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$632,000 loan in 2011 towards the In this issue restoration of seven historic properties on Columbus Avenue and Bidwell, 9 County Expands Allegheny Sheffield, and Liverpool streets” (see Together Main Street Program PHLF News No. 177, April 2011). 12 Ten Downtown Building Façades LCC’s $80,000 grant was made possible by TriState Capital Bank Being Restored Through Unique through the Neighborhood Partnership Partnership Program (NPP) of the Pennsylvania 18 Twentieth-Century Architecture Department of Community and Guidebook Published Economic Development. As part of 24 the NPP, a state tax-credit program Hitting the Bull’s-Eye that encourages business investment in communities, TriState Capital Bank has committed $600,000 over six years to restoration work in Manchester. I am proud “TriState Capital Bank has been a terrific to consider myself partner in funding the Wilkinsburg NPP a member of PHLF and am with the Wilkinsburg Community always talking PHLF up to my Development Corporation and PHLF,” said Michael, “and their support now family, friends, and neighbors. in Manchester means a great deal to us.” What a valuable regional Robert Baumbach is the architect for resource and community the renovation of 1401 Columbus Avenue and Alliance Construction Group is strengthening/revitalizing the general contractor. Manchester The October 4, 2013, press conference in Manchester (from left): Pittsburgh City organization. Renaissance II includes a rehab-for- Councilman R. Daniel Lavelle; PHLF President Arthur Ziegler; Keith B. Key, representing ––Marc Virostek, June 12, 2013 Alliance Construction Group; Jessica Smith Perry, Manager of Development Projects for resale program and new construction the Urban Redevelopment Authority; Stephanie Cipriani, PNC’s Senior Vice President and at Columbus Square. Project funders Market Manager of Community Development Banking; LaShawn Burton Faulk, Executive also include the Urban Redevelopment Editor’s Note Director, Manchester Citizens Corporation; Michael Sriprasert, President, Landmarks Community Capital Corporation; Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald; and inally, the 2013 annual issue of PHLF TriState Capital Bank President Bill Schenk. FNews is in your hands. Here are the highlights of the year, with a look forward to 2014—our 50th anniversary year! Manchester Renaissance II This has been an especially busy year, with significant program accomplishments. By the summer of 2014, several more part of the revitalized community. historic properties will be renovated in Manchester Citizens Corporation We restored the façades of eight buildings Manchester, thanks to the continuing (MCC) now continues the neighbor- in downtown Pittsburgh (and have two support of the Pittsburgh History & hood restoration effort. During a more to finish) and announced plans to Landmarks Foundation (PHLF) and press conference on October 4, 2013, 1401 Columbus Avenue was built in 1887 open an urban market in one of them, and anchors an historic block of houses. others. “James D. Van Trump and LaShawn Burton Faulk, executive the Thompson Building. We extended a I were inspired to form a nonprofit director of MCC, announced the Restoration was underway in October 2013. major loan and grant to facilitate restora- historic preservation organization in launch of “Manchester Renaissance tion work in Manchester; aided 12 main 1964 in order to save Manchester II,” including the renovation of 1401 Authority of Pittsburgh, PNC Bank, and other North Side neighborhoods Columbus Avenue as a mixed-use the Heinz Endowments, Northside street communities in Allegheny and from demolition,” said PHLF President property offering high quality Leadership Conference, and Rivers Butler counties; awarded grants to 11 Arthur P. Ziegler, Jr. “It is appropriate apartments, live/work space, and Casino. historic religious properties; submitted a that we will be continuing to assist in retail/commercial space. “After decades of work, with many National Register nomination for the Strip the revitalization of Manchester during Landmarks Community Capital successes amidst continuing challenges, Historic District; and learned that our four our 50th anniversary year.” Corporation (LCC), PHLF’s nonprofit it is gratifying to see how Manchester’s Downtown Districts National Register Listed on the National Register of lending subsidiary, is lending $292,000 renewal is being accomplished through nominations were approved. We published the restoration and reuse of existing Historic Places in 1975 and designated and providing an $80,000 grant towards a 294-page book on twentieth-century historic properties, coupled with a City Historic District in 1979, the restoration of 1401 Columbus architecture in metropolitan Pittsburgh; compatible new construction,” said Manchester is primarily a neighbor- Avenue and an additional property assisted with the American Ark Films hood of impressive red-brick houses on Liverpool Street. “This builds on Arthur. “This begins a program for documentary, “Henry Hornbostel: In with stone trim and wooden porches the success of MCC’s Renaissance I the neighborhood where we began set on an orderly street grid. Beginning initiative,” said LCC President Michael almost 50 years ago.” Architecture and Legacy,” broadcast on in 1966, PHLF worked with neigh- Sriprasert, “where LCC provided a WQED; involved more than 11,500 borhood residents to create the first people in educational programs; and historic preservation district in the hosted 52 workshops at our Landmarks nation primarily for African-Americans; Preservation Resource Center in the first preservation program using Wilkinsburg, among many other activities. Title 1 urban-renewal funds for the Read more for details. restoration of houses for low- to moderate-income residents; and a In the new year, the best way to stay series of incentive programs designed informed is to read our monthly E-news. to combat displacement and encourage If you are not receiving those, please send longtime residents to stay and become your e-mail to [email protected]. If you do not have e-mail and would like to The October 4 press conference was held receive the E-news, please call Mary Lu in front of 1401 Columbus Avenue in (412-471-5808, ext. 527) and she can Manchester on Pittsburgh’s North Side. mail them to you. Onward we go! Top and bottom photos by Frances Tish, PHLF intern 2 PHLF News December 2013 ADVOCACY COMMUNITY REVITALIZATION EASEMENTS EDUCATION & RESEARCH RURAL PRESERVATION

Through the place, we renew the spirit of the people. Historic preservation can be the underlying basis of community renewal, human renewal, PHLF Nominates Strip Historic District to and economic renewal. Preservation is not some isolated National Register of Historic Places cultural benefit.

—Arthur P.Ziegler, Jr., President After ten months of work, PHLF submitted a nomina- tion on November 8 to the PHLF’s Mission Pennsylvania Historical and The Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Museum Commission Foundation (PHLF) works within (PHMC) requesting that a 250-mile radius of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh’s Strip Historic Pennsylvania, to identify and save District be designated a National Historic District. historically significant places; renew “We hired Michael Baker historic neighborhoods, towns, and Corporation to assist in urban areas; preserve historic farms preparing the nomination,” and historic designed landscapes; and said PHLF Preservation educate people about the Pittsburgh Director Matthew Ragan, region’s rich architectural heritage. “and were pleased to receive funding support from the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh and another donor.” The City is in support of the nomination, since it is The Strip Historic District being recommended is set within the larger Strip District neighborhood. in keeping with the goals of The boundaries are between 15th and 22nd streets, between Railroad Street and Liberty Avenue. PRESERVEPGH, the first city-wide preservation plan. The Strip Historic District meets While City historic designation does National Register criteria for commerce, establish a regulatory process for the due to its role as the primary produce review of the exterior appearance of all distribution center for the greater buildings that are designated, listing on Pittsburgh region, and for religion and the National Register does not interfere architecture, since the district includes with a private property owner’s right the previously listed St. Stanislaus to alter, manage, or dispose of property. Visit PHLF’s offices and two libraries Kostka Roman Catholic Church. The It often changes the way communities on the fourth floor of The Landmarks period of significance begins in 1850, perceive their historic resources and Building at Station Square. with the earliest extant resources in the gives credibility to efforts to preserve district, and ends in 1963, following the these resources. National Register’s 50-year guideline. Designation promotes authenticity PHLF... The district encompasses 13 blocks, Pennsylvania Railroad yards, Liberty of place by celebrating the historic bounded by Railroad Street, the Avenue, 15th Street, and 22nd Street. character of a place, and stimulates • is governed by a board of up to It is comprised of 64 contributing economic development through federal 25 community leaders; resources, including: the Pennsylvania rehabilitation tax credits and easements • has had a balanced budget in each year Railroad Fruit Auction and Sales that are available to property owners of operation since its founding in 1964; Building (1929); Peoples Bath (1908), for the certified rehabilitation for now housing a yoga studio, General income-producing purposes. • provides leadership and assistance to Merchandise Outlet, and Little “National Register properties are local, state, national, and international Bangkok; the Produce Exchange documented and evaluated according organizations; Building (c. 1904), now housing the to uniform standards,” said Bill. “These • provides financing and technical Mike Feinberg Company and Schorin criteria are designed to help state and assistance through a nonprofit Company; and St. Patrick’s Roman local governments, federal agencies, subsidiary, Landmarks Community Catholic Church (1936). and others identify important historic A public meeting was held on Capital Corporation (LCC); and archeological properties worthy December 4, 2013 at the Senator John In 2013, PHLF staff and docents led of preservation and of consideration • provides consulting services and Heinz History Center to seek public more than 600 students on tours of the in planning and development decisions.” develops real estate through a for-profit Strip District, including visits to Wholey’s input and to provide further information. PHLF will hear in February 2014 if subsidiary, Landmarks Development (above right). Students often read Katherine “Misperceptions often exist about the the nomination is approved. If so, the Corporation (LDC), and through Ayers’ Macaroni Boy, an historical novel implications of listing a property on the Strip Historic District will join more various limited partnerships. set in the Strip District, before their tour. National Register of Historic Places,” than 10,000 other National Historic said Bill Callahan, Western Pennsylvania District listings in the United States. The Pennsylvania Railroad Fruit Auction preservation coordinator for the PHMC, Continue Giving and Sales Building on Smallman Street “especially in places like Pittsburgh that (below). have local preservation ordinances.” Your money is put to good use and the need is great. Contributions in 2014 will help PHLF: • continue neighborhood and downtown revitalization efforts; • offer programs at the Landmarks Preservation Resource Center in Wilkinsburg; • continue Main Street programs in Allegheny County; • continue our Historic Religious Properties program; • offer educational programs to more than 10,000 people; • underwrite PHLF News and monthly E-newsletters.

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Additional National Register Listings The following sites in the City of Pittsburgh were also listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013:

• Allegheny Commons, North Side (prepared by Angelique Bamberg of Clio Consulting) • August Wilson House, Hill District (prepared by Jeff Slack, AICP, Pfaffmann + Associates, PC) • Penn-Liberty Historic District Boundary Increase, Downtown (prepared by Urban Design Ventures, LLC and Powers & Company, Inc.) • Pittsburgh Terminal Warehouse and Transfer Company, South Side (prepared by Laura C. Ricketts and Gerald M. Kuncio, Skelly and Loy, Inc.)

Downtown Pittsburgh from Mt. Washington, with the Pittsburgh Renaissance Historic District (left) and the expanded Firstside District (right) National Park Service Approves PHLF’s Downtown Districts Project

In May 2013, the National Park Service on the National Register be pursued, opportunities for federal preservation approved adding the following four and PHLF is happy to have helped tax incentives, such as the 20% nominations to the National Register of advance that goal. rehabilitation tax credit and a charitable Allegheny Commons, North Side Historic Places: (1) Pittsburgh Renaissance Bill Callahan, Western Pennsylvania contribution deduction for a preserva- Historic District, and boundary increases preservation coordinator for the PHMC tion easement donation; (3) satisfies and additional documentation for the said, “This was just an amazing project. an eligibility requirement of many (2) Firstside, (3) Fourth Avenue, and … My colleagues in Harrisburg have federal and state grant programs; (4) Pittsburgh Central Downtown been promoting the PHLF/City partner- and (4) requires government agencies, Historic Districts. PHLF, with the assis- ship on this project as a model for other if there is a federal undertaking, to tance of Laura C. Ricketts, architectural cities and communities. These new evaluate alternatives to mitigate adverse historian with Skelly and Loy, Inc., designations will yield preservation impacts on historic properties pursuant prepared the nominations, thanks to benefits for Pittsburgh for years to come. to Section 106 of the National Historic funding from the Pennsylvania Historical Since the designations were announced, Preservation Act. and Museum Commission (PHMC), several downtown property owners Federal preservation tax programs The Anne L. and George H. Clapp have contacted me to discuss how they have made it financially possible to adapt Charitable and Educational Trust, can take advantage of the benefits that many historic buildings in Pittsburgh Millcraft Investments, Inc., and other National Register-designation brings as for new uses, including the Heinz Lofts, developers and property owners. they renovate their properties.” the Cork Factory, Market Square Place, The result is that 100 more buildings, National Register listing does not and PHLF’s Market at Fifth. August Wilson House, Hill District sites, and structures in downtown place any restrictions or obligations For further information, contact Pittsburgh are now listed on the on a property owner. Listing on the Matthew Ragan, preservation National Register of Historic Places. National Register: (1) identifies and director at PHLF ([email protected], The City’s Historic Preservation plan honors historic properties of significance 412-471-5808, ext. 533) or Bill Callahan recommended that additional listings based on national standards; (2) provides ([email protected]; 412-565-3575).

With the additions and boundary increases approved in 2013, there ALLEGHENY RIVER are five National Register Historic Districts in Heinz Hall, in the expanded Penn-Liberty downtown Pittsburgh. PENN-LIBERTY Historic District, Downtown The boundaries for each district are outlined in black. In addition, the Pittsburgh Terminal Warehouse (now Allegheny County PITTSBURGH RENAISSANCE Riverwalk Corporate Centre), South Side PITTSBURGH Courthouse and former Photo by Laura Ricketts, Skelly and Loy, Inc. CENTRAL DOWNTOWN Jail and “Forks of the FORKS OF THE OHIO Ohio” (Point State Park) are National Historic Landmarks (noted by FOURTH AVENUE the dotted lines).

