May 1994 .1994 Membership Events Listing

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Published for the members of the Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation No. 134 May 1994 .1994 Membership Events Listing . Progress Report: The Religious Properties Preservation Study . Education News/ Preservation Scene . Pittsburgh Architecture: Imports from Philadelphia

Archite cttlre after Richurd,s orL A Masterpiece in Print

In June, the Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation plans to celebrate the release of Margaret

Henderson Floyd' s book Ar c hít e c ture af't e r Ri c hard s o n : Regionalism beþre Modernism; Longfellow, Alden, and Herlow in Boston and Pittsburgh. Margaret Henderson Floyd is a professor of art and architectural history at Tufts University. Her 568-page casebound book, pub- lished by The University of Chicago Press in association with Landmarks, is handsomely designed and lavishly illustrated with 455 photographs. It is a fascinating study of Pittsburgh and its architecture at the turn of the centu- ry, and it offers a new perspective on the decades fol- Iowing H. H. Richardson's death, a crucial period in America's architectural development. The publication was funded in part by generous grants from the Allegheny Foundation; Architectural Heritage Foundation; Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts; The George Gund Foundation; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Northeastem University; the Revolving Fund for Education of the Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation; Sewickley Valley Historical Society; Tufts University; and throughT2 contributions from individuals and businesses in Pittsburgh. Looking Back For nine years now, Walter Kidney and Louise Sturgess of Landmarks and Mary Beth Pastorius of Sewickley have been working with Margaret in the research, editing, and production of Architecture after Richardsen. Walter happened to meet Margaret in 1985 when the Society of Architectural Historians came to Pittsburgh. (Margaret was then a trustee, and she and Boston and Píttsburgh, tuto cities so different yet cuhurally tied, not Least by the archítecture of Longfellou:, Alden & Vy'alter had had an exchange of letters about Victorian Harlow. Above: Píttsburgh in 1890, by CharLes Graham. Below: Boston in 1877, by John Bachman. terra cotta.) Margaret let Walter know that she was researching Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow, obviously a Yankee but with Pittsburgh connections, and this in short time led to a widened interest in the architects who between 1886 and 1896 made up the Boston-Pittsburgh partner- ship of Longfellow, Alden & Harlow. The development of the theme led to Landmarks' becoming one of the book's publishers, to Ma"rgaret

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The LongþIlou, Alden & Harlout Pittsburgh office staff, photographed in their new Vandergrift Euilding in 1894. Between the dooruays, in a hat, is Alexander Vadsuorth Longfellou, uith Alfred Branch Harlous at left and Frank Ellis Alden at right. Page 2 PHLF News . May 1994

