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Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation Nonprofit Org. 100 West Station Square Drive, Suite 450 U. S. Postage Pittsburgh, PA 15219-1134 PAID www.phlf.org Pittsburgh, PA Address Service Requested Permit No. 598 Renewing Communities; Building Pride PPublishedH for the membersL ofF the PittsburghN History &ews Landmarks Foundation No. 179 December 2013 $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