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Penn Liberty Walk 17 Midtown Towers (originally the Keenan Building) Downtown Pittsburgh I think the architecture of this city makes it a very beautiful city Thomas Hannah, architect, 1907 Tenth Street on a very impressive scale. The vibrancy and positive feeling Penn-Liberty Walking Tour Active in Pittsburgh between 1899 and 1930, Thomas 11 Hannah modeled the Keenan Building after the Spreckels that you get when you come here is incredibly impressive. [later Call] Building of 1898 in San Francisco. The Keenan —Christopher Nolan, Director; as quoted in Pittsburgh City Paper 08.03/08.10.2011 Building was erected for Colonel Thomas J. Keenan, the chief owner of the Penny Press and a man with an eye for publicity. His skyscraper is decorated with portraits of 10 “worthies” FREE TOURS associated with Pennsylvania or the Pittsburgh of his time, Old Allegheny County Jail Museum and the fancy dome was once capped with the figure of an Open Mondays through October (11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.) eagle in flight. The building is now used as moderate-income 9 13 (except court holidays) housing: the exterior was repaired and cleaned in 2006. 7 8 10 e Downtown Pittsburgh Walking Tours Ninth Street u n e v A Every Friday, May through September (Noon to 1:00 p.m.) 18 EQT Plaza th 14 n e v e (formerly Dominion Tower, originally CNG Tower) 6 S • June: Market Square Area Kohn Pederson Fox (New York), architects, 1987 e • July: Grant Street and Mellon Square u e n u 12 e n v • e August: Fourth Avenue and PPG Place v Conspicuously Postmodern in its use of columns, arches, A A y t r n • September: Bridges & River Shores e n b and keystones, this skyscraper is site-specific. Its distinctively e i 16 P L e u n treated lower portion recalls Victorian building heights; its e v City Main Streets A d 4 r 15 th principal section echoes the height of the adjacent Midtown a ix v Every Friday in October (Noon to 1:00 p.m.) S e Seventh Street l W u o Offered in cooperation with the Urban Redevelopment o # o Towers; and the greater height of many modern Triangle 1 d N B 5 G O I 17 e N Authority of Pittsburgh T I n buildings is matched in EQT Plaza’s full height. In addition, T A s 2 E C e E O u Heinz Hall, at 600 Penn Avenue, is the home of the Pittsburgh L M the arched roof at the top is an allusion to Pittsburgh’s q • October 5: Bloomfield • October 19: West End u 3 D Symphony Orchestra. The PSO is celebrating its fortieth anniversary t many bridges. r • October 12: Lawrenceville • October 26: Strip District o season at Heinz Hall (seen here from Sixth Street). F This development project required the demolition of several 18 significant historic buildings and resulted in the agreement N SPECIAL EVENTS between preservationists and the Heinz interests that led to 20 19 the creation of the Penn-Liberty Cultural District and the Not free. Reservations required. Space is limited. Sixth Street establishment of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust in 1984. May 19: Modernism Downtown Walking Tour May Fridays at Noon June 24: Shadyside Walking Tour A FREE one-hour guided walking tour, 19 Heinz Hall (originally Loew’s Penn Theatre) Shading indicates the boundaries of the Penn-Liberty National Register Sept. 8: Dormont Walking Tour compliments of the Pittsburgh History Rapp & Rapp (Chicago), architects, 1926; and City Historic Districts, designated in 1987.The City Historic District Sept. 15: Behind-the-Scenes Heinz History Center Tour remodeled, 1971 was expanded in 1999. & Landmarks Foundation Oct. 20: Brierly/Berndtson House Tour (Bus) A motion-picture palace where live performances were also 1. Agnes R. Katz Plaza 12. Baum Building & “Space” given, Loew’s Penn Theatre was chosen in the late 1960s as a Nov. 29: Lecture by Holly Brubach––"Forever Young: How 2. Theater Square Gallery centrally located home—at first temporary, then permanent— Endless Possibility as an American Birthright Shapes 3. O’Reilly Theater 13. 900 Block, Liberty Avenue Our Cities and Our Minds,” co-sponsored by Carnegie Meeting Location for the Pittsburgh Symphony. The successful reopening of the (north side) Penn Theatre as Heinz Hall in 1971 set the stage for revitaliz- 4. Benedum Center for the Museum of Art, The Heinz Architectural Center Katz Plaza, at the corner of Performing Arts 14. 800 Block, Liberty Avenue ing the Penn-Liberty district: the Stanley Theatre (Benedum) 5. Century Building (north side) Penn Avenue and Seventh Street was restored 16 years later; more than 100 historic buildings 15. Wood Street Station & Wood FOR DETAILS OR RESERVATIONS were protected and many have been reused; and major new 6. 800 Block, Penn Avenue (south side) Street Galleries 412-471-5808, ext. 527 or [email protected] buildings have been constructed. 7. Pittsburgh CAPA 16. Granite Building www.phlf.org 8. Wm. G. Johnston Building 17. Midtown Towers 20 Byham Theater (formerly The Fulton) 18. EQT Plaza Funding for PHLF’s tour program is provided by The Fine Foundation and 9. 