathedral, Downtown Paul and Katharine Emery exterior improvements such as brick • First Trinity Evangelical Lutheran • Valley View Presbyterian Church, Garfield re-pointing, masonry work, and roof Church, Shadyside Lois Scott Emler repairs are made. • Monumental Baptist Church, Hill District George and Roseann Erny Since the program’s inception in • Mt. Gilead Church, Wilkinsburg Cindy Fenger 1997, Landmarks has awarded more Next Application • Riverview United Presbyterian Church, than $580,000 to more than 100 historic Suzanne Flood Observatory Hill Deadline: churches and synagogues. “We are grateful Richard Andrew Gaydos to our many members, and to several busi- • Sacred Heart Church, Shadyside November 1, 2007 Anne S. Genter nesses and foundations, whose year-end • St. Paul Cathedral, Oakland Visit www.phlf.org for application gifts––combined with general funds from • St. Peter and Paul Ukrainian Orthodox guidelines or to download an application. Doug and Julianna Haag Landmarks––make this program possible,” Church, Carnegie Or, contact Carole Malakoff, who is coor- Hale and Nancy H. Holden said Arthur Ziegler, president of Landmarks. • Southminster Presbyterian Church, dinating the Historic Religious Properties Milton G. Hulme Charitable Mt. Lebanon Program for Landmarks on a free-lance Foundation basis: 412-471-5808 or [email protected]. Martha Jordan David A. Kleer Dr. Bernard Klionsky Doug and Angela Marvin Katherine Mabis McKenna Foundation Bill and Mary Anne Mistick Muriel R. Moreland Hugh and Eliza Nevin John S. Oehrle James and Pauline Parker Pittsburgh Christian Fellowship Rabbi Linda Potemken John and Marirose Radelet Wilfred and Ruth Rouleau Dodie and Jack Saxer Left: Opalescent glass window, Rudy Brothers Studio of Pittsburgh, Bethel Presbyterian Church, Bethel Park. Center: Stained glass windows, Emily T. Schantz Nicola D’Ascenzio, Southminster Presbyterian Church Chapel, Mt. Lebanon. Right: Opalescent glass transept window, Nicola D’Ascenzio, Gerald and Else Schiller Riverview United Presbyterian Church, Observatory Hill. Fred I. Sharp Laurie Graham Shearer Four churches will use their The windows at both Riverview Al Tannler, historical collections director Douglas F. Smith grants to restore historic stained United Presbyterian and the Southminster at Landmarks, discovered the importance Presbyterian Church Chapel were designed of the St. Canice windows by George W. Specialty Consultants, Inc. Both Bethel glass windows. by Philadelphia artist Nicola D’Ascenzio. Sotter. Born in 1879 on Pittsburgh’s South Judge & Mrs. William L. Standish Presbyterian and Riverview United Born in Italy in 1871 and brought to the Side, by 1899 Sotter had apprenticed with Presbyterian Church were designed by Mildred M. Stevenson U.S. at age 11, D’Ascenzio studied at the the art glass studios of William Willet James and David Allison; the brothers Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts and the and Horace Rudy. In addition to the Caroline Craig Sutton formed one of Pittsburgh’s most prominent Scuola Libera in Rome. In 1896 he opened windows at St. Canice, Sotter designed architectural firms at the turn of the Dr. & Mrs. Albert C. Van Dusen his own studio in Philadelphia. The studio windows in the Oakland Arcade, 20th century. Bethel Presbyterian Church Roger C. Westman specialized in mosaics and mural painting, Epiphany Roman Catholic Church in was built in 1910 for a congregation as well as stained glass. the Lower Hill, and Christ Evangelical Frances H. Wilson established in 1776. It is one of the last Landmarks’ grant to St. Paul Cathedral Lutheran Church, St. Mary’s, in buildings designed in Western Pennsylvania Jack Zierden will help pay for the restoration of six McKeesport. by the Allison brothers before the firm stained glass windows from the closed relocated to California. The opalescent St. Canice Church in Knoxville and their glass windows were created by Rudy re-installation at St. Paul Cathedral. Brothers Studio of Pittsburgh. Page 6 PHLF News • April 2007

Farewell… OUR WORK: Brief Updates

Cathy McCollom, formerly the 60-foot bridge has “many things in its Landmarks’ chief program officer, favor for preserving: significance, condition, accepted a job with The Progress and [a] relatively short span—a structure Fund in January as regional direc- easily moved to another location.” tor of the Trail Town Initiative. Landmarks met with PennDOT and Her new contact information is: Collier Township officials on March 13 to [email protected]; discuss the possibility of saving and relocat- 724-216-9160; 425 West ing the bridge. Collier Township is open to Pittsburgh Street, Greensburg, PA. having the bridge moved to a new park it is Cathy is heading a new economic creating near Nevillewood, but funding would be needed to support the project. development initiative to promote regional business development and 1725 Bedford Avenue is the corner building. cooperative marketing along the 150-mile Great Allegheny Passage. Saving August Wilson’s From 1987 to 1994, Cathy Oakmont and Landmarks: successfully marketed Station Birthplace Square for Landmarks, and more Landmarks’ trustee Larry Glasco and A Winning Partnership recently led our Historic Religious president Arthur Ziegler met on February 8 Since Oakmont Country Club’s designation Properties Initiative, Wilkinsburg with Paul Ellis, who has recently come as a National Historic Landmark in 1987, the club and the Fownes Foundation have Neighborhood Revitalization into possession of the childhood home worked with Landmarks to ensure that the efforts, National Preservation of August Wilson (1945–2005) at integrity of the clubhouse and course are Conference planning, and Old 1725 Bedford Avenue in the Hill District. Paul is the nephew of the late playwright. preserved as the club grows and changes to House Fair, among many other meet 21st-century needs. programs. We thank Cathy for her Although the house is in very poor condition, the family hopes to restore it as “Todd Wilson, a traffic engineer at In preparation for the 2007 U.S. Open dedicated service, commitment to DMJM Harris and a 2002 Landmarks’ this June, the clubhouse, designed by historic preservation, and creative a symbol of the racial and ethnic diversity that made the Hill such a lively neighbor- Scholarship winner, brought the significance Edward Stotz in 1904, has undergone program initiatives––and wish her hood. “The Wilsons lived in the back of of this bridge to our attention and is work- a major renovation and expansion. success in her new job. 1725 Bedford Avenue, and their backyard is ing closely with us to see that it is saved In addition, the gatehouse of 1935 has the setting for Wilson’s play ‘Seven Guitars,’ and relocated,” said Louise. Since so been renovated as a six-bedroom guest Marilyn Whitelock, who had said Larry. “In the front, on the left, lived many 19th-century truss bridges are being house, and much of the character of worked at Landmarks since 1998 the Buteras, an Italian family with a shoe demolished in an effort to meet modern H. C. Fownes’ championship “links-style” primarily as an assistant to Cathy repair and watch repair shop. On the right transportation needs, it is essential that golf course of 1903, with its rolling lands McCollom, resigned at the end of was Bella Siger and her market. The name we “select significant ones to preserve in and punishing bunkers, has been restored. December 2006. Organized and Bella appears in Wilson’s plays.” order to represent the rest of the demolished The results––according to 19 first-grade efficient, Marilyn helped make Larry will be leading a walking tour for truss bridges,” said Todd. students from Tenth Street Elementary the Historic Religious Properties Landmarks’ members on June 23 focusing To learn more, visit: www.phlf.org and School in Oakmont who were given the program, Old House Fair, and on the endangered physical legacy of view “Preservation News.” chance to tour the club on November 14, other conferences and events run August Wilson’s Hill District (see page 20). 2006 with Landmarks and the Fownes smoothly, year after year. Everyone Foundation––are “awesome.” who visited our offices appreciated her kind, welcoming manner. We thank Marilyn for so capably carrying out her front-office duties, and for her willingness to do what was needed to get the job done.

…And Hello

Colleen L. Newsome joined State Approves National- McCook House Saved The club’s history is handsomely Landmarks’ staff in January and Landmarks extended a major one-year loan Register Listing presented in Oakmont: 100 Years, by is working in the front office, to BioSpace Development Company in 2006 On March 13, the Pennsylvania Historic Marino Parascenzo, published in 2003 assisting staff members as needed. to facilitate restoration of the McCook house Preservation Board voted unanimously to at Fifth and Amberson Avenues as a bed by the Fownes Foundation in cooperation A resident of Squirrel Hill, nominate the Turtle Creek High School to with Landmarks. To order, contact Judy Colleen has two sons who attend and breakfast, and will accept an easement the National Register of Historic Places. on the house, designed in 1906 by Carpenter Folk: [email protected]; Allderdice High School: Cody, in The nomination, submitted by Laura & Crocker, and on the carriage house. 412-828-8000. 10th grade, is already volunteering Ricketts of Landmarks in cooperation with The McCook house was damaged by fire at Landmarks. the Committee to Save Turtle Creek High several years ago, but much of the magnifi- School, must be approved by the National cent interior woodwork and stained glass Judith Harvey is working part-time Park Service before the school is officially remains. at Landmarks, as the librarian listed. The Classical Revival structure, built Landmarks for the Frank B. Fairbanks Rail in 1917–18 to the designs of George H. Transportation Archive (see page 7). Schwan, is now known as Woodland Hills welcomes East Junior High School. On March 14, Dwight Fong, long a member of the Woodland Hills School Board voted to Landmarks, is working in the close the historic landmark and merge its CB Richard Ellis/Pittsburgh James D. Van Trump Library on a population with West Junior in Swissvale; Highmark a final vote could be taken in August, after part-time basis through December, The James H. Matthews Company public hearings are held. THE SOCIETY FOR thanks to funding support from Molly’s Trolleys The Allegheny Foundation. THE PRESERVATION OF Morgan Stanley New Location Needed for Mylan Laboratories, Inc. Dorrington Road Bridge and Contact Landmarks’ executive director Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership Louise Sturgess (412-471-5808, ext. 536; [email protected]) to recommend a new location for one of Allegheny County’s most historic bridges: the Dorrington Road as Corporate Member Bridge of 1888, spanning Robinson Run in Dedicated to the preservation of Benefactors Collier Township. The pin-connected Pratt pony truss bridge with rare vertical endposts that which cannot be replaced is one of the last of its kind in the country. Thank you for helping us As early as 2008, PennDOT is going to For a membership protect the places replace the Dorrington Road Bridge. that make Pittsburgh home. According to Eric DeLony, former chief of please phone 412-381-1665 the Historic American Engineering Record, PHLF News • April 2007 Page 7