Welcome [Yeots Members Clinton and Major at Station Square The Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation welcomes the following new members who recently joined Landmarks. \ü/e look On February 28, President Bill Clinton Ziegler told Clinton and Major about forward to their participation in our work and special events. and British Prime Minister John Major the development of Station Square, its came to Pittsburgh. The prime minister funding sources, and growth. In the first Allegheny City Society Garland H. McAdoo, Jr. and family had family ties to Pittsburgh his phase of development, five historic rail- Mr. & Mrs. Tom T. Andrews, Jr Amy McFeeters-Krone - Keith J. Beer Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Morrow grandfather had worked in a steel mill for road buildings have been restored and Phyllis A. Bisceglia Mr. & Mrs. D.A. Nimick a time and for this reason Clinton had adapted for new uses creating shops, Alice S. Carney Dorothy C. Ott suggested- that they come to Pittsburgh. offices, and restaurants- the Sheraton Andrew P. Churman Lary C. Pickett They viewed the city from Mt. Hotel has been constructed,- and the Mrs. H. Walton Cloke James J. Piergrossi Washington, dined at the Tin Angel, and Gateway Clipper Fleet has moved its Raymond Coleman Jack Pilgrim toured Station Square (where the presi- headquarters to Station Square. Nearly Sonya Drago R. Darryl Ponton dent purchased a Steeler cap and Steeler 3,000 jobs have been created and 134 Marjorie J. Eichleay Dan & Sue Przybylek Mary Eror and family Marion B. Schon golf balls.t. businesses have settled at Station Square. Mrs. E. A. Fatigati Robert J. Schorr The 50-acre riverfront site of Station Station Square pays nearly $3 million per John F. Ferraro Michael D. Sherbon Square is being developed by the Pitts- year in real estate and parking taxes, plus Kathryn Giarratani Nancy Shiff burgh History & Landmarks Foundation. there are wage/occupation taxes, the Robert Kinney Side Area Elementary School J. South Allegheny County Commissioners Tom city's business privilege tax, and the Kenneth Kobus Robert J. Spiotta Foerster and Pete Flaherty and Pittsburgh amusement tax. Mr. & Mrs. C.W. Kreimer Raymond S. Suckling Kathy L. Kunschner Mark Wilkes Mayor Tom Murphy suggested that the "This is the first time a president Dr. & Mrs. George Kusic Mike Wilkes president and prime minister visit Station showed knowledge and interest in the Barbara Luderowski Teri Wilkes Square. Arthur P. Ziegler, Jr., president fact that commercial development is of Landmarks, said "Mayor Murphy has being carried out by a non-profit, with Welcome C orporate Member s always been a staunch supporter of revenues going back into the community Landmarks and its efforts here at Station through Landmarks' inner-city neighbor- Benefactor Partners Square because we are an operation for hood restoration projects and educational SmithKline Beecham Consumer Chubb Group of Insurance the public good without huge public programs," said Ziegler. Clinton and Brands Companies investments." Major called Station Square a model for Patrons Great American Federal Savings & Loan Association the industrial cities ofboth countries. Armstrong Group of Companies Salem Corporation Burrell Group, Inc. Fayette Bank Hilb, Rogal and Hamilton Participants Review Environmental Company of Pittsburgh, Inc. Issues and Solutions at February Address Correctiott, In the February issue of PHLF Conference News, an incorrect address was given for the Frank Thornburg Some 70 participants experts in the on the degree ofwaste cleanup; and, - . house that was awarded a fields of hazardous waste engineering, how the discovery ofhazardous waste on Historic Landmark Plaque. The assessment, and management; health and one's property can negatively impact a correct address of the Frank safe product experts; city and state regu- bank loan or mortgage. Thornburg house is I 132 latory agency officials; business and Doubtless some historic property Lehigh Road in Thornburg. industry spokesmen; bankers; neighbor- owners were dismayed by this (possible) hood developers and preservationists: Pandora's box of environmental horrors. homeowners; and interested parties - However, the legal, financial, and envi- shared information and viewpoints at the ronmental experts engendered reassur- Environmental Solutions for Historic ance through their thorough and reasoned Properties conference co-sponsored by discussion of the possible solutions avail- Landmarks and The Arnoni Group, Inc., able to the informed property owner. Tnr LeNoMARKs SroRE at the Sheraton Hotel, Station Square on r fter lunch. the conference The Book and Gift Shop of the Pittsburgh History Landmarks Foundation February 5,1994. & ¡\ ,".onu"ned for the final session: After time to meet and chat over cof- I \ representatives of Pittsburgh's CHanurNG DEcEPTToNS fee, the five-hour conference opened with Urban Redevelopment Authority, the *Things greetings from Howard B. Slaughter, Jr., are seldom uhat they seem; Friends of the Riverfront, and the Director of Preservation Services at skim milþ masquerades as cream." Community Technical Assistance Center Landmarks. The first morning sessions presented case studies oflocal environ- introduced broad environmental topics: Our umbrella opens to ,.rr."lt" soaring Baroque inner dome mental problems recently faced by each . hazardous substances such as asbestos organization. It became clear from each and lead found- in the Faux marble and gilt Corinthian columns are candles - often building speaker's presentation that in Pittsburgh materials and on-site utilities, and on the - where acres of former industrial land Belle Epoqueangels and Cl"rri."i.olo-ns are elegant napkin rings grounds of old, historic buildings; are being redeveloped for new housing, . recycling as an effective environmental recreational use, and even new and differ- Miniature Colonial, Victorian, and Modern houses are mailboxes solution; and ent commercial use exploring the . environmentally safe products available environmental quality- of historic build- Come to The Landmark, S,or. see these and other lovely and to the historic home owner. ings and historic property, past and pre- useful designs masquerading"Id as something else. The late morning sessions then sent, is not an abstract or academic mat- addressed specific legal and financial an Members of Landtnarks receiue a too/o discount on all items. ter, but important reality affecting issues such as the following: daily life. As the final speaker pointed THn Snops Rr SrerroN Squanr . problems on a single site through out, even long-time residential areas may ON Tun BercoNy multiple owners and multiple use; disclose levels of contamination once Ptttsnuncu, P A r 5 zr9-x17o . responsibility ofpast and present (4rz) owners thought harmless but now considered 765-ro4z for the cleanup of any hazardous wastes unacceptable. found in or on a historic property; Landmarks president Arthur P. Ziegler, . provisions of impending state legislation Jr., concluded the conference, thanking House Bill No. 1895 to define who the participants and the sponsors and not- -are the responsible parties- and help ing that this conference demonstrated PHLF News is published five times each year fo r the members of the Pittsburgh History & Løndmarks Foundation, a non-profit historic preservation orgdnization current owners defray cleanup costs how historic preservationists and real serving Allegheny County. Landmarks is committed to neighborhood restoration and resulting from past contamination; estate developers, once antagonists, now preservation; public membership historic-property advocacy; education and . intended use of the property in its effect work together for a common cause. programs; and the continuing development of Station Square, a riverfront properry opposite downtown Pittsburgh. PHLF News is supported through membership dollars, proceeds from Station Square, and advertísing revenue. IN MnuoRrAM Arthur P. Ziegler, Jr...... President William Reed Oliver, 94, a fornding trustee of Landmarks, our first treasurer and a Louise Sturgess Êditor/Executive Directar Cathy Broucek. Director of Marketing, Station Square staunch supporter of our work through the years, died on March 6 in Ligonier. For Elisa J. Cavalier ..... General Counsel more than four decades, Bill led neighborhood renewal and preservation efforts in the Tom Croyle Comptroller western part of Shadyside through the Morewood-Shadyside Civic Association. He Mary Lu Denny...... Director of Membership Services Eric F. Dickerson...... Advertisíng Sales Manager was also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Mary Ann Eubanks...... Education Coordinator where the rü(/illiam R. Oliver Special Collections Room is now being established in his Walter C. Kidney...... Archilectural Historian honor. Landmarks will miss Bill's vision, leadership, and dedicated efforts on behalf Howa¡d B. Slaughter, Jr...... Director of Preservation Services preservation. Albert M. Tann1er...... Archivist of historic Greg Pytlik Designer May 1994 o PHLF News Page 3 I 994 EVENTS PITTSBT]RGH II{ YOUR POCKET Coll Londmarks, Mondoy through Fridoy between 9 o.m. ond 5 p.m., at (412) 471-5808, for further informolion on A Guide to the evenls listed below or lo moke reservotions. Pittsbut'gh-urect Sun., May l5 2 to 5 p.m. Sun., June 26 I0 a.m. to 4 p.m. July l8 through 22 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Architecture Chothom Villoge Wolking Tour Neville House Antiques Show Bessemer Court Meeting Hall, Station Square In 1929 the Buhl Foundation decided to Join the Neville House Auxiliary and sponsor an experimental for-profit large- more than l5 quality tri-state antique Pittsburgh Heritoge ll scale housing project for limited-income dealers for this annual event on the Teqcher ln-service Course families. In the early 1930s, 197 units grounds of the Neville House in Collier New for 1994 this two-credit, five-day were constructed on Mt. Vy'ashington at Township. Directions: Route 79 to exit course will continue to explore and Virginia Avenue and Bigham Street in an 12,fum left at the traffic light. The expand upon the themes offered in the idyllic setting of trees, lawns, and flow- Neville House is within a mile on the left original course. For more information, ers, using red brick with slate roofs, a side of the road. Free parking is available contact the AIU at (412) 394-5100. gentle Eclectic architecture that is some- at the office complex across the street what English Georgian, somewhat rural from the house; limited handicap parking Sat., July 23 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. French. The limited-income housing plan is available on the grounds of the house. Bessemer Court Meeting Hall, has evolved, over the decades, into a Besides the wonderful antiques on dis- Station Square quiet, upscale residential area. play by the dealers, the Neville House Sat., July 30 1 to 3 p.m. Join W. Paul Farmer, AICP, consultant Auxiliary will offer hand-made craft Allegheny West planner to the City of Pittsburgh, and items at their boutique, refreshments at Victoriqn Gordens: David J. Vater, AIA, for this Sunday the kitchen, and a consignment table on Down the Gqrden-Hislory Poth afternoon walking tour to celebrate the porch. Dr. Barry Hannegan will discuss the ori- National Preservation Vy'eek. Suggested admission donation, benefit- gins and evolution of American Victorian Tour fare: $2 members; $5 non-members ing further restoration at the Neville gardens with special reference to the House, will include a guided tour of application oflate l9th- and early 20th- Thurs., June 9 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. the house. century landscape design to small-scale Bessemer Court Meeting Hall, city and suburban gardens. Participants JuIy 6 through I and July 11 through 15 Station Square are invited to bring photographs of their Pittsburgh Histo¡') & Sat., June I I 9:30 a.m. to 12 Noon 9 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. own garden efforts for discussion and Lantllllarks [-tltr ¡rdut itln Oakland Walking Tour Bessemer Court Meeting Hall, evaluation. Exploring Pittsburgh's Station Square On July 30, the group will participate Archilecture: The Pittsburgh Heritoge I in the annual Allegheny West Victorian Ooklqnd Civic Center ond Teocher ln-service Course Garden Tour led, with appropriate com- Pittsburgh in lour Schenley Forms This eight-day, three-credit course of- mentary, by Dr. Hannegan, with visits to Pocltet: A Guide to Call Pitt's Informal Program at (412) fered through the Allegheny Intermediate gardens of many restored Victorian Pittsburgh-area 648-2560 if you would like to register Unit will combine field trips with class- homes in this tiny City Historic District. for this Thursday evening lecture and room lectures to introduce teachers to For more information or to register, Architecture contact Pitt's Informal Program at Saturday morning walking tour. These Pittsburgh's ethnic neighborhoods and The Pittsburgh History & Landmarks heritage. more (4r2) 648-2s60. areas, now City Historic Districts, were For information, contact Foundation has just reprinted its popular Pittsburgh' s incomplete yet splendid rhe AIU at (412) 394-5100. pocket guide July 25 through29 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. to 69 architectural land- contribution to the City Beautiful move- marks in the Pittsburgh region. The Sun., 2 to 5 p.m. Bessemer Court Meeting Hall, ment, beginning with Schenley Park in July 10 Station Square 36-page guidebook presents an overview 1889 and ending in the 1930s with the Africon-Amer¡con of the city's development and illustrates Mellon Institute. Historic Properties Tour Africqn-Americqn Historic Sites Survey the best of Pittsburgh's architecture sur- Eliza Smith Brown of Landmarks Design viving over a two-century period. Vy'ritten p.m. Teocher ln-service Course Sun., June 12 2 to 5 Associates and Dan Holland of the by Walter C. Kidney, the architectural Gornegie-Mellon UniversiÌy Pittsburgh Community Reinvestment This five-day, two-credit course based on historian of the Pittsburgh History & Wolking Tour Group will lead us on a Sunday aftemoon the recently completed African-American Landmarks Foundation, the text of Join Landmarks' architectural historian bus and walking tour exploring the Historic Sites Survey of Allegheny Pittsburgh in Your Pocket is divided into Walter C. Kidney and Paul Tellers, African-American experience in Pitts- County will combine field trips, films, themes: the architecture of early settle- Carnegie-Mellon University Architect, burgh based upon the recently completed lectures, and workshops to explore the ment, of commerce, of industry, of public for a Sunday afternoon walk through the African-American Historic Sites Survey African-American experience in the institutions, of engineering works, and of CMU campus. Leam about Henry of Allegheny County. region and to develop methods for teach- homes. It offers a sampling, too, of inter- ers to integrate Hornbostel's master plan for Carnegie Tour fare: $10 members; $20 non-members this information into esting places further from the city, and Tech, visit the brilliant architecture he existing curricula. For more information, gives some general advice on exploring created, and look at subsequent additions, contact the AIU at (412) 394-51 OO. this region. for better or worse. The guidebook is a handy reference Tour fare: $2 members; $5 non-members for Pittsburghers who want to learn more about their city, or for visitors. Copies Wed., June l5 6 to I p.m. can be purchased for $4.75 from The Lqwrenceville's 9th Word Landmarks Store, on the balcony level Wolking Tour Commemorate the'SØhiskey Rebellion ofThe Shops at Station Square, orby completing the order form below. Now Jim Wudarczyk, a member of the Lawrenceville Historical Society, will Bicentennial at the Neville House that spring is here, plan on exploring lead us through this fascinating neighbor- Pittsburgh with Pittsburgh in Your hood within Lawrenceville. This year we and Old St. Luke's Pocket. will concentrate on the historic 9th Ward area between Arsenal Park at 40th Street The two sites with the closest Order Form and the gates of Allegheny Cemetery at ties to General John Neville _ Yes. I would like to order _ copies of 47th Street. will participate, together with Pittsburgh in Your Pocket. $4.75 each. Tour fare: $2 members; $5 non-members other colonial sites in Western Total $ Pennsylvania, in recalling the June 20 through 24 Plus 6Vo sales tax for excise tax insurrection 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. of July PA residents ($.28 per copy) _ Bessemer Court Meeting Hall, 7794. Shipping and handling Station Square The Neville House will be ($1.00PercoPY) Exploring Architecture open on Saturday, July 16 and Teocher In-service €ourse Total enclosed $ Sunday, July t7, andthe two-day This two-credit course offered to educa- fete will offer a Colonial Market Please mail to: tors through the Allegheny Intermediate Fair-18th-century food and - Unit will provide first-hand knowledge of Name goods will be on sale and puppeteers will entertain-period folk dancing, and a militia the historical and architectural develop- Address ment of Pittsburgh. For more informa- demonstration. City S1are _ Zip tion, contact the AIU at (4I2) 394-5100. On Sunday, July 17 , Old St. Luke's will be open to visitors who wish to visit the churchyard and see and hear the wonderful organ.