900 Block, Penn Avenue the Alfred M. Oppenheimer Memorial Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation. Dodge & Morrison (New York), architects, 1904 (north side) 19. Heinz Hall Following its Halloween-night opening in 1904, the Gayety 10. 209 Ninth Street 20. Byham Theater Theater, as it was originally called, became one of the country’s 11. August Wilson Center for foremost stage and vaudeville houses. Ethel Barrymore, African American Culture Gertrude Lawrence, and Helen Hayes performed there. The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust purchased the theater in 1990, Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation Pittsburgh: Rated among National Geographic For more information on local buildings and architects, restored it, and renamed it in 1995. Renewing Communities; Building Pride Traveler’s Best of the World in 2012 purchase one of our books: 412-471-5808, ext. 525; 100 West Station Square Drive, Suite 450 www.phlf.org Pittsburgh, PA 15219-1134 © 2012 PENN-LIBERTY WALK 1 Agnes R. Katz Plaza 7 Pittsburgh CAPA (Creative and Performing Arts) 12 Baum Building & “Space” Gallery Daniel Urban Kiley (Vermont), landscape architect; MacLachlan, Cornelius & Filoni, architects, 2003; (originally the Liberty Theater) Michael Graves (Princeton), architect; Louise Bourgeois Charles Bickel, architect, 1915; renovated as part of (New York), sculptor, 1999 Edward B. Lee, architect, 1912; remodeled, 1925 The Penn-Liberty Historic District is one of the CAPA in 2003/2009 Here is a refuge from the street, with remarkable contents: This Beaux-Arts gem at 812 Liberty Avenue was purchased, best preserved and most nearly intact portions CAPA is an $80 million state-of-the-art facility for City students cleaned, and renovated by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust 32 linden trees, a bronze fountain cascade 25 feet high, (grades 6–12), built largely through the generosity of The Bitz of Pittsburgh’s...retailing district [from the late and three pairs of benches in the form of eyes, as well as in 2003. The terra-cotta-clad building includes “Space,” Foundation. The design of the new building plays off the design a 4,000-square-foot gallery for changing exhibits. 19th and early 20th centuries]. The character 22 benches of more conventional form. of the adjacent historic structure of 1915 by Pittsburgh architect of the buildings demonstrates the vitality of Charles Bickel. (Bickel opened an architectural firm in Pittsburgh 13 900 Block, Liberty Avenue (north side) 2 Theater Square in 1885 and was, by all available records, the most frequently Pittsburgh commerce after the Civil War, when Michael Graves (Princeton), architect, with This handsome block includes two Richardsonian hired architect in the Penn-Liberty area.) Classrooms flow from WTW Architects, 2003 Romanesque buildings by Charles Bickel: the Maginn much American trade passed through the city one building into the other. Student work is displayed on a four- Building of 1891 at 915 Liberty Avenue and the Ewart into the Midwest via the rivers and railroads that This colorful ten-story building has a Jumbotron on its corner story Jumbotron on the Fort Duquesne Boulevard façade. with the latest information about cultural events in Pittsburgh. Building of 1892 at 925 Liberty Avenue. A parking lot bordered the district to the north. Along with 800 parking spaces, Theater Square includes a is between them. 8 Wm. G. Johnston Building ––Pittsburgh Cultural Trust plaque, 1993 satellite studio for WQED-FM, a centralized Box-Office, the Deeds & Brothers, builder, 1885; remodeling, 1915 250-seat Cabaret at Theater Square, and a restaurant. 14 800 Block, Liberty Avenue (north side) Pittsburgh’s streets were laid out in 1784 by George This is an example of the brick-layers’ craft, with much fluting Another notable block. The tall, suave, corner building 3 O’Reilly Theater and paneling. William G. Johnston & Co. were printers and Woods and Thomas Vickroy, who were working on was originally the Federal Reserve Bank, designed in 1911 Michael Graves (Princeton), architect, 1999 stationers. The building now houses apartments in the by Alden & Harlow; the builder was Thompson Starrett behalf of the Penn family in Philadelphia. By 1900, The overhanging copper-covered roof makes a dramatic upper stories and a ground-floor restaurant. of New York whose more famous contract was the Empire the Penn-Liberty area was widely varied in content statement and has a practical use: it encloses a full-size State Building. Frank E. Alden and Alfred B. Harlow 9 900 Block, Penn Avenue (north side) and included many buildings designed by important rehearsal space. A local critic characterizes the theater as dominated the local architectural scene from 1896 until This block includes possibly the last building built downtown as local architects.
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