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Local Historic Designations While the federal government lists individual properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places, local authorities also designate individual properties and districts as “historic.” Each designation has a different meaning and brings different benefits. Both the City of Pittsburgh and Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation offer local historic designation programs. City Historic Structures or Districts Approved by Pittsburgh City Council • Civic groups or individuals can prepare a nomination for an individual property or district that is 50 years old or more and submit it to the Historic Review Commission (HRC). • After a review process that includes the HRC, City Planning Commission, and public hearings, Pittsburgh City Council approves or rejects the nomination. • City historic designation establishes a regulatory process for the review of the exterior appearance of all buildings that are designated (either indi- vidually or as part of a district). • The HRC must review and approve all visible exterior alterations, including demolitions, new construction, and additions. • Designation does not affect interior spaces. Miller-Cole house. 629 Oakhill Lane, Greensburg, Westmoreland County. Peter Berndtson and Cornelia Brierly, architects, 1950–52. • The designation continues in perpetuity, even if the building is sold to a new owner. Historic Landmark Plaques Identify Benefits: Findings across the nation indicate that properties within local historic districts appreciate at rates greater than the local market overall, 562 Significant Places as well as faster than similar, non-designated neighborhoods. Designation encourages citizen Many people first come to know of the work and District boundary increase as recommended by participation, quality design, the sustainable name of the Pittsburgh History & Landmarks PHLF (see page 3) that now includes 41 contributing development of a human-scaled environment, Foundation when they see an Historic Landmark commercial and financial buildings. The individual and the creation of educational programs plaque. PHLF has awarded 562 bronze or aluminum buildings designated include an historic municipal (such as house tours) promoting tourism. plaques identifying architecturally significant build- lighting plant and a railroad station, both erected ings, districts, landscapes, and structures throughout in 1895; the railroad station was designed by H. H. For further information and filing fees, Allegheny and Westmoreland Richardson’s successor firm, Shepley, contact Sarah Quinn (412-255-2243; counties. I encourage our members to Rutan & Coolidge. Two library [email protected]). PHLF created its Historic buildings (one is now a mosque), Landmark plaque program in visit these sites. We have helped several both designed by Alden & Harlow, Historic Landmark Plaques Awarded 1968—four years after its through our Historic Religious and three churches, one from the first by PHLF founding—and our committee Properties program and have included decade of the twentieth century and Any property owner may complete an application of trustees continues to meet others in our guidebooks, two from the 1920s, were designated. nearly every year to consider Eight examples of outstanding local for an Historic Landmark plaque if his/her tours, or preservation efforts. Seeing building, structure, or landscape: new applications submitted by residential architecture spanning people who own architec- each building in the landscape a century include private homes, • is at least 50 years old and is located in the turally significant places that is well worth the drive (or walk). townhouses, and a former luxury Greater Pittsburgh region (including counties are 50 years old or more. apartment hotel. Styles include surrounding Allegheny); —Cynthia Underwood, Vice Chair, An Historic Landmark Historic Plaque Designation Committee Greek Revival, Italianate, Craftsman- • is a remarkable piece of architecture, engineering, plaque does not protect a Colonial, 1920s Eclecticism, an construction, landscape design, or planning, or building from alteration or Art Moderne house designed by the imparts a rich sense of history; and demolition—but it does give public recognition to the developer-architect of Swan Acres, and three houses • retains its integrity, in spite of any alterations, site and provides information on the name of the site, designed by Peter Berndtson and Cornelia Brierly, additions, or deterioration that might have architect(s), and years of design and construction. Taliesin Fellowship apprentices of Frank Lloyd PHLF reserves the right to remove the plaque if Wright. occurred over time. an owner alters a structure in a way that harms the The committee welcomes plaque applications from Benefits: An Historic Landmark plaque identifies architectural integrity. Allegheny County and from surrounding counties, the site as a significant part of our local heritage; Trustee Cynthia Underwood, vice-chair of PHLF’s especially if the applicant site has some connection it does not impose any restrictions on the property Historic Plaque Designation Committee, announced to the Greater Pittsburgh region—through property owner. PHLF only has the legal power to remove 16 new Historic Landmark plaque awards following ownership, for example, or through the work of a the plaque if the owner unsuitably alters the the committee’s meeting on December 10, 2012. distinguished Pittsburgh architect. property. The designated sites ranged from individual buildings For further information or to download a plaque to the Fourth Avenue Historic District. The District application, please visit www.phlf.org or contact Cost: If awarded, the property owner must bear was originally designated in 1985 and included Frank Stroker, program administrator: the cost of the plaque and properly install it. 25 contributing structures. The new plaque reflects [email protected]; 412-471-5808, ext. 525. Typically, bronze plaques cost about $425 and the recent Fourth Avenue National Register Historic aluminum plaques cost about $280. For further information, contact Frank Stroker (412-471-5808, ext. 525; [email protected]). Allegheny City Electric Light Plant (1895) Fourth Avenue National Register Historic District (Boundary Increase). Building. 822 Riversea Road, Central Downtown [Forbes Avenue, south side between Smithfield and Wood Streets Northside. David Hunter, Jr., engineer, 1895. and extending along Wood Street to Fifth Avenue]. C.1871–1934. HISTORICLANDMARKPLAQUES HISTORICRELIGIOUSPROPERTIESMEMBERSHIP&GIVINGSPECIALPROJECTS PHLF News December 2013 5 Photo by Keith E. Lewis Photography, Inc.

Mr. & Mrs. David Giles house. 1 Saxman Mr. & Mrs. Jack Landis house. 2717 Mount Drive, Latrobe, Westmoreland County. Peter Royal Road, Squirrel Hill. Peter Berndtson and Berndtson and Cornelia Brierly, architects, 1952. Cornelia Brierly, architects, 1947.

Joseph Vokral house. 1919 Woodside Road, St. James Terrace. 5300–5312 St. James Schenley Quadrangle, University of Pittsburgh (formerly, Schenley Apartments). 3959 Forbes Shaler Township. Quentin S. Beck, architect, Terrace, Shadyside. John E. Born, builder, Avenue and 4000 Fifth Avenue, Oakland. Henry Hornbostel with Rutan, Russell & Wood, 1936. 1915. architects, 1922–23.

4841 Ellsworth Avenue, Shadyside. C. 1870. Chalfant house. 89 Locust Street, Etna. C. 1850.

First United Methodist Church of McKeesport. Cornell Street and Versailles Avenue, McKeesport. Charles W. Bolton & Son (Philadelphia), architects, 1924–25.

St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church complex. 5801 Hampton Street, Highland Park. Carpenter & Crocker, architects, 1905–09.

West End Branch, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. 47 Wabash Avenue, West End. Alden & Harlow, architects, 1899. Waverly Presbyterian Church. 590 South First Muslim Mosque of Pittsburgh Braddock Avenue, Point Breeze. Ingham & (formerly, Wylie Avenue Branch, Carnegie Boyd, architects, 1928–30. Library of Pittsburgh). 1911 Wylie Avenue, Hill District. Alden & Harlow, architects, 1899.

Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad Coraopolis Station. Neville Avenue and Mill Street. Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge, architects, 1895. 6 PHLF News December 2013 ADVOCACY COMMUNITY REVITALIZATION EASEMENTS EDUCATION & RESEARCH RURAL PRESERVATION

Thank You Donors Donations from the following PHLF members and friends in 2012 helped make the 2013 Historic Religious Properties program possible. Leadership Gifts ($10,000+) Katherine Mabis McKenna Foundation, Inc.

Major Gifts (up to $5,000) Anonymous (2) George and Eileen Dorman David A. Kleer Matthew J. Ragan Kathy and Lou Testoni

Cornerstone Gifts Burns & Scalo Roofing Company, (up to $1,000) Inc., installed a new roof on Valley Esther Barazzone Presbyterian Church, thanks to a Newt Blair $7,000 matching grant from PHLF. Mr. & Mrs. Charles H. Booth, Jr. Beech Avenue in Allegheny West, looking toward Calvary United Methodist Church Susan E. Brandt Chelsea Burket Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Cannon Denise Capurso $70,440 Awarded in 2013 to Eleven Historic Cheryl and Randall Casciola Betty Chorba Religious Properties Francis J. Coyle Joan P. Dailey “PHLF has many programs to take As of mid-November, eight of the Mary and John Davis pride in,” said Chair Jack Norris, churches had completed restoration Loretta Denny “but I especially want to call attention work and members from two congrega- in memory of Dominick Magasano to the Historic Religious Properties tions had met with Tom Keffer, property Dollar Bank Foundation (HRP) program. For 16 years, PHLF and construction manager at PHLF, Jerilyn Donahoe has provided matching grants and for building restoration advice. PHLF’s Keith G. Dorman technical assistance to help architec- grants to the eight churches, totaling Dormont Historical Society turally significant houses of worship $49,440, had leveraged $169,560 in George and Roseann Erny in Allegheny County undertake critical restoration work. Steeples and stained Robert Fierst exterior restoration projects. Our glass had been restored; masonry repairs Richard D. Flinn program brings hope to many people and exterior trim painting had been Pat Gibbons and helps strengthen communities. completed; and a roof had been replaced. Larry and Ingrid Glasco PHLF is one of the only local, nonprofit Harold Hall historic preservation groups in the nation to offer an ongoing program of Transition in Philip B. Hallen support to historic religious properties.” Leadership Mr. & Mrs. John Campbell Harmon PHLF began its HRP program in After guiding the Ed and Helen Horan 1994, thanks to a $44,000 grant from Historic Religious Dolores and Jay Jarrell the Allegheny Foundation. In 1997, Properties Pam and Tom Keffer PHLF began awarding matching grants, Committee for ten Kelly Art Glass (John Kelly) thanks to annual gifts from its members years, George Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence S. Konsin and friends. Since that time, it has Dorman asked awarded 235 matching grants, totaling Robert Y. Kopf Chair Jack Norris to George Dorman $935,000. Work is nearing completion at Bower Hill Richard W. Krug appoint a new chair- Sandra Pack, president of Allegheny Community Church in Mt. Lebanon; Charlotte E. Lang person in 2013. In June, Mr. Norris Historic Preservation Society, Inc., has Niko Contracting Company is restoring Angela and Doug Marvin the steeple, thanks to a $7,000 matching appointed David Vater and Kathy noted that “The homes on Beech Avenue David and Cecelia McKibben grant from PHLF. Testoni to serve as Chair and Vice-Chair, have increased in value as the Calvary Melissa M. McSwigan respectively. They are both longtime United Methodist Church has become Mary Anne and William Mistick members of the HRP Committee. They the ‘anchor’ and ‘heart’ of Allegheny • First Trinity Evangelical Lutheran pledged to continue the work of the Muriel Moreland West. Preservation has such a positive Church, Oakland committee that has had far-reaching P. F. Muck social and economic impact on commu- • Glenshaw Presbyterian Church, results, thanks to Mr. Dorman’s superb David A. Nimick nities. I believe this more than ever.” Glenshaw leadership. John S. Oehrle “All our programs work together to • Riverview United Presbyterian Church, “George established such a thoughtful Pauline and James Parker bring strength and power to an historic Observatory Hill/Perry North and thorough process for the review of neighborhood,” said PHLF President Helen Paytok • Sacred Heart Church, Shadyside applications,” said David, “and led fund- Arthur Ziegler. “The HRP program Ray Pendro • St. Andrew Lutheran Church, raising efforts with consistent success. has been a powerful tool, allowing Jim Perrin Shadyside He helped build a program that gives PHLF to help renew the institutions Herman L. Reid, Jr., Ed.D our members and friends an opportunity that people value.” • St. Paul of the Cross Monastery, Dr. & Mrs. Wilfred T. Rouleau to directly participate in saving some of Donations from PHLF members and South Side Slopes Ann Fay Ruben the most significant buildings in friends in 2012 totaling $38,085, plus • St. Peter Church, Allegheny Allegheny County.” Mrs. Edward R. Schatz funds from a successful 2011 challenge Center/North Side “George was always impressed with Pat and Bill Schultz grant campaign, enabled PHLF to • Valley Presbyterian Church, Findlay the knowledge and commitment of the Marguerite and William Standish award a total of $70,440 in matching Township/Imperial congregations,” said Kathy, “and was Louise and Martin Sturgess grants to the following churches in glad to see a network of support develop Eileen and Bruce Tenenbaum February 2013: The following congregations received among the historic religious properties Dr. & Mrs. Albert C. Van Dusen 2013 Grant Recipients technical assistance awards: as a result of the Committee’s workshops Sue Vines • Fairhaven United Methodist Church, and outreach. He worked extremely • Kimberly and Robert Walsh Birmingham United Church of Christ, Overbrook hard to ensure that PHLF took a Hattie Watts Carrick • First United Methodist Church of leadership role in helping architecturally Mollie Weinert • Bower Hill Community Church, McKeesport significant historic religious properties Roger C. Westman Mt. Lebanon • Sixth Presbyterian Church, Squirrel Hill undertake critical exterior repairs and Frances H. Wilson • First Presbyterian Church of • Valley Presbyterian Church, Findlay continue in use as centers of worship Helen A. Wilson Pittsburgh, Downtown Township/Imperial and social services. We thank him for Teresa Wolken and Drew Koval his dedication and commitment.” Arthur P. Ziegler, Jr. HISTORICLANDMARKPLAQUES HISTORICRELIGIOUSPROPERTIES MEMBERSHIP&GIVINGSPECIALPROJECTS PHLF News December 2013 7

elly Art Glass is restoring all the windows K in Sacred Heart Church over a period of years. All the windows were designed and made by George and Alice Sotter between 1930 and 1954. This sequence of photos shows the restoration of the “Prophecies Made by Christ— Red Window.” This window restoration was funded by a $7,000 matching grant from PHLF.

Kelly Art Glass employees (from left): Abby Smith, Daneal Hansel, and Leslie Simonds remove the stained glass panels All Saints Church in Etna completed the restoration of 14 stained glass windows in August 2013. for restoration. A $9,000 matching grant from PHLF’s HRP program in 2012 helped fund the final phase of this multi-year $210,000 project carried out by Renaissance Glassworks, Inc.

Members Provide Essential Support “Each year, PHLF’s members and friends Master glazier contribute to its HRP program,” said Leslie Simonds Planned Giving Consultant Jack Miller, refines a rubbing “but they also can make property bequests, and compares it to establish a Named Fund, or designate PHLF a digital photo to ensure accuracy. as the beneficiary of a life insurance policy. They can request that the funds be used to support the HRP program.”

When you contribute to PHLF’s Historic Religious Glenshaw Presbyterian Church used a $7,000 matching grant from PHLF to restore its steeple. Work was Properties program, you are completed by Bob Teuteberg, Inc.; the total project directly supporting cost was $14,000. Leslie and apprentice the craftsmen and Abby Smith clean building trades professionals individual pieces who work so skillfully of glass prior to re-leading. throughout the Pittsburgh region to repair and strengthen some of our most significant architectural landmarks. ––David Vater, Chair, Historic Religious Properties Committee Scott Reichart, Our goal is to create a planned giving Dave Fockler, and initiative that will support a $100,000 grant Leslie install the restored window in program on an annual basis. A two million Sacred Heart Church. dollar bequest could endow a $100,000 Riverview United Presbyterian Church in Observatory grant program in perpetuity. As an example Hill/Perry North reset the front steps with a matching of this planned giving, the late Harry C. grant of $5,000 from PHLF. Work was completed by Young Restoration; the total project cost was $10,000. Goldby (1917–2011) bequeathed a portion of his estate to PHLF. In keeping with his request, a portion of the Harry C. Goldby Awarding Grants in 2014 Pittsburgh Preservation Fund at PHLF has been restricted to generate income to The HRP Committee will be awarding a selection support the HRP program, with a special A plaque below the restored “Red Window” acknowledges PHLF’s grant. of matching grants and technical assistance to emphasis on Calvary United Methodist historic religious properties in 2014. The applica- Church in Allegheny West. tion deadline for this next grant cycle was You can support this worthy program December 2, 2013. Worship sites must be 50 years with a planned gift or contribution to old or more and be located in Allegheny County. PHLF’s annual campaign. To contribute, They must have active congregations, provide visit www.phlf.org or contact Mary Lu social services to their communities, and be able Denny ([email protected]; 412-471-5808, to match PHLF’s grant of up to $10,000. Grant ext. 527). funds must be used for critical exterior restoration projects on the main structure of the historic religious property, including stained glass restoration, masonry work, roof and gutter repairs, and exterior painting. For information contact: Carole Malakoff ([email protected]; 412-471-5808). 8 PHLF News December 2013 ADVOCACY COMMUNITY REVITALIZATION EASEMENTS EDUCATION & RESEARCH RURAL PRESERVATION

Advocacy

Public Testimony Karamagi Rujumba, a project manager at PHLF, presented testimony in 2013 at the City of Pittsburgh Historic Review Commission, and/or City Council. He expressed:

• support for The Gardens at Market Square project, a $95 million office, hotel, and retail development by Millcraft Investments, now under New signage and landscaping welcome construction on Forbes Avenue people to the City of Butler in Butler County, PA. adjacent to Market Square; • support for a City Council bill that would have expanded the Mexican City of Butler Classes are already being offered at the Energy Innovation Center in the former Connelley Trade War Streets Historic District on School in Pittsburgh’s Hill District. The $45 million renovation/construction will be completed Pittsburgh’s North Side (denied); in May 2014. The developers donated an easement to PHLF to protect both the exterior of Streetscape the National Register-listed building in perpetuity and the air space above the building. • support for Point Park University’s plan to reuse and integrate the façades Improvements of three historic Forbes Avenue build- ings in downtown Pittsburgh in its Easement development of a new Pittsburgh PHLF is working in the City of Butler Playhouse; on a variety of projects designed to Donation • support for the Buncher Company’s improve historic downtown buildings plan for the Strip District, including and public spaces. This year we The former Connelley Trade School at allocation of up to $22 million to completed a streetscape project as 1501 Bedford Avenue in the Hill District restore and make much-needed part of the Neighborhood Partnership is being renovated into the Energy improvements (including heating Innovation Center, a Pittsburgh based, and air-conditioning) to the former nonprofit organization with Produce Terminal Building except for a mission “to engage corporate and Construction in progress: a view from the southwestern third of the structure, community leaders, align workforce Bedford Avenue which would be demolished in order development and education, develop to connect the Strip District and add and demonstrate technology, and see PHLF News No. 178, April 2012 an esplanade to the Allegheny River. incubate businesses to support emerging (www.phlf.org/Home/PHLF News). (Even with the southwestern third clean and sustainable energy markets.” Designed by Edward B. Lee, the demolished, the Produce Terminal Energy Innovation Center, L.P., Clifford B. Connelley Trade School would be six blocks long, only one donated an easement to PHLF opened in 1930 and was considered block less than the current seven.); on December 28, 2012, one of the largest and most • support for the designation of thus protecting the exte- modern trade schools of the Fairhaven United Methodist Church rior of the building in time. The Pittsburgh Board in the Overbrook neighborhood of perpetuity and the air of Education closed the Pittsburgh as a City Historic Structure; space above the building. school in 2004. The building • and concern about the impact of An easement is a is listed on the National electronic signage and billboards legal agreement between Register of Historic Places, on the City of Pittsburgh’s historic a property owner and a was awarded a PHLF Decorative benches and street lights were buildings and neighborhoods. qualified organization, Historic Landmark plaque, installed in the summer of 2013. such as PHLF, that and is one of the featured Federal Rehabilitation protects an historic Program (NPP), a state tax-credit sites in PHLF’s guidebook, Historic Tax Credit building from alteration August Wilson: Pittsburgh initiative that offers incentives for Karamagi also traveled to Washington, or destruction and Places in His Life and Plays, businesses to invest in communities. D.C., in July to join a delegation of can bring a developer by Laurence Glasco and representatives from the Preservation The result is five new LED streetlights, benefits through the Christopher Rawson. Alliance of Greater Philadelphia, decorative benches, and landscaping federal tax code. “The transformation of Preservation Pennsylvania, and the improvements, including new street PHLF is responsible the former school into the National Trust for Historic Preservation. trees. All of the contractors utilized for for monitoring the Energy Innovation Center is The delegation helped educate Congress this work were local to the Butler area, historic building in an excellent reuse that will about the benefits and impact of the and the project produced 15 jobs. perpetuity to ensure greatly contribute to the Federal Rehabilitation Historic Tax compliance with the renewal of the Lower Hill,” Together, these improvements make Credit and encouraged its retention as easement agreement, and said PHLF President Arthur local residents feel safer walking to and Congress looks to revise the Tax Code. from the town’s Main Street to dine thus makes a site visit each year Ziegler. “The corporate partners who and maintains records of compliance. and shop. have helped design and equip this center For more information on PHLF’s ease- are to be commended.” Speaking to the impact of PHLF’s ment program that is protecting more work, Butler Mayor Maggie Stock than 35 historic places in six counties, said, “The NPP has provided much needed streetscape improvements that would not have been possible other- wise. We are happy to have these beautification projects for the entire community to enjoy.” Figures representing We are grateful to our NPP corporate various trades are carved partners, Armstrong and Huntington into the entrance of Bank, whose funding helped jumpstart the former Connelley these critical economic development Trade School. The school offered classes projects. PHLF looks forward to in carpentry, plumbing, continuing to improve the quality and automotive repair, of life for Butler residents as the NPP as well as classes in continues in 2014. citizenship and English. For further information, contact David Farkas, PHLF’s director of Main Street programs: [email protected]; 412-471-5808, ext. 516. HISTORICLANDMARKPLAQUESHISTORICRELIGIOUSPROPERTIESMEMBERSHIP&GIVING SPECIALPROJECTS PHLF News December 2013 9

“Extraordinary Work Here in Wilkinsburg”

When Anne Elise Morris e-mailed a copy of the Wilkinsburg Historical Society’s newsletter to Mary Lu Denny, director of membership services at PHLF, on September 10, 2013, she wrote: “Just wanted to let you know how much we appreciate all that PHLF is doing all over Pittsburgh, and the extraordinary work here in Wilkinsburg.” Since 2004, PHLF has partnered with Allegheny County, the Three businesses occupy this handsomely restored building at 1014–18 Fifth Avenue Pennsylvania Housing Finance in Coraopolis, PA. Agency, TriState Capital Bank, and others to improve Wilkinsburg’s Hamnett Place neighborhood, More good news: PHLF has been told County Expands Allegheny a National Register Historic District. that the owner of the Victorian Gothic Seven historic homes have been Singer mansion plans to restore the Together Main Street Program renovated and sold; the Crescent Wilkinsburg landmark of 1869. and Wilson buildings have been renovated to house 27 apartments— to see some of the early Borough Since Allegheny Together’s inception and all are occupied; a former auto coming back the way I remember in 2007, Allegheny County’s Main repair shop has been transformed into it when I first came here in 1952 Street program has been responsible the Landmarks Preservation Resource before being called to military service. for initiating new business development Center (see page 10); a community … I suspect your work has encouraged and façade improvements throughout garden has been created and dedi- and prompted this group [WCDC] the 11 communities that are part of cated as “Piano Place,” and another to undertake their restorations and the program. Under the leadership vacant lot has been landscaped. others planned.” of County Executive Rich Fitzgerald, “PHLF’s investment in Wilkinsburg A new Wilkinsburg tradition the program expanded in 2013 to is a big billboard to the outside world began on September 28, when the include the boroughs of Homestead announcing that the place is safe and WCDC hosted its first inaugural and Aspinwall, along with Bellevue, is a place to be,” said Jason Cohn, House and Garden Tour showcasing Bridgeville, Carnegie, Coraopolis, president of Wilkinsburg Borough ten beautifully maintained properties. Dormont, Elizabeth, Stowe, Tarentum, Council, during an April meeting “There is so much positive energy and Verona. with PHLF trustees at the Landmarks in Wilkinsburg right now,” said As one of the county’s primary Preservation Resource Center. “There’s Michael Sriprasert, president of two consultants, PHLF has been working a growing confidence that Wilkinsburg of PHLF’s subsidiaries—Landmarks with residents, property and business is a viable real estate market. PHLF’s Community Capital Corporation owners, and local elected officials commitment to good architecture and Landmarks Development to spur widespread revitalization of and to good neighborhoods is driving Corporation. “Our work in the central business districts in these economic development and is setting The Laurel Foundation Wilkinsburg is leveraging excellent 11 communities. One recently com- a standard for others,” added Jason. results.” pleted façade renovation in Coraopolis Awards Major Grant In June 2013, the Allegheny returned three key storefronts to their The positive results and broad impact Conference on Community original character. Property owner of the Allegheny Together program Development selected Wilkinsburg I just saw the flyer for the as one of five Western Pennsylvania Al Moschella utilized a matching grant attracted the attention of the Laurel dedication of Piano Place in from Allegheny County to fund the communities to participate in its Foundation, and the foundation awarded Wilkinsburg, and then I saw renovations, and PHLF provided all PHLF a $30,000 grant in July 2013. “Strengthening Communities design and construction management “We are using those funds to augment Partnership.” Tracey Evans, director Ronald’s name as the designer! services. PHLF’s work in each community and of the Wilkinsburg Community It is so inspiring to have had Development Corporation (WCDC), Mr. Moschella said, “The Allegheny to expand physical improvements,” the opportunity to watch Restores grant program and PHLF were said that Wilkinsburg will receive said David Farkas, director of Main Ronald’s presentation at instrumental in helping me renovate my Street programs at PHLF. “We are $3 million over a six-year period, CampDEC in 2011, but even properties. The PHLF team helped me grateful to both the Laurel Foundation thanks to corporate tax credits from develop a good design and was available and Allegheny County for their support TriState Capital Bank, Highmark- more so, to see that his concept throughout the process to ensure the of this important work that is breathing Keystone Health Plan West, and has actually been created. … Dollar Bank. project’s completion. I can’t thank you new life into traditional downtown A big thank you to PHLF enough for the good work you do.” communities throughout the county.“ Wilkinsburg resident Edgar Taylor commented on this good news in a for hosting CampDEC and letter of August 26 to Louise Sturgess, for turning the dreams of PHLF’s executive director: “It is good young students into a reality! The Tin Front Café at 216 East Eighth Avenue in Homestead, with sculpture by David Lewis —Caitlin O’Hara, Architect, October 2, 2012

Editor’s Note: PHLF offered CampDEC (Design Explore Create) in 2010, 2011, and 2012, as part of the Pittsburgh Public Schools’ Summer Dreamers Academy.

“Piano Place,” a commu- nity garden based in part on the design of Pittsburgh Public School student Ronald Butler (pictured above with his mother and sister), was dedicated on October 27, 2012. PHLF’s membership tour on July 19, 2014 (see page 17 ) will include a visit to this urban garden on Jeanette Street. 10 PHLF News December 2013 ADVOCACY COMMUNITY REVITALIZATION EASEMENTS EDUCATION & RESEARCH RURAL PRESERVATION

March 9: Stephen Shelton of Shelton Masonry + Contracting demonstrated how to mix mortar and build a brick wall. The Landmarks Preservation Resource Center is located at 744 Rebecca Avenue in Wilkinsburg. PHLF acquired the former Packard building in 2006 as a result of a planned gift and a grant from The Hillman Foundation. Artist James Shipman, whose workshop occupies half of the building, displays his artwork created from recycled materials outside and inside the building.

Filling a Need: Impressive Results Since the October 2010 opening, PHLF Landmarks I definitely came away has hosted 110 workshops/seminars and community meetings through believing that I could at least partnerships with some 32 different Preservation take a stab at putting organizations and individuals, including something on paper that government agencies, schools, commu- Resource my contractor could nity groups, and community develop- understand. … ment corporations, among others. Workshops have ranged from April 13: A Shelton Masonry I love your organization + Contracting representative Center lectures on urban gardening, organic showed how to build interior and the wonderful impact it is pest control, architectural design, walls. having on our region. residential lighting, hand tool care, “Programming greatly expanded this and neighborhood identity to hands-on year at the Landmarks Preservation —From Carole Patton Smith (July 26, 2013), who attended demonstrations for brick pointing, Resource Center in Wilkinsburg,” said tile and grout, drywall installation, Karamagi Rujumba, a project manager workshops on Architectural Design presented by Dana Monroe, carpentry, interior molding, chimney at PHLF. “Hundreds of people attended sweeping, and even scrapbooking. the free workshops and seminars that an instructor at we were able to offer, thanks to TriState TechShop Pittsburgh Capital Bank’s support of Wilkinsburg’s Neighborhood Partnership Program Thank you in advance (NPP),” he added. A tax-credit initiative of the Pennsylvania Department of for offering this resource Community and Economic Development, to homeowners. the NPP encourages businesses and —From Karen Choudhury corporate sponsors to invest in com- (March 6, 2013), who attended munity development projects. TriState a tax assessment seminar Capital’s sponsorship of the Wilkinsburg NPP for a six-year period, from 2009 given by Greg Biernacki, through 2015, has provided a stable a Pittsburgh tax attorney with base of funding support that has allowed Real Estate Tax Consultants, Inc. April 20: Ian Miller of Artemis PHLF to create an ambitious agenda of educational programs at the Landmarks Environmental presented a You are performing a great workshop on “Green and Preservation Resource Center. The Rebecca Avenue entrance to the Sustainable Building Materials.” thing for the community. National Register-listed Hamnett Place My husband and I neighborhood talk about it all the time. More than 1,200 people have —From Patricia Hughes attended a workshop/seminar or an (February 15, 2013), who attended event at the resource center since its “Is Solar Right for You?,” opening. They have come from as close presented by Ian Smith, as Wilkinsburg and as far away as Ohio. an energy consultant with “The Landmarks Preservation Resource Standard Solar Center is drawing a diverse group of people from Western Pennsylvania to Wilkinsburg,” noted Karamagi, “and when they arrive, they are most impressed with the renewal activity that has occurred—and is occurring—in the Former Packard Building historic preservation, restoration, green Hamnett Place neighborhood.” Transformed building, energy efficiency, and home ownership and financing,” said October 19: Michael Wetmiller PHLF renovated the former Packard PHLF President Arthur Ziegler, “and Programs in 2014 of DIY Pittsburgh demonstrated building as part of its comprehensive that is exactly what has happened.” how to frame and hang drywall. The workshops and events in 2014 and ongoing neighborhood revitaliza- “Since we expanded our program- will be announced in PHLF’s monthly tion program in Wilkinsburg. Initially ming this year to include discussions E-news and will be listed at: named the Landmarks Housing on architectural history, community www.landmarkspreservation.org. Resource Center, PHLF opened the development, and urban planning,” Or, contact Karamagi Rujumba: educational center in October 2010. said Karamagi, “it made sense to [email protected]; 412-471-5808, “We envisioned a space where people rename the building the Landmarks ext. 547. We hope to see you at the would come together to learn about Preservation Resource Center.” Landmarks Preservation Resource Center. HISTORIC LANDMARK PLAQUES HISTORIC RELIGIOUS PROPERTIES MEMBERSHIP&GIVING SPECIALPROJECTS PHLF News December 2013 11