Photo by Dennis Woytek Abrams House Pledged to Landmarks Jack Miller Bryan Fairbanks, center, shared memories about his father’s love of riding the rails The Pittsburgh region is distinguished during the re-dedication of the Archive on by architectural landmarks that reflect December 22, 2006. the character of the people who built this community. We’re familiar with H. H. Richardson’s Allegheny County Courthouse (1888), Henry Hornbostel’s Fairbanks Rail Rodef Shalom (1907) and Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater (1937). Transportation Yet, nestled among century-old houses near Chatham College on Woodland Road Archive Opens is a structural contradiction so magnificent The Frank B. Fairbanks Rail Transportation that its architect now considers it one of “All in all, however, we eventually got the easement. A gift to endow monitoring Archive, located at the Pittsburgh History his defining creations. The post-modern job finished to our mutual satisfaction.” costs associated with the easement would & Landmarks Foundation, represents the realization of one man’s consuming passion. home was designed in 1979 for Irving and In the end, Betty got the changes she also be required. Mr. Fairbanks (1930–2005), a trustee of Betty Abrams by internationally renowned wanted, but Venturi distanced himself from After discussions with Landmarks’ Landmarks, left us a collection that includes architect Robert Venturi. From the outset, the project until it was rediscovered during planned giving office, Betty decided that railroad history books and journals; time- the project faced two major challenges: a Pittsburgh-hosted national design show if she could not find a way to acquire a how to construct the house on a lot so tables and maps; photos of rolling stock, in 2003 and praised by Richard Pain in a preservation easement during her lifetime, trestles, yards, stations, and vistas from small and damp that many builders didn’t 2004 issue of the British journal Blueprint. she would take steps now to bequeath the around the world, and so much more. want to tackle the job; and how to integrate In a personal letter to Betty, Venturi house to Landmarks to fund a charitable the architect’s emphasis on form with the reassessed the Abrams house: gift annuity for each of her children. client’s need for function. You should know that via Richard Pain’s recent and current focus on the Abrams’ house in general and then our visit to the house last November and my reviewing Richard’s distinguished manuscript on the house and our original drawings currently, I am now considering the project one of the best that has come out of our office which I am very, very proud of. The Abrams house is now considered such an important Venturi work that this Pittsburgh house was selected to be Librarian Judith Harvey accepts a donation featured in Dream Homes of Greater from trustee David Vater. Philadelphia, by Brian Carabet and John Shand, to be released on April 28. Not only would the gift associated with the The archive is open by appointment on But this is not the end of the story. annuities endow the preservation easement Wednesdays from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Several years ago, Betty hosted a tour Landmarks would place on the property Use of the archive is free to members of for members of the Landmarks Heritage after her death, but Betty’s daughters would Landmarks; non-members are assessed Like Wright and the Kaufmanns, Society. There, she couldn’t help but be have lifetime income and never be burdened a $10.00 per person fee. To make an Venturi and the Abrams found a way to fit impressed by the appreciation that others with the responsibility of selling the house. appointment, e-mail Judith Harvey at an innovative design into a unique setting. had for her home. That’s when Betty began Betty’s personality is reflected in the [email protected] or contact Coming to agreement on function was a to think about taking steps to preserve her creativity of her house. Her legacy will be Al Tannler at 412-471-5808, ext. 515. different story. personal masterpiece. reflected in the creativity of her gift. “I think I broke a few of his traditions, Since the house is not eligible for listing Challenge Issued like putting a kitchen in the living room on the National Register of Historic Places The Fairbanks-Horix Foundation has and moving an eloquent stairway from until 2029, there would be no tax benefit issued a challenge to Landmarks’ members: within view of the front door,” says Betty. associated with a gift of a preservation contribute a total of $5,000 toward the purchase of O. Winston Link’s photograph, “The Birmingham Special Gets the Highball at Rural Retreat,” and the Foundation will match that amount so that the photograph Creative Gifts Support Mission can be acquired for Landmarks’ Frank B. Fairbanks Rail Transportation Archive. • The Harry C. Goldby Pittsburgh Preservation Fund recently made Last year, Thomas its first distribution to underwrite H. Garver donated a keynote address on April 19th the photograph to commemorating the 75th Landmarks to generate anniversary of Chatham Village. funds to help underwrite the publication of The 46-acre planned community, Walter C. Kidney’s designated a National Historic manuscript, Beyond the Landmark in 2005, was begun in Surface: Architecture the 1930s. It is one of the most and Being Alive. celebrated and influential projects Since Landmarks’ gift designed by Clarence S. Stein and acceptance policy Henry Wright, America’s foremost Jackie and Jay Johnson Clare and Duncan Horner Russell W. Coe requires that gifted urban planners of the Garden City tangible property be sold movement. The event, co-sponsored charitable income tax deduction for the • Russell W. Coe was so impressed with to generate funds for O. Winston Link’s by Landmarks, is free to the public. difference between the price Landmarks Landmarks’ work as he read the October restricted purposes, this photograph in the See page 20 for more information. paid and the substantiated fair market 2006 issue of PHLF News that he estab- presents an opportunity Fairbanks Archive. value of the property. lished two gift annuities early this year to to fulfill two mission- Photo by Dennis Woytek • In November 2006, Jackie and Jay support our Wilkinsburg initiative (see related purposes. Johnson sold Landmarks the former • In October 2006, Clare and Duncan pages 10–11) and scholarship program. Packard Building in Wilkinsburg for Horner sold Landmarks a preservation Help us meet the challenge by making a 40% less than the asking price. Landmarks easement on their Greene County farm, tax-deductible contribution, payable to To learn more about gift opportunities thereby obtained a building it needed to then refinanced the property to make a “PHLF” and referenced “Fairbanks at Landmarks, contact Jack Miller: proceed with its Crescent Building tax-deductible gift to Landmarks to Challenge.” Please mail your check to: 412-471-5808, ext. 538; [email protected] Development Project (see page 11) and endow the easement (see PHLF News, Judith Harvey, PHLF, 100 W. Station Square Drive, Suite 450, Pittsburgh, PA 15219. the Johnsons were entitled to a federal October 2006). or visit http://plannedgifts.phlf.org. Thank you! PHLF News • April 2007

“Character”—That’s What It’s About!

At the conclusion of David McCullough’s South Side “NAP/CSP” Tax Credits Build Pride remarks during the Opening Plenary of the National Since 1999, Landmarks has been offering Landmarks is listed on the DCED website Preservation Conference 2006 (see page 2), the the “South Side/Building Pride, Building as a provider of an “Innovative Education Pittsburgh native—and now Presidential Medal of Character” educational program to Program.” Therefore, Pennsylvania businesses Freedom recipient––reminded us that old, familiar Arlington, Phillips, Murray, and Bishop can contribute to Landmarks through the buildings are “an expression of the continuity of the Leonard/St. Mary of the Mount schools, DCED’s Educational Improvement Tax thanks to the South Side Local Development Credit Program (EITC). “Everyone wins,” place.” Then, he paused and added: “Character— Company’s Neighborhood Assistance said Jack Miller, director of gift planning at that’s what it’s about.” Program/Comprehensive Service Program. Landmarks. “Businesses receive a 75% to “The statement resonated with us,” said Louise PNC Bank has been the corporate sponsor 90% tax credit to offset their donation; Sturgess, executive director of Landmarks, “because of the NAP/CSP, offered through the Landmarks receives funds to involve several we teach students to notice and identify the elements Pennsylvania Department of Community Pittsburgh Public Schools in a standards- that give a building character so they realize the and Economic Development (DCED). based education program; and the school Funding from The Grable Foundation has students and teachers benefit from the uniqueness and value of a place. Then, we extend helped support program development. interdisciplinary approach and real-world that idea to each person—and teach students to Through a series of field trips and in- application of classroom knowledge.” appreciate the distinctive qualities and traits that school programs created by Landmarks, In 2006, PNC Bank, First National give them character.” students have viewed the South Side Bank, Frank B. Fuhrer Wholesale Through the educational program “Building Pride/ from the Monongahela River aboard the Company, and Hefren-Tillotson, Inc. Pittsburgh Voyager; created silk screens of contributed a total of $20,400 to Landmarks’ Building Character,” Landmarks gives students the the Tenth Street Bridge and Carson Street “Building Pride/Building Character” opportunity to explore the art of architecture and buildings at the Andy Warhol Museum; EITC program. As a result, over 600 students learn about their school, neighborhood, and city. sketched and composed poetry about from Beechwood, Dilworth, and Northview In the process, students discover more about them- South Side landmarks after being inspired schools are participating from January selves and feel more connected to Pittsburgh, by the work of muralist Douglas Cooper; through May 2007 in tours, art activities, so they are more likely to become active citizens. created collages full of architectural details exhibits, and in-school programs designed at Silver Eye Center for Photography; to help them see the “character” in their participated in the dedication of a Sprout community––and build pride within Fund mural; toured their schools; walked themselves. The results are inspiring! neighborhood streets; and talked with long- time residents to learn how South Side has changed over time. Contributions Welcome “The program has been so successful,” To contribute to Landmarks’ “Building said Mary Ann Eubanks, education Pride/Building Character” program, visit: coordinator at Landmarks, “that we are www.newPA.com and complete the one- now adapting the concept for use in other page EITC application in Appendix I. Pittsburgh Public School neighborhoods, and Eligible businesses may receive tax credits offering it through the DCED’s Educational equal to 75% of their contribution if they Improvement Tax-Credit Program.” choose to donate one year, or 90% of their contribution if they commit to providing the same amount for two consecutive tax years. The limit per business is $200,000 per taxable year.

Phillips Elementary School students sketch and compose poetry about South Side landmarks.

