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PublishedP forH the membersL of the PittsburghF History &N Landmarks Foundationews No. 153 February 1999

Without the Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation, our children would not be able to see or know about the neighborhoods and places that make Pittsburgh home, and they might not want to stay here.

—Betty Jane Ralph, Chairperson, Manchester Citizens Corporation

In his “Starry Night” over Pittsburgh, Mark Engelmeyer of Washington Elementary School in Mt. Lebanon used oil pastels and watercolor to imitate the style of Vincent Van Gogh. Priorities in 1999 On November 10, 1998, the Board of The “Making Cities Work” lecture to the proposed new retail areas and to sprawl/saving small towns and rural Trustees of the Pittsburgh History & series, tremendously popular in 1998, the residential areas of the North Side buildings program. Landmarks Foundation approved a will continue. Experts in the fields of beyond the stadiums, and we continue fourteen-page work plan outlining major historic preservation, urban planning, to monitor the plans for the Mon Valley Historic Religious Properties and landscape design will come to Expressway. program priorities in the new year. Pittsburgh to share their knowledge and We routinely testify on preservation Initiative This work plan will direct much of give opinions on local issues. issues before City Council, the City Thanks to a lead gift from trustee Landmarks’ activity. Priorities include: Planning Commission, and the Historic Constance O’Neil and year-end gifts from Advocacy Review Commission. We also testify our members and friends, Landmarks will again provide assistance to historic Preservation Loan Fund and Staff members are involved in advocacy on preservation issues in outlying religious properties in Allegheny County. Technical Assistance on local, state, and national levels. communities such as Collier Township, We are planning a seminar this fall that This year we plan to lend about In Pittsburgh, we continue to work Homestead, and Brentwood. will include a program of financial and $1,000,000 in loans to community- with the Mayor’s office regarding the On the State level, we are working technical assistance to owners of historic based organizations in Allegheny proposed retail development for the core with the Pennsylvania Historical & religious properties. County that propose feasible plans to area of downtown Pittsburgh, so many Museum Commission and Preservation renovate or find new uses for historic of the historic buildings and long-time Pennsylvania on matters such as the properties. Landmarks’ Preservation businesses can be saved and strength- Downtown Location Law (H.B. 969) Historic Landscape Loan Fund is its most effective tool for ened. We remain active in issues regard- and the Historic Homesite Bill (H.B. Preservation stimulating neighborhood revitalization. ing the preservation and renovation of 2694). We are also working with the Through collaborative efforts with Our scholarship-assistance program numerous historic school buildings in Department of Community and public agencies, neighborhood organiza- will expand in 1999, so more people the city of Pittsburgh (please see the Economic Development on the possible tions, professional groups, educational from neighborhood organizations will article on page 6), and we continue to formation of a city-wide Main Street institutions, and other non-profits, be able to attend educational conferences conduct field research throughout the program. Landmarks will continue to advocate throughout the United States and gain county. In regard to transportation plan- Nationally, we are working with the the preservation and restoration of the the skills they need to strengthen their ning, we continue to advocate improved National Trust for Historic Preservation public landscape. local historic preservation programs. public transit in the city with full access and Preservation Action on the anti- (continued on page 8) Page 2 PHLF News • February 1999

Mr. & Mrs. Edgar R. Taylor, Jr. Donald L. Trump and family New Members in 1998 Jamee Todd Thank you for joining in 1998. We greatly appreciate your membership support and encourage you to renew your Helen Tomory Kaarin Van Ausdal membership this year so you can continue to enjoy the educational programs and preservation services we offer. Melvin N. Vesely Joanne D. Vey and family Barbara Adler Edward P. Doran Bette Landish and Mark Winer and family Stacy G. Vlasits Audrey Amthor Tim Dreier and family Maureen E. Lang Mary Lou Ward Arlington Elementary School Ruth L. Drescher Sarah B. Larkin and Jason B. Rosenstock Washington Elementary School Arlington Middle School Mr. & Mrs. Robert Dunbar Mr. & Mrs. Jeff Leber and family F. Jean Weaver Lisa and Bill Baierl Britta C. Dwyer Lisa Pupo Lenihan, Esq. Marilyn B. Weber Tom Balcom East Lawrence Elementary School Cynthia Lennox Howard J. Wein and Susan Bails Catherine and Raymond Bamrick Eisenhower Elementary School Dr. & Mrs. Paul Levy Mr. & Mrs. J. Brian Weller Ron Baraff Stephanie K. Ellegood David Lewis and family Jane Werrin and family John A. Baranowski Judith Esposito Terry Lorince and Craig Parke Anthony Wertz Joan and Thomas Barnhart and family Beth Evans Fred L. Lowstetter Mr. & Mrs. Ron Wertz Victoria L. Batcha Michele Fabrizi Elaine MacDonald Sara T. White Allen Baum and family Mike Fackovec and family Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence T. Magasano Diane Whittaker Vitasta Bazaz-Sehgal, M.D., and family Dan Fales Mary Lee Majcher Phil Wilkin and family Jennifer Beck Marie Farrell Sandra Mallory Brenda Witherel Jack Bender Federal Home Loan Bank of Pittsburgh Esther Mallouh Jeff Worsinger Frances B. Bennett and family David Fineman and family Linda March Mr. & Mrs. John W. Yago Carrie Bessor and David Foreman Whitney A. Finnstrom Mr. & Mrs. Joseph J. Marchesani, Sr. Suzanne L. Youngmayer and family Dr. J. A. Bevilacqua Laura and Chester Fisher Joseph Marvenko and family Kris and Erik Zissu and family Bishop Leonard Catholic School Paul Forrest and family Mr. & Mrs. Dennis Mattuch Barbara L. Bolas Sally B. Foster Mr. & Mrs. W. Duff McCrady Mr. & Mrs. Richard A. Boulden Mr. & Mrs. Stanley L. Foster and family Ray W. McGogney and family Stacia L. C. Boyd and family Mr. & Rev. Mrs. Edward E. Frick Susan Meadowcroft Corporate Members Mr. & Mrs. Russell I. Bradley Edward Blair Gallagher Meetings & More We thank the following corporations Herbert J. Brankley Mr. & Mrs. Robert Geiger and family Larry Meyers and Holly Thuma and family The Brashear Association, Inc. Chris Gendron Carol and Robert Miller and organizations for their membership Shauna Browne Fr. Carl Gentile Patricia Miller support in 1998: William P. Buckley Evelyn and James George Becky Mingo and Dutch MacDonald The Buncher Company Nancy S. George and family Joseph P. Moffitt Benefactors Amy Burnis Jennifer Georges Kathleen and Windle Mook CB Richard Ellis/Pittsburgh Damian and Anne Bursill-Hall Girl Scout Troop 1070 Paul A. Mooney Columbia Gas of Pennsylvania, Inc. Lynn Glorieux Peg Moore Ellwood Group, Inc. Lois Gongaware Mr. & Mrs. W. Ford Moreland II Federal Home Loan Bank of Pittsburgh Greater Pittsburgh Convention & Sara Morrison and Frank Quinn Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield Thank you for sending me Visitors Bureau Mary P. Mulroy Matthews International Jean Green Caroline and Dennis Murcko Mylan Laboratories, Inc. all this great information. James and Linda Greenberg John Murdock Oxford Development Company Jeffrey Gronbeck Murray Elementary School PNC Bank Enclosed is my member- Lee M. Haller Ray Novak Pittsburgh Steelers Sports, Inc. Beth and John Hallerud Oak Glen Middle School Victoria Hall ship application. I’m Hampton Middle School O’Hara Elementary School Patrons Tom Hanchett Betsy and Brian O’Neill Alpern, Rosenthal & Company impressed with all the Ruth M. Hargis Michael O’Sullivan and family Beckwith Machinery Nancy Hart Our Lady of Grace School Dollar Bank good work going on. Betty E. Havryluk Barbara and Lester Parker Greater Pittsburgh Convention & Hayes Large Architects Partners for Sacred Places Visitors Bureau —Melvin N. Vesely Frances L. Heiner Martha J. Pasula Molly’s Trolleys Mary Ann and David Henderson Marilyn C. Pavlik National City Bank of Pennsylvania Rebecca Henn and David Celento Frank and Judy Petrich Jae and Bob Cannon Fritzie Hess Kathy Petruska Partners John Capretti Holly Hicks-Opperman and family Phillips Elementary School Allegheny Valley Bank of Pittsburgh Nat Carbone and family Hillel Academy Eve Picker Baker Mellon Stuart Construction, Inc. Arlene Carbone-Wiley and Clayton Wiley Historical Society of Carnegie, Pennsylvania Joelle Kirch Preksta and family Bell Atlantic Donna Carey and family Mildred C. Hoffmann Prince of Peace School Bognar and Company Carlow College Allyson Holtz and Brian Koski Providence Preservation Society Bruce Plastics, Inc. A. M. Carlson and S. E. Brandon Deborah L. Houston Rachel Carson Homestead Association The Buncher Company Margot and Todd Cavalier Elena Howald Anne Rawlinson Burrell Group, Inc. Mary Cerrone Allison M. Howard Mr. & Mrs. Frank Revtai and family California University of Pennsylvania Ann Chenoweth Bob Hurley Ceil and Jim Rockovich Chatham Village Homes, Inc. Mike Cherubino Teresa Hurley and family Mr. & Mrs. C. H. Rollins Chubb Group of Insurance Companies Elizabeth T. Chrystal International Society for Measurement Cynthia A. Rosky Clearview Project Services Company Church of the Redeemer and Control Ron Roth Duquesne Light Company Virginia Cicero Mardi and Bill Isler Ann Fay Ruben Fayette Bank Mr. & Mrs. John W. Clark James F. Israel and family J. N. Runyan Ferry Electric Company Clearview Project Services Company Edward F. Jacob, Jr. Marjorie Russell The Gateway Engineers Grady Clendening and family Robert A. Jacobs Diane N. and Paul A. Sabol and family Graham Realty Company Rosa Colucci Mary Patricia Jackson St. Joan of Arc School Great American Federal Savings & Maggie and Rich Contestabile Dr. Kenneth Jaros and family Maria Santiago Loan Association Carmelita R. Corrado Linda Jeub Elizabeth Santillo Greater Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce Lee Cramer Kent S. Johnson and family Harriet R. Schach The Gustine Company, Inc. David Crane Barbara Johnstone Nancy L. Schaefer and family Hayes Large Architects Sherry Crowe and family Ellen Jones Robert B. Schaub Frank P. Hess & Company, Inc. Gwen Dakis Evelyn Jucha Janet E. Schlarb Hilb, Rogal and Hamilton Company Patricia Dalby William J. Keck, Jr. and family Debra and Henry Schleuter and family Horty, Springer & Mattern, P.C. Alicia Dal Lago John T. Keegan, Architect Mary Jane Schmalstieg International Society for Measurement Teresa Dalla Piccola Wood Rosemary Kelly Janice M. Schmidt and Control Professor J. 19R. Daniels Mr. & Mrs. George Kepler Gail Schrecengost and family J&H Marsh & McLennan Sandra M. Danko John C. Kime Amy Couch Schultz and family Keystone State Savings Bank Mary deChesnay Mr. & Mrs. Edward Klicker Carol and Gary Schurman Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Sabina Deitrick Karen Klicker Residential Design Gary J. Schwager Landmarks Design Associates Marlene Demarest Mrs. James H. Knowles, Jr. Grace Altman Gates Sconza MBI/McGaughey Buses, Inc. Diane DeNardo Mr. & Mrs. Ron Koch and family Donna Scott Meetings & More Judith A. DePalma and family Mark Steven Koleck Bruce Seiling Mellon Bank Barbara and Alan dePaoli James and Heather Cannon Komosinski Sewickley Academy Neville Chemical Company Cheryl DePasquale and family and family Mr. & Mrs. A. C. Sheldon NorthSide Bank Susan Devine and family Elizabeth Kondrich and family Lynda Jo Shugars Penn Liberty Association Robert L. Digby Patricia and James Kopriva Sally and Loren Siegel Perkins Eastman Architects, P.C. Julie DiMenno Mrs. Jean S. Kress Dee Ann Sisak Pittsburgh Hilton & Towers Peggy Dimperio and family Mr. & Mrs. Paul Kueser Janet Skupien Port Authority of Allegheny County John B. Donaldson Mr. & Mrs. James C. Kuhn III Randall D. Snure and family Rossin Foundation Rev. & Mrs. James K. Donnell P. M. Kunkle and family South Fayette High School Sargent Electric Company Ed Donovan Lois Lach South Vo-Tech High School Sesame Inn Restaurants Mr. & Mrs. John Stanko Tempus Creative Service Celeste D. Steffen TRACO Windows Paul Stiehler A. J. Vater & Company PHLF News is published four times each year for the members of the Pittsburgh History & Leonora and Richard Stein Westin William Penn Hotel Landmarks Foundation, a non-profit historic preservation organization serving Allegheny County. Robert C. Stephenson and family Associates Landmarks is committed to neighborhood restoration and historic property preservation; public Janice Stock Delta International Machinery advocacy; historic landscape preservation; educational programs; and membership services. A. J. Stones Pytlik Design Associates © 1999 Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation. Arthur A. Swartz and family Edited by Louise Sturgess and Walter C. Kidney Dr. & Mrs. Myron Taube Designed by Pytlik Design Associates Dustin Taylor PHLF News • February 1999 Page 3

Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Rooney • Jane Louik, for her gift in honor of Barbara Bonnett Major Donors Sargent Electric Company David Fineman; Margaret E. Bowen in 1998 Mr. & Mrs. Ellis L. Schmidlapp • Mary Lee Majcher, for her gift in honor Elizabeth R. Bradley The Estate of Delores M. Smith of Paul A. Mooney; The Brand Foundation We thank the following people, busi- Furman South III • Michelle A. Maker, for her gift in honor Mr. & Mrs. David M. Brashear nesses, and foundations for generously The Estate of Robert L. Spear of Paul Stiehler; Sara M. Brown contributing to the Pittsburgh History The Stadium Authority of the Robert Bruno City of Pittsburgh • Linda March, for her gift in honor of Dr. & Mrs. Gibson P. Buchanan & Landmarks Foundation in 1998: U. S. Hotel Group staff Diane Whittaker; Myrtle A. Butler American Society of Landscape Architects, Urban League of Pittsburgh • Joseph J. Marchesani, Jr., for his gifts in Elizabeth L. Childs the Pennsylvania/Delaware Western The Walden Trust honor of Mr. & Mrs. Joseph J. Marchesani, Mr. & Mrs. J. Mabon Childs Section Ellen Carroll Walton Sr. and Mr. & Mrs. Russell I. Bradley; Conrad C. M. Arensberg West Penn Hospital CRNAs • The May Department Stores Company, Aristech Chemical Corporation West View Savings for its gift in honor of Douglas Trumpower; Historic religious buildings Thomas W. Armstrong Western Pennsylvania Anesthesia • John Murdock, for his gift in honor of Esther L. Barazzone Associates, Ltd. Stacy Vlasits; are familiar, cherished Bennett Supply Company Mr. & Mrs. Harvey L. Zeve • Mr. & Mrs. Hugh Nevin, for their gift in G. William Bissell Arthur P. Ziegler, Jr. honor of Verna Slaughter Shields; sites in our lives, where not H. M. Bitner Charitable Trust Vinnie Ziegler Mr. & Mrs. H. Vaughan Blaxter III • Kathleen Reel, for her gift in honor of only artistry, but personal Louise Marsh Boesel Gail Schrecengost; Susan Borchardt • Ronald C. Roth, for his gift in honor of and collective memories Mr. & Mrs. W. Walter Braham, Jr. Recent Contributions Doris Harris; and cultural traditions The Brand Foundation Recently, the Laurel Foundation • Jim Steiner, for his gift in honor of Mr. & Mrs. David M. Brashear granted Landmarks $10,000 for the Caroline Steiner; are found. Carl W. Brown construction and installation of infor- • Marthe Wilson, for her contribution to Mr. & Mrs. Richard A. Brunermer Landmarks’ Preservation Loan Fund in Dr. & Mrs. Gibson P. Buchanan mational signs at the Allegheny County honor of our chairman Philip B. Hallen. The Buhl Foundation Courthouse. This grant will support our Clearview Project Services Company Esther Bush efforts to preserve and promote Dr. & Mrs. John E. Clever Janet and Frank Coyle CB Richard Ellis/Pittsburgh H. H. Richardson’s Courthouse as Mrs. Edward W. Campbell Memorial Gifts Margaret R. Davies The Chevron Products Company a major tourist attraction for Pittsburgh. Mr. & Mrs. John P. Davis, Jr. Elizabeth L. Childs We are grateful to The Milton G. We thank the following people for Day & Night Press Mr. & Mrs. J. Mabon Childs Hulme Charitable Foundation, Pittsburgh contributing to Landmarks in memory Lowrie C. Ebbert The Anne L. & George H. Clapp Steelers Sports, Inc., Mr. & Mrs. Daniel of Grace Burrell: Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Mr. & Mrs. Arthur J. Edmunds Educational Trust James M. Edwards Clearview Project Services Company Rooney, and the Thomas O. Hornstein Bombassaro; Aksel Bothner-By; Mr. & Mr. & Mrs. Paul C. Emery Columbia Gas of Pennsylvania, Inc. Charitable Fund of The Pittsburgh Mrs. William S. Conover; Mrs. David Mr. & Mrs. George W. Erny Cranston Development Corporation staff Foundation for year-end gifts to support C. Gerber; and Mary Ellen Young. Edith H. Fisher R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company Landmarks’ work throughout Allegheny We also thank the following people Suzanne Flood Dee Dunn County. and organizations for contributing to F. T. Ford Lowrie C. Ebbert Colleen Gavaghan James M. Edwards We thank the Katherine Mabis Landmarks in memory of Arthur P. Mrs. David Gilmore Eisler Nurseries McKenna Foundation and the Ganassi Ziegler, Sr.: Mr. & Mrs. Paul A. Beck; Harry C. Goldby The Ellwood Group, Inc. Foundation for their gifts to Landmarks’ Mary Blanner; Mr. & Mrs. David M. Stephen C. Graffam Environmental Planning and Design Architectural Preservation Fund. Brashear; Mr. & Mrs. Richard A. Graham Realty Company Maurice Falk Medical Fund Isobel S. Haines FannieMae Foundation The Pittsburgh Downtown Brunermer; The Rachel Carson Nancy A. Hart Federal Home Loan Bank of Pittsburgh Partnership generously awarded Homestead Association; Cranston Veronica Hastings and Todd Hess Edith H. Fisher Landmarks’ tour program $750 for Development Corporation staff; Mrs. Norman H. Hochendoner Mr. & Mrs. Henry P. Hoffstot III Suzanne Flood the purchase of twelve additional Dee I. Dunn; Forest City Enterprises; F. T. Ford Mr. & Mrs. Sylvan Green; Bernadine Caroline F. Holdship Forest City Enterprises Charitable portable microphones, to be used by Frances and John Holland Foundation our docents when conducting tours of Hespenheide; Mr. & Mrs. Henry P. Mrs. M. P. Huessener GWSM, Inc., Landscape Architects our neighborhoods and city. Hoffstot III; Landmarks Design Mr. & Mrs. Peter R. Kaplan Ganassi Foundation In addition, the Pittsburgh History & Associates staff; PNC Bank; Pittsburgh Arthur John Kerr, Jr. Garden Club of Allegheny County David A. Kleer Landmarks Foundation thanks the History & Landmarks Foundation staff; Mrs. David L. Genter Mr. & Mrs. Ellis L. Schmidlapp; U. S. Mrs. J. Craig Kuhn R. Anthony Goldman following people for their recent Kenneth K. Lee Graham Realty Company contributions: Hotel Group staff; and Vinnie Ziegler. Aaron P. Levinson Mr. & Mrs. Sylvan Green • The H. M. Bitner Charitable Trust, for its Joel B. Levinson Alice Patton Greller grant in support of the design and publica- Richard L. Linder Isobel S. Haines tion of Chronicle of a Pittsburgh Family; Dorothy K. Lynch Philip B. Hallen Year-End Gifts Aid Dom Magasano Doris F. Harris • Mr. & Mrs. James Campbell, for their gift Richard E. Maine The Hearst Foundation in honor of Randall Campbell; Religious Properties Bernard Kent Markwell H. J. Heinz Company Foundation • Harriette Carlisle, for her gift in honor of Mr. & Mrs. Samuel A. McClung The Heinz Architectural Center Lois Gongaware; Total Approaches $45,000 Helen P. McDonough Bernadine Hespenheide • Elisa Cavalier, for her gift in honor of Mary A. McDonough Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield Mr. & Mrs. James E. Cavalier; We thank the following foundations, Edward S. McKenna, Esq. Katherine Mabis McKenna Foundation The Hillman Foundation • Chevron Products Company, for its gift in organizations, and individuals for Mr. & Mrs. Henry P. Hoffstot III honor of Stephanie G. Sladek; Mary K. Michaely responding to our year-end appeal and Mr. & Mrs. William A. Mistick Caroline F. Holdship • Betty M. Chorba, for her gift in honor of contributing close to $45,000 to Philip F. Muck Thomas O. Hornstein Charitable Fund Beth Evans; of The Pittsburgh Foundation Landmarks’ Historic Religious Eleanor Howe Nimick • Mr. & Mrs. James C. Denny, for their Horty, Springer & Mattern, P.C. Properties Fund. This is a marvelous John S. Oehrle Milton G. Hulme Charitable Foundation gift in honor of Mr. & Mrs. Larry T. Constance O’Neil The Roy A. Hunt Foundation Magasano; record of support and an increase over Madeline Pascasio Torrence M. Hunt, Sr. • The Maurice Falk Medical Fund, for last year’s record of giving! Constance Martha J. Pasula David A. Kleer support of the hospital history project; O’Neil, a trustee of Landmarks, made a Quail Hill Foundation Jay Latterman • Barbara H. Fetzer, for her gift in honor of very generous contribution for the third Mr. & Mrs. John T. Radelet 98Landmarks Design Associates Mr. & Mrs. Frank Revtai; year in a row, and the Katherine Mabis Mr. & Mrs. Edward V. Randall, Jr. Richard E. Maine Elsie L. Rea • Eric Filo, for his gifts in honor of Lois McKenna Foundation, a long-standing Masterwork Paint Company Lach, Julie DiMenno, and David Crane; William F. Reed Mr. & Mrs. Samuel A. McClung supporter of Landmarks, also made a Charles D. Reynolds • Bruce E. Hails, for his gift in honor of Mary A. McDonough Mr. & Mrs. William Y. Rodewald Anthony Wertz; most generous contribution. Katherine Mabis McKenna Foundation Virginia W. Schatz • Dr. & Mrs. James Hall, for their gift in Thanks to all these gifts, Landmarks The Estate of Elizabeth J. McPherson will be able to provide assistance once Mr. & Mrs. A. Reed Schroeder Philip F. Muck honor of Mr. & Mrs. Robert Dunbar; Nancy and Alan Singleton National City Bank of Pennsylvania • Doris F. Harris, for her donation to the again for historic religious properties in Furman South III Eliza Scott Nevin endowment fund; Allegheny County. Howard B. Slaughter, Mrs. Leonard C. Staisey Northern Light & Supply Company • The H. J. Heinz Company, for its gift in Jr., director of preservation services, is Mr. & Mrs. Garrett L. Stauffer Constance O’Neil honor of M. M. Dodgen; planning an historic religious properties Mildred M. Stevenson Mr. & Mrs. S. William Stouffer PNC Bank • Lisa K. Herring, for her gift in honor of seminar this September and a program PPG Industries Foundation Whitney A. Finnstrom; Mr. & Mrs. Martin W. Sturgess Pennsylvania Downtown Center of financial and technical assistance. Nancy C. Tranter Pennsylvania Historical and Museum • Betty Hoesch, for her gift in honor of Details will be announced in forth- The Walden Trust Dr. Kenneth Jaros; Commission coming issues of PHLF News, or call Ellen Carroll Walton • Ann Jacobs, for her gift in honor of Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership Howard directly at (1-412) 471-5808. Mr. & Mrs. Marvin M. Wedeen Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Robert Jacobs; The White Elephant Foundation staff • Mr. & Mrs. William Collins King, for Conrad C. M. Arensberg Wilson and McCracken Pittsburgh Steelers Sports, Inc. their contribution to Landmarks’ Joanne E. Bald Frances H. Wilson Maria DeSimone Prascak education department; Esther L. Barazzone Mr. & Mrs. John H. Wilson Rachel Carson Homestead Association • Mrs. J. Craig Kuhn, for her gift in honor Patricia L. Beall Fannie J. Yount Mr. & Mrs. Edward V. Randall, Jr. of Mr. & Mrs. James C. Kuhn III; G. William Bissell Arthur P. Ziegler, Jr. The Rockwell Foundation Louise Marsh Boesel Mr. & Mrs. Jack R. Zierden Mr. & Mrs. William Y. Rodewald Page 4 PHLF News • February 1999 Preservation Services: Technical Assistance