Both historic properties will have expanded visiting hours this year. Old St. Luke's Please complete this form, enclose will be open as as now Saturdays well Sundays, from Memorial Day weekend through payment, and return to: September. The Neville House season will begin on May 1, and the house will be open Shirley Kemmler on Sunday afternoons during alternate months-May, September, and November. SrRRwsnnRY FEsrrvAL July, Pittsburgh History & PHLF Neøs will provide detailed information on forthcoming special events planned at June L1, 11 am - 5pm Landmarks Foundation Burtner House, Harrison Township Old St. Luke's and the Neville House in later issues. In the meantime, if you have any One Station Square, Suite 450 questions about either site, call Mary Lu Denny at (4I2) 477-5808. Call 224-7 999 for details Pittsburgh, PA 15219-1170 Questions? Phone (412) 471-5808 Page 4 PHLF News . May 1994 Education News Ar THE Dollar Bank Supports Welcome Tour and LNNDMARKS Publication Featuring Lecture Docents African-American Congratulations to the following volun- Landmarks in the teer docents who completed a ten-week SroRE training course at Landmarks and now Pittsburgh Region are presenting illustrated lectures and The Book and Gift Shop of the Dollar Bank is supporting the publication private group tours featuring Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh History & Landmarks of a72-page booklet highlighting the his- Bob Bennett, Charlotte Cohen, Mary Foundation torical significance and architectural Eror, Pat Gibbons, Barbara Grossman, legacy of the AFrican-American commu- Kathleen Jones, Judy Mclntyre, Merilyn nity in the Pittsburgh region. The booklet Morrow, Myrna Prince, Dottie Boors Asour ClrlBs will include photographs and descriptions Radzevich, Marion Schorr, Ted Soens, The EIIis Hotel, Iocated of 60 or more buildings and sites that are ín the HïII Peg Volkman, and Jack Zierden. We Dístrict ot Centre and, Addison, At The Landmarks Store, architectural significant in the history and life of the was buih greatly appreciate your volunteer efforts books and gifts designed by architects African-American community. Such a in 1890 on a site that was ct major stop on behalf of our lecture and tour pro- share the spotlight with our large col- publication will help build pride in the on the Und,erground Railroad. gram. lection of regional history books and a African-American community, help peo- Those interested in booking a guided and Maya Angelou were featured in other growing urban planning and design ple appreciate the contribution of the tour or slide lecture featuring Pittsburgh's television spots. section. If you are interested in the black community to Pittsburgh, and history and architecture should contact The spots were designed by American city-its history, character, encourage the stewardship of the sites DID & Mary Lu Denny af (412) 471-5808. Associates, a minority, woman-owned problems, and future-browse through embodying the black experience in business development, entertainment our urban studies section. Here are a Allegheny County. Thanks to Dollar consulting, public few choice titles: Bank's support, a portion ofthe booklets and relations firm located in Pittsburgh, to highlight impor- One of several books about the will be given to schools, libraries, and tant Pittsburghers of African-American history of cities is John D. Fairfield, neighborhood organizations for educa- descent and to inform the television Tbe Mysteries of the Great City: Tbe tional purposes. Landmarks plans to audience of their contributions. Politics of Urban Design 1877-1937 publish the booklet in July. A total of ten spots were produced and (Ohio State Universiry Press, L993), aired during February on V/PCV-Channel $58.50, which examines New York, ((90')' Project 40, an affiliate of CTV. On a weekly Chicago, and Cincinnati as models for basis, nearly two million households the emergence of the modern metropo- Motivating Students in Western and Central lis. The author documents the growing Howard B. Slaughter, Jr., Director of Pennsylvania, New York, Montana, Kentucky, Indiana influence of city "planners"-social Preservation Services at Landmarks, has and California receive CTV. theorists as well as architects-prior to served as Chairman of the Board of the New Deal era. Directors for Project "90" since 1993. Architecture: Cities Witbout Suburbs (Woodrow Project "90" is a l3-year-old comprehen- Exploring Your City The Building Art Wilson Center Press, L993), $13.95, sive education program for students in Thirty teachers are currently participating Seville Elementary School in the North addresses a current and very serious Allegheny County in Grades 7 through in "Exploring Your City," offered by Hills received a $9,000 grant in 1993 problem-the isolation of the city prop- college. Its mission is to motivate stu- Landmarks through the Allegheny from the Pennsylvania Council on the er from the suburbs. David Rusk, for- dents to stay in school. Each fall, Project Intermediate Unit. The course is being Arts to develop a model for integrating mer mayor of Albuquerque, New "90" staff members present 4O-minute taught on Monday evenings (March 28, programs architecture into the school curriculum. Mexico, examines the problem in detail in Allegheny County schools to April 1 1, l8 &. 25) by Anne Marie As part of this project, Landmarks was and recommends linking city and sub- introduce their resources to students. A Lubenau, an architect with Landmarks invited to set up its hands-on exhibit, urbs through the creation of metropoli- separate office serves Mon Valley Design Associates. Teachers are intro- Architecture: The Building Art, for a six- tan-area governments. schools. Students then contact Project duced to the city's architectural heritage week period in the school library. Seven Proper use of a frequently abused "90" and begin an interest/skill assess- and then encouraged to integrate this elementary teachers used the exhibit to resource is the subject of Ann Breen's ment. The program encourages mentor- knowledge into existing curriculum introduce over 150 students to the con- and Dick Rigby's Waterfronts-Cities ships (by both peers and professionals), materials. Reclaim Their Edge (McGraw-Hill, offers SAT preparation, tutoring. intern- cepts of building use, building structure, and building appearance. Over 350 years 1,994), $49 .9 5 . The authors describe 75 ships, a Youth Advisory Council, and a Exploring the Interior urban riverfront development projects, Parent Empowerment Program to moti- ago, Sir Henry Wotton, an English schol- illustrated with full-color photographs, vate parents to provide support and Architecture of Pittsburgh's ar, defined architecture according to these principles. that received "Excellence on the understanding for their children. It also Downtown Landmarks three Students and teachers '$Taterfront" alike were impressed awards from the not-for- acts as a resource service for college- with the exhibit Twenty Pittsburghers attended an - profit \faterfront Center in bound students to discover scholarships the information, photographs, and hands- evening lecture on April 14 and a Washington, D.C.. If you're wondering and apply for financial aid. Last year on activities stimulated lots of interest in Saturday morning walking tour on April architecture, and provided the if Pittsburgh is included, the answer is Project "90" assisted over 900 students foundation 16 featuring the interior architecture of to build a curriculum no, as all of the projects date from in Allegheny County. to integrate archi- downtown landmarks. The educational tecture L987-1,991; for that reason, the Landmarks is pleased to support this into all traditional subjects. program was offered through Pitt's For information authors tell us, "some of the truly pio- educational service through the leader- on renting Architec- Informal Program. Sue Neff presented neering urban waterfront projects- ship of Howard Slaughter. Howard ture: The Building Art, please call Mary the illustrated lecture Thursday evening, Ann Eubanks (4T2) 47 San Antonio's original River'$Øalk, oversees all Project "90" programs, at 1-5808. and Walter Kidney, Landmarks' Ghirardelli Square and the Cannery works closely with Gail Hunt, the exe- architectural historian and "walking in San Francisco, Station Square in cutive director who has been with the encyclopedia," led the Saturday tour. Pittsburgh, or Boston's Emerald organization since 1982, and engages in Necklace of parks, to cite five special public relations work. Project "90" Allegheny Hßtoric waterfront installations-are not receives its funding from various govern- Historical Pamphlets Presemation Society included." ment and foundation supporters. The Historic Review Commission recent- inviÍes The pioneering urban preservation For student participation or more in- ly published six new pamphlets in its La,ndmarks' and riverfront development activities in formation in the Pittsburgh and East walking tour series, A City's Legacy: The members to Pittsburgh are discussed in detail in region, please call (412) 391-9621. For Fabric of Pittsburgh. The pamphlets Roberta B. Gratz' The Liuing City: student participation or more information feature Allegheny West, Manchester, the How Urban Residents Are Reuitalizing in the Mon Valley region, please call Historic Interiors of Downtown Pitts- The Perfect Lady Anterica's N eigb b or h o o ds and (4t2) 618-0s04. burgh, Mellon Square, the Monongahela A Victorian Tea and Fashion Show Downtown Shopping Districts by V/harfl and Pittsburgh's Downtown on Satrnday, April 23, presented by ThinÞing Small in ø Big tXlay (Simon Churches. Six other pamphlets were Landmarks Co-sponsors the Centennial Committee of Calvary and Schuster,1989), S2t.9S; this is a published earlier, featuring the Mexican United Methodist Church. classic study, called by the New York Black History War Streets, Penn-Liberty Historic Times Book Review, "the best thinking Television Spots District, Fourth Avenue, Grant Street, Sunday Concert about what makes cities work." and the Schenley Farms Historic District. In recognition of Black History Month in The final concert of the 1993-94 Examine these and the many other Each pamphlet contains historical and February, Landmarks contributed $600 to Tiffany Concert Series is on Sunday, urban planning and design books at architectural information, as well as Cornerstone Television, Inc. (CTV), and May 15 at 4:00 p.m., in Calvary The Landmarks Store on the balcony photographs of some of the featured sites DID & Associates to create and broadcast United Methodist Church. Lynn of The Shops at Station Square. and a map with a suggested walking tour six 60-second television spots that paid Beckstrom, story-teller and cabaret route. Landmarks provided research Members of Landmarks receiue a tribute to prominent African-Americans. singer, will pay tribute to famous assistance and photographs from its 10"/" discount on all items. Howard B. Slaughter, Jr., Director of women of old Allegheny City, library collection for use in one of the Preservation Services at Landmarks, nar- THE Le¡onRnxs Sron¡ pamphlets. including Gertrude Stein and rated the feature on the Underground Mary Roberts Rinehart. BercoNy Levpr Copies of each pamphlet are available Railroad in Pittsburgh. Nationally recog- TH¡ Suops AT SrATroN Squenn at The Landmarks Store, on the balcony (412) nized African-Americans such as CaIl 323-1070 for details on PIrrssuncH, P A r zr9-r t7 o level ofThe Shops at Station Square. 5 Madame C. J. Walker, Barbara Jordon, both events. 4rz-765-ro4z May 1994 t PHLF News Page 5

