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May 1994 .1994 Membership Events Listing PITTSBURGH HISTORY & LANDMARKS FOI-JNDATION 1 STATTON SQ STE 450 PITTSBURGH PA 15219-1170 Address Correction Requested 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 (Continued on page 12) 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
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