The Gift of a Lifetime Jack Miller

Two individuals and a Closer to home “You don’t have to be rich to couple decided this year is our own Albert make a difference,” said Russ Coe, to make gifts to PHLF Tannler. Al has “just generous. Gift annuities give that would give some- worked at PHLF anyone the opportunity to be thing back to them. for 22 years as his- generous. Seeing the results of my The type of gift is known torical collections gifts has brought much happiness as a gift annuity. director. Like Russ, to me and has connected me with A gift annuity is a Al is single and organizations that are truly improv- tool that gives some- has no immediate ing the lives of people and building thing to you for a life- family. His passion pride in the community.” time; what is left is is his work and he For more information on gift given to PHLF after wanted to leave a annuities, please visit our planned you are gone. It could legacy that would giving website at www.phlf.org be compared to a support that work. or contact [email protected] In Memoriam certificate of deposit, Roseann and George Erny In 2011, he gave or call 412-471-5808 and leave a except that a gift annuity his condominium message for me. Thank you. A steadfast supporter of PHLF and a trustee pays a higher fixed rate of return in an historic Pittsburgh building to from 1988 to 2013, Thomas O. Hornstein because distributions come from PHLF (see PHLF News No. 177, (1927–2013) died on October 18. Tom both principal and income. Because April 2011), but he retained the right Charitable IRA appreciated the enormous social and economic PHLF receives what is left, you are to continue living there until he dies Rollover—A Way impact of PHLF’s work, particularly in the entitled to a federal charitable income or chooses to leave. The eventual neighborhoods, and established a Named Fund tax deduction when the gift is made. proceeds of the sale of that condo- to Give in 2013 at PHLF in 1998 “so he could directly support George and Roseann Erny have minium will create the Albert M. If you are age 70-1⁄2 or older, you our efforts in revitalizing inner-city neighbor- been members of PHLF for more Tannler Preservation Fund at PHLF. may be able to take advantage of a hoods and Wilkinsburg,” said PHLF President than four decades. In April 2013, Because he wanted to do more, Al 2013 tax incentive that allows you Arthur Ziegler. George called to say that he and established his first gift annuity this to support PHLF. Roseann wanted to do something to year, using assets from a taxable “Tom told us that PHLF’s mission to preserve Congress authorized a tax provi- express their appreciation to PHLF retirement plan. sion that allows individuals to make our city’s historic neighborhoods for the people for the years of tours and educa- “There are three great things gifts from their IRA accounts to one who live there corresponded with his life-long tional programs they have enjoyed. about the gift,” said Al. “First, or more charities without incurring interest in helping people live a better life,” said Since they do not need the income I can direct the eventual proceeds income tax on the withdrawal. Louise Sturgess, executive director of PHLF. now, but want access to it later in to support PHLF’s James D. Van This means you can direct up to “Tom’s tradition of giving began when he was a life, the couple decided that a flexible Trump Library; next, I increased my $100,000 as a gift to PHLF with child and attended school in Aliquippa during deferred gift annuity was the right monthly income for life; and finally, no federal income tax liability. giving tool for them. In their case, the Depression. His father gave him enough The Charitable IRA Rollover they received a significant up-front milk money so he could buy one milk for may provide you with an excellent tax deduction that they can use himself and one for another student in need.” opportunity to make a gift during to help offset the tax bite of other your lifetime from an asset that Tom came to appreciate the value of historic income, such as mandatory IRA would be subject to multiple levels preservation through his work as General distributions. At the end of their of taxation if it remained in your Manager of Allegheny Cemetery from 1961 lifetimes, what is left in the annuity estate. To qualify, you must be account will support the programs to 1989 and through his travels to Europe. 70-1⁄2 or older and the gift must be that brought so much joy to the He worked with PHLF in 1980 to establish made from a Traditional IRA and Ernys. the first association in the nation for the come to PHLF outright. Then there’s our good friend purpose of saving and restoring the Cemetery’s For more details, contact Jack Russell W. Coe. Russ, 97 years of historic structures. Over $1,000,000 was raised Miller, PHLF’s development consul- age, never married. About ten years through the nonprofit Allegheny Cemetery tant: [email protected] ago, he questioned his purpose in Albert Tannler in the James D. or 412-471-5808. Historical Association. The Penn Avenue life. Today, some 17 gift annuities Van Trump Library Gateway, Butler Street Entrance buildings, later, he has the income he needs Soldier’s Memorial, and various landscape and has impacted numerous charities the charitable deduction associated features were restored, and an endowment through his personal philanthropy. with the gift offset the taxes that was created for their continuing maintenance. Russ no longer wonders if his life would have been owed with my has a purpose because those served retirement plan withdrawal.” A dignified, thoughtful, and visionary man by charities across Pennsylvania These friends of PHLF are not of strength and energy, Tom believed that are letting him know how he has millionaires. As a matter of fact, they Pittsburgh’s great strengths were its “ethnicity, changed their lives. “For me, it’s a live rather modest lives. But each rivers, and variety in buildings and building way to make a difference,” said found a way to give something back materials.” The blend of people, neighborhoods, to the organization that in some way Russ. “These gift annuities are the and historic and modern buildings made best thing to ever happen to me.” touched his/her life. Pittsburgh unique. Through the Thomas O. Hornstein Named Fund, PHLF will be able to continue accom- plishing the goals Tom set forth during his lifetime of improving the quality of life for other Pittsburghers by renewing the historic neighborhoods in which they live. “Tom recognized that PHLF is a well-managed organization and liked the fact that his gifts leveraged other contributions,” said Louise. “He enjoyed meeting with other donors, seeing the neighborhoods, and meeting with the people who were benefiting from PHLF’s work through A major gift from Russ Coe his gifts. We will keep in touch with Kate, helped create “Piano Place,” Tom’s wife, to continue his record of giving a community garden in in support of specific projects at PHLF.We Wilkinsburg on Jeanette Street. extend our sympathy to his family at this time.” (Also see “Wilkinsburg” story on page 9) 12 PHLF News December 2013 ADVOCACY COMMUNITY REVITALIZATION EASEMENTS EDUCATION & RESEARCH RURAL PRESERVATION

A belief in preservation and an understanding of our rich architectural heritage are at the heart of what we have made happen together in Pittsburgh’s Third Renaissance. True partnerships with organizations like PHLF have transformed underutilized buildings and structures throughout Pittsburgh, once slated for demolition or forgotten, into homes for new residents and job-creating businesses. ––Yarone Zober, Chairman, URA; Chief of Staff to Mayor Luke Ravenstahl, November 26, 2013

LDA has enjoyed working with PHLF and the URA to restore the façades of the Thompson and Kashi buildings. Removal of uninspired retail storefronts and replacement with new terra cotta, The Italian Sons and Daughters of America Building at The three cast-iron façades at 418–22 Wood Street before granite, and glass storefronts which 419 Wood Street before restoration (top) and after restoration restoration (top) and after (above). Landmarks Development complement the historic character of (above). Corporation (LDC) will be acquiring 420 and 422 Wood the buildings was especially satisfying. Street from the URA. LDC plans on renovating the upper floors to house apartments for Point Park University students. The buildings in this downtown area display a remarkable consistency of polished commercial design from the early twentieth century. Ten Downtown Building Façades Being —Ellis Schmidlapp, President LDA Architects, November 25, 2013 Restored Through Unique Partnership

The cast-iron buildings were quite Thanks to a $4,000,000 grant to the City of Pittsburgh “I don’t know of any other preservation group in the a challenge for all involved from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania’s Redevelop- United States,” said PHLF President Arthur Ziegler, from the outset. Without the ment Assistance Capital Program (RACP), the Urban “that has had the opportunity to manage a downtown involvement of PHLF, I’m sure the Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh (URA) hired façade restoration program, funded through a state buildings would have been demolished, PHLF to oversee the restoration of eight downtown grant and under contract and in partnership with the and we would have lost a great piece building façades in 2013: Mayor and the Urban Redevelopment Authority. Harmony between the new and the old—the political • 419 Wood Street (Italian Sons and Daughters of of Golden Triangle history. establishment and the preservation community—is often America Building) —Bill Palmer, Jr., CEO rare in the United States. Yet, it’s happening here in • 418, 420, 422 Wood Street (three cast-iron façades) Repal Construction Co., Inc., Pittsburgh with quality results.” • 445 Wood Street (a rare surviving wood-frame building The Downtown Preservation Project was launched November 22, 2013 now owned by the Kashi family) by Mayor Luke Ravenstahl on August 9, 2012. PHLF • 256 Fifth Avenue (Kashi Jewelers, Fifth Wood Building) oversaw architecture, engineering, exterior lighting, • 254 Fifth Avenue (B&T Salon & Spa) and bidding and construction management work. ... how happy I was to see the article LDA Architects and Repal Construction completed the • Thompson Building (435 Market Street) about the PHLF partnership with restoration of the Italian Sons and Daughters of America the City of Pittsburgh regarding the Since Tom Keffer, PHLF’s property and construction Building. Architect Milton Ogot and Repal Construction manager, brought those eight façade restorations in carried out the work on the cast-iron façades at 418, restoration/preservation of some under budget, the URA was able to add two more 420, and 422 Wood Street. LDA Architects and Waller of the downtown structures. building façades: Corporation completed the façade work on the three ... I’m so impressed with all your great Kashi-owned buildings and on the Thompson Building. • 241 Forbes Avenue (“Skinny” building) work and programming. You and the Each building presented a unique set of challenges, • 429–31 Wood Street (7-Eleven; former John M. PHLF are an inspiration to the and at times work had to be done at night or on the Roberts & Son Building) weekends to ensure pedestrian safety, but the results smaller nonprofits who are working Restoration work will be completed on those façades of all the façade restorations are impressive. hard to save historic structures. in the summer of 2014. Italian Sons and Daughters —Olga Herbert, Lincoln Highway Heritage of America Building Corridor, in a letter of August 13, 2012 to PHLF President Arthur Ziegler Work began in March 2012 on the Italian Sons and Daughters of America (ISDA) Building. Metal paneling was removed, and the original stonework and windows were revealed to the astonishment and joy of many passers- by. New windows were installed in the original openings and the limestone façade was restored, revealing decorative eagles at the top of the pilasters. The building, owned by the ISDA since 1960, was designed by Hunting, Davis & Dunnells of Pittsburgh and was completed in 1930. Since a Stouffer’s Restaurant originally occupied the first-floor space, it is appropriate that the ISDA has signed a lease with Eat’n Park The “Skinny” building, 5 feet 2 inches wide and 80 feet long, Corporation, which plans to open a “Hello Bistro” dates back to c. 1900. George M. Rowland designed the John there in 2014. M. Roberts & Son Building in 1925; it is occupied by 7-Eleven. HISTORICLANDMARKPLAQUESHISTORICRELIGIOUSPROPERTIESMEMBERSHIP&GIVING SPECIALPROJECTS PHLF News December 2013 13

445 Wood Street before (left) and after (below) restoration of the c. 1860 wood façade.

The Fifth Wood Building before façade restoration (top) and Designed in 1907 by Janssen & Abbott, the Thompson after (above), with the wood-frame building to its left and Building was remodeled by J. R. Thompson of B&T Salon & Spa to its right. Chicago, c. 1926. An urban market will open in the Thompson Building in the summer of 2014.

Three Cast-iron Façades photos, the craftsmen were able to replicate the first- Landmarks Development Corporation (LDC), Henry Clay Frick once owned the and second-floors back to their original appearance PHLF’s for-profit development subsidiary, three cast-iron buildings from the and splendor. We also replaced the windows in keeping acquired the Thompson Building in 2008. It is 1880s. “The cast-iron façades with the historical appearance of the building. Repal is adjacent to Market at Fifth, a LEED-Gold mixed- were especially challenging to pleased and honored to have been part of this effort in use development with men’s retail and seven restore since the original façades the Golden Triangle to save these historic buildings. market-rate apartments, developed by Market at Fifth, L.P., a limited partnership of PHLF had been covered with concrete Painted a golden color with trim accents in red, green, in 2009. block, ceramic tile, and plaster,” and brown, the delicately crafted cast-iron façades add During a press conference on September 11, said Tom Keffer. It took 15 beauty and drama to a stately block of historic buildings 2013, LDC, the Pittsburgh Downtown months to complete the work. on Wood Street. Fiberglass facsimiles Bill Palmer, Jr., CEO of Repal Community Development Corporation, were produced by Construction, described the Kashi Family-owned Buildings Ralph Falbo, and the proprietors of Vallozzi’s Architectural Fiberglass, announced that an urban market will open in process: The Fifth Wood Building is now lit at night: a red LED Inc., and were so well the Thompson Building in the summer of 2014. light band crowns its cornice and accent lights enliven integrated into the The URA, PHLF, Architect The store will sell fresh produce, meats, seafood, the façade. New windows were installed during the cast-iron building Milton Ogot, Repal, and other and prepared foods. It will include a coffee bar façade restoration and the stone was cleaned, making façades that it is nearly stakeholders had the vision and and community dining area, and make home much of the original detailing more noticeable. impossible to tell where the ability to save this building deliveries. the original cast-iron is Designed in 1922 by Pittsburgh architect George H. with its three cast-iron façades “This partnership will bring a quality market and where the fiberglass Schwan, the building is ornamented with delicate Art and bring it back to its former back to the Market Square area,” said Michael begins. Nouveau bud forms at the base of the columns above the glory. The cast-iron building Sriprasert, president of LDC, “just as Heinz first floor and with “fasces” (bundles of rods), a Roman involved exposing and cleaning Healey’s Gentlemen’s Apparel and Nettleton emblem of authority, on the upper-floor panels. The the existing cast-iron façade and replacing many of the Shoe Shop in Market at Fifth helped bring Kashi family is considering renovating the upper floors missing or damaged cast-iron members with replicated quality retail back to Fifth Avenue.” fiberglass pieces. By referring to several historical for apartments. Adjacent to the Fifth Wood Building on Wood Street Renewing is a rare-surviving wood-frame façade of c. 1860. “The Downtown original first-growth wood has held up well over time,” It is hard to describe the range of our said Tom Keffer. “The wood was scraped, primed, and “Historic buildings emotions as work progressed on the cast-iron painted. Missing wood was replaced and the dentil in dense historic buildings. Apprehension—will we actually be molding was completely restored.” blocks are what Adjacent to the Fifth Wood Building on Fifth Avenue attract people and able to deliver as promised based on our is B&T Salon & Spa, now located in an attractively commerce to limited experience in working with cast-iron designed façade that follows the original. downtown,” said panels and the condition of the façades? PHLF President Relief—as we watched while stucco and mesh Thompson Building Arthur Ziegler. “By restoring these cladding were removed from one of the In addition to the RACP ten façades in partnership with the Mayor’s façades, revealing only minor damage. funds, a $1,000,000 grant from the Allegheny Office and the URA, we are reviving some Frustration—none of the buildings are the Foundation and a $125,000 handsome buildings and setting a standard for same width and many of the fiberglass panels grant from Allegheny preservation that others will follow. Restoring had to be “cut” to fit. Surprise—as to County’s Community and reusing historic buildings really works. These blocks will be a handsome complement how well the fiberglass panels were able to Infrastructure and Tourism Fund helped support the acquisition and renovation of the Thompson Building. to the PNC Tower replicate the intricate details of the cast-iron Work included cleaning and restoring the terra cotta when it opens in panels. And finally, satisfaction—being part façade; repointing the rear brick façade; anchoring the 2015 and to Point of a team that is able to bring these buildings brick walls to the main structure of the building; Park University’s new Pittsburgh back to their former glory. installing new windows, exterior lighting, an elevator, and stair; and creating a new storefront composed of Playhouse.” ––Milton Ogot, Architect reinforced fiberglass panels replicating the terra cotta November 25, 2013 on the upper stories. 14 PHLF News December 2013 ADVOCACY COMMUNITY REVITALIZATION EASEMENTS EDUCATION & RESEARCH RURAL PRESERVATION