High School Students Gain Portable Pittsburgh Insight into Architecture Touching Pittsburgh's Past Now in its sixth year, Portable the artifacts and photographs, to better Pittsburgh is Landmarks' most popular understand how 'man' survived during Nineteen students from high schools school outreach program. At the request the birth and growth of Pittsburgh. throughout Pittsburgh and Allegheny ofa school (and for a $35 fee), a special- Since intelligence is 'man's' ability to County participated in Landmarks' ly-trained docent from Landmarks visits a think and survive, this material is ideal Architectural Apprenticeship program class ofup to 30 students, unpacks nearly for getting young people involved in offered through the Allegheny 30 artifacts, and then highlights 200-p1us the process. Intermediate Unit. Claire Gallagher, from years of Pittsburgh history in a 50-minute "The fifth grades will hit regional the Department of Architecture at presentation. geography and U.S. history, which usu- Carnegie-Mellon University, taught the The artifacts include vintage clothing; ally includes frontiers, colonial times, course for Landmarks. The students met a chunk of coal and a coal miner's hat; a governmental formation, famous peo- once a month for five months. They dis- piece of glass from PPG Place; mysteri- ple; their lives, attire, land utilization cussed architectural concepts, toured Mt. ous household items such as an old and legacy. It rarely goes beyond the lily'ashington and downtown Pittsburgh, toaster, a potato masher, and a Betty Civil V/ar unless they arejust survey- and visited two architectural firms and lamp; and historic drawings and photos ing the world in a minute. Landmarks' CMU's Department of Architecture. showing Pittsburgh's growth from a program is an ideal supplement for Through conversations with architects frontier outpost to a Renaissance city. fifth grades. and CMU students, they gained a better Many of the artifacts are passed among "The eighth grades pick up with a lit- understanding of architecture and came to the students so they can see and touch tle review offifth-grade history and appreciate the academic and professional pieces of Pittsburgh's past. This hands-on more specifically cover the period of challenges that lie ahead. approach holds the students' attention early colonial beginnings, with great When asked to comment on the impor- An exercise ín structure: adding.fi.níshing and raises their curiosity. As a result, they emphasis on the Constitution of the tance of the Architectural Apprenticeship touches a p&per How long to column. are more apt to listen and remember what United States. The Gateway to the program, students wrote the following: will it stand before the wind blows it the docent tells them about the artifact 'West, Iron City, and Steel City portions "I consider this a great experience dou:n? and its significance to Pittsburgh's of Portable Pittsburgh will be integral which has reinforced my desire to go history. to their studies, as will a need to know into the field of architecture." Since September 1993,91 sessions of of the past productivity and activity of Portable Píttsburgh have been presented Pittsburgh and the Renaissance of "I realize now how important space j and 66 more are currently scheduled today.... can be, and I realize that every avail- ¡ læ-: through June. Each year, more than 4,000 " Portable Pittsburgh is especially able space should be used some for students are introduced to Pittsburgh's important because funds for field trips logical purpose." A ,A shetch by history through Portable Pittsburgh. CalI and assembly-type programs are lim- "I is : Gilbert Ho of a Mary Ann Eubanks at (412) 471-5808 ited, usually being provided by PTA learned that architecture not !-i if just learning drafting and drawing ._j ,.. ,¡ column con- you would like to schedule a school groups rather than school-sponsored. l'ucted. oul of skills; rather it is a thinking process of .þ presentation. For most schools the price is right and how to solve problems." -!11 W4 -s¿ paper, the lessons taught are rewarding to Relevant to 3rd, 4th,5th Western Pennsylvania children and and 8th Graders parents." Campbell Witherspoon recently gradu- ated from the Portable Pittsburgh docent training class. He is a retired school ad- ministrator, historian, curriculum writer, trustee of Gateway to Music, and native Pittsburgher. He offered our staffthe fol- lowing insights or Portable Pittsburgh, stating the relevance of the program to school curicula: "After receiving docent training and working with the great material pre- Heather pared for Portable Pittsburgh, I feel it Wo,siloutski is appropriate to comment on my personal experiences and observations From Apprentice of others relative to teaching with the to CMU Graduate materials and artifacts. Landmarks' educational programs "In most schools the materials are really do influence peoples' lives. It generally appropriate to third, fourth, turns out that Heather Wasilowski fifth, and perhaps eighth grades. The participated in Landmarks' third grades are doing units on the city Architectural Apprenticeship pro- and a comparative city elsewhere. gram in 1987-88. She had long Since the children live in the area, but been interested in architecture, her rarely get the opportunity to know the father being an architect. But only city, this material becomes a valuable when Heather completed some of tool to the teachers and parents as the class assignments in background to their own town, and Landmarks' Apprenticeship pro- perhaps of their parents and grandpar- gram and had the opportunity to ents. ... The priority then, in my mind, talk with some CMU architecture be a pres- would Portable Pittsburgh students did she realize that she too entation on Fort Pitt, early river and could become an architect. Preserve a Part of Historv canal travel, glass, flatboats, keelboats, In 1988 Heather enrolled in the t and the introduction of some of the five-year architectural program at personalities characters and represent- Carnegie-Mellon University. She W¡th lntegra Bank. ing this period of Pittsburgh's history. graduated with honors, and now is Part of the study would emphasize why working with CMU's Department Buy and renovate the home of your dreams we should preserve things and places of Architecture. This September, from the past so that we may under- w¡th our H¡storic Rehabilitation Mortgage. Heather will begin a Master's of stand the future. Architecture program at You admired the beautiful woodwork, PLUS, there's no Private Mortgage "Fourth grades in Pennsylvania are Vy'ashington University in St. the marble fireplace, the old-world lnsurance required, and you can supposed to have extended units of charm. Now you can take pride in your borrow up to 95% of the rehabilitated Louis, Missouri. Pennsylvania historY and city's rich heritage by owning a part of it. value of the home. study on We discovered all this recently geography. P ortable P íttsbur gh letds Our Histor¡c Rehabilitation Mortgage To receive more information on our when Heather volunteered (as a magnificently to this end. The makes buying a historic home easier by Historic Rehabilitation Mortgage, itself CMU graduate) to critique architec- a home mortgage with for Fort Pitt and the development combining a call 644-6254 details. story of tural projects prepared by this home improvement loan. The interest of self-sustaining industries all fit into rate and points are lower than year's apprentices. It is inspiring to parcel and will enhance the you might expect. this know that Heather has been able to and teacher' s understanding student' s turn her high-school interest into own city and the things that of their solid academic achievement that is made it important then and now. It will the basis for a professional career. permit them to think and inquire, using Page 6 PHLF News . May 1994 Progress R eport: The Religious Propertie

The last issue ofPHLF News (February 1994) presented the background and initial planning for St. Kieran Roman Catholic Church Church of God in Christ* a I)-month religious properties preservation study, funded by a grafi from the Allegheny St. Mark's African Methodist Congregation Rodef Shalom Episcopal Zion Church First Church of Christ Scientist* Foundation and now under way at Landmarks. the Undçr leadership of Howard B. Slaughte4 Jr, St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church First Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Director of Preservation Services at Landmarks, study activities are moiing ahead. Here is a sum- (church, academy, and school) Church (church and rectory) mary of tasks completed to date. Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church Sacred Heart Church St. Andrew's Evangelical Lutheran 'A detailed analysis has been made of religious properties preservation initiatives established by Lincoln-Lemington-Belmar Church other organizations in the country, including each organization's structure, level of staffing, annual Camphor Memorial Church/Glorious Shadyside Presbyterian Church Church budget, and the scope and methodology of its programs. An approach appropriate for the of Jesus Christ Shadyside Seventh Day Adventist Cornerstone Baptist Church Church Pittsburgh study has been formulated on the basis of this analysis. Third Presbyterian Church . A list has been prepared of religious property caretakers who have applied to Landmarks for Manchester Allen Chapel African Methodist assistance. Sheraden-Chartiers Episcopal Church Holy Innocents Roman Catholic . A list has been prepared of selected sites in Allegheny County where a religious property has New Zion Baptist Church Church successfully been adapted to some other use. Pilgrim Baptist Church Victory Baptist Church . An initial listing of architecturally and/or historically significant religious structures in Allegheny lrll County has been prepared. The initial list consists of religious buildings of 1940 or before Mexican War Streets - Allegheny Center Unitarian Church houses of worship, rectories, schools, convents, etc. - selected by Landmarks' architectural histo- t t rian Walter C. Kidney after reviewing all of the religious properties included in the Allegheny Morningside {,&.'o County Historic Site Survey of 1979-1984; a similar list of structures designated by Eliza Smith St. Raphael's Rectory Brown, project director of the African-American Historic Sites Survey of Allegheny County of lif i Mt. Washington ;þ&[ 1993:- and all religious properties included in the Pittsburgh Register of Historic Places, adopted Grace Episcopal Church $'.t 19th Ward Service Club* by the Pittsburgh Historic Review Commission in December of 1993. The list is as follows: St. Michael the Archangel Roman St. Mary the of Mount Roman Catholic Church Catholic Church Architecturally and/or Historically Significant Religious Washington Methodist Episcopal Ml South Side Church Structures in Allegheny County a Preliminary List Birmingham Gallery* *=religious property now adapted to a secular- use irrespective of Cleaves Temple Christian Methodist North Shore archite ctural si gnific anc e Episcopal Church St. Wenceslaus Roman Catholic Falcon Court* Church (church and school) Our Lady of Fatima Chapel Pittsburgh Central North Side Pittsburgh Action Against Rape* Oakland Brown Chapel African Methodist Pittsburgh City Theater* Downtown Angel's Corner* Episcopal Church St. Adalbert's Roman Catholic First Lutheran Church Baptist Bellefield Presbyterian Church Metropolitan Church Church (church, convent, and First Presbyterian Church First Baptist Church Pleasant Valley United Presbyterian school) Smithfield Congregational Church Heinz Chapel Church St. Casimir's Roman Catholic Church St. Mary of Mercy Roman Catholic McKee Place School* St. George's Serbian Orthodox Church Dutchtown Pittsburgh Playhouse* Church* Trinity Episcopal Cathedral complex St. Agnes Roman Catholic Church Allegheny United Church of Christ St. John the Baptist Ukrainian (church and rectory) St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church Orthodox Church Allegheny Center St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox and Priory* St. Josaphat's Roman Catholic House Cathedral Community of First United Church Presbyterian Church St. Paul's Roman Catholic Cathedral East Liberty St. Mary's Russian Orthodox Church St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church (cathedral, chancery and synod East Liberty Presbyterian Church St. Matthew's Roman Catholic Whiteside Memorial Building Eastminster United Presbyterian hall, convent, and rectory) Church Church St. Michael the Archangel Roman Allegheny West Fírst Hungarian Refonned, Clturch Perry St. Peter's Evangelical & Reformed Catholic Church (church, high Calvary United Methodist Church Church Church of the Annunciation First Hungarian Reformed Church schools (2), elementary school and Emmanuel Episcopal Church SS. Peter and Paul Roman Mr.. Zion Evangelical Lutheran Catholic St. Ann's Roman Hungarian Sisters' Building) Catholic Church Church Church St. Paul Monastery Allentown North United Presbyterian Church St. Stephen Roman Catholic Church St. Peter's Convent Bethlehem Lutheran Church Watson Presbyterian Church Elliott South Side Presbyterian Church Full Life Deliverance Ministries St. Luke's Memorial Lutheran Lorenz Avenue Baptist Church Hill District Ukrainian Orthodox Church of St. St. George's Roman Catholic Church West End United Methodist Church Church Church of the Epiphany Vladimir (church and rectory) Ebenezer Baptist V.F.W. Post 6675* Church Point Breeze Grace Memorial Presbyterian Walton Methodist Church* Banksville Church Point Breeze United Presbyterian John Wesley African Youth Ministry Truevine Baptist Church Methodist Church Episcopal Zion Church 615 E. Carson Street* Miller St. Baptist 2238-2232 Larkins Way* Beltzhoover Church Polish Hill Monumental Baptist Church St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Immaculate Heart of Mary Church Mt. Rose Baptist Church Spring Hill Zion Church St. Boniface Roman Catholic Church New Light Temple Baptist Church Shadeland St. Benedict the Moor Spring Hill United Church of Christ Bloomfield Roman St. Leo's Church Catholic Church Albright United Methodist Church St. Michael's Roman Catholic Church Squirrel Hill Evaline Lutheran Church Vy'esley Center African Methodist Beth Shalom Temple First United Methodist Church Episcopal Church Central Catholic High School Greater Pittsburgh Christian Temple Congregation B'Nai Israel Chatham College chapel St. John's Lutheran Church Garfïeld Homewood Church ofthe New Jerusalem St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church Congregation B'Nai Israel Bethesda United Methodist Church Church of the Redeemer (Episcopal) (church and school) Holy Rosary Roman Catholic Church Congregation Foale Zedeck St. Lawrence O'Toole rectorv Greenfield (church, conven4 and school) St. Philomena's School and Church Ursuline Academy* Mary S. Brown United Merhodist Holy Cross Evangelical Lutheran/ Temple Sinai* Union Gospel Church Bluff Church Christ Missionary Baptist Church St. John Byzantine Rite Homewood African Methodist Corinthian Baptist Church Church St. Rosalia Church Episcopal Zion Church Strip District Duquesne University chapel Good Samaritan Church Second St. Paul Lutheran Church :ìiì ,riffiñi. \ Larimer St. Elizabeth's Church Mt. Ararat Baptist St. Patrick's Church Brighton Heights Church Our Lady Help of Christians Church St. Stanislaus Roman Catholic All Saints Episcopal Church St. James African Methodist Church (church and rectory) Avery Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Church Episcopal Zion Church Mission Center of Evangelistic Ministries Lawrenceville Covenant Third, St. Francis Xavier Church Whosoever Will Church Presbyterian Ch,urch St. Augustine's Roman Catholic Shadyside Carrick Church (church, monastery, and Bastone Service (Carcon Street St. Basil Roman Catholic Church school) St. Francis General Hospital chapel Baptist Church)* Stewart Avenue Lutheran Church Episcopal Church of the Good, Shepherd, St. John the Baptist Church Calvary Episcopal Church (church llazelwood and rectory) Christian Church of North America Episcopal Church of the Good Church of the Ascension Shepherd May 1994 . PHLF News Page 7 Preservation Study