September 25, 2006 Sprout Fund mural dedication: It’s hard to tell where the “real” students end and the “painted” ones begin. David Hawbaker’s mural on the RiverWalk Corporate Centre building facade includes images of Landmarks’ students touring East Carson Street.

Drawing by Joey Lynn Johns, Grade 6, Arlington Accelerated Learning Academy

Right: Third-grade students at Beechwood Elementary School created models showing Pittsburgh’s development from a frontier settlement to a Renaissance city. PHLF News • April 2007 Page 9

Student Quotes It’s like we were explorers exploring buildings! ––Nicole

Thank you for the tour of Pittsburgh. Dilworth Traditional Academy It was better than fantastic. I learned a lot Students are touring their school, neighborhood, and city through Landmarks’ about Pittsburgh and had a lot of fun “Building Pride/Building Character” program—and are using architecture to on the Duquesne Incline. ––Dominque connect themes in math, art, and social studies. I think Pittsburgh is more fascinating now that I know much more about Pittsburgh. ––Jessica

I learned so much about the places [we visited]. I thought riding the incline was so cool. Riding the Molly’s Trolley was so cool, too. When I saw [the view from the 31st floor of] the Gulf Building, I was scared, but I faced my fears. ––Ashlee

I learned so much, my mind might explode! ––Greta

Oh, now that we know so much about Pittsburgh, we’ll have a lot Beechwood Elementary School on our models. ––Rebecca Third-grade students led City Council in the Pledge of Allegiance during a “Building Pride/Building Character” tour. They also viewed Pittsburgh from It is helpful to learn about Pittsburgh the 31st floor of the Gulf Tower, thanks to Urban Design Associates; toured and the community near your school the Fort Pitt Museum and Blockhouse; and rode the Duquesne Incline. because if there is something wrong with ––Teasia Fourth-grade students explored places associated with William Penn and his the community you can fix it up. heirs. They viewed Pittsburgh’s street plan from the 52nd floor of the US Steel Tower, thanks to PriceWaterhouse Coopers LLP; visited the Omni William It is helpful to learn about our community Penn Hotel and Smithfield United Church; and toured the Fort Pitt Museum because when I grow up I should know and Blockhouse. where I am. ––Ashana

Northview Accelerated Learning Academy Third-grade students met Mayor Luke Ravenstahl and Councilwoman Darlene Harris in the City-County Building. They also viewed Pittsburgh from the 31st floor of the Gulf Tower; visited the Fort Pitt Museum and Blockhouse; rode the Duquesne Incline; and toured the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, where Larry Berger, radio host of the Saturday Light Brigade (WRCT 88.3 FM), interviewed them about Pittsburgh. Page 10 PHLF News • April 2007

Wilkinsburg— in the Words of James D. Van Trump 524 Jeanette 522 Jeanette 516 Jeanette

Old houses are like old people; there are survivors among them, and it does not seem to matter whether they are of high or low degree, or rich or poor....Where so much falls, it is heartening to consider what still does stand––whether architec- tural or human––in the face of time, change, and decay. On the architectural side, at least, on the score of survival, Wilkinsburg’s old Singer mansion is pre-eminent in the Pittsburgh region. It has existed on its hillside for well over a hundred years (which in America, is itself a guarantee of antiquity). It was also Ready for Sale: Sale prices for these homes start Four PHLF-Restored at $70,000 with special financing available. This is an exceptional Houses in Wilkinsburg deal considering that over $200,000 was spent restoring each of these homes. Historic preservation efforts initiated by architecturally-significant trims and the Pittsburgh History & Landmarks fixtures of the buildings, while also —Michael Sriprasert, Landmarks’ Foundation in cooperation with the incorporating all the comforts and Assistant for Real Estate Programs the great house of Wilkinsburg...; the town Wilkinsburg community are serving amenities of a modern new home. was always simply a middle-class suburb as a catalyst for renewal in the “These well-built homes will be of Pittsburgh. Wilkinsburg always had, historic Hamnett Place neighborhood. returned to their original splendor columns, handsome original pocket in the old days, a special character of its With the restoration of four homes on and updated with modern amenities, doors and trim on the interior, and large own––sedate, unassuming, and pietistic. Jeanette Street and Holland Avenue including energy-efficient HVAC kitchens with a “pass thru” into the The latter adjective so much suited it underway, the purchase of a former systems, new thermo-pane windows dining area. These homes will also have that it was, because of its disproportionate Packard showroom (see page 7) on designed in the original style, and clean and airy basements ready to build number of churches, known as the Rebecca Avenue, and the developing insulated exterior walls and roofs,” out if desired. plans for the dramatic Crescent said Dwight Quarles, president of Eagle 524 Jeanette Street is a late-Victorian, “Holy City.” Apartment building, Landmarks is Construction and Remediation LLC. Queen Anne, two-family home with a —James D. Van Trump, making a significant commitment to striking rounded turret and mansard Life and Architecture in the Wilkinsburg community. roof. The all-brick home has a one- Pittsburgh, p. 257 Thanks to two grants of $500,000 bedroom, one-bath unit on the first each from the Allegheny County floor, and a three-bedroom, 1.5-bath Department of Economic Development unit on the second floor. Whoever and the Sarah Scaife Foundation, and purchases the two-family home will gifts from others, Landmarks was receive the income from the rental unit. Editor’s Note: able to acquire four properties in 811 Holland Avenue, just a block James D. Van Trump Wilkinsburg: 516, 522, 524 Jeanette away from the Jeanette Street properties, (1908–1995), Street, and 811 Holland Avenue. “Our is an ornate Stick-Style house with an co-founder of the abundance of character. This home has Pittsburgh History & investment represents the first phase of Landmarks Foundation redevelopment efforts in the Hamnett up to five spacious bedrooms and 1.5 in 1964, was the pre- Place neighborhood,” said Landmarks baths. There are original wooden entry eminent historian president Arthur Ziegler, “and continues doors that complement the geometric 522 Jeanette Street of the architecture of our record of taking the lead and woodwork of the fully restored front the Pittsburgh region helping turn the tide in historic inner- porch. The attractive clapboard siding during his lifetime and city neighborhoods.” Restoration work 516 and 522 Jeanette Street are wraps around the home, giving it a author of numerous single-family homes with distinctive publications. His will be completed this summer—and the durable and clean look. Some of the donation of books and four houses are on the market now. Colonial Revival features. Each will other exceptional features of this reference materials to Under the supervision of Tom Keffer, have up to three spacious bedrooms home are a slate roof, a side porch Landmarks established the James D. Van property and construction manager, and 1.5 baths. Some of the stand out that connects to an open and flowing Trump Library. Eagle Construction & Remediation LLC features of these solid brick homes are kitchen, and off-street parking in is working meticulously to restore the fully restored front porches with colonial the rear. PHLF News • April 2007 Page 11

the historic Hamnett Place project because of long-term disuse. neighborhood, through In order to restore the apartment an affirmative marketing buildings, a variety of financial tools effort to a range of will be needed, including low-income potential buyers, consis- housing tax credits administered by the tent with local, state, and Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency. federal fair housing laws. The total project cost may reach $10 For further details million.” It is estimated that the project contact Michael: will have about 27 units with a mix of 412-471-5808, ext. 511; one-bedroom, two-bedroom, and three- [email protected]. bedroom units. All units will have a cap on rental rates so they are affordable. What Our Crescent & An important aspect of tax-credit projects is the social services component. Investment Wilson In order to give individuals and families a better chance at achieving greater Means Apartment economic independence and advance- Landmarks’ investment in Restoration ment, a detailed social services plan Wilkinsburg is a much needed boost Abandoned years ago, will be developed as part of the project the Crescent Apartments, tax-credit application. The plan will to community efforts to revitalize the and the smaller Wilson coordinate the work of many local area. This is an innovative program, apartment building organizations to provide services such and, as a young Pittsburgher inter- nearby, are “key to the as education, job training, and other ested in the intersection of economics revitalization of the enrichment activities. and environment, I am particularly To ensure the success of the area,” as determined excited to invest in a home that’s project, Landmarks has put together by the Wilkinsburg considered both “historic” and Neighborhood Transfor- an experienced development team. “energy efficient.” mation Initiative Plan Mullin & Lonergan Associates are and community groups. the tax-credit consultants; Landmarks ––Nathaniel Doyno, “One of the best features of these Allegheny County recently acquired the Design Associates is the architect; Steel City Biofuels homes is that if we receive signed sales apartment buildings and is working with and Sota Construction is the general contractor for the project. agreements before the end of April, Landmarks to create a development Landmarks’ initiative in setting up The tax-credit application for the buyers will have the ability to customize plan for both. and promoting the Wilkinsburg certain features such as paint colors, The handsome, three-story, 31,000- Crescent project is being submitted to Neighborhood Transformation carpet colors, fixtures, and appliances,” square-foot Crescent building from the the Pennsylvania Housing Finance said Michael Sriprasert, Landmarks’ early 1900s is architecturally significant Agency, the state organization that Initiative Plan has led to a more assistant for real estate programs. with its unique crescent-shaped exterior administers this program, on April 13th. collaborative community visioning Buyers can also opt for an allowance and elegant classical detailing. The build- “We are in the most competitive region process. The restoration of these in lieu of the above items, giving them ing acts as a gateway to the Hamnett of the five regions in Pennsylvania for four homes confirms Landmarks’ free reign in what they want to do in Place area, shielding the streets behind it the tax-credit allocation, but we are commitment to not just planning confident about our plan, knowing their new home. and helping to create a quiet enclave. Wilkinsburg’s revitalization, “Sales prices for these homes start Eugene Matta, director of real estate the tremendous community impact it but actually helping do it. at $70,000 with special financing and special development programs at could have,” said Eugene. Landmarks Landmarks, said that “There is an will hear if its tax-credit application is ––Kasey Connors, enormous cost to this redevelopment approved in the fall. Vintage Reconstruction