Apartment Renaissance Through its work in downtown Pittsburgh and education impact in Wilkinsburg, PHLF and its subsidiaries are contributing to the apartment renaissance in the region, with seven market-rate apartments in Market at Fifth, and 27 units in the Crescent and Wilson development, serving residents of incomes between 20% and 60% of the area median income. Many other developers are at work transforming former schools or office buildings. For example: • In 2010, A.M. Rodriguez Associates transformed the 1917 South Hills High School, designed by Alden & Harlow, into the South Hills Retirement Residence (123 Ruth Street, Mt. Washington), with 106 apartments for seniors. • Rodriguez is in the midst of converting Prospect School into the Lofts of Mount Washington (161 Prospect Street), with 67 apartments to open in 2014. The historic Miller School Lofts occupies the former Miller School auditorium and gymnasium addition of 1939, designed in the Art Deco building of 1931 style by Marion Markle Steen. On November 8, 2013, Rothschild Doyno Collaborative and Trek Development held an open October 4, 2013: a hard- by Marion Markle house to show off the eight loft apartments that incorporate distinctive features from the former auditorium and gymnasium. hat tour of the Lofts of Steen of James T. Steen CEED is finalizing plans to acquire the vacant Miller School building of 1905, designed by John B. Elliott. This building was Mount Washington & Sons is one of 53 the third school to stand on the Hill District site; Miller Academy opened in 1849 as the first black public school in Pittsburgh. sites featured in PHLF’s new guidebook on twentieth-century architecture (see page 18). Memories from Miller Inspires Developer • South Side High School, designed by Edward Stotz in 1897 and enlarged in 1923, now houses 76 studio apartments and one- and two-bedroom Rufus Idris, executive director of CEED, sent the units. A project of Gregory Development, The CEED,following sent e-mail the following to Michele e-mail Cooper, to executive Residences at South High (930 E. Carson Street) Micheledirector ofCooper, McAuley executive Ministries director on November 5, opened in 2012. of2013. McAuley CEED Ministries is a 501 (c)(3) on November faith-based nonprofit 5,that 2013. provides CEED entrepreneurial is a 501 (c)(3) support faith- to under- basedserved nonprofit small business that provides owners so entre- they can preneurialdevelop, grow, support and to sustain underserved their business and smallhelp transform business owners disadvantaged so they cancommunities. develop,Ms. Cooper grow, forwarded and sustain the their e-mail to PHLF’s businessExecutive and Director help transform Louise Sturgess, disad- since vantagedLouise had communities. partnered with Ms. Ms. Cooper Cooper’s forwardedformer employer, the e-mail Pittsburgh to PHLF’s Mercy, Executiveto offer an Director after-school Louise enrichment Sturgess, sinceprogram Louise at the had former partnered Miller with School Ms. Cooper’sin Pittsburgh’s former Hill employer, District. The e-mail Pittsburghis reprinted Mercy, with permission. to offer an after- school enrichment program at the former Miller School in Pittsburgh’s Michele: As we finalize plans to acquire and transform the abandoned Model unit, Fifth Avenue School Lofts Miller Elementary School to a regional hub for Microenterprise- I see that you were part of the • Fifth Avenue High School, designed by small business, I took some time mentors that contributed essays Edward Stotz in 1894, was converted into today to read the attached to this document, and here you 65 loft apartments by Impakt Development, Inc., document titled Memories from are many years later helping us in 2012. Fifth Avenue School Lofts (1800 Fifth Miller and I cried. revive the Miller School building. Avenue, Uptown) is near Miller School Lofts. The document contains essays As we work to reclaim this school and artwork from students and to establish a microenterprise • Miller School Lofts (top right), developed by Trek mentors sharing over 100 years’ center that will benefit thousands Development Group and opened in November history of this African Centered of people of African descent and 2013, includes eight loft apartments in the Academy and how the school bring economic growth to this 1939 section of the former Miller School at meant so much to them, their distressed neighborhood, we will Miller and Reed streets in the Hill District. families and the Hill District strive to revive its historic African • Walnut on Highland, developed by Walnut (a predominantly black neighbor- culture and values. Students in the Mercy/Miller Capital and located at 121 S. Highland Avenue in hood) before it was closed. This I would like to connect with program were awarded the East Liberty, opened in 2013. Two former office school helped teach them about some of the students and mentors 2003 Preservation Pennsylvania buildings, the Wallace and Highland, now house Africa; helped them connect with for their input about how we can Initiative Award in Education for their heritage, and learn the revive their alma mater together. their successful efforts to designate 127 upper-floor apartments and first-floor retail. history of their forefathers. A lot Any lead as to how to reach their school as a PHLF Historic The Highland Building, commissioned of them worried about what the them? Landmark. The moment of by Henry Clay Frick and designed by D. H. future holds for their alma mater. unveiling the plaque is captured Burnham & Company of Chicago in 1910, is in this photo of June 1, 2002, one of seven survivors of 11 buildings the firm with Esther Bush, president and erected in Pittsburgh between1898 and 1912. Editor’s Note: CEO of the Urban League, and Philip Hallen, then Chair of Students who attended Miller African Centered Academy between 1998 and The building is linked by an attractive, non- PHLF, lifting one of the students. intrusive parking garage to the Wallace Building, 2005 and participated in the after-school enrichment program sponsored by a historic commercial building at the corner of Pittsburgh Mercy Health System, in partnership with PHLF, may contact Highland Avenue and Penn Circle South. Rufus Idris at: [email protected]; 412-450-8070. The Board of Education closed Miller School after the 2005–06 school Editor’s Note: The four buildings listed above in year, and the former McKelvy Elementary School at 2055 Bedford Avenue bold face are individually listed on the National became the new home of the Miller African Centered Academy in 2006. Register of Historic Places. The developers had the opportunity to take advantage of the 20% federal investment tax credit for the “certified rehabilita- tion” of an income-producing property. HISTORICLANDMARKPLAQUESHISTORICRELIGIOUSPROPERTIESMEMBERSHIP&GIVINGSPECIALPROJECTS PHLF News December 2013 15

education impact Connecting and Reconnecting

“The longer I work at PHLF,” said Every year, I’m astounded by Executive Director Louise Sturgess, “the the range of your programs—and more clearly I see the positive impact our gratified by the wonderful work educational programs have on people.” Here are just a few of the many stories you and your team do worth sharing: in communicating what great architecture is all about, be it large-scale buildings and districts or small-scale homes and neighborhoods. The impact of that knowledge played out over the future will clearly be a vital factor in maintaining the vitality of PHLF’s key themes of The Power I am choosing the words dignified Preservation and Restoration and impressive like the Allegheny in generations to come. of Student County Courthouse. I choose —George Dorman, Trustee, dignified because I want to have Point Park University student James Hill in an e-mail of February 13, 2013 pride in myself and I choose holds a photo of himself as a third-grade to PHLF Executive Director Louise Sturgess student in PHLF’s Mercy/Miller program. Art and impressive because I do a lot of activities really well. • James Hill, now a sophomore at Point • Justin Greenawalt, also a former college Words I also want to be like the Park University, reconnected with us in intern, attended graduate school in City-County Building because 2012 and wrote: historic preservation and now works for Franklin West, a family-owned real PHLF has published more than forty I want to be proud, responsible, I love history and am no stranger estate company managing more than books since 2003 featuring the essays, and respectful. I am proud to live to your program. When I was in poetry, and artwork of students and elementary school I was part of the 60 historic properties in the Pittsburgh teachers and the experiences of in Pittsburgh because it is full of Mercy/Miller after-school enrichment area. Justin and docent Bob Jucha co-led Pittsburgh Public School “Summer historical things and friendly people. [see page 14] and was involved in the PHLF’s membership tour of Shadyside Dreamers.” The writing and artwork historic designation of the school. … on August 25, 2013. describes places in Pittsburgh and The thing I liked most on the tour I was one of the last students to • Since PHLF Trustee David Brashear attend Schenley High School in 2008 began the Landmarks Scholarship shows how easily people can connect was the Allegheny County in a meaningful way to the built before it closed. … I remember program in 1999, fifty-two students environment. Each student and Courthouse because of all the making the model of Miller School. who care deeply about the Pittsburgh teacher receives a book, and copies architecture and all the cool, unique, Making things is something I never region have been awarded $4,000 are donated to each school library. different things that were in the really fell out of. I made a model of college scholarships. Several have The books are not available for sale, Courthouse. We saw plaques and Schenley for a project my junior year returned to Pittsburgh to work. although they could be best sellers. and was the official school historian. Architect Steven Albert (Perfido flags and counted forty-eight steps in If you would like to read these books • James helped PHLF with two tours of Weiskopf Wagstaff + Goettel) is involved and be inspired as Rufus Idris has the Grand Staircase. The building the former Schenley High School in in restoration work at Old Economy been, then visit the James D. was robust and I want to be like that, 2012 and welcomed students from Village. James Washabaugh (below), Van Trump Library (see page 21), too. That also is a strong and healthy Pittsburgh Perry High School to Point who graduated from CMU’s School where the books are shelved. word for our city. Pittsburgh is 255 Park University, during a college orienta- Here are two excerpts from tion tour PHLF organized in 2013. of Architecture Pittsburgh Places and Character- years old and goes back to 1758. and served in • Rebecca Schenck, a project development Building Words, by Pittsburgh I am also choosing the word Afghanistan specialist at the Urban Redevelopment West Liberty third-grade students, (construction adaptable like the Fort Pitt Block Authority of Pittsburgh, reconnected published in May 2013: management), is House. I picked adaptable because with PHLF during a walking tour on now working in April 21, 2012. Following the tour she our city changes over time, but it Pittsburgh with sent an e-mail to Louise: keeps well-built, old buildings and Michael Baker. He is adds new ones. I’m changing over The start of my interest in City co-teaching PHLF’s time, too, as I grow older. Planning began years ago when I did 2013 Architectural an architecture and planning extern- Apprenticeship program. Kezia Ellison ship [Architecture Apprenticeship] has created a nonprofit—Educating that you ran through PHLF. It was Teens about HIV/AIDS, Inc.—and Pittsburgh Public School students are dignified, like the Allegheny County clear early on that I was not to be has established its headquarters in Courthouse, as they walk past the Courtyard fountain, showing great restraint. an architect, based upon my attempts Manchester. Todd Wilson, employed at drawing the Alcoa building at one by Trans Associates Engineering of the sessions; however, I decided to Consultants, continues his avocation contribute to city planning through of documenting and championing economic development. Since high the cause of bridge preservation in school, I have gotten a Masters in the Pittsburgh region and nationwide. City and Regional Planning at the Terri White is a development associate University of North Carolina and at the Senator John Heinz History worked at consulting firms in Center. Many other scholarship California and Washington, D.C. … recipients are pursuing rewarding Getting this new position at the URA careers throughout the United States gave me the opportunity to move and return to Pittsburgh from time back to Pittsburgh where my interest to time. started. Thank you. “The scholarship program is all about • Former PHLF college intern William the power of human connections,” Prince is the Trail Town Manager for the said David, “and about building the Progress Fund. He assisted with PHLF’s next generation of support for PHLF. September orientation sessions for the We look forward to bringing all 52 2013–14 Architectural Design Challenge recipients together on June 3, 2014 in Jeannette, PA. for a special Landmarks Scholarship Celebration.” 16 PHLF News December 2013 ADVOCACY COMMUNITY REVITALIZATION EASEMENTS EDUCATION & RESEARCH RURAL PRESERVATION

education impact

Consistently Educational Programs Pre-School Providing • People, Buildings & Pittsburgh • Building Downtown (with blocks Creative and on a map) Elementary Affordable • Building Pride/Building Character EITC program (for Pittsburgh Public Quality Schools) • School & Neighborhood Walking Educational Tours, and Mural-Making • Downtown Dragons Walking Tour • Strip District Stroll Programs: • Transportation Tour • Portable Pittsburgh Artifact Kits Pre-K to 100 • Career Awareness: People Who Work to Improve Our Communities (also appropriate for middle school) This year, and every year for decades, PHLF’s education staff has offered a Middle School core group of educational programs— augmented by new program initiatives • Building Pride/Building Character each year—that help people of all ages EITC program (for Pittsburgh Public explore their school, community, and Schools) city. In the process, participants learn • Going Places: Building Skills and more about the Exploring Architecture Pittsburgh region’s (an after-school enrich- significant history, The PHLF education ment program) architecture, and char- efforts about architecture, • Architectural Design acter and take part in Challenges envisioning its future. preservation, and city • City & Neighborhood PHLF consistently planning strike a chord Walking Tours involves more than with me, particularly the • Kennywood Education 10,000 people each PHLF programs with year in educational Days programs, thanks high school and middle to the dedicated school students. High School volunteer support So beyond fantastic! • Building Pride/Building of 37 docents and You and your team and the Character EITC program funding support from many volunteers are really (for Pittsburgh Public private foundations, Schools) corporations, mem- impacting lives and com- bers, and friends munities, probably more • Architectural Design Challenges (see page 23). “Our than we will ever know! docents donated more • Architectural than 4,000 hours to ––Shaun Yurcaba, Architect, Apprenticeship November 22, 2013 lead and assist with • Urban Survival educational programs Walking Tour in 2013,” said Marie • Green Building Walking Tour Miller, education assistant at PHLF, “and we are very grateful.” • Kennywood Education Days For more information about the • Landmarks Scholarship Program educational programs listed here, College/University • Volunteer Internships • City & Neighborhood Walking Tours

Adults • Downtown’s Best Walking Tour • Free Friday Downtown Walking Tours (May through September, in coopera- tion with VisitPittsburgh) • City Main Streets & More Walking Tours (in cooperation with the URA, usually offered in the Fall) • Special Membership Tours & Events please contact Karen Cahall, PHLF’s education coordinator: [email protected]; • Private Group Tours (Note: one of the 412-471-5808, ext. 537. Many schools participants on our August 28 wheel- and organizations book programs six chair-accessible tour of Market Square months in advance; fees are charged was 100 years old!) unless specific funding support exists. • Teacher Workshops The following photos from 2013 • Lectures & Presentations show many of the programs PHLF offers. And Publications for All • Poetry and Art Books (created by student/teacher participants) • Architectural guidebooks and more (www.phlf.org/Store) HISTORICLANDMARKPLAQUESHISTORICRELIGIOUSPROPERTIESMEMBERSHIP&GIVINGSPECIALPROJECTS PHLF News December 2013 17

education impact 2014 Membership Tours The following tours are in the planning stages. Please contact Mary Lu Denny ([email protected]; 412-471-5808; ext. 527) for further details or to indicate your interest in attending a particular tour. Space on each tour is limited; reservations are accepted on a first-come, first-served basis. I just wanted to thank all of Once each tour is confirmed, event you for a fantastic field trip details will be posted at www.phlf.org and for the beautiful pictures (click on Tours & Events/Calendar of Tours & Events). PHLF members receive we received today. a discounted price on each event. These All of the staff at PHLF did a events are open to the general public, too: fantastic job organizing the the non-member tour fee includes a one- event, leading the event, and year complimentary membership. the background knowledge preparing for the event was at • Behind the Scenes at The Warhol such a deep level, that it really (March 15, 2014) turned into a wonderful • Braddock Carnegie Library and learning opportunity Braddock’s Battlefield History Center not only for our students, (April 5, 2014) but for also the staff involved. • Landmarks Scholarship Celebration We ALL walked away knowing (June 3, 2014) more about the history • Lightner House Open House, Glenshaw of our city. (June 14, 2014) Thank you so much for • Urban Gardens Bus Tour (July 19, 2014) caring for our youngsters and • Millvale Walking Tour including Vanka putting all of this murals (July 26, 2014) together. And a just as big • Cul-de-sacs of Shadyside Walking Tour: Thank You to ALL of the A Semi-Private World: (September 20, businesses that continuously 2014) support your effort • Modernism Bus Tour in cooperation in educating our youth with with DOCOMOMO (October 11, 2014) programs such as this • Bus Tour to Eden Hall Campus, one. Without them, this Chatham University (October 25, 2014) program could not continue. —Janet Zak, Teacher 2014 Scholarship Pittsburgh Minadeo, May 14, 2013 Deadline College-bound high school students who live in Allegheny County, have a 3.25 grade point average or above, and care deeply about the Pittsburgh region are invited to apply to the Landmarks Scholarship program. The application deadline is Friday, April 25. Visit www.phlf.org to download an application or call: 412-471-5808, ext. 526 and Marie Miller will mail one to you. 2013 Stats: Education More than 11,500 people were involved in PHLF’s educational programs in 2013. Trustees, staff, and docents presented 19 lectures, 49 private group tours, 81 walking tours and special events for our members and the general public, 95 school tours (for grades 2–12), and 3 professional development classes or tours for teachers. In addition, 15 schools borrowed PHLF’s Portable Pittsburgh Artifact Kits to use in their classrooms. Plus, PHLF published a new guide- book (see page 18); hosted architectural design challenges and an Architectural Apprenticeship; presented 5 career awareness sessions; participated in 9 major conferences and community events, including the Preservation Pennsylvania Statewide Heritage Partnership Conference, City of Pittsburgh CityFit Wellness Fairs, and Remaking Cities Congress; and awarded $4,000