Photos by CLydc Hare

Most Holy Name Rectory and, St. Anthony's Shrine

Troy Hill Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church Most Holy Name of Jesus Christ (church and rectory) St. Nicholas Roman Catholic Church Shrine of St. Anthony ofPadua

West End Jerusalem Baptist Church (43 Independence Street) Jerusalem Baptist Cfuirch (123 Steuben Street) St. James Roman Catholic Church Welter Roofing, Inc.*

Lookíng totnard, the "Ind,ustrial Bottoms" of McKees Rochs

Crafton Mt. Lebanon Sharpsburg St. Philip Church complex Mt. Lebanon United Presbyterian First Evangelical Lutheran Church Church Grace Methodist Church Coraopolis St. Bernard's Roman Catholic Church St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church Church of God in Christ Southminster Presbyterian Church St. Joseph Roman Catholic Church Shaler St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Munhall Glenshaw Valley Presbyterian Mc Clure Auenue Presbyterian Church Zion Church Hungarian Reformed Church Church St. John's Greek Catholic Cathedral St. Mary's Roman Catholic Chapel Woods Run Dormont St. Michael Archangel complex Sisters of St. Francis McClure Avenue Presbyterian Dormont Presbyterian Church Church Mount Lebanon Baptist Church North Biaddock Borough Springdale Holy Temple Church of God/ United Methodist Church Other Allegheny County Duquesne Pentecostal Apostolic ChurchÆirst Municipalities First Presbyterian Church auxiliary Park Place ,\frican Method,ßt Epßcopal Evangelical Church Swissvale building Church Love and Faith Tabernacle/United St. Anselm's Church Aleppo Grace Lutheran Church Brethren in Christ St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Tarentum Payne African Methodist Episcopal Church North Fayette Township Oakdale Central Presbyterian Church Aspinwall Chapel St. Mark's Lutheran Church Trimble Chapel African Methodist- St. Scholastica Convent St. Mary Magdalene Roman Catholic Episcopal Zion Church Turtle Creek Edgewood Church St. Colman Catholic School Avalon Edgewood Presbyterian Church St. Matthew's Episcopal Church North Versailles Church ofthe Epiphany (Episcopal) St. Nicholas Russian Greek Catholic Mt. Carmel Baptist Church Verona Edgeworth Eastem Rite Church Choir Loft* Baldwin Township-Horning Shields Presbyterian Church Oakmont Free Gospel Church Ingram Riverside United Presbyterian Church West Deer Elizabeth Ingram Masonic Hall* St. Paul's Baptist Church Bull Creek Presbyterian Church Brackenridge Borough Ebenezer Baptist Church Deer Creek United Presbyterian Shiloh Baptist Church St. Michael's Roman Catholic Church Leetsdale Penn Hills Church First Missionary Baptist Church of Sri Venkateshvara Temple East Union United Presbyterian Bellevue Elizabeth Township Leetsdale Church Church of the Assumption of the Round Hill United Presbyterian Pine Blessed Virgin Mary (Roman Church McCandless Crossroads Presbyterian Church Wilkinsburg Catholic) Sisters of Divine Providence Mother St. Alphonsus complex St. Mark American Methodist Etna House/LaRoche College Episcopal Church Braddock All Saints' Roman Catholic Church Pitcairn Trinity United Church of Christ Bethel Baptist Church McKees Rocks St. Michael's Church Calvary African Methodist Episcopal Fox Chapel Holy Ghost Byzanttne Catholic Church Fox Chapel Episcopal Church Church Plum he total number of architec- First United Presbyterian Church St. Francis de Sales Roman Catholic Unidentified (Coxcomb Hill and turally and/or historically signifi- Holiday Memorial Baptist Church Franklin Park Church Logan's Ferry Roads) cant religious structures in Resurrection Baptist Church Trinity Lutheran Church St. Mark's Church Pittsburgh is 194; the total St. Joseph's Church St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church Ross number of structures in other Hampton St. Mary's St. Michael the Archangel Church Ukrainian Greek Catholic Hiland Presbyterian Church Allegheny County municipalities is Depreciation Lands Museum* Church SS. Peter and Paul Greek Orthodox Mt. Assisi Motherhouse l20,for a grand total of314. St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Greek Church St. Benedict Academy We welcome all comments, sug- Harmar Catholic Church St. Thomas Roman Catholic Church St. Teresa Church gestions, and corrections in Harmarville United Presbyterian Triumph the Church and Kingdom of Sisters of the Holy Ghost response to this preliminary list: Church McKeesport God in Christ over time, church buildings may Bethlehem Baptist Church Scott be used by members of different Harrison McKoesport Zion Church OId St. Luke's Carnegie religious denominations and First Christian Church Pittsburgh & Tarentum Camp St. Mary's Greek Catholic Church names change. Please send your Holy Virgin Russian Orthodox Meeting Association St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church Sewickley comments to Howard B. Church St. Stephen's Roman Catholic Atwell-Christy house Slaughter, Jr., Pittsburgh History St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Homestead Magyar Church St. Stephen's Episcopal Church & Landmarks Foundation, One Zion Church Acme Music Company* (church and rectory) Station Square, Suite 450, SS. Peter & Paul Ukrainian Orthodox Clark Memorial Baptist Church Millvale Sewickley Presbyterian Church Pittsburgh, Pa., 152L9. Greek Catholic Church First Presbyterian Church St. Ann's Roman Catholic Church (church and manse) St. Johannes Kirche* First United Methodist Church of St. Anthony's Roman Catholic Sewickley United Methodist Church Homestead Church Unidentified convent (249 Broad Churchill Park Place African Methodist St. Nicholas R,oman Catholic Church Street) Beulah Chapel Episcopal Church Rodef Shalom Temple Monroeville Clairton St. Anthony's Roman Catholic Old Stone Church St. Paulinus Roman Catholic Church Church