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811 Holland Avenue is near the three Allow time for the page to load. Jeanette Street houses. All four houses will have easements to protect their architectural integrity. available. This is an exceptional deal considering that over $200,000 was spent restoring each of these homes,” said Michael. Landmarks’ goal is to sell owner-occupied renovated residences in Landmarks president Arthur Ziegler, architect Ellis Schmidlapp, and others inspect the Crescent Apartments at 738 Rebecca Avenue in Wilkinsburg. Page 12 PHLF News • April 2007

Constructed in 1904, the Wabash Railroad For the Record Bridge was demolished in 1948—but the piers remained. In 1958, Congressman Landmarks accomplished the James Fulton bought the piers because they following in 2006 (among many were an “eyesore.” He toyed with the idea of other things): putting statues or planting trees on top of them or using them as a base for an aerial Hosted, and helped plan, raise funds tramway or even a convention center! for, provide scholarships for, and lead, the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s National Preservation Conference. 2,404 people attended the five-day conference and partici- Student Wisdom pated in more than 50 educational sessions and 30 field sessions focused When asked, “Did this design challenge on “Making Preservation Work.” (or any previous ones) cause you to change Landmarks’ Eleventh Annual Old your attitudes about old buildings or urban planning,” some students replied: House Fair was held in conjunction with the National Preservation • I’ve realized that buildings don’t need to Conference. be demolished to refresh an idea. • I can now look past what a building is Hosted, in cooperation with the Green and see what it might be. Building Alliance, the “Greening of Westmoreland Students Historic Properties National Summit.” • I know [that] years ago I used to not Reuse Wabash Piers in have nearly as much respect, apprecia- Obtained a preservation easement tion, or enjoyment of these things, and on a 70-acre mid-19th-century farm in my opinion could not have changed more. Greene County. Pedestrian Bridge Design I am now hoping one day to work with historical architecture or renovations.

Began a Main Street program in About 120 middle and high school students Mellon University’s School of Architecture. • I’ve always thought that you need to Vandergrift, PA. from Westmoreland County used math, The students’ ideas were refreshingly incorporate the new in with the old to art, computer technology, history, English, imaginative and the models were well retain history. Received $60,000 in grants to acquire and physics skills to solve Landmarks’ crafted. One group conceived the bridge • No, I don’t look at them as wrecking the Packard Building in Wilkinsburg, Eleventh Annual Design Challenge, offered as a giant timeline of Pittsburgh’s greatest ball targets, but as a chance to improve and began working with the Allegheny this year in cooperation with Point Park sports moments, with stadium-style stands the city they are in. County Economic Development University. Their task was to incorporate suspended from the bridge deck so people Department to acquire and restore one or both piers of the old Wabash Bridge could watch fireworks or board riverboat • Two words: adaptive use! the architecturally significant Crescent into a creative solution that would “bridge shuttles. Several bridges included observa- and Wilson apartment buildings. the gap” between Station Square on the tion decks, restaurants, gardens, wireless south shore of the Monongahela River access, and specially-designed lighting Franklin Regional High School Team 2 Acquired and began restoring four and downtown Pittsburgh on the north. systems. All the ideas brought the possibil- designed a pedestrian/bridge terminus, historic homes in Wilkinsburg, thanks The design challenge began with an ity of developing a pedestrian bridge on the connecting Pittsburgh’s bike trails at the orientation tour and site visit in September old Wabash Bridge piers to life. Point and on the north and south river to funding from Allegheny County, the 2006. Todd Wilson, one of Landmarks’ shores. Bicycle traffic would be restricted Sarah Scaife Foundation, and others. former scholarship recipients and now a Lessons Learned to the upper deck, leaving pedestrians in traffic engineer with DMJM Harris, and peace on the lower deck. When asked, “What was the most valuable Worked with the City to administer Robert Garson, civil engineering professor thing that you learned from this design a Pennsylvania Department of at Point Park University, met with students challenge,” some students wrote: Community and Economic and presented information on bridge terms, Development (DCED) grant to types, and design considerations. (To see • That everyone has ideas and a combina- stabilize and repair the outfield wall Todd’s presentation visit: www.phlf.org; tion can be used to make something great. remnant of Forbes Field in Oakland. click on “For Kids & Teachers”; and click on the first item). • To not procrastinate and to be prepared Launched and received corporate Once back at school, students worked for anything. funding to support “Building in teams over the next several months to • Things don’t just pop up; there is a design Pride/Building Character,” an brainstorm, discuss, sketch, and build. process involved. On February 22 and 23, teams presented educational program offered to • That you must work to combine a historic Pittsburgh Public Schools through their models before a jury of architects and engineers. One of the judges, Josh perspective with modern, creative ideas. the PA DCED’s Educational Cummings, had participated in Landmarks’ Improvement Tax-Credit Program. • That a bridge can be more interesting Architectural Design Challenge when he than I thought possible. was a student at Ligonier Valley; he is now Published three books: Beyond the a fourth-year design student at Carnegie • Teamwork really works. Surface: Architecture and Being Alive, by Walter C. Kidney; Life’s Riches, a book of excerpts from the writings of Walter C. Kidney; and A Patrician of Ideas: A Biography of A.W. Schmidt, by Clarke M. Thomas. Right: This Franklin Regional Middle School team shows Below: Valley High School students Opened the Frank B. Fairbanks Rail obvious pride in their model designed a cantilever, cable-stayed bridge Transportation Archive on the fourth of a portion of their design. with an elevated curve. Their goal was to floor of the Landmarks Building at Students used a covered Pratt create a “modern and striking” pedestrian Station Square. truss for their bridge and added bridge. Since it was intended to bring incline cars for accessibility at people together, they named it the Won a Sprout Fund grant for a the Station Square end. Fred Rogers Bridge. South Side mural on the RiverWalk Corporate Centre building at Carson Street and Terminal Way. Check it out!

Involved more than 17,000 people in educational programs (including tours, school programs, publications, and conferences). Left: Yough Middle School’s Fred Rogers Memorial Bridge for bikers and pedestri- ans included shops and food carts and was covered by a glass roof. PHLF News • April 2007 Page 13

Vandergrift: Main Street & Façade Grant Program

In Westmoreland County, the Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation and its for-profit subsidiary, Landmarks Development Corporation (LDC), are In Memoriam working with the local community organi- zation––the Vandergrift Improvement Ethel Hagler Program (VIP)––to revitalize the historic (1908–2006) central business district in Vandergrift. The town, 3.5-square miles, was laid out A trustee of Landmarks for 40 years in 1895 by the firm of Frederick Law and 97 years old when she died on Olmsted. Since June 2006, LDC and the November 11, 2006, Ethel Hagler VIP Board and Committee members have was a woman who made a world been working to complete Year 1 of the of difference. “Arthur [Ziegler] gave five-year Main Street Program. 145–147 Grant Avenue is eligible for the Façade Grant Program. The original balconies on the me confidence,” Ethel once told In March 2007, the completed Year 1 right side need to be reconstructed. The balconies on the left side are in good condition and Louise Sturgess, Landmarks’ execu- report was submitted to the Department of could be a reference for the restoration. Façade grant applicants who follow the design guide- tive director. “He believed in me Community and Economic Development lines and implement a successful restoration or rehabilitation will receive a reimbursement because I did the work.” (DCED). Now the VIP is beginning Year 2 grant maximum of $5,000. Arriving in Pittsburgh in 1931 of the Main Street Program. In Year 2, and settling on Lorraine Street on Vandergrift officially becomes a designated the North Side with her husband Main Street Community and a Façade William Spencer, Ethel built connec- Grant Program will be implemented. tions between the Sewickley com- Funding for Year 2 operational expenses munity, where Spence worked, consists of a $50,000 grant from DCED and the Central Northside in order to improve her neighborhood. and $15,000 in local pledges. The VIP will The storefronts and also receive $30,000 from DCED to She started a block club, began a façade of 139–141 window-box program with support operate the Façade Grant Program. Grant Avenue need “This year is going to be an exciting from the Sewickley Garden Club, to be restored. organized friends to deliver one for Vandergrift,” said Shaun Yurcaba, Four second-floor Christmas baskets, and raised funds Vandergrift Main Street coordinator and apartments are vacant. LDC employee. “Now that we’ve con- to help maintain, restore, and ducted market assessments, gathered eventually pay off the mortgage trade-area information, and created design for Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church. guidelines with the Façade Grant Program, Most significantly, Ethel started all of the important groundwork has been Neighborhood Housing Services in accomplished. We better understand the 1968. From a trailer on Jacksonia needs of Vandergrift and can now strategi- Street, she and others offered help to cally focus on how to bring businesses and low-income people who wanted to residents back into downtown.” become homeowners. Neighborhood Housing Services now operates in 250 U.S. cities. In recognition of all Success Stories that Ethel accomplished, Mayor Tom Murphy dedicated a parklet in There have been many success stories in When restored, her honor on June 5, 1999, across Vandergrift––and the Main Street effort is 123–125 Washington the street from her home. just getting started. Grants approved in Avenue will improve the Ethel inspired people with her 2006 to the VIP from Senator Jim Ferlo streetscape across from for $15,000 and from Representative the still-functioning words, as well as with her actions. Petrarca for $10,000 allowed work to Allegheny Ludlum When she recognized a need, she begin. A successful retail promotion steel mill, the largest was well known for saying “That’s brought an unprecedented 4,600 people employer in Vandergrift. going to cost money. I don’t have any into the downtown businesses over a two- money, but someone has money, and week period. Student interns from Kiski I’m going to call on them.” People Area High School are volunteering in the rarely said no to Ethel because she VIP offices and on projects. was committed to her cause, ener- On April 14, 2007, the Western Section getic, hopeful, and full of love and for PA/DE American Society of Landscape gratitude. She had a special knack for Architects is holding a landscape design solving problems, too: “If you have a charrette in Vandergrift. Landscape archi- problem,” she would say, “by the tecture students from Chatham College also Matta, director of real estate and special Tour Vandergrift on time you are done talking, I know are participating, along with VIP board and development programs at Landmarks, the answer, and I always know how committee members and local garden clubs. “are comprehensive; we are committed October 13, 2007 to get the right person to do the The Vandergrift Fine Arts Festival, to the Main Street Four-Point Approach Mary Lu Denny, director of membership right thing.” scheduled for June 2–16, is being funded focusing on Organization, Promotion, services at Landmarks, is organizing a bus “I work by faith and not by sight,” through grants from the Pennsylvania Design, and Economic Restructuring.” tour to Vandergrift on Saturday, October Ethel said. “I’ve had a good time Partnerships in the Arts and the PA Tom Keffer, property and construction 13. Join us by making a reservation with working. I don’t know if I love Department of Tourism, in collaboration manager, met with the VIP to survey build- Mary Lu: 412-471-5808, ext. 527; anything better, and that’s where with the Citizens For The Arts (CFTA). ing conditions and review rehabilitation [email protected]. you have success.” Nearby boroughs are using the VIP options. Jack Miller, director of gift planning, For further information about the program as a model as they begin the conducted an informational meeting to VIP, visit: www.officialvandergrift.com; Sutton-Hagler process of pursuing Main Street programs. show how property owners can convey 724-567-5286. Scholarship Fund real estate to the VIP in return for lifetime PHLF Staff Assists VIP income and significant tax benefits, and Patricia Sutton, Ethel Hagler’s niece, has worked out an initial real estate gift- Profits for Preservation has established a scholarship fund in In addition to on-site coordinator Shaun annuity. Eugene Matta helped the VIP It is the policy of Landmarks Development Ethel Hagler’s name to benefit the Yurcaba, several staff members of the prepare successful grant applications and Corporation to invest all net income that youth of Brown Chapel A.M.E. Pittsburgh History & Landmarks outline a long-term fundraising strategy. accrues from its work outside Allegheny Church and Greater Allen A.M.E. Foundation have assisted and advised Ron Yochum, chief information officer at County into the County from which Church. We encourage our members the Vandergrift Improvement Program. Landmarks, advised the VIP on information it originates. Therefore, through for-profit and friends to contribute. Please mail “The services that LDC can bring to a technology needs. operations, LDC can create revenues for your tax-deductible donations to: Main Street community,” said Eugene historic preservation in Western Pennsylvania Sutton-Hagler Scholarship Fund counties where philanthropic funding may be PNC Bank hard to generate. P.O. Box 6263 Pittsburgh, PA 15212-0263 Page 14 PHLF News • April 2007

