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Renewing Communities; Building Pride

PPublishedH for the membersL ofF the Pittsburgh N History &ews Landmarks Foundation No. 184 February 2020 In This Issue 2 Spotlighting Our Work Downtown 4 Lending Exceeds $1.8 Million 12 In Good Hands: Educating the Next Generation 20 Dining Out in Storied Spaces 24 A Tribute to Albert M. Tannler

Manchester 1515 Bidwell Street This year, LDC is renovating 1515 Bidwell Townhomes Street (above and below) as an affordable, single-family home. The sidewall of the Restored for two-story, red-brick building had begun to collapse when LDC purchased it in 2018. The building was stabilized in 2019, and Affordable Milton Ogot and CitySTUDIO completed construction drawings in January 2020. Housing 1515 Bidwell anchors the corner of a modest block of rowhouses in Manchester. 1403–1405 Pennsylvania Avenue According to the City Directory of 1874–1875, Thomas R. Herd lived at what is now 1405 Pennsylvania Avenue in Pittsburgh’s Manchester neighborhood. The directory noted that he worked for a “cracker bakery.” John McClurg, who lived next door at what is now 1403 Pennsylvania Avenue, Built c. 1874, the townhomes are set back from Pennsylvania Avenue (top) and from Stedman was employed by the James McClurg & Street (above), providing space for front and back yards; the back yards have gravel parking pads. Co., Cracker Bakers and Confectioners in Allegheny City, now Pittsburgh’s are fully restored and were available for LDC hired Milton Ogot, architect, Pennsylvania Avenue.” North Side. sale for $250,000 each, at the time of who teamed up with CitySTUDIO Both townhomes have three bedrooms More than 140 years later and after publication. “Buyers must meet certain and HNMS, Inc., a general contractor. and 2 1/2 bathrooms, including a master nearly two years of labor-intensive income requirements,” said David They addressed structural issues caused suite on the second floor, ample closet work, 1403–1405 Pennsylvania Avenue Farkas, PHLF’s director of real estate by foundation settlement, rebuilt three space, and an open-concept third floor. development, “because our goal here of the four exterior walls, installed Both include central air conditioning, is to provide affordable housing in forty-two new windows, and fully new mechanical systems and utilities, Manchester at a time when property modernized the two townhome interiors, hardwood floors, ten-foot ceilings, an values are rising.” among many other improvements. open-concept kitchen and dining area, Landmarks Development Corporation “Funding from TriState Capital first-floor powder room, and second- (LDC), a for-profit real-estate subsidiary Bank, through a Neighborhood floor laundry facilities. of PHLF, acquired 1403–1405 Pennsyl- Partnership Program, and from many They are located within walking vania Avenue in 2017. The three-story, other donors enabled PHLF and LDC to distance of Heinz Field and PNC Park, red-brick buildings had been vacant save these buildings from demolition,” the Western Avenue business district, for years and had deteriorated badly. said Michael Sriprasert, president of Allegheny Commons, and many attrac- LDC and vice president of PHLF. tions, including the Carnegie Science From left: Ryan England of CitySTUDIO, “Tom Keffer, our director of construction, Center, Mattress Factory, and Children’s Eric Roberson of HNMS, Inc., Milton Ogot, led the restoration effort, and we are Museum of Pittsburgh. The commute architect, and Tom Keffer, PHLF’s director of extremely pleased with the results. to Downtown is five minutes. “Whoever construction, celebrated during the opening These townhomes now hold their own buys these homes will be fortunate reception for PHLF members and friends on among the impressive homes on indeed,” said Michael. Tuesday, November 5, 2019.