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The Pittsburgh Register Adapting the Jail vide much more than access to emer- gency exits. Behind the exit doors can At the time in 1991 when the controversy At the end of January, Landmarks met be found two floors of storage space broke out over the Syria Mosque in with IKM Inc., architects who are adapt- which is literally the life blood of any Oakland and its impending demolition, ing H. H. Richardson's Allegheny museum. In addition to housing under the pro-demolition elements pointed out County Jail to house County courts carefully regulated climatic conditions that no one had shown much liking for requiring secure conditions. Numerous the bulk of our works of art on paper, the building up to then: the implication decisions are yet to be made and interior storage areas make a variety of being that the rush to its defense was finishes for the new spaces to be deter- these curatorial activities possible, including whimsical. (Landmarks, indeed, had no mined, but thus far we liked what we photography, cataloguing, and exhibi- plaque on the building because its policy saw. The plan is necessarily complicated, tion preparation. Thanks to the bridges has had to be one of owner approval.) with public, juries, prisoners, andjudges and an internal elevator, the collection This incident showed preservationists circulating by individual routes through is available to visiting scholars in the that a publicly-available, generally five stories, and a portion of the former two-storied study room on the other agreed-upon list of buildings and other jailyard serving besides as a public park of the entrance hall. In other places of historic or architectural interest open to the street. side words, the public spaces in The Heinz would be useful all around, backing A complete external restoration of the Center are only the tip of preservation arguments and putting own- Jail to Richardson's design is out of the Architectural the iceberg!" ers on notice that their properties were question. F. J. Osterling's alterations of deemed to have cultural value. Entry on the 1900s added enormously to the vol- such a list would be a source of pride to ume of the areas under roof and to the some owners, ofcourse, and give a cer- external wall, and subsequent modifica- tain value to listed properties up for sale. tions have filled in courtyard space and On December 10, Pittsburgh's Historic made other changes. (The round tower at A simple and stately Neo-Georgian ís Review Commission adopted such a list, Fifth and Ross, most notably, is typical of the houses most recently the Pittsburgh Register of Historic Places. Osterling's.) Yet what we see from the surueyed. by Landmarhs. ËËî Some 10,000 buildings, about one in street will be as it always has been in our every 10 in the city, is said to be on the lifetimes, with two exceptions: a long- Sewickley Heights Survey Register. There are nine present City blocked archway to a yard on Diamond Around 1980, Landmarks performed the Historic Districts, legally protected; 26 Street will be unblocked, and a new Allegheny County portion of the J National Register and National Register- opening for the public park will be made Pennsylvania Historic Resource Survey, Avenue; this will probably have eligible Districts; and 15 additional dis- off Fifth recording 6,114 buildings, objects, and Landmark for Sale tricts established by the Register project a granite arch with eight-foot voussoirs, places, 44 were in the borough of which The splendid building at Highland and workers. The listings were submitted to copying those new in the outer walls. Pittsburgh's out- of Sewickley Heights, Centre Avenues, built in 1896 for the Landmarks, Preservation Pittsburgh, and Under roof, little will remain of the Jail suburb. A later standing country-house George K. Stevenson Company, grocers, other interested parties for comment and as it now is, though it is good to know concentrating on estate walls, by survey is up for sale. It is a work of the local suggested entries. that the rotunda from which the cell resident Reed Sewickley Heights architect W. Ross Proctor, who had obvi- The result at present is an informal but blocks radiate will remain the grand increased the Sewickley Schroeder, ously been studying McKim, Mead & adequate photocopied mass of stapled interior space it always has been. Some establishment in entries by 10. With the White's innovative Classical work of the pages, listing districts and buildings architects have been calling for preserva- ordinance 1989 of a historic-preservation 1880s. The ground floor is a stately neighborhood by neighborhood, giving tion of some cells, and we are inclined to Architectural Review with a Historic arcade executed in brown-gray sandstone, maps for the districts and for individual favor one IKM idea of reproducing per- issue certificates of appropriate- Board to with an arcaded two-story elevation of addresses, building names, haps one of the original Richardson cells incentive to be buildings ness, there was an added golden-brown Roman brick above, ele- code for neighborhooci, architect when with brick walls and wrought-iron bars, had been left out. In sure that nothing gantly simple. The proprietor of the known, date when known, style, and and perhaps displaying other Jail memo- 1991, Landmarks was commissioned by Dargate Galleries is looking for a buyer function: making it a handy rabilia in a small public museum space, Heights to building the Borough of Sewickley who appreciates the building. For more guide among other things. A if the tight space demands permit. previous Surveys, and to reference supplement the information: Dardanell Properties, I 1879 emerge in time, with text and The adaptive work is to begin as soon sites of architectural book will document 38 more Route 30, North Huntingdon, Pa. 15642: as the Jail is vacated, probably in the from the illustrations. significance, the majority being (4r2) 864-6s88. Even with all the accord reached on the spring of 1995. 1920s and 1930s. list which is to be revised as needed at A couple of the buildings surveyed frequent- intervals it is possible to dis- 30 Murals Downtown recalled the hardscrabble farming before pute a few things. -In Squirrel Hill, the The February proposition of Richard the late 19th century, and there was a Murray Hill Avenue district outlined for Penzer to enliven the appearance of the Iittle Arts and Crafts work of 1910 or so, the Register stops short of the beautiful Triangle with some 30 murals on Pitts- but the Neo-Georgian and the artfully- curve that leads into the final plunge to burgh themes is a frightener. Admittedly rambling Colonial of 60 or 70 years ago Fifth Avenue, the spire of Third there is nothing positive to say for a made up the bulk of the work, along with Presbyterian Church coming more and blank side wall, rising over adjacent quasi-villas converted from older service more into view. Such spatial effects, buildings. It tends to remind the public buildings. Now and then an interesting looking up, down, or across, should be that "architecture" is quite often an affair attribution turned up a really hand- recognized. In Shadyside, St. James Place of skins, a few inches' depth of stone or some work in the bricklayer's- art by isjustly listed but the lovely, secluded, terra cotta, then a drab expanse ofbrick. Janssen & Cocken, a brilliant adaptation call adjoining St. James Terrace is not. Such bland walls may seem to for of a barn by Douglas Berryman, a Roslyn Place near by is listed because of decoration that would make them visible Georgian work of great size and con- jar- its wooden pavement, but the warm to cultured eyes, but the menace of trived complexity by Brandon Smith, but praise given to the whole architectural ring contrasts of painterly obtuseness to many of the houses were designed by the scales and colors of the old facades is ensemble in Allan Jacobs' recent Great architects not yet known. Green T[ee Borough Building suggests consideration of yet real. The Farmers Bank Building at Fifth Borough will Streets The Sewickley Heights Demolished another district. and Wood was drably slipcovered around submit these 38 additional survey forms Mid-February brought a newspaper pho- These are the kinds of suggestions that 1910, and has nothing to lose from Judy prepared by Landmarks to the tograph of the Green Tree Borough will tend to refine the Register, make a Penzer's sports mural facing up Fifth Pennsylvania Historical and Museum demolition. This place very good document better. It would be a Avenue, but imagine the clash with the Commission for approval. Now complete Building under in contrast to most of what major improvement, however, to include street fronts as built. Thirty such clashes documentation exists on almost every was agreeable sees the Parkway West: a 1930 re- elements of space and landscape that downtown, particularly if a cartoonlike architecturally-significant property within one on creation of Greek Revival, with a portico curve on Murray Hill Avenue, the- slopes style is used as seems implied, would the Sewickley Heights Historic District. with water-leaf capitals, an architraved and skylines, the hilltop that a hotel result in visual defeat for some good old developer mightraze, the dramatic hol- buildings and street scenes. The Haas More Than Is Seen doorway of suitable heaviness, and a mural on the Fulton Theater back wall is cupola that looked down rather grandly Iow that an Oakland Corporation once A propos of the anicle on The Heinz an indication of what might be done: on local and through traffic both. It was saw manifest destiny in filling flush Architectural Center in the February - Haas respects architecture, and uses not great architecture, yet it was refresh- that deserve voices in their favor. A 1994 issue of PHLF News.' Christopher extant facades as points of departure for ing among so many assiduously Modern messed-up landscape was the price Monkhouse, the curator, informed us of his fantasies. A moderate amount of work contrivances elsewhere along the road. Pittsburgh paid for becoming Pittsburgh, the following in his letter of February 10: this sort might indeed contribute to the We lament its loss. but continued indifference needs to be of "Your description of The Heinz downtown scene. opposed. Here we have a paradox: the Architectural Center under your landscape itself, or selected portions 'Preservation Scene' column in the thereof, as "landmarks," deserving of February issue of PËIIF N¿ws was protectíon. both thorough and thoughtful in its For information on, or free copies detailed analysis of the interior spaces of, the Register, please call Michael and the activities which they contain. Eversmeyer af (4I2) 255-2243, or write However, the bridges which trisect the to him at the Department of City entrance hall, and as you so well point Planning, Fourth Floor; 200 Ross Street; out, introduce a readable scale and a 15219. Pittsburgh, Pa., We want to auoid this: a touch of drama (for me, Piranesi's Hornbostel build.íng at Pitt. Carceri engravings come to mind) pro- May 1994 ¡ PHLF News Page 9