Recent Awards preservation of the historic buildings at Homestead Borough Planning and Appointments Committee and Borough Council meetings. We met with CVS’ Regional Arthur P. Ziegler, Jr., president of Vice President of Real Estate and its Landmarks, was recognized as one developer—The Gustine Company— about utilizing the non-historic land of Pittsburgh Magazine’s 1998 opposite CVS’ proposed site, and even Pittsburgher(s) of the year. Also in commissioned an architect to draw a 1998, Arthur was elected to the Board plan for the alternate site. of Preservation Pennsylvania, and locally he was asked to serve on the Public Space Committee of the Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership. Howard B. Slaughter, Jr., director of preservation services at Landmarks, was appointed in 1998 to the Board of Advisors to the National Trust for Historic Preservation, to the Board of To date, the Homestead/CVS conflict Directors of Preservation Action, and has been the subject of numerous The 100 block of East Eighth Avenue, part of the Homestead National Register articles and editorials in the Pittsburgh locally to the Steering Committee of District, is endangered by a proposed CVS super-pharmacy. the Multi-Cultural Arts Initiative. Post-Gazette, the Pittsburgh Tribune- Review, and the McKeesport Daily At the invitation of The Fannie Mae News. The Money & Business section Foundation, Howard served as a grants of the Providence Sunday Journal evaluator for its Northeastern office for Drugstore Invasion (CVS is headquartered in Rhode Island) the Maxwell Awards of Excellence Homestead, Pennsylvania, incorporated The first block of East Eighth Avenue, detailed the national expansion plans Program. in 1880, is famous in the history of the the gateway into Homestead, is being of CVS’ new president, Tom Ryan, Cathy Broucek, assistant to the steel industry. It is also inextricably threatened by CVS pharmacy which and Homestead’s resistance. The president, was appointed in 1998 to linked with a famous conflict of labor wants to build a 10,000 square-foot headline read “Old Steel Town Tests the Boards of the South Side Local and management: the Homestead Strike building surrounded by parking. Ryan and CVS.” Development Company and City of 1892. Although the mills are gone, To build this sprawling development, The invasion of the mega-drugstores on historic main streets is occurring Source Associates. Homestead’s once-thriving main street CVS needs to demolish ten buildings in across the country. Community ire, the Homestead Historic District. coupled with media attention, is spot- At the request of Homestead commu- lighting the fact that CVS, Eckerd, Meetings of Note nity groups and concerned citizens, Rite-Aid, and Walgreens will care little Landmarks got involved. We reviewed about the architecture and heritage of Homestead’s ordinances and found Here, we highlight a few of the organi- the communities in which they choose numerous provisions with which CVS to locate unless the town and its citizens zations and institutions that Landmarks had failed to comply. We advocated staff members were involved with require this respect. in 1998.

• In March, Howard B. Slaughter, Jr. Photo by William Rydberg, PHOTON addressed a national conference hosted by the University of New Orleans’ college of Urban and Public The block from a distance, just left of Affairs on the topic of historic preser- the High Level Bridge. vation and economic development. (East Eighth Avenue) remains remark- • In April, Howard met with representa- ably intact with commercial architecture tives in Marlboro, Massachusetts to from the period c. 1890–1940. Due to help the neighborhood develop a its architecture and history, this area clearer sense of its priorities in regard was included in the Homestead Historic to neighborhood banks and reinvest- District, which was placed on the ments, public policy, and public National Register of Historic Places Elevation of the proposed CVS. A new building and parking lot will replace ten service. on June 10, 1990. buildings. • Howard was involved with three universities in 1998: he met with Carnegie Mellon University students Mayor Menino helped us see preserva- to describe how Landmarks has “Big City” Preservationists Meet tion from a Mayor’s point of view and contributed to urban revitalization in advised us on how we can be effective the Pittsburgh region; he provided The National Worth, Philadelphia, New York, and with city governments.” information to enhance an advance Trust con- Indianapolis. Howard B. Slaughter, Jr. An important update was on the program at Duquesne University for vened the and Arthur P. Ziegler, Jr. represented use of web pages, such as our own non-profit leadership; and at the New leaders of Landmarks, and Arthur led a round- extensive one (www.phlf.org), and Jersey Historical Society and Rutgers “big city” table discussion of critical matters for on the relationship between historic University Conference entitled “Arts preservation such preservation organizations. preservation and the growing high-tech Transforming Urban Environment,” groups in “We learned a great deal about the world. The group reconvened at the he discussed the importance of inte- early July day-to-day work of preservation groups National Trust Convention in Savannah grating historic preservation with 1998 for a similar to ours,” said Arthur, “and in October 1998. economic development. retreat in Boston to • On September 26 to 28, Howard discuss pro- and Cathy Broucek served on the Mayor Menino grams and Host Committee for the Pittsburgh problems. visit of the President’s Council on Leading the group was Mayor Thomas Sustainable Development. Cathy Menino of Boston, who takes a strong chaired the Marketing Committee, personal interest in the role of historic and Barry Hannegan offered input preservation in urban and neighborhood during the Community Meeting. revitalization. The Community Meeting kicked off a The meeting was held in the historic year-long initiative on a “Sustainable Parkman House on Beacon Hill facing Pittsburgh” program, including the Boston Common, restored by discussion about land-use planning, Mayor Menino and used for private reuse of infrastructure and buildings, meetings and conferences by the and the environment. Mayor’s office. Representatives attended from many cities around the country including Los Angeles, Seattle, Chicago, New York, San Antonio, New Orleans, Baltimore, Detroit, Cleveland, Fort PHLF News • February 1999 Page 5 Preservation Services: Loan Fund

Loans from Landmarks Help Revitalize Lawrenceville and the Strip

Lawrenceville Photos by William Rydberg, PHOTON stone horse head above the arched On August 26, 1998 the Pittsburgh central doorway. The stable building History & Landmarks Foundation pro- had been used as an automobile repair vided a $300,000 below market-rate shop and, consequently, its stark interior loan to the Lawrenceville Development was blackened by years of oil and soot. Corporation so that eight properties in The interior has been transformed into a the 3400 block of Butler Street, includ- ing two historic buildings, could be pur- chased. These properties are adjacent to Doughboy Square, whose World War I statue and small urban space serves as the portal to the Lawrenceville neigh- borhood. The Lawrenceville Development Corporation, with finan- cial assistance from PNC Bank, the The Collins Cigar Company warehouse building of 1895 at Smallman and Urban Redevelopment Authority, and Twenty-eighth Street in the Strip will house condominiums and commercial space. the Local Initiative Support Corporation, plans to restore and rede- predominantly white, airy workspace velop the eight properties. The Cigar Factory financing. On the exterior, windows punctuated with various colors on walls, were restored and the red brick was The two historic buildings purchased In 1895, the Collins Cigar Company handrails and doors, thanks to the cleaned, revealing the light stone belt are of interest architecturally and histor- occupied the warehouse at the corner of architectural firm of Kingsland Scott courses and keystone accents above ically. The first building, a massive brick Smallman and Twenty-eighth Streets in Bauer Associates who will also be the each window. On the interior, all non- and stone structure of 1888, served as a Pittsburgh’s Strip District. Immigrants building tenant. The second building is structural elements were demolished stable and is marked by a carved from Polish Hill and the surrounding a former bathhouse originally funded in and redesigned on a build-to-suit basis area rolled stogies in the building until part by Henry Phipps, dating to 1904. for each new commercial tenant. 1923, when it was sold to the Keystone The building contained eighteen At Twenty-ninth and Smallman, Joedda Box Company. Architect Joel Kranich showers, ten tubs, and washing Sampson, a trustee of Landmarks, has has transformed the property into a machines for mill workers whose restored the former Ruud Water Heater combination of twelve residential homes did not have modern plumb- building as the Strip Lofts. ing. When restored, the bathhouse condominiums, commercial space, and will provide over 7,500 square feet adjacent parking, with help from the in commercial space. Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Landmarks has retained an Foundation. easement on these two buildings In March 1998, Mr. Kranich to ensure the proper restoration approached Landmarks for funding for and continued facade the historic rehabilitation project. preservation. Although the project did not meet the The acquisition and criteria for a low-interest Preservation redevelopment of the eight Fund loan, it is in a district where properties is significant Landmarks would like to see the historic because it ensures the architecture sensitively restored and continued renovation of adapted for new uses. According to The Strip Lofts Lawrenceville’s once- Landmarks’ president Arthur P. bustling commercial Ziegler, Jr., “We felt it was a sound district. Recently, the investment even though the project was Lawrenceville Development not yet ready for bank financing.” Thus, Corporation helped to restore the with a $450,000 market-rate loan from Pennsylvania National Bank building Landmarks, Kranich’s team was able to in Doughboy Square and the Engine purchase the property. Additional con- Company Number Twenty-five struction financing was provided by the building. Improving Doughboy Square Urban Redevelopment Authority. and its adjacent properties will act The Cigar Factory, as the project is as a catalyst for future improvement known, hopes to capitalize on the The horse-head keystone on the stable. and development along Butler Street building’s history and architecture, its and Penn Avenue. proximity to the Strip District’s markets and night life, and the rise in urban The Crane Building The stable, in the 3400 block of Butler Street in Lawrenceville. living. The massive red brick, turn-of- the-century industrial building has windows with views of downtown and the Allegheny River, ceiling heights of seventeen feet, and exposed wooden timbers. The Cigar Factory joins a handful of recent warehouse conversions in the Strip District. The massive Armstrong Cork buildings by Frederick John Osterling at Twenty-third and Railroad Streets are being converted into upscale, affordable riverfront apartments, restaurants, and shops (see the article on page 6). Next door on Twenty-fourth and Railroad Streets, the Crane Building, constructed in 1922 for a national manufacturer of plumbing IN THE STRIP, en route to fixtures, was restored in 1995, again Lawrenceville, take note of a with the financial assistance of recently renovated building at Landmarks. Landmarks’ $3,000,000 2801 Penn Avenue, now housing short-term loan helped the owner Klavon’s Ice Cream Parlor and embark on property improvements Coffee Shop. without waiting for conventional Page 6 PHLF News • February 1999 Preservation Scene

Landmarks The Carrie Furnaces It appears that a first legal step has Nominates been taken toward securing the future of the two remaining Carrie Furnaces, Pittsburgh Numbers 6 and 7. At the end of Schools to HRC October, the Steel Industry Heritage Corporation, the owners of the Park Corporation, and Allegheny County At the beginning of September 1998, Photo by William Rydberg, PHOTON the Pennsylvania Department of reached a preliminary agreement that Education revised its guidelines that the last-named party would assume title had heavily favored new construction to the furnaces with the idea of making over renovation of older buildings. them a National Park Service site and Now school boards can seek reim- nominating them as a National Historic bursement for those renovation pro- Landmark. jects. As a result, the prospects for The Homestead Works across the maintaining extant school buildings City-County Building river is not affected one way or another, have greatly improved. Landmarks, The City of Pittsburgh and Allegheny but it does seem that two of the most Preservation Pennsylvania, County, in what seems to be uneasy conspicuous and symbolic objects of and Ronald C. Yochum of the Pittsburgh industry will remain. We St. Michael Archangel, South Side Brentwood School Board (and of concert, are to spend $1.38 million over Landmarks’ staff) are to be credited a three-year period to clean and repair have been helpless before the toppling of Slopes for the successful pro-preservation the City-County Building on Grant Street. the Eliza Furnaces at the foot of effort. The interior, part Henry Hornbostel, Deconsecration In November, Landmarks nomi- part Edward B. Lee, part whoever nated the following Pittsburgh wanted what in a given place, is elegant The conversion of the Catholic Church buildings to the Historic Review in its public spaces, simple with bursts of St. John the Baptist into the Church of richly figured bronze and glowing Brew Works in Lawrenceville, with the marquetry here and there, and it will be brew kettle in the sanctuary, created good to see everything back in good enough indignation and censure that the condition. Much has been done by now, Diocese is henceforth determined to though the Post-Gazette, in the fall of strip any property it sells of any explicit 1998, noted the exposure of bright blue religious symbolism unless it is continu- bricks in the Guastavino tile vaults of ing in Christian religious use. If a church the entrances that we fail to see. is going secular, this can create a delicate Excepted thus far appear to be three of Eliza Furnaces at J&L, minutes before situation. Not only must movable Photo by William Rydberg, PHOTON the County’s notorious elevators, one was toppled in 1982. furnishings and confessionals, statues, though the five for which the City is and crosses be moved but integral parts responsible will be repaired at a cost of Oakland, the Shenango Furnaces on of the construction such as frescoes, $800,000. Neville Island, and Dorothy Six and bas-reliefs, and mosaics. Of course, other blast furnaces at Duquesne, but stained glass that represents religious we seem at last to have something we figures and scenes must be taken away, can hold on to: along with, let us destroyed, or possibly covered. The remember, the surviving furnaces at probable conversion of St. Michael Edgar Thomson. Archangel, on the South Side Slopes, An entrance to the Arsenal into a bed-and-breakfast will not impose School in Lawrenceville. severe problems in this regard as far as we can tell, but a church with an elaborate iconographic scheme with Commission; all are now, or have