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Through the place, we renew PHLF Trustees the spirit of the people. Jack Norris, Chair Historic preservation Kevin P. Allen, Vice Chair can be the underlying basis David M. Brashear, Vice Chair of community renewal, Verna Corey, Sc.D. human renewal, Selene L. Davis, Secretary and economic renewal. Vincent J. Delie, Jr. 400 Block, Wood Street, Leroy Dillard Preservation is not some isolated with the façade of Peter George C. Dorman cultural benefit. Lawrence lighted at night. We are raising funds this Larry Dunn, Treasurer —Arthur Ziegler, PHLF President year to light the adjacent Kezia L. Ellison façade of Boutique La Laurence Glasco Passerelle. Leon E. Haynes III PHLF’s Mission Sy Holzer The Pittsburgh History & Landmarks David A. Kleer, Vice Chair Foundation (PHLF) works within Valerie McDonald Roberts, Vice Chair a 250-mile radius of Pittsburgh, Corbin P. Miller Pennsylvania, to identify and save Mary A. Navarro historically significant places; renew Genevieve Oduor historic neighborhoods, towns, and urban areas; preserve historic farms Mary Beth Pastorius Heinz Healey’s, 160 Fifth Avenue, Downtown Pittsburgh and historic designed landscapes; and Jack B. Piatt educate people about the Pittsburgh Curtiss Porter, Ph.D. region’s rich architectural heritage. Matthew A. Sanfilippo J. T. Thomas PHLF . . . Cynthia Pearson Turich Spotlighting Our Work Downtown: Todd Wilson • is governed by a board of twenty-five community leaders (see page 3); Subsidiary Boards • has had a balanced budget in each year An Inside Look at of operation since its founding in 1964; Landmarks Community • provides leadership and assistance to Historic Buildings Capital Corporation (LCCC) local, state, national, and international Harold Blye, Chair organizations; on Market Street, Deborah A. Blackwell-Battle • provides financing and technical Scott L. Brown assistance through a non-profit Josie Bryant subsidiary, Landmarks Community Fifth Avenue, and Jennifer Cash Wade, Treasurer Capital Corporation (LCCC), a certified Community Development Wood Street Elisa J. Cavalier Financial Institution (CDFI); and Kasey Connors, Secretary PHLF and its for-profit subsidiary, Landmarks Development Joseph DiMenno, Vice Chair • develops real estate and provides Corporation (LDC), have invested nearly $17 million in consulting services through a for-profit Jim Ferlo downtown renewal efforts since 2007, when we acquired The coffee shop (above) occupies the front of the Market St. Boutique La Passerelle, 417 Wood Street Peter Lawrence, 413 Wood Street Bill Griffin subsidiary, The Landmarks Development three badly deteriorated buildings on Market Street and Fifth Corporation (LDC), and through Grocery at 435 Market Street. The Wine Bar is located in the back Joseph A. Hardy III Avenue from the Urban Redevelopment Authority for $275,000. of the Market and is also accessible via the Graeme Street entrance. provided for lunch, and into the third • the restoration of eight more façades • was instrumental in the successful Thomas W. McCargo various real-estate limited partnerships. We reconfigured the interior spaces to function as one building The Market has expanded into the second floor (below) and third floor, where special events are held. on Wood Street and Fifth Avenue nomination of five National Register Morton D. Stanfield, Jr. with seven upper-floor market-rate apartments and two first-floor floor of the former Thompson’s Building. A brisk business continues as usual between 2012 and 2015, thanks Districts: Penn-Liberty; Pittsburgh Dianne Swan, Vice Chair commercial spaces. on the first floor, in the midst of some to funding provided by the state’s Central Downtown; Fourth Avenue; “Market at Fifth” opened in 2009 and successfully used Doris Carson Williams remodeling this year. Redevelopment Assistance Capital Firstside; and Pittsburgh Renaissance the federal rehabilitation tax credit and received LEED-Gold Our total investment in Downtown Program, under contract and Historic District; and certification. Heinz Healey’s (men’s retail) and Nettleton Shop The Landmarks Financial Pittsburgh also includes: in partnership with the Urban • has awarded matching grants to are prospering. Visit the stores to see the handsome interior Corporation (LFC) • the recent acquisition and renovation Redevelopment Authority. several historic religious properties. spaces and quality merchandise. All seven apartments have of four historic buildings on Wood William Hart, Chair In addition, PHLF: Landmarks Community Capital been well occupied, although a two-story penthouse apartment Street. Two of the buildings house Adam B. Embry • holds easements (see page 6) on six Corporation, PHLF’s non-profit lending was available at the time of publication. Contact David Farkas, women’s retail––Boutique La Passerelle Diana Froats buildings in Downtown Pittsburgh subsidiary, has extended loans to several PHLF’s director of real estate development, for details: (open since 2010) and Peter Lawrence Ben Garber (900 Penn Avenue, Buhl Building, developers in Downtown Pittsburgh. [email protected]; 412-471-5808, ext. 516. (open since 2018). Two more (420–422 Dr. Lloyd G. Gibson Burke’s Building, The Carlyle, “Through our preservation efforts, In 2008, PHLF purchased a fourth historic building, originally Wood Street) provide 1,900 square feet Mark Gorman, Secretary Hartley-Rose Building, and we have been a catalyst for renewal Thompson’s Restaurant. After extensive renovations, Market of commercial space. (Katie’s Kandy Waterfront Building), thus protecting in Downtown Pittsburgh,” said Michael Jana Lyons, Vice Chair St. Grocery opened in 2015 on the first floor––and now has occupied 422 Wood Street from 2014 the façades in perpetuity; Sriprasert, president of Landmarks Kevin O’Donnell completed an expansion into the second floor, where seating is through 2019.) Development Corporation and vice Curtis Randle El, Treasurer president of