Left: Compatible new housing on Selby Avenue, leading to the Cathedral of Saint Paul. Above: One of the extraordi- nary late-19th-century brick buildings on Selby Avenue on Cathedral Hill, with handsomely ornamented metal bay windows and metal balustrade ornamentation. Apartments and shops are located in the building; there’s a busy coffee shop on the corner called Nina’s.

The National Trust Cass Gilbert (1859–1934), a St. Paul Register in 1966. During the last through the city and is creating some architect who achieved national fame 20 years almost all the buildings have immediate expansion into edges of the Goes to St. Paul: for his design for the United States been converted to residential use. There downtown area that suffered demolition Supreme Court building (1932–35) in are shops and restaurants on the first years ago. We Recommend Washington, D.C., supervised part of floors of many of the buildings which the construction. were designed by a variety of architects, Of course the real treat (and the Trip In 1967, the Federal Government including Cass Gilbert and J. Walter one I enjoyed on a minus-four-degrees relocated its offices and planned to Stevens. The legendary “Empire Builder,” February evening) is to go to the oldest (Continued from page 2) demolish the Federal Courts building, James J. Hill, came to the area in 1856 surviving theatre, the Fitzgerald, built but a determined grassroots campaign, and went into railroading, building the in 1910 as a Shubert vaudeville house. mounted over seven years, saved the Great Northern Railroad that dominated It had a stage that could be raised or together and united by scale and building less than a week before the the Northwest. All these fine buildings lowered by two feet, a built-in vacuum intensive tree planting, with a central bulldozers were to arrive. Now called were a result of that entrepreneurialism. cleaning system, and nearly 2,000 electric main street called Selby on which there Landmark Center, it is owned by Interestingly, the cast iron columns lights. In 1933 it was turned into a are buildings that were erected for Ramsey County and is managed by at the Park Square Court building in four-plex for movies and renamed functional purposes early in the 20th Minnesota Landmarks, the nonprofit Lowertown were cast in the St. Paul the World Theater, closing in 1978. century, but which have been very local preservation group. The Center Foundry, which operated in the area and Minnesota Public Radio later acquired pleasantly treated so that the shop houses cultural activities and programs. created ornamental ironwork and iron and restored the building. fronts are attractive, well lighted, and Across the street is Rice Park, a storefronts that are still in use. Even To have the curtains part and have colorful. There are restaurants, coffee block-wide public space with sculpture, local brickyards produced the red and Garrison Keillor appear and talk to shops, florists, antique dealers, a corner including a statue of novelist F. Scott cream brick so widely used, and local the audience about “How we are the market house, and a bookstore. Toward Fitzgerald, born in St. Paul in 1896. quarries supplied the facing stone of Cold People” and to describe life in the Cathedral, there are several three- Facing the park, across from Landmark many of the buildings. Lake Wobegon at the nearby edge of to five-story apartment buildings on Center, is the historic Saint Paul Hotel, The Union Depot, designed by the prairie is a wonderful and unique Selby, some with first-floor retail, that listed on the National Register and a Charles S. Frost and erected in 1917–23, American experience. After the perfor- are remarkable Victorian brick buildings member of Historic Hotels of America. is a grand Classical building of stone mance enjoy cocktails at the handsome, with metal turrets and bays and towers It was designed by Reed & Stem of with a fine Classical interior waiting vast-curving L-shaped bar at The Saint and cornices, all in excellent condition New York and built in 1910. room with iron columns at each end; Paul Hotel, where bottles line 30-foot- and a joy to see. St. Paul faces the Mississippi River, the room is surmounted by a clear sky- long shelves from bottom to a top that but the downtown, like that of light. No passenger trains run today, must be more than 12 feet high, and Downtown is laced with historic Pittsburgh, is somewhat removed from but a Greek restaurant has been installed then have dinner in The St. Paul Grill, buildings. St. Paul Palace Theatre (still the river because of wide roads and on a podium in the main waiting room which claims to be “So classic they awaiting a potential reuse) and the Park elongated parks along those roads. and the building is currently being named a City after it.” Square Theatre, both facing the Seventh Therefore the city really faces inward. converted to 40 condominiums. Street Mall, anchor the business district When you leave the hotel and shopping A plan exists to extend the recently Garrison Keillor of “A Prairie Home which still has a Macy’s department area, and journey down just a few developed light rail line that now runs store and a number of streetfront shops. Companion” will address preserva- blocks, you arrive at a second city core, from Mall of America in the suburbs tionists from Pittsburgh and across Highly visible and located one block Lowertown, which was a warehouse of Minneapolis and the Minneapolis-St. from the Seventh Street Mall is the area associated with the railroads and Paul airport to downtown Minneapolis, the nation in the Fitzgerald Theater former Federal Courts building (1892– Union Depot. and on to Union Depot, thereby linking on October 3, during the Opening 1902), originally serving as a Post Office, For the most part, the buildings in the two cities together by rail transit. Plenary of the National Preservation Customs House, and Courthouse. The Lowertown are substantial, concrete- New residential buildings also exist, Conference, October 2–6, 2007. The Romanesque structure was designed frame structures with brick walls, both small and large, throughout the conference theme in the Twin Cities is by James Knox Taylor, supervising from the mid-1880s through 1923. downtown and in fact residential living “Preservation Matters.” Be there! architect of the United States Treasury. Lowertown was placed on the National threads its way unceremoniously

Left: The former Federal Courts building was inspired by H. H. Richardson’s Allegheny County Courthouse. Now called Landmark Center, it is home to Minnesota Landmarks. Above: Designed by St. Paul architect Cass Gilbert in 1895 and completed in 1905, the Minnesota State Capitol was constructed of grayish-white granite from St. Cloud, Minnesota, and Georgian marble. It has a central dome, which is claimed to be a “near-exact copy of St. Peter’s in Rome.” PHLF News • April 2007 Page 15