Photo by Frances Tish, PHLF intern scholarships to 4 more college-bound 2013 scholarship winners (from left): Cody students, thus bringing the total number Piper, Christopher Besser, and Anna Vitti, of students in our Landmarks Scholarship with Scholarship Chairman David Brashear. program to 52, since the program’s Jacalynn Sharp, not pictured, is also a 2013 inception in 1999. recipient. 18 PHLF News December 2013 ADVOCACY COMMUNITY REVITALIZATION EASEMENTS EDUCATION & RESEARCH RURAL PRESERVATION

Twentieth-Century Architecture Guidebook Published The Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation released Pittsburgh Architecture in the Twentieth Century: Notable Modern Buildings and Their Architects, by Albert M. Tannler, during an Author’s Reception at the Carnegie Museum of Art on Thursday, December 19, from 6:00–8:00 p.m. The free event was co-sponsored in cooperation with the Heinz Architectural Center. This is the first guidebook devoted solely to twentieth-century buildings in metropolitan Pittsburgh—and the fifth in a series of handsomely illustrated PHLF guidebooks. Following an essay describing how modern architecture Three of Secessionist architect Titus de Bobula’s earliest Pittsburgh buildings were these churches of 1903-04. The only surviving image of came to Holy Ghost Greek Catholic Church in Allegheny City (top left) shows a stark building devoid of any ornamentation––a cubic base supports Pittsburgh, a round tower framed by four bullet-shaped columns. St. John the Baptist Greek Catholic Church and Rectory in Munhall (above left) is a approximately dramatic conversation between the new and the old, manifested in the mingling of materials––buff brick, smooth and rough-cut sandstone, 80 places in Pittsburgh and and stucco––angled buttresses, and geometric cruciform patterns that mount the two spectacular towers, linked, however, by a classical Allegheny County are featured. colonnade. St. Nicholas Greek Catholic Church in Duquesne (above right) was the most sophisticated design; it was modern in its barrel roof, The 294-page book includes geometrically ornamented semicircular porch, and slender tower topped by an Austro-Hungarian ceremonial dome and orb supporting a cross. A smaller variant decorates four corners of the roof. Only St. John’s remains; it is now the National Carpatho-Rusyn Cultural Center. extensive notes and a bibliography, and is illustrated with 321 images (281 color, 40 b/w). “This region is full of surprises and quality design,” said Al. Austro-Germanic Secessionism and “This has been a fascinating story to research. Our notable twentieth- century landmarks include the the Shaping of Early Modern Architecture nation’s first modern subdivision, the first Wrightian Usonian in Pittsburgh Albert M. Tannler house in Pennsylvania, the largest and grandest of the nine houses designed by Walter Gropius and Our guidebook on twentieth-century Titus de Nouveau and to explore the aesthetic Marcel Breuer, the world’s first architecture in Pittsburgh asks Bobula possibilities of geometric form. We can see this development in the three impres- aluminum-clad skyscraper, the basic questions: How was modern In 1903, Austro- sive churches designed in 1903–04 that world’s first modern garden plaza architecture defined during the Hungarian architect were among de Bobula’s first buildings designed over a parking garage twentieth century? How did modern Titus de Bobula in metropolitan Pittsburgh: Holy Ghost with retail space, and the nation’s architecture come to Pittsburgh? (1878–1961) arrived Greek Catholic Church, Allegheny first publicly sponsored and In the early 1900s, those seeking to in Pittsburgh. His (North Side), dedicated August 1903; privately financed urban develop- father and brother St. John the Baptist Greek Catholic define “new” and “unprecedented” ment project.” were architects in Church and Rectory, Munhall, The Sports & Exhibition architecture used various descriptive terms. Budapest, Hungary, and dedicated December 27, 1903; and Authority of Pittsburgh and Thirty years would pass before “modern” de Bobula had studied architecture St. Nicholas Greek Catholic Church, Allegheny County, The Fine became the label of choice in the United States. at the Budapest Technological Duquesne, plans completed May 1904. Foundation, and more than What did the first new and unprecedented University. De Bobula’s 1900 design for a commercial, office, 100 PHLF members and friends St. Louis World’s Fair buildings in Pittsburgh look like? Who designed and apartment building had contributed to the book. Their them? Writing the guidebook presented the been published in a leading On April 30, 1904, shortly before financial support helped offset opportunity to reassess Pittsburgh architecture Viennese architecture magazine, de Bobula finalized his plans for photography, design, and printing St. Nicholas, the Louisiana Purchase during the early years of the twentieth century Der Architekt. The style of the costs, and ensures that the book building was Jugendstil (youthful Exposition opened in St. Louis, Missouri. and ask again: What do we see and who can be affordably priced and style), combining the stylized Two outstanding attractions of the donated to a selection of libraries designed it? Parts of the story have been and exaggerated curvilinear St. Louis World’s Fair were the com- and educational organizations. told before, but further research has deepened plant forms adapted from plementary exhibitions of fine art, decorative art, and architecture from PHLF members may purchase our understanding of the significance of Art Nouveau (new art), which Germany and the Austro-Hungarian the book at a special introductory originated in the early 1890s in what we have. In my opinion, the story is more empire (comprising what is today price ($14.00) through December Belgium, with a design proclivity interesting—even unexpected—than one in Austria and Germany to Austria, Hungary, Slovakia, the Czech 31, 2013. To order an autographed might imagine. straighten the curves of Art Republic, Slovenia, and parts of copy, contact [email protected]; Poland). These displays provided the 412-471-5808, ext. 527. HISTORICLANDMARKPLAQUESHISTORICRELIGIOUSPROPERTIESMEMBERSHIP&GIVINGSPECIALPROJECTS PHLF News December 2013 19

Austrian Pavilion (above), Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, 1904. Exhibition Hall (right), German Exhibition, Palace of Various Industries, St. Louis, 1904.

first American exposure to three-dimen- to forms, coloring and the way in sional, polychromatic Austro-Germanic which the furniture adapts itself to design. Hitherto, most Americans had the rooms. Furthermore the way in to be content with black-and-white, which the material is made use of, the desire of German artists to address Pittsburgh two-dimensional illustrations in insures new and original effects. “new problems in arts and crafts and in European and British design magazines. Architectural Club The German exhibition included architecture … which spurred the artist Architect Irving Pond from Chicago Exhibition 1905 59 galleries. The general layout of the to new solutions. It was a time of wrote in “The German Exhibit of Arts exhibition and the exhibition hall were fermentation in art which was called The Third Exhibition sponsored by the and Crafts,” Architectural Record designed by Bruno Möhring of Berlin. by the public ‘Secession’.” Pittsburgh Architectural Club (formed (February 1905), published shortly after Leo Nachtlicht designed the reception Initially, “Secession” was not a style, in 1896, the club had held exhibitions the fair closed on December 1, 1904: room. Some rooms on display were but an action. It commemorates the in 1900 and 1903), was held from “illustrations in black and white give designed by prominent architects: Peter withdrawal of artists, designers, and May 22 through June 3, 1905, in the merely a presentation of the forms and Behrens, Hermann architects from the official art exhibition Carnegie Art Gallery. The Carnegie Art nothing of the charm Billing, Wilhelm Kreis, societies in Munich (1892), Vienna Gallery was located in the Carnegie and spirit of the work Max Läuger, Bernhard (1897), Berlin (1898), and elsewhere. Library and Institute of 1895, which of design and colors.” Pankok, Bruno Paul, and The Vienna Secession stated its purpose combined a library, art gallery, natural The Austrian Pavilion, Remarkably, Richard Riemerschmid. in the first issue of Ver Sacrum (Sacred history museum, and music hall, all in designed by Ludwig Most acclaimed was Spring) magazine in January 1898: one building in Oakland. Baumann, was des- the Secessionist Joseph Maria Olbrich’s “Now every age has its own sensitivity. The 1905 Exhibition brought together cribed in an English- design of six rooms and It is our aim to awaken, to encourage Pittsburgh’s three Secessionist architects: language pamphlet design exhibited the fountain court of and to disseminate the art sensitivity Titus de Bobula, Frederick G. Scheibler, prepared for visitors: a 12-room “Summer OF OUR AGE.” Although the Jr., and Richard Kiehnel. De Bobula “The style of architec- in St. Louis House for an Art Lover.” Descriptive Catalogue to the German exhibited designs for 12 buildings, ture and decoration is in 1904 … Illustrated articles exhibit identified J. M. Olbrich’s resi- seven in metropolitan Pittsburgh. modern. … The exte- on the Austrian and/or dence as Darmstadt, Germany—he Pittsburgh architect John T. Comes rior of the building is had appeared in German exhibitions moved there in 1899 at the request of reviewed the exhibition in House & faced with a grayish appeared in architec- Grand Duke Ernest Ludwig to design an Garden (August 1905) noting: yellow coloured gyp- Pittsburgh ture and design maga- artists colony—he was Austro-Hungarian; sum shaded with Pittsburgh has among its architects zines. Visitors included he had trained in Vienna, was a found- gold, dark blue and in 1903. one who is devoted to the propaga- Gustav Stickley, ing member of the Vienna Secession, green.” The interior tion … of the Secessionist style, as it publisher of The and had designed the Secession Building was divided into 15 is known in Vienna. Titus de Bobula Craftsman; architect in 1897 where the organization held rooms. Jo˘ze Plec˘nik has outgrown the traditions and Charles Sumner Greene from Pasadena; its annual exhibitions. designed the reception room and styles of former periods and is Chicago architects George Maher, Irving Remarkably, the Secessionist design Leopold Bauer, the library. Three industriously endeavoring to develop Pond, Robert Spencer, and Frank Lloyd exhibited in St. Louis in 1904—historian galleries were devoted to industry a new style which he thinks is more Wright and members of his studio— Iain Whyte noted that the sinuous and seven to fine and decorative art. American and reasonable than the Walter Burley Griffin, Barry Byrne, forms of Art Nouveau had been largely Exhibitors included students from the copying of historic styles. Charles E. White, Jr., and Richard Bock. replaced by “the dots, circles, and Schools for Arts and Crafts of Vienna Wright scholar Paul Kruty, in Frank checkerboard patterns that became the Also noteworthy were the first designs and Prague, Bohemian (Czech) artists, Lloyd Wright and Midway Gardens dominant motif of the Secession … after exhibited by Frederick G. Scheibler, Jr. Polish artists, and members of Viennese (1998), stated that “Wright was greatly 1901”—had appeared in Pittsburgh (1872–1958), whose paternal grand- artists associations who exhibited affected by what he saw in St. Louis.” in 1903. father had come to Pittsburgh from paintings, sculpture, graphics, etchings, The fair was Wright’s “first direct Düsseldorf, Germany. One of Scheibler’s and publications, as well as “art-handi- encounter with modern German and entries was “Apartment building, craft work.” The interior color scheme Austrian architectural sculpture,” ‘Old Heidelberg,’ Braddock Avenue, of the Austrian pavilion, overseen by Kruty noted, and influenced Wright’s Joseph Urban, received a special gold design of sculpture in the Dana House medal “for the best, most complete and The façade of Frederick Scheibler’s Old Heidelberg displays (Springfield, Illinois), and in the Larkin most attractive … installation.” fanciful details––panels depicting mushrooms––and decorative Building (Buffalo): “These two designs The German pavilion was a copy of elements characteristic of Secessionist design: wave trim and are … the first indications of Wright’s the seventeenth-century Charlottenburg panels of two-dimensional cubes. American Architect and attraction to the European Secessionists.” Palace in Berlin and it and its contents Building News 91:1619 (January 5, 1907). Jean Hamilton, in her House Beautiful reflected the neo-baroque tastes of Kaiser article, “German Interiors, as Seen at Wilhelm II. The German exhibition in the St. Louis Fair” (November 1904), the Palace of Various Industries was observed: very different. German architect Leo Nachtlicht noted, in his Descriptive Our knowledge of German interior Catalogue of the German Arts and decorating has been derived largely Crafts published for English-speaking from foreign periodicals, depicting visitors to the fair, that: the extreme art nouveau. Up to the present time, the simpler phase The interiors in the Varied Industries of the movement has been almost Building are the works of prominent unknown in this country. modern German architects, some of whom have long been known outside What was this “simpler phase”? Leo of Germany. … These interiors are Nachtlicht’s Descriptive Catalogue the products of new ideas with regard provided the answer when he noted 20 PHLF News December 2013 ADVOCACY COMMUNITY REVITALIZATION EASEMENTS EDUCATION & RESEARCH RURAL PRESERVATION