PHLF. “By saving and Emory L. Redd restoring historic buildings, we ensure Dr. Herman L. Reid, Jr., Vice Chair that Downtown retains a handsome Steve Sekelik collection of human-scaled buildings, Jud Stewart Continue Giving pleasing to the eye and adaptable for Andrew Wozniak Every dollar you donate is put new uses.” Elise Roby Yanders to good use. For example: “We remain proactive in meeting • $10 or more helps us purchase with our Downtown partners to ensure The Landmarks Development art supplies for our poetry and art that the environment is safe, attractive, Corporation (LDC) and welcoming,” said Arthur Ziegler, programs and mural-making work- Annette Ganassi, Chair shops with school students; president of PHLF. “We are at work each day, involved in Downtown’s Bill Bates • $250 or more helps fund a matching transformation and adding to the Kirby Campbell grant for a historic religious property; investments that we and so many Larry Chan • $10,000 or more allows you to others have made.” H. Mark Hall establish a donor-advised fund Explore Downtown anytime. The Charles E. Hunnell to permanently support mission- façade of Peter Lawrence is lighted at Katie Le related programs of interest to you. night, thanks to funding from the Laurel Joedda McClain, Secretary Foundation, and we are raising funds to Cathy McCollom, Treasurer light the façade of Boutique La Passerelle. Jerry Paytas The Market at Fifth and Market St. Pittsburgh History & Joshua Pollard Grocery façades are lighted, too. Day or Landmarks Foundation Haley Roberts night, there is much beauty to see––and Renewing Communities; Building Pride the opportunities for shopping, dining, John Robinson Don Smith www.phlf.org and entertainment keep growing. At the time of publication, commercial space was available to lease at 420-422 Wood Street. 100 West Station Square Drive, Suite 450 Lara Washington, Vice Chair Contact David Farkas for details: [email protected]; 412-471-5808, ext. 516. Pittsburgh, PA 15219 412-471-5808 Interior photos by Randall Coleman, Redd Vision, unless otherwise noted Nettleton Shop (men’s and women’s shoes), 489 Market Street Photos by Michael Henninger (top and middle right)

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Working with PHLF and LCCC has been an answer to my prayers. Their team’s commitment to the project and to helping us get it completed is the type of relationship that you want to have with your lender. ––Derrick L. Tillman, Bridging the Gap Development, LLC, December 9, 2019

A friend shared Manchester: Derrick L. Tillman of Bridging the Gap Development, Uptown: Keith Key of KBK Enterprises received a $380,000 loan LLC, received a $340,000 loan to help restore 1429 Sheffield Street to help him acquire the former Burrell Scientific Building at your newsletter with me for six market-rate apartments. (October 2019 loan) 2231 Fifth Avenue. He plans to develop mixed-income residences regarding LCCC funding and office and retail space. (December 2018 loan) projects. I applied, and without this loan, I would not have been able to complete my project as soon as I did. 231 Chalfont Street, Beltzhoover I am very grateful. Façade Restorations ––Debra Smallwood, December 9, 2019 Improve South Hilltop Neighborhoods I am very excited to learn that the Scheibler homes are Grants from the Pennsylvania Housing going to be restored. Finance Agency (PHFA) and The I drive by them all the time. 1772 Foundation totaling $175,000 Manchester: Fulton Franklin, LP (Botero Central Northside: Debra Smallwood received Sheraden: The Pittsburgh Housing We have photographs have funded three phases of an Washington, PA: Amy Manko of Presidents Inn, Inc., received a $300,000 loan Development) received a $98,000 increase a $120,000 construction loan for 513 West Development Corporation, a subsidiary of innovative façade restoration program to help her purchase Shepherd’s Inn at 405 East Maiden Street (above and right). to our existing loan of $735,000 (made in Jefferson Street. The house on the right is the Urban Redevelopment Authority, received in the Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh’s Beltzhoover and Housed in a Queen-Anne-style Victorian mansion from 1888, the five-room 2018) for additional building enhancements the property our loan helped improve as an a $90,000 construction loan to renovate City Photographer Collection bed and breakfast is located within blocks of Washington & Jefferson College. at the former St. Vincent de Paul building extended-stay facility; the house on the left 1014 Stanhope Street (above right). The goal that might interest St. Clair neighborhoods. at 1546 Fulton Street. The building once is Debra’s home. Debra is a twenty-year army is to sell the three-bedroom house to a work- In cooperation with the Hilltop Presidents Inn, Inc., donated a façade easement to PHLF (see page 6) in conjunction your team. with our loan agreement. (August 2019 loan) housed St. Joseph’s Elementary School. veteran. (February 2019 loan) force affordable buyer. (April 2019 loan) Alliance, PHLF has worked with Now called Fulton Commons, the renovated ––Miriam Meislik, minority contractors to repair the building includes a commissary kitchen Media Curator/Archives & Special façades of ten low-income, owner- where chefs can go to prepare and store Collections, University of Pittsburgh Library System, August 5, 2019 occupied homes in Beltzhoover LCCC’s Recent Lending their food, co-working office space, and artist studio space. (July 2019 loan) (See PHLF News No. 183, December 2018, page 3.) In addition, local Throughout the contractors are completing work on seven more properties along Mountain Pittsburgh Region Homewood: East Liberty Development, Inc. (ELDI) received a $360,000 pre-development Avenue in St. Clair. Improvements have loan to stabilize Meado’cots, the historic row houses at 7817 Madiera Street designed in 1912 by Pittsburgh architect Frederick G. Scheibler, Jr. PHLF filed a deed restriction on included