PRESERVATION SCENE: Around Allegheny County Incline Ridership Increases On May 20 the Duquesne Incline will be 130 years old! Ridership rose to 387,660 for the Duquesne Incline in 2006, an increase of about 50,000 people from the previous year. Landmarks’ “Overview Tour” for National Preservation Conference attendees (see page 2) included a ride on the incline for a view of the city. This year, Landmarks has included an incline ride for Pittsburgh Public School students in its “Building Pride/Building Character” program (see page 9). Red Oak Café Saves Altwater Murals Burke’s Building for Sale When Kuntz Bakery closed in the Iroquois Downtown Pittsburgh’s earliest surviving Building on Forbes Avenue in Oakland, office building, designed in 1836 by Landmarks urged that the Altwater murals John Chislett, is for sale. The Western be saved (see PHLF News, September 2004), Pennsylvania Conservancy has occupied thanks to information provided by trustee the Greek Revival landmark at 209 Fourth David Vater and members Chris Zurawsky Carrie Furnaces: A National Avenue since 1996, and renovated the and Laurie Cohen. The Red Oak Café Historic Landmark structure according to “green”-building has now opened in the space, and the sepia- principles. The Conservancy is relocating tone murals of Pittsburgh in the 1940s are a On November 4, 2006, the Carrie Furnaces to Washington’s Landing. familiar and welcome sight to see. in Rankin were designated a National Adjacent to PPG Place, located within Historic Landmark, the highest level of a City Historic District, and listed on the The nonprofit Society for the Preservation historic recognition offered by the federal National Register of Historic Places, the of the Duquesne Incline has operated the Western Penitentiary government. The furnaces opened in 1884, 8,000 square-foot three-story building incline since 1962. The Society recently To Re-open and Pittsburgh industrialist H. C. Fownes is listed for $1.1 million. Interested? repaired the incline car roofs, repainted Closed in January 2005, Western sold them in 1898 to Andrew Carnegie. Contact: CB Richard/Ellis (412-471-9500). the exteriors, and oiled and polished the Penitentiary will open this July as a (In retirement, Fownes became an avid interiors––at a cost of more than $8,000. minimum/lower-minimum security facility, golfer and ended up creating Oakmont’s Take a ride! providing drug and alcohol treatment to championship course in 1903—see page 6). inmates. Built between 1876 and 1882 to The Rivers of Steel National Heritage designs by E. M. Butz, the rock-faced Area plans to make the Carrie Furnaces building is in the Woods Run neighborhood the focal point of a proposed 38-acre on Pittsburgh’s North Side, along the banks national historic site celebrating the region’s of the Ohio River. iron- and steel-making history. Hard-hat tours of the Carrie Furnaces will be offered in May. For details: 412-464-4020; www.riversofsteel.com. Ten of the nation’s approximately 2,449 National Historic Landmarks are located in Allegheny County. The other nine are the: “Forks of the Ohio”; “Woodville,” the home of John and Presley Neville Coraopolis Station Saved (c. 1780); Smithfield Street Bridge (1883); The Coraopolis Community Development Emmanuel Episcopal Church (1886); Foundation (CCDF) has acquired the Allegheny County Courthouse and Jail Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad Station (1888); Bost Building (1892); Kennywood at Neville Avenue and Mill Street, and Park (1898); Oakmont Country Club intends to renovate the building as a multi- (1903); and Chatham Village (1930s). purpose community center, museum, and cafe. Since the Richardsonian Romanesque structure is listed on the National Register of Potential Buyer for Point View Hotel To Be St. Nicholas Church Historic Places, the project could be eligible for rehabilitation grants and tax incentives. Demolished The Follieri Group LLC, a New York “The goal of the Station Project,” said The historic Point View Hotel of 1832 at real estate firm, has entered into a tentative Sam Jampetro, executive director of CCDF, agreement with the Catholic Diocese of 3720 Brownsville Road in Brentwood has “is to involve the community in the renova- been purchased by CPM Development and Pittsburgh to purchase St. Nicholas Church tion process and to create a gathering and on Pittsburgh’s North Side within the is to be replaced by a three-story medical working space that encourages interaction office building. Most recently a bar and next few months, pending due diligence. between all members of the community.” In March, the Diocese removed artifacts restaurant but historically an inn and To help, contact Sam: 412-302-1899; restaurant, the Point View Hotel was a of religious significance and painted over [email protected]. religious murals. stop on the Underground Railroad in the The brownstone and buff-brick 1850s, where fugitive slaves could find St. Nicholas was the first Croatian Roman station––now near collapse––was designed Union Trust Building Catholic Church in the United States. safety on their way to freedom in Canada. in 1895 by Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge, The hotel was included in the African- for Sale Designed in 1901 by Frederick Sauer, the successor firm to H. H. Richardson. The Union Trust Building, more recently the church was threatened by PennDOT’s American Historic Sites Survey of Allegheny known as Two Mellon Bank Center, occupies proposed expansion of Route 28 (see PHLF County, conducted by Landmarks and an entire block between Grant Street and News, February 2003), but Landmarks Dormont Pool & Park Landmarks Design Associates Architects William Penn Place and Fifth and Oliver trustee George White and many others Dormont Council voted on March 5 to end in 1992, and published in 1994 by the Avenues. Completed in 1917 to designs by worked with PennDOT to revise the talks regarding commercial development on Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Frederick Osterling and sensitively restored highway plans and save the church. The land occupied by the community park and Commission. Andrew Jackson, Zachary in 2002, the Flemish Gothic landmark is Diocese closed the church in 2005 for pool. John Maggio, president of Friends of Taylor, James Buchanan, and Thaddeus one of Pittsburgh’s most noticed. financial reasons, and the Croatian Dormont Pool (FDP), informed Landmarks Stevens reportedly stayed in the inn on The Union Arcade, as it was first named, American Cultural and Economic Alliance president Arthur Ziegler of the good news. their way to Pittsburgh. Major changes was a building speculation of Henry Clay tried to purchase St. Nicholas from the FDP is committed to raising funds to save have been made to the exterior over the Frick. The arcade of 240 shops––the largest Diocese, but without success. and repair the 87-year-old pool. The 501c(3) years, thus compromising its architectural in the world when it opened––was set The Follieri Group has not announced organization has raised about $35,000; the integrity, but the historical significance of within an 11-story office building housing its plans for St. Nicholas. Since St. Nicholas Borough has received $287,000 in grants; the Point View Hotel is undisputed. some 700 offices. The terra cotta, marble, was designated a City Historic Structure in and matching grant money is available. and bronze-trimmed lobby with its superb 2001, no exterior changes can be made to An estimated $1 million is needed. Fund- central rotunda rising through 11 stories the structure without prior approval from raising efforts continue, and a Dormont to an enormous stained-glass dome remains the City’s Historic Review Commission. cookbook is in the works. To donate: Pittsburgh’s most impressive downtown www.savedormontpool.com. And yes, interior space. CB Richard Ellis expects the pool will be open this summer! to sell the building for around $30 million. Page 16 PHLF News • April 2007

The Point from Mt. Washington, c. 1896 Library and Archives Division, Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, PA

Ashbee Advocated Pittsburgh Preservation Society in 1900 On Wednesday, November 21, 1900, the Pittsburgh Dispatch reported the following on page 13, under the headline “Would Preserve Beauty Spots of Pittsburg: London Man Will Endeavor to Organize Society Here With That Object in View.” C. R. Ashbee, an architect from London, and a member of the London Society for the Preservation of Historic Buildings, has been in the city for the past four days. He lectured before the Academy of Science and Arts, dilating on the objects of his society….Mr. Ashbee has spent much of his time at the art galleries in Carnegie Library building. He says the exhibit is one of the finest he has ever seen. Albert M. Tannler He visited the old Block House C.R. Ashbee Visits Pittsburgh and is pleased that it has been preserved….“The Pittsburg Court Five months after his designs were Few of the civic leaders he talked taught apprentices to become skilled House,” says he, “is regarded by exhibited at the 1900 Pittsburgh with seemed aware of or interested in income-producing craftsmen using pre- architects as the master-work of Architectural Club Exhibition, English the city’s history. industrial methods and tools. Historian architect Charles Robert Ashbee (1863– Peter Davey calls Ashbee “by far the Richardson, who designed it. But the I looked into the history of the ... city 1942) visited Pittsburgh on an American most original thinker of the later Arts and found her full of records of the beauty of the building is obscured by tour sponsored by the National Trust and Crafts movement” who “did more heroism of past times, the early war of the little buildings surrounding it. of Great Britain. He stayed in the city than any other Arts and Crafts architect Independence and the struggle with With a society formed it would November 18 to 21, 1900, lectured on to try to turn [William] Morris’s ideals France; one little landmark alone had likely come to pass that those small the importance of preserving historic into practice.” In Pittsburgh in 1900 been saved by some pious ladies from buildings, visited the Fort Pitt Block this Arts and Crafts architect saw only buildings which now shut out from afar. I asked one of her leading citizens House, and viewed the 5th Annual squalor and indifference. view the grandeur of your court if nothing could be done to record or Carnegie International. Ashbee’s designs were exhibited at house would be purchased, razed, accentuate those things. “Nobody knew Ashbee was profoundly shaken by the 1907 Pittsburgh Architectural Club and leave your magnificent building of them,” he said, “and nobody cared.” what he saw and experienced. So much exhibition and he returned to Pittsburgh standing in the center of a garden, so that a portrait of Pittsburgh—disguised Ashbee observed: in 1915. On June 11 he delivered the tended and cared for as expedi- as “the Nameless City”—became the Convocation address, “The Arts and I saw in her streets poverty and squalor tiously as the lawn of any of your centerpiece of a speech he gave to the Greater Life,” at Carnegie Institute and filth that looked as if it sought to millionaires.” Mr. Ashbee goes to the Chicago Architectural Club the of Technology (Carnegie Tech/CMU). rival the misery of our industrial creations following month (the speech and other He told his audience: “I was in Chicago today to deliver a lecture. in England; and when I endeavoured to references to Pittsburgh were published Pittsburgh 15 years ago and was very From there he will go to St. Louis, point to the connection between what I later in American Sheaves and English unhappy and made a vow then that I Cincinnati, Baltimore, Philadelphia saw and the public spirit of her citizens, Seed Corn: Being a Series of Addresses would never come back again. I felt it I was told that they were very practical and Boston. He expects to return to Mainly Given in the United States, dirty and so depressing. I have a different people, … [who] could not be bothered Pittsburg soon, however, and carry 1900–1901). “In the course of my opinion of the city now. The younger with questions of this sort, that they had forward the organization of his journey I have come to one city, one Pittsburgh is doing what the old Pittsburgh no time, that such things might interest society in this city. of your greatest and wealthiest where did not see and could not realize.” women and so forth, but for their part seemed to me to be typified almost Ashbee recorded his impressions of the object of life was to get rich as soon everything that a city should not be, conversations with faculty member as possible, not to be themselves trodden or that a citizen should not do.” Henry Hornbostel in his Journal: upon in the race for wealth, and to leave He noted the natural beauty of the … as soon as they could, and live else- The vast majority of his students landscape and the impressive bridges, where, New York, London, anywhere. are industrial & destined to remain but found: cogs in the machine of ‘big business’. At first, Ashbee’s Chicago audience [The rivers] were covered with a How humanize them & it? The old way thought he was criticizing their city— black slime, the scum of her works of the humanist no longer works, he “Tells Architectural Club This City has and factories; the thought that the refuse wanted me because I was trying another. no Appreciation of Beautiful in History/ and rubbish of the works should be The real problem is social, and that is HIS AUDIENCE AGHAST/Many of consumed and not left to befoul the not yet solved. It is not a mere economic His Hearers Refuse to Countenance His whole waterway had never occurred to problem, for so many people want the remarks by Remaining and Leave the the citizens ... as a possibility, much less things these men & women would Hall”—was part of a headline, but the as a duty. Across these streams engineers stand for given the chance. We are in confusion was soon cleared up. In his had built bridges, fine, purposeful and disorder, the new values are entering report to the National Trust, Ashbee dignified structures because strictly into life. Clearly, Pittsburgh is beginning wrote that Pittsburgh was “the only city utilitarian; but the steel ties were disfig- to realize this. I see a changed city. C. R. Ashbee in 1903 I have visited in America that seems to ured by the placards of tradesmen. The transformation in 15 years has Drawing by William Strang be without any sort of public spirit or Art Workers’ Guild collection All around was a chain of hills of such been amazing. any sense of citizenship.” natural beauty, that the lie of the land Coming from an observer whose Ashbee returned to Carnegie Tech in seemed to rival that of any city in the assessments of American architecture November to give a lecture at the School world. As little regard was paid to the and society are overwhelmingly enthu- of Design and he attended “A Masque trees as to the streams, the finest points siastic and fair, Ashbee’s critique was of Charlemagne” performed by students of view were disfigured by advertise- very harsh indeed. We should remember, and faculty. In Where the Great City ments and used as midden heaps. however, that in 1900 Pittsburgh’s qual- Stands: A Study in the New Civics, There were pollution control laws, ity of life was at one of its lowest points. published in 1917, he wrote: “I have but they were not enforced so “the city We should also recall that Ashbee was been many times to Pittsburg, and have was always covered with a dense pall of a staunch opponent of the industrial always felt it to be a dreadful city; but smoke and soot.” system. In Ashbee’s School and Guild of latterly has come a change, and I see Handicraft (1889–1919), master artists the beginning of a spiritual revolution.” PHLF News • April 2007 Page 17