Photo by William Rydberg, PHOTON built-in symbolic carvings could end been, public schools within the up mutilated. present city limits. They are listed here in chronological order: Bedford (1850); Springfield (1871); At Last: Armstrong Cork Birmingham (1871); Lawrence On July 14, 1998, Landmark America, (1872); Bayard (1874); Morse (1874); a Portland, Maine developer, submitted Foster (1886); Spring Hill (1890); plans to the City Planning Commission Morrow (1895); Fifth Avenue High for the Armstrong Cork factory’s rede- School (1896); Larimer (1896); velopment: these plans, unlike others Woolslair (1897); Wightman (1897); before, are for real. Three Armstrong Latimer (1898); Sterrett (1899); buildings by Frederick John Osterling, Friendship (1899); McCleary (1900); dating from between 1901 and 1913, Fulton (1900); Madison (1902); Linden (1903); Park Place (1903); lie close to the Allegheny River between Allegheny High School (1903); Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Streets Aesculapius at Pitt Fort Pitt (1905); Baxter (1908); in the Strip District. They are to be Charles Keck’s terra-cotta bas-relief of Conroy (1908); Beltzhoover (1909); made over as follows: Aesculapius, the ancient medical god, Colfax (1911); Westinghouse (1914); • a seven-story building along Twenty- no longer looks down on Fifth Avenue Dilworth (1915); Rogers (1915); third Street, into 14,000 square feet of from the hillside Pitt campus. It was Greenfield (1916); South Hills restaurant and retail space (including a taken down carefully from Pennsylvania B’Nai Israel (1916); Gladstone (1920); Langley Hall a short time ago, and is in storage terrace toward the river) with one- The Urban League has leased a portion (1923); Beechwood (1923); Oliver awaiting re-installation at a place and and two-bedroom apartments and of this synagogue complex for a school, (1924); Perry (1925); Boggs (1925); time not yet known. Unfortunately, efficiencies above. and is in the process of developing a Frick (1927); Allderdice (1927); Pennsylvania Hall, designed by Henry business plan for full use of the complex, Knoxville (1927); Lincoln (1930); • a seven-story building along Twenty- Hornbostel, is slated for demolition to Connelly (1930); Arsenal (1931); which it may purchase. A work of fourth Street, into one- and two-bed- make way for new tennis courts. Prospect (1931); Mifflin (1932); room apartments and efficiencies. Henry Hornbostel and others, on Weil (1935); Washington (1937); Negley Avenue in East Liberty, would Lemington (1937); Concord (1939); • a ten-story building by the Allegheny, thus find a new purpose and be secured. Schiller (1939); Stevens (1939); into a 6,000-square-foot restaurant, and Letsche (1941). (N.B.: these with a terrace toward the river, and Award of Merit Nominations are the dates of the most interesting apartments as before above. Call Walter Kidney at (1-412) 471-5808 parts of the schools, which may have if you would like to nominate an indi- CALL US come together gradually.) Most are There will be 317 residential units in vidual or organization for consideration all. There will be demolition and new Our staff wants to hear from you still owned by the Board of Public by Landmarks’ 1999 Award of Merit Education. construction elsewhere on the site. if you see or know of any historic Committee. Each year, Landmarks These fifty-three schools represent Across Railroad Street, the developers buildings that are threatened with recognizes individuals and organiza- an architectural evolution from hard- are planning a new office and garage demolition or that have recently been tions who have made outstanding edged and boxy schools to ones striv- block, designed to be in harmony with demolished. We need your help in ing for picturesque effects; then, after contributions to the preservation of the Osterling buildings. covering the county. Please call unification of the Pittsburgh school Pittsburgh’s historic architecture and Walter Kidney (1-412/471-5808) system, into poetic architectural increased public knowledge of our and report what you know. essays that in the 1930s were largely heritage. The Award of Merit Committee Art Deco. will meet in June, so call us soon. PHLF News • February 1999 Page 7

68 Steuben Street We realized that the 68 Steuben Street house in the West End had its devoted advocates, and that there were induce- ments for us to be among them. Yet we saw a plain wooden house, badly deteri- orated so it appeared, whose porch had been torn away when a vehicle hit it. It had no beauty of detailing, materials, Photos by William Rydberg, PHOTON or proportion, and was thus not “archi- tecture” in the sense of visual artistry in Footbridges to the Slopes construction. As a museum of the ethnic In mid-October 1998 the controversy working class as some proposed, it about the closing of two footbridges would have occasioned problems of seemed to be approaching a resolution, restoration, access, and parking for whether or not the news would be good which there seemed to be no organized or bad. The bridges over the old solution in place. Similar problems Pennsylvania line at the foot of the would have applied to the park pro- South Side Slopes belong to the railroad, posed for around the house. We had to but the City is hiring engineers to see disappoint some friends, but found no what needs to be done. The Slopes way of taking hold and supporting its The Mellon banking room depend on the bridges for foot access to preservation in the absence of a plan schools, shopping, services, and public that resolved all the problems, including transportation. The New Lord & funding. Taylor’s In Bethel Park One gathers that Lord & Taylor Don Anderson, who formed the Bethel projects a quiet and sumptuous Park Historical Society in 1989, has image, and when one considers its resigned as president. The purchase of a intended Pittsburgh home, now the 1905 school building in 1996 and its principal Mellon Bank, thoughts turn establishment as the Schoolhouse Arts to Wanamaker’s, that colossal Center was a major accomplishment palazzo of commerce in Philadelphia. under his presidency, but it led to a The Mellon Bank, designed by County attempt at taxation. Anderson’s Trowbridge & Livingston around 1922, has the same gray-granite reserve, and argument for tax exemption succeeded the same quiet self-identification in bronze, as the much-larger Wanamaker’s of at the middle of this year. 1911 by D. H. Burnham & Co. Inside, both have grand spaces that rise nearly full-height, Mellon’s being about 60 by 160 feet in plan and 62 feet high. The Lowen house To save this old banking room would give the new store true elegance, and G. A. R. Post in Need perpetuate one of the city’s great interiors. A look at a Sanborn fire-insurance The Andrew Carnegie Free Library, in atlas suggests a ground floor area of 27,000 square feet, banking floor and all, New Home for a Door Carnegie, Pa., contains one of the with maybe 18,000 square feet on any upper floor behind the great Ionic The front door of 68 Steuben Street country’s few original, intact Civil War columns. Should there be three such new floors, there would be a total of was removed to the board-and-batten Veteran posts. It is named the Thomas 81,000 square feet. Conversation with the May Company suggests slightly Lowen house of Beechview, which Espy Grand Army of the Republic Post smaller figures though, and May has reached no conclusion about the central needed a new front door. Landmarks No. 153. The room is well preserved space as yet. purchased a facade easement on the since its closing after the final roll call in Mellon has submitted a nomination for the building as a City Historic Lowen house which is being restored by 1937, and contains 176 Civil War arti- Landmark, with the collaboration and full approval of Landmarks and the May Tom Simons. facts including flags, books, and relics. Company, which will probably assume title to the building in March. At the A committee is publicizing the room’s time of publication, Landmarks and Lord & Taylor had agreed to meet to dis- In Time for the 500 existence and seeking support for an cuss the interior restoration. extensive renovation effort. For infor- As a principal locus for the Fortune 500 mation: Ninth Pennsylvania Reserves, Forum, held in Pittsburgh in 1998, the The Wanamaker store in Philadelphia, a possible precedent in its grand court P.O. Box 10402, Pittsburgh, PA 15234 Westin William Penn had an early at the center of things as in its reticent dignity. Lord & Taylor may have no or (1-412) 885-4176. chance to show off a $25 million reno- room for a giant pipe organ or the bronze effigy of an eagle, but perhaps the vation. Some items were: $900,000 on luxury of a great space will be found in some way affordable. six meeting rooms; $540,000 on five The Conrad Project suites; $800,000 on elevator overhauls; The Conrad Project is attempting to and $300,000 for a new telephone establish a National Museum of system. Broadcasting in Pittsburgh, and a key display, it hopes, is a garage in Wilkinsburg. There, the Westinghouse engineer Frank Conrad conducted experiments that led to commercial radio. In mid-September 1998, the Project was trying to disassemble and store the garage while acquiring an appropriate location for it and the means for its construction. Interested parties can write the National Museum of Broadcasting/ Position only Conrad Project, 407 Woodside Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15221, or call Duquesne (1-412) 241-4508. Incline Ad

Landmarks Welcomes

MYLAN LABORATORIES, INC. PITTSBURGH STEELERS SPORTS, INC. and VICTORIA HALL as Corporate Member Benefactors of the Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation. Page 8 PHLF News • February 1999