Pittsburgh, Pa,” a 1905 design indebted Richard Kiehnel’s Greenfield School (design 1916; built 1922–23) is his last and arguably his to contemporary Austrian architecture, finest Secessionist building in Pittsburgh. Terra cotta geometric cubes encircle the building; in particular to the work of J. M. the pattern is sometimes repeated, sometimes broken apart to form pendants. The Greenfield Olbrich, which Scheibler had seen doorway (left) rises halfway up the center of the building. Two stone piers support a beam illustrated in architectural publica- bearing the school’s name; the piers “ripple,” or undulate, and were inspired by Hermann tions. Indeed, a photograph of Billing’s Door to the Great Hall in the Mannheim Museum (1905–07) in Mannheim, and brief commentary on Old Germany. Heidelberg was published in 1908 in an article on American 1904 and 1912. The Western Architect Neglect and Recovery apartment buildings in Der (January 1908) called the exhibition World War I, the rise of the Third Reich, Architekt. (Scheibler later exhib- “one of the most important ever held World War II, and what Robert Venturi ited in 1910–12 and 1914.) in the United States.” called “orthodox Modern architecture” Richard Kiehnel (1870–1944), from the late 1920s until the 1960s who was born and reared in Visiting Exhibition of and its rejection of architectural orna- Breslau, Germany, where he ment all delayed the reappraisal of studied architecture, arrived in German and Austrian early twentieth-century Austrian and Pittsburgh in 1905 via Chicago and Architecture and German architecture. Cleveland. His exhibition entries in Andrew Noble Prentice, and Edgar In the interim, Joseph Urban, who 1905, however, were conventional Design 1913 Wood), one Dutch architect (H. P. had been awarded a gold medal at Colonial Revival and American In January and February 1913, the Berlage), and one Finnish architect St. Louis, designed a banquet room in Renaissance designs; Kiehnel’s Carnegie Institute hosted an exhibition (Eliel Saarinen). The work of two the Grant Street addition to Pittsburgh’s secessionism was initially dormant. of Kunstgewerbe (Applied Art; also decorative artists from Austria-Hungary William Penn Hotel in 1929; the room, translated as Arts and Crafts) from and of 21 architects and decorative now in need of restoration but largely the German Museum for Art in Trade artists from Germany was exhibited, intact, is the only survivor of the numer- and Commerce in Hagen, Germany, Pittsburgh including the work of Bruno Möhring ous banquet rooms Urban designed. in association with the Austrian and Wilhelm Kreis. (Both Möhring Forty-seven years after the 1913 Architectural Museum of Art and Industry in Vienna. and Kreis had exhibited in St. Louis.) German/Austrian exhibition, Art Exhibition 1907 The catalogue (in English) defined the Chicago’s leading “progressive” Nouveau: Art and Design at the Turn scope of the exhibition as “Work of The 1907 Fourth Annual Architectural architects––including Frank Lloyd of the Century, organized by the modern German artists in Architecture, Exhibition––the largest ever held in Wright––exhibited. Museum of Modern Art, New York, Drawing and Applied Design.” The the United States––opened in the newly Richard Kiehnel, who had formed traveled to the Carnegie Institute, from catalogue included a foreword, “The expanded Carnegie Library and Institute the partnership of Kiehnel & Elliott October 13 to December 12, 1960, and Modern Movement in German Art and in November. Andrew Carnegie had with John B. Elliott in 1906, was the then to Los Angeles and Baltimore. Art Industry,” and an essay, “Notes on provided additional funds to enlarge the chairman of the 1907 exhibition Today, this exhibit would be faulted for the New German Architecture,” by 1892–95 building along Forbes Avenue, committee. If the St. Louis World’s Fair considering British Arts & Crafts and Karl Ernst Osthaus, director of the and it tripled in size and was dedicated proved revelatory for Frank Lloyd Austro-Germanic Secessionism (ten German Museum in Hagen. The work on April 11, 1907. The exhibition was Wright, the 1907 Pittsburgh exhibition Secessionist artists/architects were of four decorative artists and 27 archi- sponsored by the Pittsburgh Architectural artistically energized Kiehnel—who included) as subsets of Art Nouveau. tects was included in the Architecture Club and the Pittsburgh Chapter of the had played a substantial role in deter- Contributor Henry-Russell Hitchcock section; several had exhibited in American Institute of Architects. Eighty- mining its content. The display of the noted at the time: “The situation is St. Louis. One—Fritz Schumacher— eight thousand visitors saw some 1,500 contemporary work of his former fellow rather different and also more complex had 14 designs on display in Pittsburgh entries from Great Britain, Europe, and countrymen liberated him artistically, regarding Germany and Austria” but in 1907. Three architects—including America. The final two galleries were and between 1908 and 1916 he justifies their inclusion since some J. M. Olbrich—were deceased. A new- devoted to the “Modern Movement.” designed distinctive Secessionist Austrian and German architects began comer was Walter Gropius of Berlin There, visitors could see the work of buildings in metropolitan Pittsburgh. their careers as graphic artists during who exhibited “A Gentleman’s Sitting six British architects (C. R. Ashbee, Ten of these 13 documented buildings the early Jugendstil period. He noted Room.” The exhibition also traveled Charles Rennie Mackintosh and his wife were exhibited in Pittsburgh in 1910, correctly, however, that “as architects to museums in Newark, St. Louis, Margaret MacDonald, G. M. Ellwood, 1911, 1913, 1914, and 1916. they belong rather to the next phase Chicago, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, The 1907 Pittsburgh architectural of the history of modern architecture” and New York, from April 1912 to exhibition included the largest display [i.e., Secessionism]. of contemporary Austro-Germanic April 1913. design in the United States between

Frontispiece (left), Fourth Exhibition 1907, sponsored by the Pittsburgh Architectural Club in association with the Pittsburgh Chapter, AIA. Three early Pittsburgh architectural exhibitions of contemporary design––1898, 1900, and 1905––were held in the Carnegie Art Gallery in the Carnegie Library and Institute (Longfellow, Alden & Harlow, 1892–95). The building was enlarged in 1903–07 by Alden & Harlow, and the 1907 architectural exhibition was held in the new Carnegie Art Museum. At the center of this photograph (below) is the Music Hall at the corner of Forbes Avenue and Schenley Plaza in Oakland; to the left are the art and natural history museums; and to the far right is the library. Today, the music library of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh occupies the original Carnegie Art Gallery space. Photo courtesy Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh

The 1907 Fourth Annual Architectural Exhibition … was the largest such exhibition hitherto mounted in the United States: 88,000 visitors saw some 1,500 entries from Great Britain, Europe, and America. HISTORICLANDMARKPLAQUESHISTORICRELIGIOUSPROPERTIESMEMBERSHIP&GIVINGSPECIALPROJECTS PHLF News December 2013 21

Two Libraries to Visit at The Landmarks Building

Frank B. Fairbanks Rail Transportation Archive

PHLF’s office on the fourth floor of The Landmarks Building at Station Square includes two libraries: the Frank B. Fairbanks Rail Transportation Archive and the James D. Van Trump Library. The Fairbanks Archive is open by appointment on Wednesdays, from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Rail enthusiasts and transportation scholars will find hundreds of timetables, railroad publica- tions, maps, postcards, slides, posters, and even a selection of dining car place- mats, among many other materials. Use of the archive is free to members; Detail, doorknob assembly non-members are assessed a $10.00 Mr. W. H. (Bill) Terle, per person use fee. formerly of Glenshaw and The collection, representing Mr. now a resident of Corning, Fairbanks’ passion for documenting California, donated the and collecting materials from rail lines antique doorknob that all over the world, includes many rare he acquired from a fellow artifacts, such as railroad lanterns and employee when he worked lamps, an original brass doorknob and for the B&O Railroad. The doorknob is from lock assembly from the Pennsylvania the former Pennsylvania Union Station of 1901 (now The Railroad artifacts (above, from left): a Dietz Monarch railroad Union Station in downtown lantern from 1900–1910; an Embury #350 Little Supreme Pennsylvanian), and three brass “switch Pittsburgh. Bill began with oil lantern, with a rare imprint “PDH” (Pennsylvania lock keys” that were used to change the the B&O Railroad in 1954 Department of Highways) on the reverse side of the direction of rail tracks. as a “gandy dancer,” laying filling cap; switch lock keys; an antique doorknob Many other materials from the and maintaining railroad assembly; a flagman’s lantern with the Pennsylvania Fairbanks Archive are featured on our tracks, and worked his way Railroad logo; and a Dressel lamp with four lenses. Railroad workers website (www.phlf.org) in a series of up as a fireman. In 1964, held lanterns at night to signal “stop” or “apply brakes,” for example. articles titled “A New Train of Thought.” he was promoted to engi- Lamps were mounted on posts and were used both day and night. If you have a story about the railroad to neer. He retired in 1984. share, please e-mail it to Judith Harvey, Switch lock keys (above right): One key is imprinted with the P&LE (Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Fairbanks librarian: fairbanksarchive Railroad) logo; the other two are inscribed with the word “Portugal.” @phlf.org.

“Walter and Jamie’s collections of correspondence and writings are wonderful resources to review,” said PHLF Executive Director Louise Thank You Sturgess. Walter’s thoughts on the Corporate Benefactors restoration of buildings (Box 1, Folder 154; 1958–59) is a case in point. AHRCO He both clarifies levels of distinction in regard to restoring buildings and Covington Investment Advisors, Inc. inspires us in our work. He discusses Ellwood Group, Inc. the restoration of an irreplaceable Fifth Third Bank monument, without which the “world or national culture would suffer amputa- Graham Realty Company tion”; of a gem, “which the intelligent Huntington Bank man will treasure” (Richardson’s Just Ducky Tours/Molly’s Trolleys Allegheny County Courthouse, for example); and of characteristic building, Omni William Penn Hotel which gives each community its Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership “identity and character.” All worthy Renaissance Pittsburgh Hotel of restoration. TriState Capital Bank Recent Acquisitions Volunteer Dave Borland is also an James D. Van Trump through volunteer or financial help, may author and we thank him for donating contact Al Tannler, PHLF’s historical a copy of his 2012 Pittsburgh novel, Library collections director: [email protected]; In A Moment’s Time, to the library. 412-471-5808. Other recent acquisitions include The winter months in Pittsburgh are a Allegheny City: A History of Pittsburgh’s good time to visit either the Frank B. Archival Accomplishments North Side, by Dan Rooney and Carol Fairbanks Rail Transportation Archive Much of the daily work of the library Peterson; A Pittsburgh Poem, by Duane or the James D. Van Trump (JVT) is accomplished by volunteers, under Michals, and Pittsburgh’s Mansions, Library, named for PHLF’s co-founder. the direction of Al Tannler. This year, by Melanie Linn Gutowski. The JVT Library contains a significant volunteer Dave Borland began the In the course of researching and collection of books, manuscripts, period- process of converting profiles on writing his guidebook on twentieth- icals, historic site survey data, maps, regional architects, researched and century architecture (see page 18), and plat books, among other resources, written by Al, into a searchable database. Al Tannler acquired and donated major primarily documenting regional history, James Halttunen, a graduate student in books to the library on Mies van der architecture, historic preservation, engi- Duquesne University’s Archives, Editing, Rohe, Edward Larrabee Barnes, Frank neering, and landscape design. and Museums program, completed Lloyd Wright, and Skidmore, Owings & The library is open by appointment, archiving the valuable collections of Merrill. He also donated the first major Monday through Friday, from 9:00 a.m. correspondence and articles written by biography of architectural historian to 5:00 p.m. Use of the library is free to James D.Van Trump (1908–1995) and Mariana Van Rensselaer, best known as members; non-members are assessed a Walter C. Kidney (1932–2005), both the biographer of H. H. Richardson. $10.00 per person use fee. Members who architectural historians at PHLF. wish to visit or support the JVT Library 22 PHLF News December 2013 ADVOCACY COMMUNITY REVITALIZATION EASEMENTS EDUCATION & RESEARCH RURAL PRESERVATION

Welcome New Members (February 1, 2012 – September 12, 2013)

Members are vital to the work and growth of PHLF. Many members volunteer their time to help with educational programs, office work, and preservation projects. By joining, each person demonstrates his/her belief in our mission. We thank you.

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James McKay Armstrong Pittsburgh history and can still be Connie Hamilton and family Betsy M. Ranick Fifth Third Bank Aspinwall Presbyterian David Reckless Graham Realty Company a part of the community there Church Hampton Middle School Rainey and Emory Redd Huntington Bank by being a member of … PHLF. … Lee Ann Banycky Jody Handley and David Cowey Sue and Hesh Reinfeld Just Ducky Tours/Molly’s Jean Barker ––Cathy Isles, July 3, 2013 Jake Haulk Rev. John C. Reynolds Trolleys Gina Barrett and family Betty Havryluk John Robinson Omni William Penn Hotel Luann Barron Paulette and Wes Hemmings Rochester Area School District Pittsburgh Downtown Kay Barry I’m only one of thousands and Charles A. Hibler, DDS Rodef Shalom Congregation Partnership Linda and Michael Barsevich thousands of people who realize that Michael Hogel Jamie Rossi Renaissance Pittsburgh Hotel Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Battle Shari and Scott Holland Patricia Rossi TriState Capital Bank the work … PHLF does not only Lynn Bayer Kenneth Holmes Saint Paul of the Cross Patrons saves buildings, but keeps Pittsburgh Mr. & Mrs. Peter Beck Holy Spirit Parish Monastery Greater Pittsburgh Chamber alive, even for those who no longer Linda and Richard Becker George Hoover Saint Peter Parish of Commerce live there. Dennis R. Bell and Jack Samuels Matthews International David McMunn Beverly and George Hritz Rebecca Schenck VisitPittsburgh —Ray Pendro, December 25, 2012 Dr. Michael W. Best Zachary Hyman Nancy Schmidt Partners Beulah United Presbyterian Catherine I. Isles Church Liz Ivey and family Keith Scoot Schoenfeld ALCO Parking Corporation I just renewed! Thanks to … all Mark Bier Ralston Jackson Judy and Tony Schryer Avanti Construction, Inc. Lori and Eric Schultz in the PHLF organization Susan Bonello anu jain and John Stoner Bognar and Company, Inc. Darlene and Doug Schwab The Buncher Company for their invaluable (but highly Bower Hill Community Jefferson United Presbyterian Church Church Adam Sellers The Burrell Group, Inc. valued) efforts. This is the only Anna Brewer Linda Johnson Jerry Serzega Chatham University organization of which I am a Nathan Brindle Dr. Judy Johnston Loretta and Chuck Shane Chatham Village Homes, Inc. member that, I feel without Haley Bristor Dorothy A. Joseph Jill Sheer Crossgates, Inc. hesitation, puts its money Mary Ann Brown Patricia Joseph Mickey Simmons and family Duquesne Heights Incline where its mouth is! Mary S. Brown-Ames United Jane Kaminski Albert Siriano E Properties Development, Inc. Methodist Church Janice and Richard Kaufman Sixth Presbyterian Church ESB Bank —Miguel Rocksburg, December 12, 2012 BSA Pack 195 Justin B. Kaufman and Sally Smiley Fast Signs Paige Cornman Darla Cairns Richard L. Sorce Ferry Electric Company Susan Keim Donna Carlson Dennis Stefan Frank P. Hess & I’m pleased to say that I’m now Laurie Carroll Joyce and Larry Kemp Rae Stiening Company, Inc. a member of PHLF! Kathryn J. Canfield William Kenyon III Ruth E. Stiltz Hall Industries, Inc. Reading through all the Larry Chan Melissa and John Kirsch Monica Stoch and Rod Cessna Heinz Healey’s and family newsletters really made me Lenny S. Chan Kathleen and Ernie Stuckler Highmark Blue Cross Mr. & Mrs. Jack Kleman Marilyn Charters William Swazuk Blue Shield APPRECIATE the work Douglas G. Lee Jane Chuck Vivian C. Sweeney Hilbish McGee Lighting you’ve been doing for decades. Jana and Bill Lyons Design Lane Cigna Brian Taylor I’m pleased to support the PHLF! 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Paul Matarrese Merging Media Gina Marie DeAngelo Loretta Veselicky I learned that front porches Chris McAneny and Carolyn Vivaldi Michael Baker Corporation Courtney Dennis Melissa Jackson should remain on houses and Gerry Vorndran Migliozzi Printing Services Cathy and Jack Dernorsek Sylvia McCoy noticed the shoddy results when Erik Wagner More Than Words Fine Robin and John Dolan McKeesport Presbyterian Papers, LLC June Waldman they did not. The years go by Thomas Donohoe Church PNC Bank Danielle M. Waller more quickly each decade, Dave Down Karen and Terry Melis Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Deb and Jeff Walters but, thanks to PHLF, beautiful Teresa Duff Grace Meloy Pittsburgh Transportation architecture is appreciated and Lisa Dugas von Steinmetz Mount Pleasant Presbyterian Joseph E. Walters, Jr. Group Church Robert H. Warner and maintained here. Thank you for Kezia Ellison Real Estate Karen and Thomas Mowka Pamela M. Lynch Enterprises.com, Inc. many years of learning about and Ty Ely and family Environmental Charter School Lyndee Nelms and South Side Chamber of enjoying our #1 city. Jeffrey D. Sabri Washington Elementary Commerce Donna and Rick Erisman School of Penn Hills New Monuments Golf Club Sterling Contracting, LLC ––Shirley Tucker, July 31, 2012 Fairhaven United Methodist Waynesburg University Church Nonprofit Development Urban Design Associates Corporation Justin Weigle and Patricia and John Farkas Christine Greci Associates Paulo Nzambi and family West Overton Village For Wood Group The work of PHLF is relentlessly Annette Obuchowski Jeb Feldman Pat, Steve, and Green Building Alliance impressive, and I love seeing Thomas R. O’Connor Jean Ferrante and family Christopher Wheeler Jefferson & Lee Appraisals Pittsburgh’s history everywhere I go. Tammy and Mark Fischer Samuel Ovenshine R. Blaine White ––Murphi Cook, June 22, 2012 David Forbes Sheila Parfitt Terri White Lucy Fortino and Don Killen Donald W. Paul and family HISTORIC LANDMARK PLAQUES HISTORIC RELIGIOUS PROPERTIES MEMBERSHIP&GIVING SPECIALPROJECTS PHLF News December 2013 23

Thank You for Contributing (February 1, 2012 – September 12, 2013) Your gifts support historic preservation programs and services throughout the Pittsburgh region and make possible so much of the work featured in this newsletter. Gifts and grants PHLF received between February 1, 2012 and September 12, 2013 include the following.