Worth Reading The Spectator and the Topographical City, by Martin Aurand. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006. hardcover, 248 pages, 150 illustrations; $29.95

Pittsburgh stands at the intersection of land and city, landscape and architecture, the natural and the man- made; yet this dichotomy has been little acknowledged. Written works about Pittsburgh frequently start with a few paragraphs in praise of the terrain—and then move on to other topics at hand. [ix]

Martin Aurand succinctly intro- duces the subject of his book: beautifully conceived and written, meticulously researched and documented, and handsomely illustrated with historical photo- graphs, architectural drawings, artwork by leading regional artists, and original illustrations by Clayton Merrell. His thesis is: “The land generates its own history, and the built environment––whether by design, A photograph taken during the 1936 air show at the Allegheny County Airport intuition, or coincidence––is an act of topographical response.” (Lebanon Church Road, West Mifflin Township) shows Hornbostel’s grand scheme The interplay of place and architecture (broadly defined) realized. Courtesy of the Allegheny County Airport Authority is examined in “three terrestrial rooms that are at once essential to any understanding of Pittsburgh, singular in their scope and qualities, and representative of the spaces Copacabana Beach-type Paving and visual experiences of the . . . city”: The Golden Triangle, the Turtle Creek Valley, and Oakland. Readers explore the lithic Did Exist at County Airport character of H. H. Richardson’s Allegheny County Buildings, the impact of the skyscraper, and the tension between tall We reprint the following note from David Vater, RA, a trustee of Landmarks and buildings and green spaces; the interplay of technology and co-editor of Henry Hornbostel: An Architect’s Master Touch, by Walter C. Kidney industry with the physical environment; and the achievements (Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation, 2002): of academic monumentalism. Martin, who worked at Landmarks in the 1980s, explicates Oops! In Henry Hornbostel: An Architect’s Master Touch, for the photo caption on an area of inquiry pioneered and richly explored by James D. Van page 184 below the rendering of the Allegheny County Airport, Walter wrote: Trump and Walter Kidney, architectural historians at Landmarks. “The Copacabana Beach-type paving between the terminal and the gates was never He cites the work and words of both frequently, noting that realized.” Also in the text on page 183, “The grand scheme that Hornbostel Walter’s 1968 Progressive Architecture article “Pittsburgh: envisioned…was, alas, not realized.” A Study in Urban Identity” was “especially revelatory.” The 1936 aerial photograph published on 9/4/06 in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Martin is archivist of the Carnegie Mellon University shows that Hornbostel’s grand scheme was built. Notice the concentric zig-zag paving, Architecture Archives, architecture librarian of the Carnegie the grand circular drive, the circular landscape planting and the axial boulevards, Mellon University Libraries, and author of The Progressive all built just as Hornbostel proposed. Viewed from the sky or experienced on land, Architecture of Frederick G. Scheibler, Jr. (University of the proud Art Deco terminal and its jazzy grounds projected chutzpa and swagger! Pittsburgh, 1994). With a little imagination one might also suppose that the parallel entrance drives The Spectator and the Topographical City, together with connected by two cross drives and separated by landscaped islands [as shown in Martin’s earlier study of Frederick Scheibler, belong in the the rendering below] might appear from the air as a huge monogram, H atop H. company of the best late-20th and early-21st-century explora- Now whom do we know with the initials H. H.? tions of Pittsburgh architecture: Van Trump’s history of the Allegheny County courthouses (1988); Margaret Henderson To learn more about the architect who, as Walter writes, had an “element of mischief in him” Floyd’s studies of Longfellow, Alden, and Harlow (1994) and and “used his schooling and acquaintance with historic architecture in a creative, innovative, and H. H. Richardson (1997); Richard Cleary’s documentation bold manner,” read Henry Hornbostel: An Architect’s Master Touch ($39.95 less 10% member- of the Kaufmann/Wright collaborations (1999); and ship discount; hardcover, 272 pp, 470 illustrations including more than 200 color photographs). Walter Kidney’s assessment of Henry Hornbostel (2002). To order, contact Frank Stroker (412-471-5808, ext. 525; [email protected]). We thank David for noticing the photograph in the Tribune-Review and calling the correction to our attention. ◆

1936 rendering by C. A. Lake of the Allegheny County Airport. The elite have had little presence on Mount Courtesy of the Allegheny County Department of Public Works Washington. Van Trump describes the buildings that actually line the hilltop as “raffish and haphazard,” as if one of the city’s helter-skelter neighborhoods had “crept up the other side of the ridge, and with one eye closed, hair all anyway, and cap pulled down, was peering over the edge with a kind of friendly shyness down at the Golden Triangle.” —Martin Aurand The Spectator and the Topographical City, 87 Quotations from J. D. Van Trump, “An Antiphon of Stones: Some Random Native Notes to a Visiting Architectural Critic in Pittsburgh,” The Charette (July 1963), 11. Page 18 PHLF News • April 2007

Our Members Comment Welcome New Members (September 1, 2006 through February 20, 2007) Both my son and daughter participated in the architectural program for high school students…sponsored by the PHLF. Members are vital to the work and growth of Landmarks. Many members volunteer One became a Landscape Architect and the other a Civil Engineer. their time to help with educational programs, office work, and preservation projects. I feel PHLF is a very worthwhile organization… By joining, each person demonstrates his/her belief in our mission—and contributes to a strong, collective voice for historic preservation in Pittsburgh. —Paul Topolosky, in an e-mail to Mary Lu Denny on February 27 Jillian Ackman James A. Ruffing Folasade Adebimpe Kathy Ruffing Rodney and Julie Agar Maxine Russ Thank you so much for Life’s Riches. It is indeed a gem and Walter Jennifer Alman Thomas R. Schiff and I are pleased and proud to have it. I only wish the epilogue Anthony Waters Enterprises Michael Sciarretti could be emblazoned in some public place before it’s too late! William Arensberg Luke Secosky Meanwhile, we’ll enjoy the book and the reality. Janice Auth Sewickley Valley Historical Society —Joy Blenko, in a note to Mary Lu Denny Michael Barkowski Jeff Slack Shannon Baron Larry R. Slater on February 14 Angelo Bartic Dana Spriggs Jacob Beatty Dorothy M. Stenzel Editor’s Note: The epilogue in Life’s Riches, a book of excerpts Gregory Boulos Thomas Stevenson from the writings of Walter C. Kidney, reads as follows: Marian L. Cardani Charles Stout and family Our settlement in this ancient terrain, this wild and spacious Ronald Carter Ritu Thomas place, is a mere incident in its duration. Yet while we are here, Barbara Cinpinski Regan O. Thompson let us enjoy what we have brought into being, the scatterings of Kevin Clark Katie Trimble little white houses, the engineering works, the monuments to W. Brewster Cockrell Valley View Presbyterian Church matters large and small, the beautifications of the land, the Harlan Conti Waldorf School occasional quiet masterpieces of the building art. Marilou Cummings Jessica Wang It will take no third Ice Age to eliminate what we have built. Ryan Decker Amanda Weber A demolition, a cheap and heedless remodeling, or simple Nancy Denhart Mary Weise neglect will do this at any time. Veronica Rose Denton Jill M. Weiss and David W. Hance Julie Deseyn and family Sean Donohue Andrew Weitz I had the pleasure of meeting you last Wednesday evening at Thomas Doyle Ben Wertheim the new members reception. I am impressed with the good works Dr. & Mrs. Bernard K. Feinman James White and heart felt people in the foundation… Rose G. Ferraro Gail Wilson Kelley Folts Scott Wise —Jeannie McGuire, in an e-mail to Karl Fox Alexa Zin Arthur Ziegler on February 14 Franklin Park Baptist Church Richard A. Gaetano Phyllis Genszler What a thrill to go over all the marvelous activities that PHLF Corporate Members Jennifer Gilley and Nathan Fullerton accomplished in their Preservation Program! Thank you for Benefactors Grace Episcopal Church CB Richard Ellis/Pittsburgh sending me the information. I am thankful and proud to be a Mark and Donna Hall lifetime member as I benefit greatly from your generosity. Highmark Bruce Haney The James H. Matthews Company —Lucille C. Tooke, in an e-mail Brigid Hartnett Molly’s Trolleys on December 10, 2006 Hazelwood Christian Church Morgan Stanley Peter Hilton Mylan Laboratories, Inc. Roberta Hood Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership Your article on the Sewickley La Farge windows (and indeed Nancy Iocomini the whole current issue [October 2006] of the PHLF newsletter) Cynthia Kamin Patron was wonderful….Slowly, but surely, you are educating us to see Daniel Katz Dollar Bank the treasures that are all around us but generally unnoticed. Tiffany Kenst Partners Penny Koshenko Bruce Plastics, Inc. —Archivist Martha L. Berg, in an e-mail Abigail Kun Chatham Village Homes, Inc. to Al Tannler on October 19, 2006 John E. Kyle F. L. Haus Company Diane Lally Forest City Enterprises Eric Langkamp Forest City Management Ann Latta Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Richard F. Lerach Gates Ellis, LLP Missing Sleigh Mystery Mr. & Mrs. Jan Levine Landmarks Design Associates Sterling Contracting LLC With the recent discovery of a historic bed from the Glenn B. Lewis Urban Design Associates Monongahela House, slept in by Abraham Lincoln during Daniel Little his visit to Pittsburgh on February 14–15, 1861, we thought Jeffrey Loeb Associates we might have similar luck in finding a historic sleigh. Tim Matthews For Wood Group Here’s what we know: Lynn McGrath Mariani & Richards Jeannie McGuire Shady Ave Magazine • A single-seat, two-passenger horse-drawn sleigh was most John Migliozzi TRACO recently displayed between 1985 and 1992 at the Station Square Ross Miller Transportation Museum, located in the old Boiler House next Moon Area School District to the Landmarks Building. Robert Moore • In 1992 the Station Square Transportation Museum closed and many Richard Mykytiuk Pay On-Line of the vehicles were transferred to the Miller Printing building on the Dennis and Darlene Natale and family Members and friends of Landmarks can North Side where a new museum was to open. However, the plan Louis A. Nudi make annual membership payments–– proved unfeasible, and some of the collection became part of the Karl and Ruth Ohrman Car & Carriage Museum at The Frick Art & Historical Center. or pay for tours or books––from their Lydia Pagliari computers through our secure web site • Many of our members might remember seeing the sleigh in the Alison Pavilonis www.phlf.org. Once a payment is Old Post Office Museum on Pittsburgh’s North Side, operated by Pine-Richland School District processed you will receive a receipt in our organization from 1972 to 1983. Edgar Kratz loaned the sleigh Pittsburgh Christian Fellowship your e-mailbox from us via our credit to the Old Post Office Museum in 1975. Pittsburgh Public School System card processor, PayPal. • Recently, descendants of the donor inquired about the whereabouts Stephen Quick and Karen Lee Sloneker Or, you can call Mary Lu Denny of the sleigh because they would like to see it continue to be on Jenne Renkin (412-471-5808, ext. 527) to make public display, as would we. Cheryl Richardson and Kurt Pelisari payments. If you know something about the sleigh, please contact Mary Lu Denny John and Debbie Rohe (412-471-5808, ext. 527; [email protected]). Anna Rosenblum PHLF News • April 2007 Page 19