will have on the National Historic occasion of its thirty-fifth anniversary in Landmark, and continue to work with September. Priorities the Neville House Associates and We will continue to offer a variety of citizens of Collier Township to oppose educational programs for students and in1999 the development. teachers throughout the county, and we will work with the South Side Local (continued from page 1) Education, Membership, and Development Company to provide Barry Hannegan, director, will Library Services educational services through the develop educational programs regarding This year promises to be full of special Neighborhood Assistance Program/ designed landscapes, and supervise the events, tours, lectures, and book Comprehensive Service Program. implementation of model projects such receptions, so sort through your mail If you have not yet visited the James as historic neighborhood gardens. carefully and be alert to invitations D. Van Trump Library (on the fourth from Landmarks. floor of The Landmarks Building at Neville House Tim Knox of the National Trust of Station Square), plan to do so in the The Story of “Woodville”: The History, Great Britain spoke to our members on new year. Schedule an appointment by Architecture, and Archaeology of a February 11, and the Old House Fair calling Al Tannler at (1-412) 471-5808. Western Pennsylvania Farm, by Ronald will take place on February 27 at Several rare books and photographs C. Carlisle, is now available. (Please see Victoria Hall in Bloomfield. Plan on are featured on pages 14 and 15 of 201 South Winebiddle Street the book order form on page 14.) attending! this issue. Bloomfield The 184-page book, funded by the Landmarks is participating in a city- In March, we are hosting a reception Saturday, February 27, 1999 Pennsylvania Historical and Museum wide program in the spring, “Living in Washington, D.C. for expatriates who continue to be interested in 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Commission, the Neville House Architecture, Alive in Pittsburgh.” Associates, and the Pittsburgh History The legacy of Frank Lloyd Wright will Landmarks’ work and in the future of Free to members of Landmarks. & Landmarks Foundation, tells about be explored through a series of exhibits, our city. We continue to rely on our Suggested non-member contribu- the Neville, Cowan, Wrenshall, and conferences, tours, and special events. members for support and volunteer tion: $5.00 per person. Fauset families who occupied the house We are hosting several tours for presti- assistance, and encourage you to for 200 years, and discusses what we gious out-of-town groups as a result of become more involved by calling Own an Old House? know about the physical evolution of these events, including the Royal Oak Mary Lu Denny at (1-412) 471-5808. the house. Foundation, the American affiliate of Buying an Old House? The Neville House will be open for the National Trust of Great Britain, the In Conclusion Visit the Pittsburgh History & public tours and special events on Columbus Landmarks Foundation, Our staff looks forward to implement- Landmarks Foundation’s Old Sundays throughout the summer, thanks and the Taliesin Fellowship. ing the 1999 work plan, and to respond- House Fair and learn how to to the leadership of the Neville House Throughout the year, watch for a ing to spur-of-the-moment crises or renovate or improve your old Associates. Landmarks will continue to series of thirty-second spots on requests. If you would like to receive a home. make needed improvements to the WQED-TV building awareness about copy of the work plan, or require house and grounds, and the Neville Landmarks’ work. further information on any of the Meet with restoration architects, House Advisory Committee and Three books will be published, if all initiatives summarized here, please call craftsmen and contractors, Colonial Dames will assist with the goes well: Chronicle of a Pittsburgh Louise Sturgess at (1-412) 471-5808. conservationists, glass and light- interior restoration. Family, by Evelyn B. Pearson; ing designers and fabricators, and We welcome the comments and sugges- We remain concerned about the Pittsburgh Bridges: Architecture and tions of our members and appreciate representatives from insurance impact of the proposed new develop- Engineering, by Walter C. Kidney; and the leadership of our board of trustees companies, lending institutions, ment along Route 50 in Collier an illustrated chronology of Landmarks’ throughout the year. and neighborhood organizations. Township and the adverse impact that accomplishments since 1964, on the Attend lectures and demonstra- tions on related restoration and preservation topics during the Fair. exclude downtown in the process. Take a 20-minute neighborhood Grand Entrances, Losing, Lost There are several minor street exits, but bus tour, compliments of Arthur P. Ziegler, Jr. they really feel like back entrances to “Molly’s Trolleys,” between the center of town, are congested, and 11:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. have been twisted certainly lack grandeur. One of these as they approach will soon be reduced to a back street Walter C. Kidney, Landmarks’ the Triangle so under the newly proposed Mellon Bank architectural historian will be that drivers are available, 11:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m. Building adjacent to the Allegheny deflected away County Jail. to discuss “What Style is Your from downtown. House?” Those wishing to consult These roadway “improvements,” And, the grand or one might say disfigurements, have with Mr. Kidney should bring entrances have photographs of their house. created even more dislocation by sever- been lost. ing the Hill District from downtown. Reservations are not required. Bigelow Where remarkable nineteenth-century Call (1-412) 471-5808 for further Boulevard once houses and small commercial buildings information. landed right once lined a grid pattern of streets on beside the the Lower Hill down to Grant Street, Call (1-412) 363-8030 for specific Pennsylvania we now have a huge gully of express- directions to Victoria Hall. Railroad Station way concrete with dangerous twists, The Boulevard of the Allies ramp from Grant Street, early in and descended turns, exits, and entrances in too short a Sponsored by: the 1920s. into Grant Street, space, creating enormous danger to a handsome thousands of drivers a day—a danger We are rightly proud of the grand street in itself. Now it has been bent augmented by inadequate and confusing entrance into Pittsburgh through the almost like a horseshoe with minor signage. Fort Pitt Tunnel and over the Fort Pitt branches, so that a driver can go Bridge, swooping straight down into the straight to the South Hills, or bend back What have we gained by such Victor city. As you cross the bridge, there is a eastward via the Boulevard of the Allies traffic routes? A few minutes in driving ia remarkable view of our city along the by wrapping around the Lower Hill. time as weighed against deflection of Monongahela River. Unfortunately, this The Boulevard of the Allies does much people away from the center of our city; Hall is about to be destroyed by the con- the same thing, providing an exit to the the loss of grand entrances that would struction of the so-called Wabash South Hills, or to the North Hills via be impressive world-wide just as the Bridge, a very tall structure that will the Veterans’ Bridge, or onto Bigelow Fort Pitt Bridge view now is: another bisect, if not obliterate, the world- Boulevard and back out toward great selling point for visiting renowned view. Oakland. Once it made a simple, proud Pittsburgh; and the loss of our closest But do we realize that we have lost ascent eastward from Grant Street, most historic, most habitable neighbor- other grand entrances into our city? between eagle-terminated columns by hood to downtown: the Lower Hill. Our great boulevards, Bigelow Boulevard Frank Vittor. Although the eagle-termi- These are still more casualties to add and the Boulevard of the Allies, once nated columns remain, drivers are not to the list of physical, financial, and descended straight into the city much allowed to turn from Grant Street onto human disasters that have been imposed like the exit from the Fort Pitt Bridge. the Boulevard. upon our city by top-down planning— Unfortunately, for the sake of drivers These great boulevards that once the “we know what’s best for the city” wanting to enjoy the fastest route linked the eastern areas to downtown attitude—that has afflicted Pittsburgh around the city rather than into the city, now link the south and the north and now for over half a century. It’s time to both of these boulevards in recent years the east to one another and all but learn that it doesn’t work. PHLF News • February 1999 Page 9

1998 in Review Packing One Year in Four Pages

Phil Hallen is leading our efforts with headquarters building at 64 South nized as one of Pittsburgh’s most signifi- Here, in the next four pages, great enthusiasm and interest. Long Fourteenth Street on the South Side; cant architectural landmarks. Close to we have selected memorable active in civil rights and race relations, to Bennett Street rowhouses in $13,000 was raised to support restora- photographs and headlines from as well as with health and human Homewood-Brushton; to the properties tion work at the Allegheny County 1998 to convey the accomplish- service organizations, Phil is building in the 3400 block of Butler Street in Courthouse. ments of the year—a year packed community partnerships with Landmarks Lawrenceville; and to the Unitarian We thank the Allegheny County and increasing its grassroots activities in Church at Morewood and Ellsworth Commissioners and Ed Urban, the with events and programs involving the neighborhoods and with schools. Avenues, in Shadyside. Deputy Warden of the Allegheny County nationally recognized leaders in The Preservation Loan Fund con- Jail, for giving us the opportunity to lead urban planning and preservation, Trustees and Staff tinues to be Landmarks’ most effective these tours prior to the Jail’s renovation and trustees, members, and friends. tool in encouraging historic property for use by the juvenile court. Support Landmarks renovation and adaptive reuse. Beginning with the reception on Through Named Funds January 8 for Richard Moe, president “Making Cities Work” of the National Trust for Historic David Barensfeld, Thomas O. Hornstein, Construction Guidelines Series Commended and Howard B. Slaughter, Jr. established Preservation, and continuing through for Schools Reversed to Close to 560 people attended the the December Jail tours, downtown Named Funds at Landmarks, and David and Janet Brashear, Carl Wood Brown, Favor Preservation “Making Cities Work” lecture series, walking tour, and holiday church tour, sponsored by Landmarks and the our staff of 21 worked at full speed, and Torrence M. Hunt, Sr. augmented On September 8, 1998, Landmarks and existing funds. Thanks to a generous Preservation Pennsylvania announced Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, offering preservation services, loans, Pittsburgh Branch. Mary Means, Bonnie grants, educational programs, and unrestricted bequest from Robert L. that the Pennsylvania Department of Spear, Landmarks established a fund in Education had agreed to change its anti- J. Wilkinson, Charles Reaves, Stanley advice on a variety of preservation, Lowe, Arthur Ziegler, Nicolas Retsinas, urban planning, and historic landscape his name and memory to support the preservation guidelines pertaining to James D. Van Trump Library. school construction. As a result of Roberta Brandes Gratz, and David Lee issues. Events of note include the discussed urban sprawl, tax credit eligi- following: Many foundations, trustees, members, progressive and sweeping changes in its and friends generously contributed to construction policy, school districts will bility, main streets, affordable housing, Landmarks; new members and major now be given incentives for renovating downtown rebirth, and transit systems. Phil Hallen Becomes donors are acknowledged on pages 2 older buildings. The changes could City Council issued a proclamation con- Chairman and 3 of this issue. We are grateful to all result in hundreds of millions of tax gratulating Landmarks and the Federal Reserve on the success of the series. Philip B. Hallen, president of the Maurice who contributed to Landmarks in 1998, dollars being saved, and will serve as a Following her lecture in Pittsburgh, Falk Medical Fund, became the third and who supported our efforts in guide for other states to emulate. These Mary Means was invited to serve on the chairman in Landmarks’ thirty-four historic preservation and education. changes, in concert with the general design review committee for the new years. During the trustee meeting on movement to preserve neighborhood convention center. The Allegheny West April 7, 1998, Dr. Albert C. Van Dusen schools, will strengthen our cities. Loans Approach $900,000 Civic Council invited her to prepare a and Charles C. Arensberg were Thanks to loans from Landmarks’ plan for the historic neighborhood commended for their years of leadership Preservation Loan Fund, improvements $13,000 Raised for assessing the impact of the proposed and service as chairmen. Fortunately were made to rowhouses on Lockhart Courthouse Through stadium developments. for Landmarks, they continue to be Street in Deutschtown; to Calvary Jail Tours involved as chairmen emeriti. United Methodist Church in Allegheny West; to Conservation Consultants, Inc.’s Between September 5 and December 13, Landmarks’ staff and docents led 2,762 people on tours of the Allegheny County Jail, designed in 1884 by Henry Hobson Richardson, and internationally recog-

Having traveled extensively throughout the Northeast region visiting local and state historic preservation groups, I recognize that Pittsburgh is fortunate to have the Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation. Landmarks really sets a model for other preservation groups to look at and strive for. It is an active player in the community, educating, articulating a vision of healthy urban development, and making it possible for people to save historic buildings and places in their neighborhoods.

—Patrick J. Hauck Senior Program Associate Northeast Field Office, Serving DE, NJ, and PA National Trust for Historic Preservation Page 10 PHLF News • February 1999

Educational Programs of the South Side, including the adjacent Three Books in the Works Special Events Well public housing communities of On these two pages you’ll notice Attended Widely Praised Arlington Heights and St. Clair Village. photographs of bridges, a portrait of a Thanks to the efforts of Landmarks’ New offerings included a deck of Many events stand out in 1998: the mother and her children, and historical staff and docents, more than 12,000 Kennywood Cards; Downtown reception for Richard Moe on January photographs of the Neville House in people participated in our educational Landmarks: Math Facts; the Strip 8; the Old House Fair on February 28; Collier Township and some of the peo- programs featuring local history and District Stroll; and Pittsburgh the Historic House and Landscape ple who lived there. These photographs architecture. We developed programs Connections to Ancient Civilizations. Preservation Seminar on April 22; the will be included in three books that for several Pittsburgh Public Schools— All our educational resources are National Trust Main Street Conference Landmarks began in 1998, and plans to Colfax, Miller, Northview Heights, described in a new folder, “Explore and Board Meeting May 17 through 21; publish in 1999: the walking tour of Deutschtown on Knoxville, Greenway, Frick International Pittsburgh,” funded in part by Columbia June 17 (attended by 107 people); the Studies Academy, and Martin Luther Gas of Pennsylvania. After reviewing • The Story of Woodville: The History, weekly summer walking tours down- King—and we continued working with the folder of information and the Architecture, and Archaeology of a town, sponsored by CB Richard Westmoreland County Schools. eighteen fact cards, Joseph Newkirk, Western Pennsylvania Farm, by Ellis/Pittsburgh; the Summer Praise We began working with the South headmaster of Thurgood Marshall Ronald C. Carlisle; Academy in Wilkinsburg, said: “It was Concert on August 21 starring gospel Side Local Development Company, • Chronicle of a Pittsburgh Family, by so tasty I almost ate the folder.” singer Vickie Winans; the Power of through the Commonwealth’s Evelyn Bitner Pearson; and Place conference on October 8 and 9; Neighborhood Assistance Program/ and the Grand Spaces Seldom Seen bus Comprehensive Service Program, to • Pittsburgh Bridges: Architecture and tour on October 11. provide educational services to residents Engineering, by Walter C. Kidney. Hardly a day went by when our staff The Story of Woodville was published wasn’t taking a reservation for something. in January and can be ordered by completing the form on page 14. PHLF News • February 1999 Page 11