installing Dutch Lap Siding, Exceeds $1.8 Million the property so the buildings and land cannot be altered without its consent. ELDI needs repainting porches, repointing masonry, to raise capital and secure tax credits in order to restore the buildings, so it will be several repairing box gutters, and constructing Landmarks Community Capital Corporation years before major work begins. The architectural integrity of the buff-brick buildings with a new mansard roof. The homeowners (LCCC), a non-profit lending subsidiary of exposed steel beams survives, as these photos show from January 29, 1935 and November 25, are very grateful to have investment in PHLF, provided nearly $2 million in loans 2019. (July 2019 loan) Pittsburgh City Photographer Collection/University of Pittsburgh Library System their neighborhoods that retains the between December 2018 and December 2019. historic character of their homes. “Our loan fund has grown tremendously over the last several years because we have closed a record number of loans and raised significant capital,” said Michael Sriprasert, president of LCCC. The 1772 Foundation committed $1 million in April 2018 for a Program-Related Investment (PRI), providing low-interest capital for projects

into 2023. In addition, the U.S. Department of the Treasury awarded LCCC its second Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) grant of $500,000 in September 2018 to be used for project financing. “Our goal this year is to raise more capital from the local community to grow December 6, 2019: Workers with Integrity our loan fund,” Michael added. Contracting installed new porch railings LCCC focuses on purchase/rehabilitation loans and floorboards at 528 Mountain Avenue for historic commercial buildings on main streets, in St. Clair. for affordable housing, and for community or “Because of the success of this religious buildings. Its borrowers are non-profits program, we will continue to raise and community-minded for-profit developers. Loans range from $50,000 to $700,000 and eighty funds to support façade restoration percent of them assist low- to moderate-income work in the South Hilltop neighbor- neighborhoods. LCCC is a reliable small-balance hoods,” said David Farkas, PHLF’s purchase/construction lender with expertise in director of real estate development. historic preservation, commercial lending, and For further information, contact: construction management. [email protected]; 412-471-5808, Please contact Rob Wagner ([email protected]; ext. 516. 412-471-5808, ext. 538) to discuss your project, to request a loan application, and to apply. Eight loans made between December 2018 Wilkinsburg, PA: Jerry Gaudi of Impact Redevelopment, LLC, received and December 2019 in Washington and Allegheny a $160,000 loan to renovate 528 North Avenue as a three-bedroom home. counties are shown and described here and on (December 2018 loan) page 5.

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New Easements We are starting up a struggle The church was taken apart, piece here in Hillsdale to save by piece, over many months. The Last PHLF is one of the few “qualified historic buildings. Supper window was donated to organizations,” as defined by PHLF is an inspiration Wurtemburg United Methodist Church Section 170 of the Internal in Ellwood City, Pennsylvania, where to us. Revenue Code, in southwestern it will be restored and reinstalled. Pennsylvania to accept donations ––Patricia Bart, Hillsdale, MI, The Ascension window was sold to a August 28, 2019 of preservation easements to company in Atlanta. The three panels ensure that a historic property portraying Mary S. Brown and W. Harry is protected in perpetuity. Since Brown’s daughter were returned to the In my travels Brown family and shipped to one of 1979, PHLF has accepted more I am constantly letting outsiders By 1996, Carlow had acquired and their home churches in New Hampshire. than forty easements, including know how PHLF has fought stabilized the building and had Construction Junction took whatever two easements donated in 2019: for many years to maintain converted it into an all-purpose, could be resold, including the pews, the architectural integrity event-rental space. wainscoting, organ, organ pipes, chande- of the Pittsburgh region. “At our request and with the liers, and smaller stained-glass windows. Having such a strong family approval of Carlow President Suzanne The congregation is keeping the background dating back Mellon, New York architect Stan Eckstut cornerstone and plaques, including the came to Pittsburgh to tour the campus historic Civil War plaque by Thomas to the early 1800s in Pittsburgh and to make some suggestions,” said Brewster and the World War II plaque. reinforces my stance! PHLF President Arthur Ziegler. “We A small Prayer Room in the new church All of the work you do have offered to share the cost of funding will hold these treasures, along with an is appreciated. further studies if Carlow and the devel- original pew. One panel of stained glass ––Kathy Testoni, Community Advisory oper are interested.” from the original church with a figure Board, December 18, 2019 of Jesus will be reinstalled in the new Buhl Building PHLF President Arthur Ziegler (center) points out the terra-cotta cornice of the Buhl Building Endangered church, and the massive bell will be MuseumLab. Over View by FreelandBuck. Design Architects: KoningEizenberg; 204 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh on Fifth Avenue to Dinu Bumbaru (back left) of Heritage Montreal and François Desrochers placed outside. Photo © Eric Staudenmaier Abrams House Designed by Venturi Architect of Record: PWWG. Janssen & Abbott, architects, 1913 (right), senior advisor to the Montreal Metropolitan Community Executive Office. PHLF’s Many Pittsburghers will feel the loss In a 7-2 vote on March 19, 2019, City Donor: N&P Properties, LLC Michael Sriprasert (left) and David Farkas (back right) look on. of this landmark. Photo by Robert