Corporate Matching Gifts Frank B. Fairbanks Rail • BNY Mellon Community Partnership, Transportation Archive for matching gifts from Barrie H. Athol, (for financial gifts and library donations) Clifford Mull, and Eileen Tenenbaum • Wilmer Baldwin • Dollar Bank Foundation, for matching a gift from Esther Barazzone, PhD • Owen S. Cecil III • Wayne A. Cole • Dominion Foundation, for matching a gift from James B. Richard • Joan Fairbanks • Norfolk Southern Foundation, • William S. Garrett, Jr. for matching gifts from • Douglas Mahrer Allen T. Bankson • David B. Miller • Christopher Milne Downtown Renewal • Mark Staymates • Colcom Foundation • Sue Vines

Easement Program Gift Memberships (for easement and endowment gifts) • Charles Shaw Arensberg, for a gift Pittsburgh Public School students give a thumbs-up for PHLF’s Building Pride/Building • Amore Limited Partnership membership for Kentucky Trust for Character trolley tour to six historic sites, supported by corporate donors through • Energy Innovation Center, L.P. Historic Preservation Pennsylvania’s Educational Improvement Tax Credit program. • Mon Valley Initiative Housing Fund • Kasey Connors, for gift memberships for • William P. Snyder III Charitable Fund Suzie and Mike Ament, Carla Braham, Ada and Rob Brandegee, Patricia Conkel, Jim Denova, Elizabeth Quinn, Governance Task Force Named Funds Educational Improvement Nancy Reese, and Jon and Debbie West • The Allegheny Foundation • Carl Wood Brown, for a gift to the Tax Credit Program • Sandra Danko, for a gift membership • Albert B. Costa Fund of Carl Wood Brown Fund for John Danzak The Pittsburgh Foundation • • Allegheny Technologies Incorporated George and Eileen Dorman, for a gift • Niki Dillenburg, for a gift membership • Herbert M. Goldsmith Fund to the George and Eileen Dorman Fund • BNY Mellon for Nicholas Gelis of The Pittsburgh Foundation • Gambrindi Davies Fund of The • Bridges & Company, Inc. • Joseph A. DiMenno, Esq., for a gift • Lois Tack Thompson Fund Pittsburgh Foundation, for a gift to the • Eat’n Park Hospitality Group, Inc. membership for Cotty and Joe DiMenno of The Pittsburgh Foundation Jamini and Greg Davies Fund, in honor • ESB Bank • Pat and John Donovan, for a gift • The Walden Trust of Louise Sturgess • Frank B. Fuhrer Wholesale Company membership for Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Battle • The Estate of Harry C. Goldby, for a gift • Hefren-Tillotson, Inc. • Keith and Jane Dorman, for gift Harry C. Goldby Pittsburgh to the Harry C. Goldby Fund • Huntington Bank memberships for Katherine, Laura, Preservation Fund • Thomas O. Hornstein Charitable Fund • Maher Duessel CPA and Elisabeth Dorman at The Pittsburgh Foundation, for a gift • Doris B. Ely to the Thomas O. Hornstein Fund • PNC Bank • Paige Houser, for a gift membership for Theresa Cochenour • Audrey and Kenneth Menke, Kim and • UPMC • Cheryl Hurley, for a gift membership Historic Religious Properties Janice Menke Abraham, and Michael for Cathy and Jack Dernorsek (see page 6) and Karen Menke Paciorek, for gifts to the Audrey and Kenneth Menke Fund Educational Programs • Jeff Inman, for a gift membership for Sandra Vaughan-Inman for Education • Association of Fundraising Professionals James D. Van Trump Library Emerging Philanthropy Conference, • Janice and Richard Kaufman, for a gift • Anonymous in honor of Drew Chelosky membership for Justin B. Kaufman and National Register Districts Paige Cornman • Lu & E. J. Donnelly • Barbara and Marcus Aaron Fund of • Millcraft Investments, Inc. The Pittsburgh Foundation • Jack and Donna Miller, for gift • Susan and Henk Harkema (Downtown Districts) memberships for Melody Miller and • Janet and Mark Benec • Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Mr. & Mrs. John C. Miller III Commission (Downtown Districts) • H. M. Bitner Charitable Trust Landmarks Fellowship Program • W. McCook Miller, Jr., for a gift • Urban Redevelopment Authority • Jack Buncher Foundation membership for Mrs. Alice Brown • PNC Foundation of Pittsburgh (General) • The Anne L. and George H. Clapp Painter Thompson Charitable and Educational Trust • Pamela Nakajima, for gift memberships Landmarks Preservation • Barbara P. Cooper Neighborhood Revitalization for Mark Bier and Timothy Crammond Resource Center • Susan Creighton • Anne E. Nelson, Esq., for a gift member- and Preservation Services • • Ruth and Francis Vastola Lu and E. J. Donnelly ship for Barry and Barbara Nelson • Allegheny County Community • The Fine Foundation • Shirley and Tom Phillis, for a gift Infrastructure and Tourism Fund • Gailliot Family Foundation membership for Mark Phillis Landmarks Scholarship Fund • Allegheny County Economic • Matthew Pingor, for a gift membership • Anne and David Genter • Anonymous Development for Keith Scoot Schoenfeld • Laurence A. and Ingrid T. Glasco • Lu Donnelly • Anonymous • Brittany and Debbie Platts, for a gift • The Gordon and Kate MacVean Fund of • The Armstrong Group of Companies membership for Jo-Ann Travis • The Estate of Harry C. Goldby The Pittsburgh Foundation • • Eliza Scott Nevin The Anne L. and George H. Clapp • Else and Gerald Schiller, for a gift • Laura Hawkins Charitable and Educational Trust membership for Mr. & Mrs. Ronald H. • Kathy and Lou Testoni • Matthews Educational and Charitable • Russell W. Coe Rabold • Ellen Walton Trust • Margaret R. Davies • Pat and Bill Schultz, for gift memberships • McSwigan Family Foundation for Charles A. Hibler, DDS, and Eric and Memorial Gifts • Fair Oaks Foundation, Inc. • Arnold Miller Lori Schultz • Matthew Falcone • Bill and Claire Emery, for a gift in • Alfred M. Oppenheimer Memorial Fund • Dana Spriggs, for gift memberships • Edith H. and James A. Fisher memory of Robert Medonis of The Pittsburgh Foundation for Dorothy Stenzel and Mary Weise • Ron Gancas • Jeanne Hanchett, for a gift in • Suella Pipal • Peg Stouffer, for gift memberships • memory of Mary Paradise Phipps Hoffstot • Henry Pruszynski for Mr. & Mrs. Jack Kleman, Elaine • Huntington Bank and Ben Wertheim, and Concordia of • Virginia Reppart, for a gift in • Shane Communications • Laurel Foundation the South Hills memory of Jane C. and James T. Hosey • Judy A. Sigal • • Pittsburgh Steelers Sports, Inc. • Scott Wise, for a gift membership Rear Admiral Robert H. Wertheim, • Lindsay Stewart for Robert Moore USN (Retired), for a gift in • Patricia Rooney • Peg Stouffer memory of Joe Wertheim • Richard M. Scaife • Tippins Foundation Endowment • TriState Capital Bank • Russell W. Coe • George and Roseann Erny • Albert M. Tannler 24 PHLF News December 2013

Hitting the Bull’s-Eye Jack Norris, Chairman Our Staff Jack Miller Arthur P.Ziegler, Jr., President In 1964, a handful of visionary Michael Sriprasert, President, Pittsburghers led by Arthur Ziegler Landmarks Community Capital and Jamie Van Trump concluded that Corporation; President, Landmarks urban renewal at the expense of architec- Development Corporation turally significant neighborhoods wasn’t Louise Sturgess, Executive Director; worth the price. They undertook the Editor, PHLF News arduous task of identifying the architec- tural treasures of our region, then laid Preservation Matthew J. Ragan, out a plan to preserve them. That plan Director; Finance Director became the Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation. Preservation Services Like all visionaries, their views David A. Farkas, Director, were often met with skepticism, if not Main Street Programs outright ridicule. Yet they persevered. Thomas Keffer, Property & They solicited what resources they Construction Manager could, acquired an endangered historic A 1960s march for preservation on Karamagi Rujumba, building here and there, and methodi- Pittsburgh’s North Side to save the former Project Manager cally prevented bulldozers from rushing Allegheny Post Office of 1897. This building served as PHLF’s headquarters Sundus Naeem Siddiqi, in to demolish the very fabric of what is Project Manager now considered by many to be the until the early 1980s and now is part of most livable city in America. the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh. *Robert E. Wagner, Loan Officer Had it not been Sarah J. Walker, Administrative for a few generous Why do people make such commit- Assistant to the President; and courageous ments to PHLF? The answer is trust. Office Manager early benefactors, People who care about PHLF’s work Specific Projects Marilyn Whitelock, Community including Charley know that the organization doesn’t to Support Relations Coordinator; Arensberg, Helen compromise on its principles. They also Administrative Assistant Clay Frick, Barbara know that many of the same people who Bricks-and-Mortar Gregory C. Yochum, D. Hoffstot, Connie carried the preservation flag decades ago • Downtown Revitalization (including Horticulturist Oliver, and Richard are still there today, as dedicated staff restoring the Weldin’s Building) Ronald C. Yochum, Jr., M. Scaife, who gave and committed volunteers. • Neighborhood Revitalization Chief Information Officer to support our That’s why it was so difficult for me (Manchester, Wilkinsburg, and many early work, there’s when I chose to move on after 14 years other historic neighborhoods) Educational Programs no telling what as PHLF’s director of gift planning. • Main Street Programs (including & Research June 15, 1976: Pittsburgh would So when Arthur invited me to remain PHLF’s opening party look like today. connected as a planned giving consultant outreach to struggling historic *Karen B. Cahall, Ed.M., and announcement communities beyond Allegheny Education Coordinator of Station Square Without them and to PHLF, I jumped at the chance. others like them, You see, like you, I love Pittsburgh, County) Mary Lu Denny, Director of the Manchester and Mexican War Streets • Historic Religious Properties Membership Services and like those donors before me, my wife neighborhoods, South Side’s East Carson and I wanted to target a gift in support *Judith Harvey, Street, and Station Square would not be of something very close to us, so we Education Fairbanks Archive Librarian the vital places we know today; or could leave our own legacy to PHLF if • Landmarks Preservation Resource Marie Miller, Education & worse, would be just another decaying Center (programming) Administrative Assistant testament to the failed urban renewal • Landmarks Scholarship Program Frank Stroker, Assistant policies of the 1960s. Archivist; Sales Manager As PHLF begins its 50th year renew- • Historic Landmark Plaques Albert M. Tannler, Historical ing communities and building pride in • School Tours Collections Director our region, we can follow the example • Free Public Walking Tours of the many, many people, foundations, • Publications (PHLF News & books) Legal businesses/corporations, and organiza- tions who have contributed to PHLF Donald Kortlandt, Esq., Libraries General Counsel in the past decades by contributing to preservation causes we care about today. • James D. Van Trump Library Finance For example: • Frank B. Fairbanks Rail Transportation Archive Nancy Krulac Faust, CPA, • George and Eileen Dorman redirected Controller discretionary income to a fund that PHLF’s LEED-Gold Market at Fifth preserves historic religious properties Leaving Your Legacy Linda Mitry, Senior Accountant you will (no pun intended). So we estab- in Allegheny County and underwrites You can also create a Named Fund at *Tom Croyle, CPA, lished the Miller and Kim Family Named easements in Western Pennsylvania. PHLF, include PHLF in your will or Staff Accountant Fund to support the Historic Religious • Lucille Tooke created a gift that not estate plan, or benefit from a charitable *Part-time Properties program with an emphasis only preserved her farm, but will one gift annuity or retained life estate. on Catholic churches on Pittsburgh’s PHLF’s Development Advisory day create a fund to help others save North Side. Plus Volunteers! their farms. Committee is working closely with More than 150 people volunteer to s we approach the end of 2013 and staff to build donor support through • David Brashear and his family target the establishment of Named Funds, lead tours and help with educational gifts to fund college scholarships for A the beginning of PHLF’s 50th programs, special events, and anniversary year, the time has come for planned gifts, and memberships in the high-achieving students who care Landmarks Heritage Society. office work. deeply about the Pittsburgh region. you to think about how you can target a gift to the organization that has done • PHLF employees Al Tannler and the Become Involved: more to promote this city than any other TO MAKE A GIFT: late Walter Kidney committed the organization. Here you will find a list of Contact Us Please contact me majority of their estates to support the PHLF programs and priorities that need Phone: 412-471-5808, ext. 527 about creative planned James D. Van Trump Library and your support—programs that, if funded, [email protected] giving strategies that PHLF’s publications program so others will enhance the future of this city. www.phlf.org can enable you to might learn not to commit the preser- Review them. Consider them. Come make your own legacy vation mistakes of the past. up with one of your own. Establish a gift, including the • President Arthur Ziegler created two Named Fund. But whatever you do, Charitable IRA PHLF News is published for the Named Funds to give grants to preser- contact me to find a way so you can join members of the Pittsburgh History Rollover which expires vation projects throughout the region me in doing something to support the & Landmarks Foundation. on December 31 (see page 11). I can be … and the list goes on. (To learn more work of PHLF. 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