Discoveries and Close to $50,000 $3,000 to St. Paul Baptist Church in Historic Landscape North Point Breeze; and Preservation Progress Challenges at the Awarded to Historic $3,000 to West End A.M.E. Zion Through tours, public presentations, Neville House Religious Properties Church in the West End. research and documentation, and con- As a result of the April 22 symposium Thanks to a lead gift from Landmarks’ For various improvements: sultations, Landmarks’ staff continues and further research by noted experts, trustee Constance O’Neil and 1997 to inform people about the region’s we learned more about the architectural year-end gifts from foundations, trustees, $1,500 to the First Presbyterian Church of Pittsburgh, Downtown; landscape heritage and its great value as evolution of the Neville House in and members, Landmarks announced a major amenity and distinguishing Collier Township, in conjunction with the following grants at the second $3,000 to the First United Methodist element of its history. Programs in 1998 documented changes relating to the lives annual Historic Religious Properties Church of Pittsburgh in Shadyside; included tours of private gardens in of the families who lived there. Further Seminar on September 28, 1998. $2,500 (in the form of technical Fox Chapel and Oakmont by Ezra excavations on the property revealed For the restoration, repair, or assistance) to the Glenshaw Valley protection of stained glass: Presbyterian Church; Stiles, of greenspaces in Oakland, more signs of prehistoric habitation and and of the Stan Hywet garden in evidence of early frontier settlement. $2,000 to Bellefield Presbyterian $2,500 (in the form of technical assistance) to the Missionary Akron, Ohio. While in Akron, guests The wealth of material establishing Church in Oakland; viewed an exhibition of Ellen Biddle $3,000 to Brown Chapel A.M.E. Temple, Church of God in Christ in the significance of the house continues East Liberty; Shipman’s work. to grow. Church on the North Side; Guidelines were prepared for front $1,500 to Calvary Episcopal Church $3,000 to Old St. Luke’s in However, major new developments Scott Township; yards on Liverpool Street and in the were proposed in 1998 that will in Shadyside; $2,215 to St. Andrew Lutheran 6900 block of Bennett Street in threaten the Neville House; however, $3,000 to Epiphany Roman Catholic Church in Oakland; Homewood-Brushton, as well as zoning changes are needed for develop- Church in the Hill District; for Victorian window boxes on the ments to proceed. Members of the $3,000 to St. Benedict the Moor $3,000 to The Presbyterian Church Church in the Hill District; and South Side. Neville House Associates, together with in Sewickley; Landmarks’ department of Historic Landmarks’ general counsel, have been $1,000 to the Second Baptist Church $1,500 to St. Mary of the Mount in Penn Hills. Landscape Preservation continued to leading the battle against the proposed Church in Mt. Washington; and work closely with the Pittsburgh Parks expansion of fast food restaurants and $2,850 to St. Nicholas Croatian (continued on page 12) Conservancy, the Coalition for Parks shopping malls. Our staff is encouraged Catholic Church in Millvale. and Greenspaces, the Pittsburgh by the grassroots support for the Neville Downtown Partnership, and the House voiced by many Collier For improvements to roofs: Green Neighborhood Initiative. Township citizens. $2,100 to Calvary United Methodist Amidst these changes, the Neville Church in Allegheny West; House Associates continued to open the $3,000 to the Covenant Church of house to the public: about 2,000 people Pittsburgh in Wilkinsburg; visited the National Historic Landmark $3,000 to the Episcopal Church of on weekends in the summer and fall. the Nativity in Crafton; Page 12 PHLF News • February 1999

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Historic Landmark 1998 Award of Merit Plaques Awarded Recipients Applauded

Thirteen buildings, two districts, On October 26, 1998, following a and two streets were designated as membership reception in the Car and “Historic Landmarks” by the Pittsburgh Carriage Museum at the Frick Art & History & Landmarks Foundation on Historical Center, Landmarks

September 23, 1998. They were: recognized the following individuals Photos by William Rydberg, Photon • St. Augustine Church, 37th and and organizations for outstanding Bandera Streets, Lawrenceville, Rutan achievements in historic preservation & Russell, with John T. Comes, and for increasing public knowledge of architects. 1899; our heritage: Andrew Bayne Memorial Library, Bellevue; Mel Bodek; Chas Brandt; Brentwood School Board; Emmanuel Episcopal Church; The Frick Art & Historical Center, Point Breeze, and G. Whitney Snyder; Frontier Lofts; Garden Club of Allegheny County and Christina Schmidlapp; The Garfield Jubilee Association; Lawrenceville Development Corporation, Duane Membership reception in the Car & Carriage Museum. Rieder and Frank Walsh; Manchester Citizens Corporation; Mt. Lebanon Richard M. Scaife (far right) recog- School District; New Guild Studio and nized the 1998 Historic Landmark Father Richard Lambert of St. John Plaque recipients during the October Chrysostom Byzantine Catholic Church, 26, 1998 membership reception. Greenfield; No Wall Productions Development Corporation; Judge • 1939 House, 2363 Sebring Place, Raymond Novak; Loren and Sally Wilkinsburg, Dwight James Baum, Siegel; Frank Sklar; and David and architect. 1939; Mary Beth Werner. Susan E. Brandt served as Chairperson • Episcopal Church of the Redeemer, Loren and Sally Siegel; The Reverend of the 1998 Award of Merit Committee. 5700 Forbes Avenue, Squirrel Hill, Don Youse and Mary Ellen Leigh We are grateful to her and fellow From left to right: G. Whitney Snyder, Frohman, Robb & Little, architects. of Emmanuel Episcopal Church; committee members for their leadership Jr.; Ellis Schmidlapp of Landmarks 1937; Dave Korns, David Miriello, and and assistance. Design Associates; and DeCourcy • Church of St. Benedict the Moor, McIntosh of The Frick Art & Suzann Miriello of New Guild Studio, 89 Crawford Street, the Hill, Moeser Historical Center. and The Reverend Richard Lambert & Bippus, architects. 1894; of St. John Chrysostom Byzantine Catholic Church. • Historic District, Borough of Edgewood. Incorporated 1888; • Municipal Building, Race Street, Edgewood, Clifford Lake, architect. 1938; • Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf, Swissvale Avenue near Walnut Street, Edgewood. Main building, Garland Walker and Joann Monroe of Alden & Harlow, architects. 1903; the Garfield Jubilee Association; and • Edgewood Station, Pennsylvania Mathilda Smith of the Manchester Suzanne Clark of the Andrew Bayne Railroad, 101 Swissvale Avenue, Citizens Corporation. Memorial Library; Judge Raymond Furness, Evans & Co., architects. Novak; and Mary Beth and David Lou Gailliot and Christina Schmidlapp 1903; Werner. of the Garden Club of Allegheny • Historic District, Borough of County; Eliza Smith Brown; and Aspinwall. Incorporated 1893; Mel Bodek. • Friendship Elementary School, 201 S. Graham Street, Friendship, Charles M. Bartberger, architect. 1899; • WPA terracing, Stella and Shelly Streets, South Side Slopes. C. 1935; Volunteers Log 3,000 • Former Fifth Avenue High School, Hours Fifth Avenue and Miltenberger Street, Over one hundred generous volunteers the Bluff, Edward Stotz, architect. offered their services throughout 1896; 1998, spending many hours of time • Church of the Epiphany, Washington working on office projects, computer Place and Centre Avenue, the Hill, data entry, and mailings; conducting Edward Stotz, architect. 1902; tours and illustrated lectures; working • Saint Mary of the Mount Church, at the Old House Fair and the 403 Grandview Avenue, Mount Washington, Frederick Sauer, Manchester House Tour. Many of our architect. 1896; volunteers are professionals from the • Kaufmann Auditorium, 1835 Centre Station Square Honorees Recognized community; many are members who Avenue, the Hill, Edward Stotz, On October 26, 1998, Landmarks recognized twenty-one people and organizations simply like to help Landmarks. Each architect. 1928; for their strong support of Station Square, a project initiated by Landmarks in 1976. volunteer worked an average of thirty- • St. Paul Baptist (formerly Point Breeze From left to right: Richard M. Scaife, R. Dennis McClelland of the Realtors one hours, which computes to a United Presbyterian) Church, Associates of Metropolitan Pittsburgh; Stanley A. Lowe; Mary Wohleber; David “grant” of more than $26,000 6701 Penn Avenue, Point Breeze, Miller; Sophie Masloff; Susan E. Brandt; Henry P. Hoffstot, Jr.; Nancy Flaherty to Landmarks. Beck; Richard D. Edwards; Mary Jane Schmalstieg; and Mark Stephen Bibro, on Lawrence B. Valk, architect. 1887. Thank you, volunteers. We would behalf of the Bibro family. The Historic Landmark Designation The following Station Square honorees were not able to attend: Charles Covert not have had such a successful year Committee is chaired by Richard M. Arensberg; Leo Beil, Sr.; Louise Marsh Boesel; John E. Connelly; Pete Flaherty; without you! If any new members are Scaife. Over 350 sites in Allegheny The Gustine Family Partnership; Elaine Manning; Tom Murphy; Ruth Miller; and interested in volunteering, please call County are identified with one of John E. Sisson. Mary Lu Denny at (1-412) 471-5808. Landmarks’ plaques. PHLF News • February 1999 Page 13 Historic Landscape Preservation

seems to be that a park is simply unde- veloped land; the terrain and trees are there because no one has bothered to “do” something with the site. Since it’s not a cared-for place, still less a planned landscape, there’s no problem in fallen trees or clogged rivulets or massive erosion or jungly undergrowth. The open spaces are just that and are up for grabs by any group of recreational homesteaders. The word “park” has lost its connotation of polished greenery and has, instead, become a synonym for a city woodland of scruffy second growth. CONTRIBUTE The Conservancy makes its debut to the 1999 publication of none too soon. Pittsburgh’s Bridges: A New Coordinating Body for Civic Greenery Architecture and For anyone interested in the quality Engineering and future of public space in Pittsburgh, by Walter C. Kidney A Miracle in Pittsburgh Parks the creation of the Coalition for Parks Highland Park Conservancy and Greenspaces is an auspicious event. This ad hoc entity did not spring fully In the fall of 1999, Landmarks will On April 25, 1998, the City formalized Barry Hannegan armed from nowhere; it is the regular- publish a 336-page casebound book an agreement with the Pittsburgh Parks ization of the Parks Planning Initiative, devoted to the bridges of Pittsburgh, Conservancy, recognizing the both historic and extant. An essay In the March 1998 issue of PHLF begun some three years ago through the Conservancy as the private partner in on the bridge construction and News, I wrote with alarm about the combined efforts of the City and local the effort to rehabilitate and improve design in this area is followed by a impending sealing of the Highland Park foundations. The Initiative can be said Pittsburgh’s four great parks— guide to 45 bridges. Reservoir I. All sources of drinking to have now attained its majority, ready Highland, Schenley, Riverview, and Your contribution will ensure a water in the Commonwealth are to shoulder a remarkable range of Frick. The collaborative partnership is quality publication with over 350 mandated to be covered to ensure purity efforts and services essential to the modeled on similar arrangements in photographs and illustrations, includ- and security from contamination, and formulation of a better and more cities such as Boston, New York, and ing color photos by Clyde Hare and there seemed to be no way to exempt comprehensive vision of what we have Louisville which have enlisted concerted archival ones from the City, County, the Park’s great artificial lake from the and need in the way of useful and private interest in the on-going struggle PennDot, Army Corps of Engineers, fate that had already overtaken Herron attractive public spaces. to maintain public recreational space in and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Hill Reservoir—a tight, floating skin of The new Coalition intends to extend attractive and useful condition. dense plastic and a circumvallation of its role as coordinator for the interests Please contribute by filling out the high chain link fences and barbed wire. of the various parks stakeholders, and form below: No one was happy at the prospect of to help build a better informed con- loosing this great amenity; even the stituency for the parks system. It will be Yes, I am (we are) making a contri- Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority a source of expertise in the future bution to Pittsburgh’s Bridges in the pleaded that they were just bowing to program for the parks and will assist amount of $______. My (our) the inevitable consequences of an envi- involved groups in attracting the essen- check is enclosed, payable to the ronmental ruling. Pleas by community tial funding, much to come from outside Pittsburgh History & Landmarks groups, especially the Highland Park Pittsburgh, for the implementation of Foundation and referenced to the Community Club, by preservationists that future program. “Bridge Book.” (notably Landmarks), and other groups While lists may not make the best I (we) understand that this con- and various concerned citizens (conspic- reading, the roster of the participating Schenley Park tribution will be used to support the uously Councilman Jim Ferlo) seemed organizations of the Coalition makes a book’s publication and does not to avail nothing. Neither scenic nor succinct case for the seriousness of this Although fund raising is one of the entitle me (us) to a free copy of the recreational nor historic considerations new and promising collaboration. Conservancy’s chief responsibilities, it book upon publication. would prevent the disappearance of the The Coalition includes the Mayor’s also serves a consciousness raising role Reservoir, itself a significant monument Office, the City’s Departments of Parks by helping re-educate Pittsburghers I (we) would like my (our) name(s) since it is arguably the reason for the and Recreation and of Planning, the about their remarkable parks heritage to be printed in the contributor’s list creation of Highland Park and just American Society of Landscape and what it takes to continue to enjoy in the book as follows: possibly the progenitor of the City’s Architects, the Community Design these essential urban amenities. Working parks system. Center, the Community Technical with the firm of LaQuatra-Bonci The preservation perseverance of Assistance Center, the Environmental Associates, Landscape Architects, the Highland Park neighbor David Vance, City Network, Friends of the Riverfront, (please print your name clearly) City’s Planning Department is preparing an architect, finally found an echo The Grable Foundation, Partners in a master plan for the parks’ restoration. within the technocracy of the PWSA. Parks, the Pittsburgh History & All contributors will be invited to While the goals of the restoration cam- John Kasper, a hydraulic engineer with Landmarks Foundation, the Pittsburgh the book release party. paign are relatively obvious, much less the agency, looked again at all the Parks Conservancy, and the Western clear is the answer to questions regard- options for bringing the reservoir’s Pennsylvania Conservancy. The energy Please mail this completed form with ing long-term committed maintenance water into compliance, and thought that and experience embodied in such a your contribution to: and the on-going challenge of changing a micro-filtration facility located just group bodes well for Pittsburgh’s user demands. These and other essential next to the reservoir might do the trick. parks in the next century. Louise Sturgess issues are further clouded by the City’s Pittsburgh History & And with further investigation and with insistence on creating still more, new, Landmarks Foundation some number crunching, it did indeed • park space, such as Nine Mile Run, at a One Station Square, Suite 450 become clear that a modest plant could time when resources of all kinds have Pittsburgh, PA 15219-1134 be installed at probably less long-term Postcard Donation dwindled to next to nothing. There is www.phlf.org cost than the originally proposed cover- perhaps some irony in this last situation Beth Buckholtz, of White Oak, has ing and save the great shining surface of since Pittsburgh already significantly donated 82 postcards to our library, Thank you very much water. Urban Design Associates came up exceeds the national urban average for many showing Wilkinsburg subjects. for contributing! with a wonderfully elegant, tactful square feet of park space per inhabitant. We extend our thanks for these addi- design for the small building that will tions to our postcard scenes, where A copy of the official registration and financial information Problems here are acute. Decades of of the Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation may house the filtration devices, creating deferred maintenance have left even the the Pittsburgh area is documented. be obtained from the Pennsylvania Department of State by another ornament for the most heavily In this issue, we are reprinting several calling toll free, within Pennsylvania, 1-800-732-0999. most visible portions of the parks in sad Registration does not imply endorsement. used portion of Highland Park. It was a condition. Pittsburghers appear to have postcards donated by Beth: the two win-to-the-nth-degree solution and one forgotten just what an urban park is, or postcards on this page and the one of in which every Pittsburgher can take was meant to be. A prevailing view Wanamaker’s on page 7. pride. Page 14 PHLF News • February 1999 Library & Archives