Turgeon, Executive Director of Heritage Montreal Council denied designating the Abrams The Coraopolis train station was House as a City Historic Structure, thus designed in 1895 by Shepley, Rutan allowing the owners to go forward with Successes & Coolidge (Boston). PHLF successfully Preservation demolition if they choose to do so. The MuseumLab, Children’s Museum nominated the Richardsonian Postmodern house at 118A Woodland of Pittsburgh Romanesque structure to the National News Road, designed in 1979–1982 by Join PHLF on March 14, April 4, or Register of Historic Places in 1978–1979 renowned architect Robert Venturi April 25 (see page 14) to see how the and prepared a series of restoration of Venturi & Rauch (Philadelphia), former Allegheny Regional Library has studies. Worth Noting was still standing at the end of 2019. been transformed into MuseumLab, Representatives from Heritage Montreal In 2018, Don Kortlandt, a city resi- a museum for older youth created by South Side Presbyterian Church and the Montreal Metropolitan Com- dent and PHLF’s general counsel, had the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh. Members of the congregation and munity came to Pittsburgh on October nominated the house as a City Historic The Richardsonian Romanesque Roxian Theatre community gathered on June 15, 2019, Lyons Mansion (Shepherd’s Inn) 23 and 24, 2019, to learn more about Structure in an effort to forestall demoli- building of 1890, first renovated in Thanks to a public-private partnership, to celebrate the designation of this 405 East Maiden Street our loan program and real-estate tion and to provide time for a public Tom Keffer (left), PHLF’s director of Market Street and First Avenue the 1970s and then vacated in 2006, is the newly renovated Roxian Theatre 150-year-old building as a City Historic Washington, PA development work. They saw the construction, and Ed Eckstein, general discussion that might lead to a favorable now a vibrant, open, dynamic, nurturing, at 425 Chartiers Avenue in McKees Structure. (The congregation was 1888 Crescent and Falconhurst apartment contractor, inspect the newly installed the Boulevard of the Allies in solution. The city’s Historic Review and sustainable educational center. Rocks opened on May 9, 2019. John formed even earlier, in 1851.) This is buildings in Wilkinsburg (see sidebar) windows in the Harmony Museum at Downtown Pittsburgh. Two former Commission and Planning Commission Donor: Presidents Inn, Inc. Pergal, owner of the Thunderbird the sixteenth structure that Preservation and toured the Market Street area in 218 Mercer Street. Historic Harmony, Inc., restaurant buildings (once occupied by recommended designation in 2018, but (see page 4) Café in Lawrenceville, and his partners Pittsburgh has successfully nominated Downtown Pittsburgh to see how we donated an easement to PHLF in 2009 to Tramps/Papa J’s Centro and located at City Council, by law, makes the final undertook the $9 million renovation as a City Historic Structure in the past used federal and state tax credits to protect this building and seven more sites. 212–214 Boulevard of the Allies) were decision. (See PHLF News No. 183, in cooperation with the McKees Rocks three years. help save and restore historic buildings demolished in June 2019 in preparation December 2018, page 9.) Community Development Corporation. and provide desirable commercial and funded by The Heinz Endowments, for the proposed development. Originally opened in 1929 as a residential space (both affordable and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, The surviving buildings contribute to To Be Demolished vaudeville playhouse, the 1,400-seat market-rate). Representatives from the and Allegheny County. the Firstside National Register Historic Roxian Theatre now books a wide Montreal Metropolitan Community PHLF’s Tom Keffer is working with District. While this federal designation Mary S. Brown–Ames Church variety of live music entertainment. are planning a return visit later this year. the Harmony Museum in Harmony, does not impose any restrictions on the At the time of publication, the audito- Enjoy a performance at the Art Deco Through our work, we are inspiring Pennsylvania, to return an 1812 brick private property owner, it does validate rium-style church building at 3424 landmark; the acoustics and sightlines others to renew communities by building to its original glory. The project their architectural and historical signifi- Beechwood Boulevard in Greenfield was are excellent, and the original architec- investing in historic properties. involves installing new windows that cance. These human-scaled buildings to be demolished, beginning in January. tural details are a joy to see. Arthur Ziegler and Michael Sriprasert utilize the original multi-pane, casement- from c. 1860 and c. 1910 add to The congregation arrived at this heart- In honor of National Historic of PHLF also met with Paul Edmondson, style design of the Harmonists, the Downtown’s distinctive identity. We breaking decision after more than fifteen MuseumLab. Design Architects: Preservation Month in May 2020, the president of the National Trust for communal society that founded the believe they can be restored, adapted years of research and discussion, in part KoningEizenberg; Architect of Record: The Falconhurst, 724 Kelly Avenue, PWWG. Photo © Eric Staudenmaier Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Historic Preservation, on November 7, Butler County town in the first decade for new uses, and combined with new with PHLF. Wilkinsburg Photo by Rob Larson Office will recognize the Roxian Theatre City designation establishes a 2019. They discussed major preservation of the nineteenth century. The thirty construction to create an attractive, On the free guided walking tour, preservation project with a Community regulatory process for the review of issues that are national in scope, as well new windows utilize 568 panes of sustainable commercial