PNC Bank Announces Assuming that the sheds and furi.laces a Historic Mortgage Program at Duquesne are doomed, only Edgar Thomson PNC Bank has created a mortgage pro- at North Braddock remains as o I gram an integrated steel plant, blast furnaces J to assist homeowners finance the purchase and restoration of historic and all, and the blast furnaces them- LA 1\ D MARKf homes in Pittsburgh. To qualify for the selves, the most identifiable objects of the program, the property must be located in iron and steel industry, are otherwise to Support the Pittsburgh History the neighborhoods listed on the National be found around here only in the Register of Historic Places, City of Shenango plant on Neville Island and at & Landrnarks Foundation in Pittsburgh Historic Districts, or districts the Carrie Furnaces. At the latter in its work to: that are eligible for National Register Swissvale, Furnaces 6 andl seem to be ¡ Preserve architectural landmarks, inclusion. Contractors hired by the the last hope to save examples of their historic neighborhoods, and industrial homeowner must be on the city's Urban An Eliza Furnace tappled in 1982 kind unless Edgar Thomson closes - sites and artifacts in Allegheny County Redevelopment Authority list of down some day in such a way to allow a o Create tours, lectures, publications, an< approved contractors, and plans and Commemorating Steel new organized effort. Yet Carrie is an educational programs featuring the his specifications must be reviewed by the The unsettled situation between the Park element of the plant that saw the violence tory, architecture, and culture ofPitts- city's Historic Review Commission. Corporation, owner of the Homestead of 1892, where the Pinkerton landing burgh and Allegheny County; Benefits of the historic mortgage program Vy'orks and Carrie Furnaces land, and the area, ifnot especially vivid to look at, is . Continue the development of Station include reduced points, a below market Steel Industry Heritage Corporation the tangible witness of that decisive battle Square, the 50-acre riverfront site where interest rate, and low down payments. (SIHC), which wishes to create a memor- in American social history. 'When Landmarks' principles of historic The program is explained in a recently ial to steel-industry history on this land, the Society for Industrial preservation, adaptive use, and urban published descriptive brochure. For a has continued into yet another year. Archeology met here 20 years ago, we planning are creating a lively attraction copy of the brochure or information on IVe can only reassert the importance of walked down a broad aisle at J&L past for Pittsburgh. the mortgage program, contact the creating such a memorial. Imagine that, raging open-hearth fumaces. The next Community Mortgage Department at over 15 years, the supreme reality that year, they were replaced by two electrics PNC Bank by calling (412) 162-1411. was the steel industry here should have in the same place; these lasted perhaps a Mernbership Benefits been so nearly obliterated that where dozen years, and the great shed that had . The Tfees on the Commons sheds extended a quarter-mile or blast once had 11 tall chimneys remained Free subscription to PHLF Nelrs, our furnaces and their stoves rose like giant empty, then yielded to a flatness that membership newsletter published fìve The Garden Club of Allegheny County idols there is now just level and possibly greeted the SIA when it returned last times each year. (GCAC) has received a $90,000 grant poisonous earth. June. A typical Pittsburgh story these ¡ Free subscription to All Aboard!, the from the Richard King Mellon ln 1919, the last of the Eliza Furnaces days. Station Square newsletter published Foundation to help save the trees ofthe that rose beyond the turn of Parkway East We at Landmarks can save an artifact four times a year. Allegheny Commons on Pittsburgh's was blown out. Four years later all had from this or that great industrial con- o Many rewarding volunteer opportuni- North Side. The grant, to be paid over a been toppled six objects over 90 feet struction, and there are archives of ties. three-year period in equal installments, high and their- 24 attendant stoves with photographs and works plans of course, . A l0o/o discount at The Landmarks must be matched by $90,000 from other no effort to preserve them except for- our but what can speak so eloquently of Store in The Shops at Station Square. sources. To date, $35,000 in matching lament. (There was no chance to save industry as its own constructions, pre- o Free initial consultation on landmark funds has been raised. them.) Had they been saved, they would served in something of their old context? designation and preservation advice fol The grant will enable the Garden Club have continued as a dramatic, familiar The size, the mass must be perceived, and your historic property. to oversee the pruning and fertilizing of sight, a focus for a historic display such the heat, the force, and the noise must be . Free access to our historical and the approximately 800 trees in the park, as may still be developed up the inferred from the actual things in the architectural reference library in The the completion of a maintenance and Monongahela River: perhaps too the actual places. The February demolition of Landmarks Building at Station Square planting plan, and the preparation of a focus for a park such as is found at the the Big Shop at Munhall, a 75,000 o Discounts on, or free use of, all educa- tree-labeling program and walking-tour Sloss Furnaces in Birmingham, Alabama, square-foot building that SIHC had tional resources. brochure for the public. easily accessible from within the city. hoped to keep for museum purposes, r Reduced rates on tours, and invitations Allegheny Commons was designed In 1988, Dorothy Six at Duquesne, the Ieaves the organization with the absolute to lectures, seminars and special events. between 1867 and 1876 and is the city's tallest furnace ofall at29l feet", toppled minimum if it is to achieve its purpose. If oldest historic landscape and a City after 27 years of existence, illustrating in it fails, our history is almost doomed to Historic District. Its name derives from Mernbership Categories its own way the pride and the fall. survive merely as an affair ofpaper. its origins as public grazing, or commons, Please enroll me as a member of the land for animals belonging to the resi- Pittsburgh History & Landmarks dents of Allegheny City. It now covers Foundation. I have enclosed a tax- approximately 80 acres in the lower deductible contribution in the amount North Side surrounding Allegheny Center of (check appropriate category): Mall and flanking Federal Street. It is Landmarks Pittsburgh' s only European, pedestrian- E Individual S20 or more style park, with long, tree-lined walks Welcomes ! Family $25 or more once thickly bordered with benches and I School and Non-Profit $25 punctuated by statuary and ornamental X Senior Citizen $10 a fountains and flower beds. The park's I Corporate Supporter $50 or more enormous trees are the city's largest THp Socrcry roR I Corporate Member $250 or more collection of specimen trees. SurrnKlrxE BEEcHAM tl Life Benefactor $5,000 (one-time gift) The Garden Club of Allegheny County THE PRESERVATION OF is a private, Cot¡sutl,lsn Bnnxns non-profit organization of 'A copy of the official registration & financial women founded in l9l4 to encourage information of the Pittsburgh History & Landmarks greater knowledge and interest in horti- o Foundation may be obtained from the Pennsylvania Department of State by calling toll free, within culture, conservation and historic preser- Pennsylvania l-800-732-0999. Registration does not vation, environmental education, and DU0UE$ilE IItEllllI civic planning. For the last 25 years, the as a Corporate Mernber Benefactor . ît'j*î'*]"':'":''":tiT'': . Garden Club has operated a windowbox of ttre Pimsbwgh History & and flower sale on the North Side at the Dedicated to the preservation of Landmarks Foundation Please enroll me as a member of the Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Brown Chapel A.M.E. church with Mrs. thnt which cannot be replaced Foundation. Ethel Hagler, a community leader and Landmarks appreciate s the commitment trustee of the Pittsburgh History & of SmithKline Beecham Consumer Brands I enclose my check for $ Landmarks Foundation. For a membership in helping us create afuture for Name nlease Dhone 381-1665 Pittsburgh by preserving its past. T_T Telephone

Award of Merit Nominations Street Call Walter Kidney at (412) 471-5808 if you would like to nomi- Elegant Temporary Housing City nate an individual or organization for State zip consideration by Landmarks' 1994 Decorator Furnished Studio, One or Award of Merit Committee. Each J, Two Bedroom Suites Beautif ully Acces- Send check or money order to: year, Landmarks recognizes indi- ^ sorized and includes equipped kitchen, viduals and organizations who have Free local phone, VCR. ... everything! Membership made outstanding contributions to the * sHoRT TERM FLExTBLE LEAsE Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundatior One Station Square, Suite 450 preservation of Pittsburgh's historic 10 Minutes f rom Downtown.5 Minutes Pittsburgh, PÄ 15219-1170 architecture and increased public * to Hospitals & Universities. 1 7z Blocks knowledge of our heritage. The f rom Walnut Street's Fash¡onable Shops 5405 Fifth and Fine Restaurants Award of Merit Committee will Avenue Creating a Future MAJoR cREDlr cARDS meet in June, so call us soon. 682-2300 * for Pittsburgh by The Suite Life... at an Affordable Rate Preserving its Past Page 10 PHLF News . May 1994

PITTSBI]RCH ARC HITE CTT]RE : Waher C. Kidney

D I nituA.tpftla and Pittsburgh are officially in rhe same state, but the two cities feel different in social attitudes, economic past, topography, and architecture. Somehow our considerable architectural intake from Boston, going back at least to H. H. Richardson and the Allegheny County Courthouse and Jail, has come to seem natural, while bringing in designs from Philadelphia, though on occasions we have done so, seems somehow peculiar. With the publication of Architecture after Ríchardson, by Margaret Henderson Floyd, we are particularly Boston- conscious just now; but let us look, too, at what has come to us from across the mountains.

Right : Píttsburgh's mo st c onspicuous P hiladeþhia import ís definitely the Cathedral of Learning in Aboue: Around 1922, Klauder Oaltland, designed by Charles Zeller Klauder, a designed this quadrangle and specia.Iist in academic design u¡hose Cothic had a Memorial Tower for Wellesley particular uerue. Begun in 1926, the Uniuersity of CoIIege, Wellesley, Pittsburgh"s focal structure was finished externally Massachusetts. in 1937.

Far left: Isaac Hobbs &. Son xoas appar- ently popular in Western Pennsyluania, especially in the eastern part of Oakland, u;here for example the C arrier - S chmer t z house, built ar ound 1870, stoodinto the early 1950s. Tbe nxost ctrnbitious Hobbs uorh in this area still stands, the Dollar Sauings Banlt d,ountousn.

Left: Hobbs claimed to haue inuented an "Ouo Order" of architecture, exemplified in thís 1870-period. design in Godey's Lady's Book,;for a house ín Pottsuille, Pennsyluania.

Far Inft: The brutal enerS;ies o.f Franlt Furness u)ere turned to the dcsign ofthe Pittsburgh station of the Baltímore &. Ohio Railroad that was finished in 1887. The Furness partnership d,esigned, at Least tu¡o otller stcltior,ls in the Pittsburgh a,rea, both now gone: East Líberty (1906) and, Edgewood (1903).

Left: This was the interior of Furness' Bahimore & Ohio station in Phila- delphia, finished in 1888" demolished in the 1960s.

Far left: Less craggy than the designs of Furness but u¡ith a slight eccentricity nonetheless a,re those of Theophilus Parsons Chandler, u:hose Thírd. Presbyterian Church of 1903 in Shad.ysíd,e is shown here. The ualls haue índoor-outdoor stoneu.torlt so to spealt, rugged on both sides, and u.¡ith unusual compl,ex spoces beneath a sensational

double-hammer -beam r o of .

Middle: First Presbyterian dotnntown is also by Chandler and also from 7903.

Left: This is Chandler's Tabernacle Presbyterian Cburch of 1886 in Philad,elphía. May 1994 . PHLF News Page I I

I*p orts from Philad,elphiu

Right: The bland spirit of Cha.rles Barton Keen produced the Mo.rshall house in Pittsburgh at Fifth and Shad,y Aaenues in 1912.

Far right: Keen uorhed in an English uernacular manner for this house of about 1910 in the Philadelphia suburb of Ouerbroolt.

Aboue: Príce & McLønu,høn were rather progressiue Philad,elphia ø,rchítects, but ctt Aboae: At the Traymore in Atlantic City, opened. in 1915, Price & McLanahan used. Allcgheny's Fort Wayne Station of 1906, nou) gone, they somehous desigrued, in Dutch a style that usas rnore or l¿ss inuented., a non-doctrinaire Mod.ernism. Renaissance.