Now Available La Rambla at Mar del Plata, Argentina. The Story From the “ ” of Woodville Library The History, Architecture, Here, we offer no moral or message; and Archaeology of a Western these are a few samples of graphics Pennsylvania Farm from newly acquired books that Ronald C. Carlisle members can find in the James D. Van Trump Library. BOOK ORDER FORM Henry P. Kirby’s fantasies of quasi-French Never-never Land date • The Story of Woodville tells of from the Richardsonian 1880s and General John Neville and his the Chateauesque 1890s. He was descendants, and the house they apparently the Kirby of Kirby, Petit occupied for about 200 years. & Green, a New York office well Now a National Historic Landmark known once upon a in Collier Township, “Woodville” is time. Architectural owned by the Pittsburgh History & Compositions, a Landmarks Foundation and oper- ated as an historic house museum collection of fifty by the Neville House Associates. such sketches, was published around • 184-page perfect-bound book, 1892. 8" x 10" An honorable A Francophile fantasy by Kirby. • 133 b/w photos and illustrations product of the Amsterdam Yes, I would like to order ______School—Dutch Art copy(ies) of Woodville: The History, Deco—was De Architecture, and Archaeology of a Bijenkorf (the Western Pennsylvania Farm. Beehive), a depart- ment store built in ______x $18.95 ______The Bijenkorf The Hague to quantity total beehive over designs by P. L. Kramer. A book less 10% membership the escutcheon was published to discount ______of Amsterdam. mark the opening plus 7% sales tax for on March 25, 1926. The store itself PA residents ______appears on the title page. Elsewhere, apparently, the Bijenkorf trademark plus $2.00 for shipping is rendered in a modern way: a bee- and handling ______hive above the escutcheon of the Total due ______City of Amsterdam, Bijenkorf’s headquarters town we suppose. Check enclosed, payable to PHLF A photo album assembled by an and referenced “Woodville.” American family after a South American tour shows the whole Credit card: variety of curiosities appealing to a Tourists at the poison snake farm, Butantan, Brazil. AmEx Visa tourist in the 1920s. Mastercard Discover The James D. Van Trump Library also contains a frail Volume 2 of Wooden and Brick Buildings with Account # ______Details, a product of the late 1870s Expiration______that several architects seem to have clubbed together to produce. Signature ______

Please check one: I plan to pick up my book(s) from The Landmarks Store at Station Square. (Please call 765-1042 to be sure the book is there for you to pick up.) Design for a “first-class Railway Please mail the book(s) to: Station,” by R. H. Robertson, from Wooden and Brick Buildings with Details (1875) ______Name

______Address Intern Brent Stauffer ______City State Zip Duquesne University graduate student Brent Stauffer At Landmarks Brent accessioned several recent gifts, completed an archival internship at Landmarks in the Fall corrected and expanded the guide to the James D. ______of 1998. Brent, a native of Murry, PA, was graduated from Van Trump Manuscripts collection, and organized several Phone Shippensburg University in 1997 with a B.A. in History. archival collections including Station Square Transportation His prior experience included working at the Lycoming Museum Records, Antiques Show Records, and Landmarks Thank you for your order. County Historical Museum and the Allegheny County Properties Records. Records Center. PHLF News • February 1999 Page 15

Among Our Photos

These two photographs, the worse for wear after a hundred years, show plain workmen posing in front of fancy houses under construction. The first is a speculative house. Our Historic Resource Survey of the early 1980s shows two such houses in East Liberty, built in mirror image, at Rippey and St. Claire Streets. They were in pitiful condi- tion. On the back of the picture, it says, “James W. Armstrong, carpenter, second from left. House may be on S. Highland near Howe Street around 1900.” No such house exists now, apparently. The second house, not identified, must be a one-of-a-kind archi- Chronicle of a tect-designed work, rather swanky for its middle-class neighborhood. Pittsburgh Family On the back: “Dan Kelly Sr. is the one standing on one leg. The one with the mustache.” And that is all. It is curious to note that the stone Advance Order Form lintels on the ground floor are covered with heavy paper or cloth, $8.95 less membership discount which will have to be ripped away eventually. Perhaps the mortar is Book description: dyed, and until it dried might have stained the stonework. Evelyn Bitner Pearson will celebrate her 89th birthday in June 1999 with the release of her book, Chronicle of a Pittsburgh Family, dedicated to her grandchildren and great grandchildren. The daughter of a newspaper editor and publisher, Mrs. Pearson reveals much about life in Pittsburgh from 1910 to the present, as she recalls family members, experiences, and struggles. • 160-page perfect-bound book; 1 1 5 /2" x 8 /2" • Approximately 40 b/w photographs

Yes, I would like to order ______copy(ies) of Chronicle of a Pittsburgh Family, by Evelyn Bitner Pearson.

______x $8.95 ______quantity total less 10% membership discount ______plus 7% sales tax for PA residents ______plus $2.00 for shipping and handling ______Total due ______

My check, payable to PHLF and referenced to the “Pearson Book,” is enclosed. Please charge this to my credit card when the book is published in June: AmEx Visa • Charles J. Jacques, Jr. A Family Record Mastercard Discover Book Reviews More Kennywood Memories. Torrence M. Hunt, Sr. has sent our Walter C. Kidney Jefferson, Ohio: Amusement Park Account # ______Journal, 1998. vii + 27 pp., about 700 library a copy of the recently published illus. $29.95. Ancestors and Descendants of Roy Expiration______• Frances C. Hardie, Sewickley: A Arthur and Rachel McMasters Miller History of a Valley Community, Characterized as a companion book to Hunt. Individuals of the Hunt family Signature ______[No place]: R. R. Donnelly Financial, Jacques’ Kennywood: Roller Coaster are treated in biographies that follow 1998. vi + 264 pp., numerous illustra- Capital of the World (1982), this is a the main genealogical table. Seven fam- Please check one: much-illustrated history of the park, tions. $34.95. ily branches—Hanchett, McQuesten, I plan to pick up my book(s) from exploring the remote past but concen- Lund, Miller, Craig, McMasters, and This is the 200-year story of a village The Landmarks Store at Station trating on the years since the previous Markle—are treated individually. that has long been one of the prettiest Square. (We will call you in June to book was written. Thus, there are chap- There are two appendices, one repro- towns in the Pittsburgh area. The let you know when you may pick up ters about the Laser Loop (1980–82); ducing the 1667 will of William Hunt, account is one of a place where people the book.) the acquisition of Idlewild Park near one giving a brief account of other of varying incomes, occupations, and Please mail the book(s) to: Ligonier (1983); the Raging Rapids Hunt-related families. The book is origins have actually lived, as opposed (1985–86); Historic Kennywood copyrighted by the Hunt Institute for to a tribute to a prosperous lifestyle in a (1987); the TV show Kennywood Botanical Documentation, Carnegie ______certain commuter suburb. The Memories (1988); Sandcastle Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA Name Sewickley Hunt is portrayed, and so are (1989–90); the Steel Phantom 15213; all inquiries or comments a number of illustrious houses, but this (1991–94); Lost Kennywood (1995); ______should be directed there. Address is still the history of a small town in all and Noah’s Ark and the Pitt Fall its variety. (1996–97). “Historic Kennywood” ______alludes to the park’s status as a National City State Zip Historic Landmark, designated such in 1987, and to many historic markers ______alluding to past events at the locale. Phone Thank you for your order. Page 16 PHLF News • February 1999

Education News

Tom Demko, architectural illustrator Hometown Connections to with Burt Hill Kosar Rittelmann, helps students with sketching techniques in the Wintergarden at PPG Place. Classroom Curriculum Architecture Apprenticeship Charleroi and Twenty high school students interested Bentleyville in pursuing a career in architecture Elementary Center are participating in the 1998–99 Architecture Apprenticeship offered Students Tour the by Landmarks through the Allegheny Carnegie Museum Intermediate Unit. Their project this year is to design and Homewood a building on top of the center parking Cemetery lot at Station Square. They must double the parking capacity and include a After participating in one of Landmarks’ rooftop garden. teacher inservices, Sue Mohney called Louise Sturgess, executive director of Landmarks, to ask if anything could be done to help make her unit on ancient civilizations more relevant to her stu- dents. As a result, Landmarks launched the pilot program of “Pittsburgh Connections to Ancient Civilizations.” On October 21, 1998, thirty students toured the Hall of Architecture, Hall of Sculpture, and Scaife Galleries in the Carnegie Museum of Art where they saw architectural casts, models, and statues of Grecian and Roman gods Making a and architecture. City Mural In the afternoon, they explored Section 14 of Homewood Cemetery, Thanks to the help of high school where they searched for columns, students from Mt. Lebanon and Shaler temples and pyramids, and sketched Area, Landmarks offered an art activity various monuments. Our thanks to the Carnegie in Fifth Avenue Place during the and Homewood Cemetery, and Cultural Trust’s Family Street Fair on to Sue Mahoney, who wrote: October 3, 1998, and following the “Please keep us in mind when holiday parade on November 28. you plan future thematic Children and family members drew trips. This one was a keeper.” buildings, boats, bridges, people, etc. and added them to the city mural. PHLF News • February 1999 Page 17

Preliminary Streetscape Proposal Students from Connellsville Area High School in Westmoreland County submitted the following project description in October 1998 for Crawford Avenue in Connellsville, PA:

This street has significant historical value since it is the center of a once booming commercial area full of thriving industries such as coke, coal, glass, and railroads. At the present time, the industries are changing, and the area’s commerce has become much more limited. This factor, along with the increase of the elderly population and lack of parking, has caused the area to become quite run- down. Currently, businesses such as banks, drug stores, clothing stores, restaurants, and other novelty stores line the street. These shops are in desperate need of renovation and a means to bring in more profits. We plan to find an affordable way to Westmoreland County Students Tour the South Side return commerce to the area, while accenting its historical value and at the For the third consecutive year, 200 a main street in need of restoration, and same time modernizing it. We’ve also middle and high school students from they constructed models showing how Westmoreland County participated in the exterior facades of the historic build- come up with some very innovative an architectural design project spon- ings could be restored and adapted ideas to make the shops along this street sored by the Pittsburgh History & for new uses. During the process, they more elderly and handicap accessible Landmarks Foundation. On October 16 strengthened skills in researching, and 27, 1998, they toured East Carson writing, conceptualizing, problem- and to make parking more convenient. Street and learned about basic design solving, design and construction, and We will address these ideas and more on principles of main street restoration. communication. January 29, when all will be revealed. This orientation tour was the first step On January 29, students presented in a three-month “Streetscape their models before a jury of architects Restoration Design Project.” at the Station Square Sheraton. Photo- Once back in their own communities, graphs of the models will be included in students worked in groups to select the next issue of PHLF News.