development. you’ll see the colorful, intricate “Over Initiative Award. the exterior appearance of any building Two More Awards as our specialized work as a community- recycled antique “wavy” glass, much We commissioned IKM to undertake View” installation, inspired by the origi- so designated, and the Historic Review The Apartment Association of based real-estate lender (see pages 4–5). of it from a c. 1840 farm house near a design analysis based on an under- nal stained-glass ceiling and created by Coraopolis Commission must review and approve Slippery Rock. The project is funded standing of the developer’s needs and Metropolitan Pittsburgh awarded FreelandBuck. You’ll also see exhibits, Train Station all visible exterior alterations. City 2019 Apartment Excellence Awards with a matching grant from the the development scene. In their report the assembly hall, and incubator space Technical Assistance The Coraopolis designation continues in perpetuity, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum of November 15, 2019, IKM presented for education start-ups. You’ll find a to both the Crescent and Falcon- PHLF’s Arthur Ziegler and Michael Community even if the building is sold to a new Commission. various design strategies and options for steel beam stamped with the word hurst apartments in Wilkinsburg. Sriprasert are providing historic tax Development owner, although designation can be These are just two examples of many development, showing how a signature “Carnegie,” library stacks transformed Both were commended in the credit consulting services to the Hill Foundation reversed due to hardship. technical-assistance consultations we tower could be integrated with the his- into a climbing structure, and a 36-foot- Garden Apartment category for Community Development Corporation (CCDF) raised provide throughout the year to organi- toric buildings in various configurations. long mural extending over a doorway “Overall Community Appeal” for restoration of the New Granada $647,000 in Tarentum Clock Tower zations, planning officials, developers, Our discussions with the Troiani family in the Manchester Academic Charter and “Curb Appeal.” Theater (below), the centerpiece of Captains Samuel S. and W. Harry Brown 2019 to assist The brick clock tower of Highlands architects, and homeowners. are continuing. School (see page 14). redevelopment along Centre Avenue in financed the design and construction of this with the reno- Elementary school (formerly Grandview “We also received awards With the opening of the MuseumLab the Hill District. Between 2007 and 2010, church, named in honor of their mother, vation of the Elementary) in Tarentum, Pennsylvania, in 2017 and 2018 for these St. Agnes Center of Carlow University Mary S. Brown. George Orth was the archi- on April 27, 2019, the Children’s PHLF managed the $1.2 million stabi- Challenges Photo by Christopher Rolinson former train has been restored and repointed, and apartment buildings that PHLF As 2019 came to a close, we were tect, and the building was dedicated in 1909. Museum of Pittsburgh (CMP) became lization effort for the historic structure, Historic Buildings at Market Street and station, the roof has been repaired. Fortunately, and its subsidiary, Landmarks working with Carlow University to the largest cultural campus for children First Avenue, Downtown Pittsburgh including a $175,000 Keystone Grant preservation triumphed because the Development Corporation, saved suggest how the University could create When the cost for stabilizing the in the nation. Congratulations to all Readers of our monthly E-newsletters from the Pennsylvania Department of cost of restoring the central tower was and renovated for affordable a front-door presence on Fifth Avenue building was estimated at $2.6 million, involved in this impressive, award- know that since the summer of 2019 Community and Economic Development. less than the cost of removing it. The by retaining the former St. Agnes the congregation decided to close. winning renovation. housing,” said PHLF Vice we have been working with the Troiani Funds are being used to complete building was designed by local architect Roman Catholic Church in Oakland. The final service was on July 28, 2019. PHLF will also partner with the CMP President Michael Sriprasert. family to find a way to save the historic exterior renovations to the roof and to Press C. Dowler and was formally dedi- The church was designed in 1914–17 A smaller, more efficient church building to offer family-friendly explorations of “NDC Real Estate Management, red-brick buildings at 100–104 Market the canopies over the waiting platforms. cated on Labor Day in 1916 to much by renowned architect John T. Comes will be constructed in its place, over an the museum campus on April 7, 9, and Inc., is doing an excellent job in Street (formerly Froggy’s restaurant), Permanent utilities will be installed, and fanfare. Frank Stroker, PHLF’s director (1873–1922) and still includes sculpture eighteen-month period. Meanwhile, the 25, thanks to funding support from the leasing the apartments. Greg 106 Market Street, and 209 First Avenue. the chain link fence will be removed. of historical resources and collections, by Franz Aretz, stained-glass windows congregation is temporarily sharing McSwigan Family Foundation Fund The Troiani family owns these buildings The CCDF plans to reopen the former wrote a letter in support of restoration Yochum, our horticulturist, is on by George and Alice Sotter and Leo space with the West Homestead United of The Pittsburgh Foundation. Details and intends to demolish them in order station as a café and event space, with on November 16, 2018. site in Wilkinsburg, maintaining Pitassi, and murals by Felix B. Methodist Church. will be posted in March on our Tour to develop a “signature tower” facing proceeds being used to support its work. the grounds surrounding our Lieftuchter. The church closed in 1993. & Events calendar at www.phlf.org. properties.”