Membership Thank You for Contributing (September 1, 2006 through February 20, 2007) Has Its Continuing support from members, foundations, and businesses enables us to quickly respond to community needs. New requests Privileges from groups throughout the region come in daily, asking for our help to reverse the decline of a historic main street, to save a specific building, to prepare a National Register nomination, to underwrite a feasibility study that would identify a new use • Free subscription to PHLF News for a vacant building, to help school students explore their communities, etc. Your gifts support historic preservation programs and a 10% discount on all of and services throughout the Pittsburgh region. Landmarks’ publications • Free admission to “Woodville Plantation,” the National Allegheny County Courthouse Assignment Gift Memberships Historic Landmark home Room Restoration Project • Roger Beal, for a gift membership for Mrs. Denton Beal (c. 1780) of John and Presley • Dickie, McCamey & Chilcote, PC • Lori Feinman, for a gift membership for Dr. & Mrs. Bernard Neville (see page 4) • Pietragallo, Bosick & Gordon, LLP K. Feinman • Invitations to preservation • Savinis, D’Amico, & Kane, LLC • Jeremy Hustwit, for a gift membership for Dana Spriggs seminars, lectures, and special • Martha Jordan, for a gift membership for Mr. & Mrs. Corporate Matching Gifts Jan Levine educational events and tours • Chevron Matching Gift Program, for matching a gift from • Richard I. Lerach, for a gift membership for Richard F. Lerach • Free walking tours Alfred N. Mann • Stanley A. Lowe, for a gift membership for Betty Jane Ralph • Free materials upon request, • H. J. 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MEMBERSHIP EVENTS: 2007 Join Us for a series of lectures and tours celebrating regional history and architecture. For further details or to make reservations, contact: 412-471-5808, ext. 527; [email protected]; or visit www.phlf.org. We also hope to add a special tour to Bedford Springs (see page 4).

“Bertram Goodhue: Walking Tour: Bus and Walking Tour: His Life and Residential The Endangered Physical Homewood’s Historic Architecture” Legacy of August Wilson’s Landmarks Friday, April 13 Hill District Saturday, September 15 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Saturday, June 23 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. PLUS FREE Lecture by author Romy Wyllie, 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. Tour leader: Sarah Campbell co-sponsored by Landmarks and the Meeting and ending locations: WALKING TOURS Tour leader: Laurence Glasco Department of History of Art and Meeting and ending locations: Freedom Station Square, at the base of the steps • Downtown Architecture, University of Pittsburgh, Corner, Centre and Crawford Streets. outside The Shops at Station Square and offered in conjunction with the across from the parking garage entrance. Every Friday, May through October Members: Free; Non-members: $5 Society of Architectural Historians Noon to 1:00 p.m. Paid reservations by Wednesday, June 20 Members: $20; Non-members: $45 —May: Grant Street and Mellon Square Annual Conference. Followed by a Paid reservations by Wednesday, reception and book-signing. September 12 —June: Bridges & More Frick Fine Arts Building Auditorium, Boat Tour: —July: Penn-Liberty Cultural District University of Pittsburgh, Schenley Drive. Pittsburgh’s Bridges Bus and Walking Tour: —August: Fourth Avenue and PPG Place Members: $5; Non-members: $10 from the Rivers —September: Fifth & Forbes Students: free Vandergrift Sunday, July 15 Saturday, October 13 • Oakland’s Civic Center 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. 1:30 to 5:00 p.m. Every Wednesday in June “Chatham Village: A Tour leader: Mary Ann Eubanks Tour leaders: Shaun Yurcaba and members Noon to 1:00 p.m. Sustainable Community Meeting and ending locations: of the Vandergrift Improvement Program • South Side and Icon of the International RiverQuest dock on the Ohio River, and Victorian Vandergrift Museum & Every Saturday in June Garden Cities Movement” behind The Carnegie Science Center. Historical Society. 10:30 to 11:45 a.m. Arrive by 1:45 p.m.; cast-off is at 2:00! Meeting and ending locations: Thursday, April 19 Members: $20; Non-members: $45 Station Square, at the base of the steps • Pittsburgh Parks (Schenley, Frick, 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. Paid reservations by Wednesday, July 11 outside The Shops at Station Square Highland, Riverview, and Keynote address by across from the parking garage entrance. Allegheny Commons) Paul Farmer and Glass with Class: “Alfred Members: $25; Non-members: $50 Every Sunday in September Vincent Goodstadt, Paid reservations by Wednesday, 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. Godwin’s Glass at Clayton” co-sponsored by October 10 the Chatham Saturday, September 8 • Old Allegheny County Jail Village Board Two Sessions: Every Monday through October of Directors, 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. (except city holidays) Landmarks, 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. Rachel Carson Celebration 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. and the Heinz Lecture by Al Tannler, co-sponsored by Visit www.rachelcarson.org for details Architectural The Frick Art & Historical Center and on four events (April 20, May 27, For meeting locations and to Center, Carnegie Landmarks, followed by a Stained Glass September 29, and November 3) make walking tour reservations, contact Museum of Art. and Decorative Arts Tour of Clayton. honoring the centennial of the birth Mary Lu Denny (412-471-5808, Reception following. Lexington House and Clayton of Rachel Carson, founder of the Carnegie Library Lecture ext. 527; [email protected]) PHLF & Frick members: $12 modern environmental movement. Hall, 4400 Forbes Avenue, Oakland. Non-members: $15 The May 27 event includes a Free to all, thanks to a generous grant Block Party at the Rachel Carson from the Harry C. Goldby Pittsburgh Preservation Fund of the Pittsburgh Homestead in Springdale. History & Landmarks Foundation.

Kelly Art Glass Stained Glass (412) 821-4449 Rodef Shalom Congregation McClelland Plastering Architectural Plastering (724) 327-5746 Making History: Wilson & McCracken Woodworking (412) 784-1772 Building Community Kelly Custom Carpentry Custom Carpentry (412) 779-2879 Starz Interior Restoration Wood Stripping & Refinishing (412) 441-0666 Symposium on Sunday, November 4 1:30 to 4:00 p.m. Here, we see William Blystone Upholstering (412) 371-3511 John Kelly of Rodef Shalom Congregation is Jackson's Cabinet Shop Period Reproduction Furniture (412) 487-1291 celebrating the 150th anniversary of Kelly Art Glass Gilding Atelier of Pennsylvania Gold Leaf (412) 521-2263 installing the its Charter and the 100th anniversary Lucas Markantone Painting Painting & Decorating (724) 325-2872 of its sanctuary building, designed newly restored by architect Henry Hornbostel. Weaver Ornamental Iron Ornamental Iron (412) 475-2117 windows at This symposium is free to the public, Olde Lang Signs Carved & Glass Signs (412) 732-9999 with free parking in Rodef Shalom’s Old St. Luke’s. lot at Fifth and Morewood Avenues. Red Clay Tileworks Custom Hand Made Tiles (412) 734-2222 Tours of the building will be offered. Peter Pearson Icons and Liturgical Design (412) 848-2642 See the entire Paul Means Murals and Faux Finishing (724) 287-1057 Keynote Speaker: Jonathan Sarna, story at our Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History at Brandeis website: University and author of American Judaism. Dr. Sarna’s lecture will be followed by www.westpenncraftguild.com two panels. One, on the “Building of Rodef Shalom,” includes remarks by: • Eliza Smith Brown Author of Pittsburgh Legends and Visions: PHLF News is published at least twice a year for the members of the Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation. An Illustrated History © 2007 Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation. Designed by Pytlik Design Associates, Inc.

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