Martin Luther King Students Tour the Poulucci, fourth- and fifth-grade teachers, noted an improvement in the Mexican War Streets students’ communication skills as a result of the new vocabulary. “Students now have a better appreciation for A chapter in American history has graph, to sketch that house, and later, in old houses, and they understand the hometown connections for students at school, to construct a paper-bag build- hometown connection to the Mexican Martin Luther King School on ing based on that house. War,” said Carole. Pittsburgh’s North Side. From the “I was amazed to see how easily the school, it is a short walk to the students incorporated the architectural Right: Docent Bob Loos leads a tour of Mexican War Streets, a residential area terms into their conversation and the Mexican War Streets. developed following America’s victory essays,” said art teacher Carole in the Mexican War (1846–48). The Malakoff. Maggie Lewis and Amy Below: Martin Luther King students streets—Palo Alto, Resaca, Buena Vista, display their paper-bag buildings, Sherman, Taylor, etc.—are named after based on houses in the Mexican War battles and generals of that war. Streets. On November 4, 1998, Landmarks’ staff and docents led fifty fourth- and fifth- grade students on a walking tour of the Mexican War Streets. Before the tour, students had discussed architectural styles and terms and had completed a worksheet created by Landmarks. Their responsibility on the tour was to find the house that matched the one shown in a photo- Page 18 PHLF News • February 1999 Education News

After School Enrichment Landmarks Partners with Mercy and Miller Elementary

Every third Thursday, September created churches, houses, duplexes, a through June, employees from mall, and specialty shops including a Pittsburgh Mercy Health System team gingerbread candy store, Miller’s Ice up with Miller Elementary School Cream Shop, Miller Breakfast Buffet, students for an after-school program. Tanasha’s Fashion Shop & More, This year, the Mercy staff suggested the Ericka’s and Mareena’s Place, Murfy’s theme: “Our City, Our Home.” They Old Toys, and a family shelter. The invited Landmarks to outline lesson paper-bag buildings were displayed in plans for the ten sessions and teach most the Mercy cafeteria during the holiday of them. Through slide shows, walking season. tours, neighborhood mapping exercises, and art activities, students are learning about the city, their community, and their family. They record historical facts on a giant timeline, and tape photographs of their experiences on the timeline too. On December 7, students dis- played their neighbor- hood of paper-bag buildings. Elbert S. Hatley, executive director of Their the Hill Community Development designs Corporation, talked with Miller School were inspired students and Mercy mentors during a by buildings neighborhood walking tour on October they had seen 15, 1998. Building on the skills intro- during a walk- duced by Mindy and Robert Fullilove ing tour on during the Power of Place conference on October 15 and October 9, students made a map of the knowledge of blocks surrounding Miller School and color coded the places worth saving, as well as vacant lots, green spaces, and areas of neighborhood new construction. Marlo Bryant, age 9, created a map after the tour, recalling the neighborhood layout and street names from needs. They memory (top right). PHLF News • February 1999 Page 19 Trustee News

Those Who Give to Landmarks Create a Trustees Honored In Memoriam Lasting Legacy for Historic Preservation Ethel Hagler Grace Burrell December 17 is Grace Jamison Burrell, a founding The generous now “Ethel Hagler trustee of Landmarks and trustee Day” in the City of emeritus since 1993, passed away on Pittsburgh. August 24, 1998. She was 98 years old. contributions from our Long a trustee of A dedicated preservationist and humani- Landmarks, Ethel tarian, Mrs. Burrell was proud of her trustees and members, Hagler received a community and family. She worked to proclamation from make this region a better place and and from private Mayor Tom Murphy on December helped her children, grandchildren, and

Photo by William Rydberg, PHOTON 17, 1998, on the occasion of her 90th great grandchildren discover what is foundations and birthday. She was recognized for her special in life. “tremendous dedication and devotion At Landmarks, she was very suppor- charitable organizations to her family, community, and tive of the Old Post Office Museum, the church…for her tremendous leader- Antiques Show, and of our neighbor- ship in the North Side community hood preservation programs. “Although make it possible for us through her work on the Board of one she lived in Upper St. Clair, she had deep of the country’s first Neighborhood feelings and concerns for what was to offer a full range Housing Services, [and as] a trustee of happening in the inner cities,” said the Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Landmarks president Arthur P. Ziegler, Jr. of historic preservation Foundation.…” “She was deeply committed to improv- Congratulations Ethel, for all that ing the environment. We will miss her programs throughout the you have done and continue to do! wise counsel and strong sense of what was right.” Pittsburgh region. Philip B. Hallen Doorway, Calvary United Methodist Church. Jane Lehman Philip B. Hallen, chairman of Mrs. Alan G. Lehman, long a trustee of Landmarks, was honored by the Landmarks, passed away on January 15. has been a longtime I’m particularly CONSTANCE O’NEIL UCP (United Cerebral Palsy) of Deeply interested in the arts and supporter and trustee of the Pittsburgh History & proud of the hand- Pittsburgh as one of eight historic preservation, Jane helped Landmarks Foundation. “Community Heroes” in 1998. Landmarks grow through the years and In 1996, when Landmarks sought to establish its some stone house On November 11, he received the in particular supported the Station own Historic Religious Properties Initiative, Connie I restored in the Humanitarian Award for his work Square initiative. O’Neil provided the necessary funding to spearhead as president of the Maurice Falk Mexican War Streets Her lively mind, tremendous energy, the initiative. As a result of Mrs. O’Neil’s gift, coupled Medical Fund. He was commended and dedication to the well being of with member donations, Landmarks was able to give years ago, and of for supporting “mental health Pittsburgh inspired us. It was our over $30,000 in grants in 1997 to improve various the restoration work programs advocating equal and privilege to know and work with Jane. religious properties in Allegheny County and organize accessible treatment for everyone, We extend our condolences at this time a very successful seminar addressing preservation that is occurring at regardless of minority status.” to her family. concerns of churches and synagogues. the Calvary United Mrs. O’Neil contributed to the Historic Religious Methodist Church in Properties program again in 1997 and 1998, so her lead gifts, combined with year-end gifts from our Allegheny West. G. Whitney Snyder members, have enabled us to continue our seminar A trustee of Landmarks since its early and grant program. –Constance O’Neil years, G. Whitney Snyder will be greatly missed and fondly remembered by our staff and by his fellow trustees. He passed away on January 16 at his home A gift of your appreciated securities or real estate can be used to create a lifetime income for you and provide in Sewickley Heights. Whitney was Chairman of the the Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation with much-needed resources to restore our historic houses, churches, Shenango Furnace Company, the schools, parks, and gardens. You can help revitalize a main street in one of our neighborhoods, provide restored Snyder’s family-owned business, and was an ardent supporter of education, housing for low- to moderate-income residents, or put an empty church or school back into use. preservation, and his community. Throughout his 77-year life, Whitney Landmarks can put your securities and property to good work while bringing you: showed his deep love for these endeav- ors by founding the Station Square • Lifetime income from your gift; Transportation Museum and then the Car & Carriage Museum at the Frick • Public acknowledgment of your gift; Art & Historical Center, by serving as President of Sewickley Heights Borough • Federal and state tax savings; Council, and by chairing Sewickley Academy’s Board of Trustees, among • Avoidance of probate costs and estate taxes; many other associations. “He accomplished so much good in • Disposition of real estate and elimination of ownership costs and liability; his lifetime,” said Arthur P. Ziegler, Jr., president of Landmarks. “He was • The satisfaction of making a significant gift to preserving our Western immensely proud of Pittsburgh’s indus- Pennsylvania heritage; trial heritage and he understood that we could make Pittsburgh a more attractive • Honorary life membership in Landmarks (minimum contribution required). place to live and visit if we promoted its history.” Whitney donated a 600-ton blowing engine and an ingot mold to Landmarks’ Call Cathy Broucek to discuss these donor options (1-412) 471-5808. Riverwalk of Industrial Artifacts at Station Square. His collection of vintage cars comprises 95 percent of those displayed at the Car & Carriage Museum. To Whitney, the joy was in the giving, and he gave freely of his resources and his time. Protecting the Places that Make Pittsburgh Home We were fortunate to have had P ITTSBURGH H ISTORY & LANDMARKS F OUNDATION Whitney as a trustee, and we will long One Station Square • Suite 450 • Pittsburgh, PA • 15219-1134 • www.phlf.org remember his contributions to our organization and to this city. Page 20 PHLF News • February 1999

PITTSBURGH ARCHITECTURE: Order, Beauty, and Hope, or Some Such Terms

Walter C. Kidney

Once, I wrote of architecture as “the hardware of civilization under the aspects of shelter, planning, space, order, beauty, and hope.” The termi- nology is vulnerable, subject to skeptical probing. “Order” to me suggests a reassuring state of things, one where everything makes sense, but to others it may have connota- JOIN tions of suppression or boredom. “Beauty,” to some, will suggest a dull LANDMARKS textbook norm, and they will find in something at odds with such a norm Support the Pittsburgh History & a greater thrill or intrigue, or find an Landmarks Foundation in its expression somehow more appropri- work to: ate under the circumstances. “Hope”? People have built to cause • Identify, document, and work to save fear or despair, to assert superiority, architectural landmarks, historic but one would like to believe that neighborhoods, and historic designed when one builds one attempts beauty landscapes in Allegheny County; and order most of the time, and that • Provide loans and technical assistance when one moves into pre-existing to community-based organizations that space, one also does so in hope. Look propose feasible plans for historic at the pictures on page 15: building properties; as a hopeful act. • Participate in urban planning issues as The house I show here has disap- an advocate for historic preservation; peared; it stood at Fifth Avenue and • Create educational programs for Lothrop Street, and as a child I spent schools, community groups, members, my summer here. From here, first and friends; escorted, then not, I ventured into the Civic Center, then beyond. In this • Continue a well-managed, responsive, Above: 3519 Fifth Avenue, and creative membership organization house, most of the time, there was a late 1930s. with the ability to implement these sense of Order. There was some goals on a long-range basis. Beauty in the house, and more within a few minutes’ walk: beauty of the Membership Categories obvious sort the architects had rallied Individual $20 or more around the site of the Cathedral of Right: The more exalted Learning, and some peculiar grimy Family $25 or more architecture a half-mile sorts of beauty, or something, along away, around the same Senior Citizen $15 or more the walk there. As for Hope, yes: time. Schools and anticipation, the feeling most of the Non-profits $35 or more time that the world was benign and School Districts $50 or more vivid. Why else would there be archi- Corporate $250 or more tecture, as opposed to mere physical Life Benefactor $5,000 shelter? Vaults, pilasters, rustications, (a one-time gift) and spires are unnecessary to sur- Below: An ideal: the Forbes The portion of your dues exceeding $15 is vival, but the mind can be stimulated Street entrance of the tax-deductible. by them, and as one tries to find—or Schenley Apartments in a Call Mary Lu Denny at (1-412) 471-5808 maybe invent—a purpose for human rental promotion of the for details on a multiple-year membership existence, the artistry in using such 1920s. plan at a reduced rate, and for a listing of things may well appear as a further- our membership benefits. ance in its fulfillment.

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