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Thank You, Donors Gifts Received in 2018 The following donors helped under- write our program of financial and technical assistance to twelve historic religious properties in 2019. PHLF also allocated funds from its budget. The $88,447 awarded in matching grants in 2019 leveraged approximately $393,000 in restoration work. Eastminster Presbyterian Church Keystone Gifts ($1,000 or more) • Barbourtown Foundation • George and Eileen Dorman • David A. Kleer The $10,000 matching grant in 2019 • Jack Norris from PHLF helped us repair our • Marguerite O. Standish Sunday Building roof, and a loan from • Mr. & Mrs. Frank L. Stanley Landmarks Community Capital Cornerstone Gifts (up to $999) provided in 2017 allowed us to replace • Cheryl and Randall Casciola the inefficient and unreliable steam heat • Joan P. Dailey • Loretta Denny, in memory with an efficient HVAC system. of Dominick Magasano Both projects have reduced energy and • George and Roseann Erny maintenance costs. Now, life goes on • Pam and Tom Keffer within the church as we serve our Bower Hill Community Church First Baptist Church of Pittsburgh • Kelly Art Glass parishioners and the many community • Robert M. Lavelle groups that gather here. • Angela and Doug Marvin • Melissa McSwigan ––Tom Ochs, Treasurer, First Presbyterian Church • Rona Moody and Derek Stuart of Edgewood, December 6, 2019 • Suella Pipal • Marirose and John Radelet Two of the three sets of restored main entrance doors at Rodef Shalom Congregation, • Pat and Bill Schultz Fifth Avenue, Shadyside. Sarah Greenwald, PHLF’s co-director of education, will be • Mary Ann Stuart-Templeton teaching a class for Rodef Shalom and Beth Shalom’s Joint Jewish Education Program • Kathy and Lou Testoni in March and April titled “Building Memories: Valuing Place in Judaism.” • David J. Vater

Gifts Received in 2019 Hoolahan Roofing repaired the roof of First Presbyterian Church of Edgewood in August 2019. Designed in 1915–17 by Pittsburgh architect The following donations received as Thomas Hannah, with Cram & Ferguson as consulting architects, the church was dedicated on November 17, 1918. The striking saddleback First Presbyterian Church of Edgewood of December 18, 2019, will help towers (see photo on page 9) were typical of medieval churches in Scotland. Go inside to see the main sanctuary; all the grisaille windows were As an organization dedicated to the preservation of historic places, underwrite our program of financial designed by Charles J. Connick (1875–1945). Connick grew up in Pittsburgh, where he learned the art of stained-glass making. He established PHLF has made a significant impact in the Greater Pittsburgh region. a studio in Boston in 1913 and became the leading American stained-glass artist of his generation. and technical assistance this year. Rodef Shalom Congregation is especially grateful to PHLF Thank you all! Twelve congregations for supporting projects that have been critical in maintaining have submitted matching-grant our more-than-century-old Main Sanctuary requests totaling $108,398. Helping Historic Religious Properties: designed by Henry Hornbostel, a Beaux-Arts-trained architect and Leadership Gift ($10,000 +) teacher who designed many notable Pittsburgh buildings. Calvary Episcopal Church • Harry C. Goldby Preservation Leveraging $3.5 Million in Restoration Work ––Mayda Roth, CFRE, Director of Development, Rodef Shalom Congregation, Named Fund November 20, 2019 Keystone Gifts ($1,000 or more) Since 1997 • Barbourtown Foundation • • Birmingham United Church For more than two decades, we have Calvary Episcopal Church (Shadyside), First United Methodist Church of Christ funded a program of matching grants for restoring two stained-glass windows; Left: Kelly Art Glass restored two historical windows of McKeesport • Mary Beth Pastorius and technical assistance to historic • Church of the Redeemer (Squirrel Hill), at Calvary Episcopal Church in 2019, thanks to our • Colleen and Timothy Sauvain religious properties throughout for restoring three stained-glass windows matching grant program. The Johnny Appleseed • Marguerite O. Standish Allegheny County, thanks to the above the altar (see page 23 photo); window (shown before restoration) and the generosity of our members and several Cornerstone Gifts (up to $999) • Deer Creek United Presbyterian Church Ben Franklin window were designed and • private foundations. As a result, our staff Denise Capurso (West Deer Township), for repointing the installed by Charles J. Connick in the • has established productive relationships 1920s. Those windows, and many Joan P. Dailey brick and repairing the masonry; • Loretta Denny, in memory with congregations and craftsmen who more in nine other churches of Dominick Magasano are committed to restoring active places • Eastminster Presbyterian Church (East in and near Pittsburgh, are Church of the Redeemer • Mike Dinger of worship that are at least fifty years old Liberty), for restoring one stained-glass featured in Albert M. • George and Roseann Erny and also provide community services. window along the porch; Tannler’s guidebook • Nancy Krulac Faust Our matching grant program has made • First Baptist Church of Pittsburgh on Charles Connick • Robert Z. Fierst, in memory it easier for congregations to undertake (Oakland), for repairing the slate roof; (see page 24). of Jane Regina Vater major exterior improvements and continue • First