Right: The other buildings shown haue certain attributíons, this one is the sub- ject ofa guess. This is an 1893 uiew ofa banlt in Pittsburgh that stood at 958 Penn Auenue. Could it be by the Philadelphian Wilson Eyre? The delicate caruing ouer the doonr;ay and. the ouerd.oor light øre.found. ekeuhere in Eyre's architecture.

Far right: Thís is a dooruøy of the early 1880s by Wilson Eyre. Placedin the oldest part of Center City Philodelphia, thís house was refronted 30 years ago, alas, to match that to the Left. Page 12 PHLF News . May 1994

P reseruation P ittsburgb inuites mem- bers of Landmarþs to the dedication News from Landmarks' Library . Alcoa, New Kensington: The Company, of the historic Centre Auenue YMCA the Community, the Workforce. in the Hill District. Submitted to Folklife Division, America's Industrial Heritage Project, . Arthur P. Ziegler, Jr., for donating 15 Allegheny Highland Heritage Center, 319 Reflections: books on various aspects of architecture Washington Street, Suite 370, Johnstown, and design. Pa. 15901. Life at the Centre Auenue YMCA . JackZierden of Crafton, for donating 12 historic views of the Triangle and This 1O8-page reproduced typescripr " OuR MEMoRTES, complements Oakland, and for three postcards with Historic Resource s Survey of the Aluminum Industry Oun Hrstonv, Carina Guinto railroading scenes. mentioned in Oun FurunB " the last PHLF News. Here, the emphasis Welcome Ca,rinø Books of Interest is not on the physical remains but rather on how people actually lived in the great Sunday, }day 22 3-5 p.m. Landmarks is happy to welcome Carina The following books can be found in Alcoa days in New Kensington: company The dedication ceremony will include: Guinto as a library volunteer. Carina, a Landmarks' Iibrary, on the fourth floor of history, company-employee relations, . Musical entertainment resident ofElizabeth, Pa., received her The Landmarks Building at Station relations within the community, women ¡ First-hand accounts by noted Black histo- B.A. from Columbia University, major- Square. The library is open to members within the labor force, and places sig- rians of the early history of the YMCA ing in pre-med. and minoring in philoso- (1920s-1950s) and its significance to the by appointment between the hours of 9 nificant to the community. Interviews phy and religion; she plans to enter Pinsburgh communiry; a.m. and 5 p.-., Monday through Friday. with 14 aging citizens on their memories graduate school in the fall (where yet . Comments by YMCA Executive Director has If you would like to visit the library, occupy 37 pages. and Board on the role of the YMCA to to be determined) and pursue a master's please call Al Tannler af (412) 471-5808 today's youth degree in architecture. She completed to make an appointment. If you would . Old House Starter Kit. Richard Vy'agner. . The presentation of a historic plaque inventorying our large collection of like to purchase a copy of books listed Center for Historic Houses of the from the City of Pittsburgh Historic graphic materials and will be working on below, call The Landmarks Store at (412) National Trust for Historic Preservation, Review Commission the final stages ofour slide collection 47 1-5808 regarding availability. 1785 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., . Refreshments organization. Vy'ashington, DC. 20036. $ 17.95 plus . Mayor Tom Murphy, City Councilman McKees Rocks Borough Centennial, postage; (202) 61 3 -4000. Christopher Smith, and State Represen- Cifts to Landmarks 1892-1992. Donald H. Presutti. No pub. This is a recent, updated form tative Bill Robinson are expected to par- or date. 69 pp., 79 illus. ofa ring- The Pittsburgh History & Landmarks $10.00 ticipate in the ceremony. Save the date of binder book of advice to historic-home li4ay 22 and plan to come. Foundation gratefully acknowledges: Here is another valuable community his- owners that was first published in 1988. . Walter C. Kidney, for donating the tory, beginning with the much-depleted It is set up to include new material, but Convenient parking is available along exhibition catalogue Planning the Pitt Indian Mound, passing into the railroad the contents as Centre Avenue and Frances Street. supplied to Landmarks Campus; History of Bridge Engineering era McKees Rocks was the location of include a glossary, and cover the subject's For information, call Dan Holland at (l9l l), by Henry G. Tynell; A Pattern the P&LE- shops and roundhouses from of whether to hire a professional, (412) 322-60s3. Lang uag e, by Christopher Alexander; 1888 and thence to the present. There researching house history, restoration or and L'Ordre Grec, by Francois Cali. are personal- memoirs, too, of life in this rehabilitation, planning the project, m¡lnamIwntilro-nt5 . Albert M. Tannler, for donating William town, as well as photographs to evoke the construction, landscaping, finance, Lescaze, Architect, by Lorraine Welling remote past of dirt streets, plank side- maintenance, architectural and landscape Order Form Lanmon. walks, and chimneys in the distance. styles, and "resources," i.e., books. ARcsrrscruRE AFTER RtcueRosoN Architecture ufter Richard,son: Masterpiece in Print gionalism Re beþre Modemism- (Continuedfrompage I) Longfellow, Alden, and Harlow in ^ Boston and Pittsburgh By Margaret Henderson Floyd becoming a frequent commuter from up 50feet in the air and lighted up the A Contribution to Medford, Massachusetts and a familiar Published by The University of Chicago Press hillside while the moon and stars and Architectural History in association with the Pittsburgh History & figure on the Pittsburgh scene, and to a the two lines of lights one high on As an entity, Margaret's book supple- Landmarks Foundation new interest in the lives of Walter Kidney the hill top and the other- low were - ments the conventional architectural his- Size 9" x 12"; 568 pages; 455 photographs and the Sewickley architectural historian all reflected in the still river with the tory of the Late Victorian period, which Cloth ISBN 0-226'25410-0 Mary Beth Pastorius. Margaret's teacher dark tangled shadows of bridges and traces the path of overt Modernism from V/illiam H. Pierson had admonished her factories. I would like to purchase Richardson through Sullivan to V/right, _Yes, never to write about a building she had Margaret comments: copies of Architecture after Richardson from Boston to Chicago, with not visited, and Walter Kidney found In retrospect, the of the $75.00 per copy foundation Richardson's connections to the New himself in a Cresson convent school, a Longfellow, Alden & Harlow in s ffice England landscape tradition more or less raffish vacation complex near Wellsburg, Pittsburgh was ideally timed. Less 107o for members of Landmarks dismissed. ln Architecture after and the Steubenville Public Library as Longfellow's name and bache- famous Richardson, that path is rediscovered; it Margaret looked the places over, copied lor status opened society's doors in leads through Pittsburgh and terminates, information, and made friends. Pittsburgh, where he worked regularly, Pl,ls 6Va sales tax for PA residents in a sense, at "Fallingwater": the home expanding the base of sociøl contacts whose siting achieves perhaps the that Alden had established while super- The Pittsburgh Chapters ultimate integration of building and vising the Allegheny Coune Buildings Plus $4.00 per book for shipping and People in the Pittsburgh area responded Iandscape in the history of American handling Richardson. Influential warmly to Margaret's enthusiasm, shar- for architecture. $ Pittsburghers set the stage that initi- ing information and pictures, contributing Reflecting many years of hard work, ated an extraordinary professional tra- money to offset the research and publica- research, analysis, and devotion to the Total due jectory. The was soon supported tion costs. The result of the endeavors, firm architecture of two major American Please make your check payable to the by an expanding network of patronage after nine years, is among other things an cíties, Architecture after Richardson wtll Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation establíshed through several early unprecedented history of a major be available in June. We at Landmarks and reference it "AAR." commissions: the Duquesne CIub, the Pittsburgh architectural office at a time have enjoyed working with Margaret and Where would you like the book(s) mailed? East Liberty Presbyterian when this region was emerging from the fourth her husband Bill through the years, and (Please print clearly) Church (andfour other church Victorian period, rich and seeking ameni- have come to admire greatly Margaret's commissions). and the innovative Name ties it had never sought before. Thus the commitment to scholarship and research; Vande r g rift and C o ne sto ga b uildin g s Boston-Pittsburgh Longfellow, Alden & her ability to write in a popular style; and downtown. The professional Address- Harlow practice and its Pittsburgh suc- firm's her keen interest in our city. position was established in 1891, when cessor Alden & Harlow, from 1886 to the Landmarks is very pleased to be a co- City Longfellow, Alden & Harlow landed early 1920s, gave this area pioneering publisher of her book. We urge our mem- the winning designfor the Carnegie State zip designs for the Carnegie Institute and bers to discover more about the life and Institute competition after only Carnegie Libraries, for houses and man- five architecture of Pittsburgh at the turn-of- Please detach this order form and mail it years in practice. Thereafter, as archi- sions, for clubs, for churches, and for the-century by reading Architecture af'ter with payment to: tects of choice the Carnegie and business buildings. Margaret devotes two for Richardson. Copies may be purchased at Architecture afi er Richardson Mellon constituency and the financial Pittsburgh History chapters ofher 568-page book to the The Landmarks Store on the balcony & community, they established a new Landmarks Foundation Pittsburgh region: she discusses 125 Ievel ofThe Shops at Station Square; standard Pittsburgh buildings that One Station Square, Suite 450 buildings in223 pages, with 255 photos for by calling Landmarks at (412) 471-5808; was emulated immediately by most Pittsburgh, P A 1 5219-I 11 0 and illustrations. The two Pittsburgh or by completing the book order form local architects until about 1908, when Once payment is received, books chapters thus constitute a book by opposite. Bookstores may order quanti- new stars began to rise. will be mailed by the Pittsburgh History & themselves. ties directly from The University of The Pittsburgh reader is also going to Landmarks Foundation in June. Margaret's first Pittsburgh chapter Chicago Press by calling, toll free, enjoy the Boston chapters and the finely Any questions? Call Louise Sturgess begins with a vivid quote of 1886 in a 1-800-621-27 36, or by writing to: composed work of Longfellow, with and at (4r2) 471-5808. letter from Wadsworth Longfellow: The University of Chicago Press, without his partners. I am still in love with the bridge views. Order Department, 11030 S. Langley, Tonight the old gas flame was shooting Chicago, IL 60628.