Presbyterian Church of Edgewood • First Presbyterian Church their mission of service and faith within of Edgewood (Edgewood), for repairing the roof (above); their historic structures. “One hundred Mulberry Community Church • Annabelle Javier • First United Methodist Church of percent of every dollar contributed to (also far left) • Pam and Tom Keffer our Historic Religious Properties Program McKeesport (McKeesport), for repointing • Kelly Art Glass is used to help fund repairs to roofs, one side of the church; • Robert M. Lavelle towers, doors, walls, and windows, thus • Mulberry Community Church • Angela and Doug Marvin preserving the architectural integrity of the (Wilkinsburg), for restoring the main • Mary McFadden structure,” said David Farkas, program entry door and window frames; • Melissa McSwigan Kelly Art Glass restored two historical win- manager. • Riverview United Presbyterian Church • Mary Anne and Bill Mistick dows at Calvary Episcopal Church in 2019, Deer Creek United Presbyterian Church Our historic religious properties reflect (Perry North), for repointing the bell • Rona Moody and Derek Stuart thanks to our matching grant program. The the diverse ethnic origins of this region’s • Jack Norris tower and pilasters; and Johnny Appleseed window (shown here) and population and are centers of faith, history, • Carol Prorok • Rodef Shalom Congregation (Shadyside), Ben Franklin window were designed and • Patricia J. Rooney art, and culture. Extending a helping hand for restoring the three sets of doors at the installed by Charles J. Connick in the 1920s. • Society for the Preservation to a group of applicants each year ensures Fifth Avenue entrance. Those windows, and many more designed in of the Duquesne Heights Incline, that these familiar, often monumental, In addition, Tom Keffer, PHLF’s director nine other churches in and near Pittsburgh, in memory of Jane Regina Vater landmarks will survive for new generations are featured in Albert Tannler’s guidebook of construction, visited Church of the • Mary and Wayne Sommerfeld of people to use. In 2019, we awarded on Charles Connick (see page 24). Holy Cross in Homewood on February • David J. Vater matching grants to the following:

• Sue and Ell Vines 11, 2019. He provided advice on how to • • Tim Wainwright Bower Hill Community Church connect a new handicap-accessible ramp • The Walden Trust (Mt. Lebanon), for repairing the to the stone stairwell that needs to be • John F. Warren architectural molding; repaired, and helped clarify bids for stone • Peggy and Jim Wojcik and masonry repairs.

Riverview United Presbyterian Church

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The Beaver Area Heritage Foundation has done a tremendous job in restoring two former Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad buildings and converting them into the Beaver Station Cultural & Events Center Architecture comes always (shown here) and the Beaver Area Heritage Museum, from the land itself and from which are contributing to the economic renewal of Beaver and western Pennsylvania. the needs and aspirations Applications for Historic of the human inhabitants of —Arthur Ziegler, PHLF President, November 6, 2019 the land. Building itself is the Plaques Are Accepted accumulated human experience Year-Round all-important in dealing with the Frank Stroker, director of historical necessity and in symbolizing the resources and collections, manages reaches of man’s mind and spirit. PHLF’s plaque program. Committee meetings are held when Frank receives Building is universal…, but it is ten or more applications. Buildings, also particular. It may be that structures, districts, and landscapes of a continent or country, a state, may be approved for a Historic a county or a city, a parish or Landmark plaque if all of the a neighborhood, following conditions are met: but it is all-pervasive. • they are remarkable works of architecture, engineering, construc- ––James D. Van Trump, co-founder of PHLF, tion, landscape design, or planning, “The Building and the Land: The Architecture of Allegheny County” or impart a rich sense of history; • alterations, additions, or deterioration have not substantially lessened their value in the above respects; • they are at least fifty years old and are Awarding The Strip Historic District includes buildings from 1850 to 1963. The district is roughly bounded by Railroad Street, the former Pennsylvania In 1897, Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad Staff Architect R. P. Forsberg designed Beaver Station in the Richardsonian Romanesque style. located within 250 miles of Pittsburgh Railroad yards, 22nd Street, Liberty Avenue and 15th Street. PHLF nominated this portion of the Strip District to the National Register of It is located at 250 East End Avenue in the City of Beaver, Beaver County. Photo by Emmanuel Fine Art Photography (which is PHLF’s area of service); Historic Places, and it was so designated in 2014. Historic • they are not located in historic districts already bearing a Historic Landmark Landmark plaque (unless of exceptional individual significance). Plaques To date, PHLF has awarded Historic Landmark plaques to 613 significant buildings, districts, landscapes, and Since 1968 structures throughout the Pittsburgh region. Our plaques bring public Jamie’s words, published in a commem- recognition to significant structures; orative booklet on January 9, 1971, they do not place any restrictions on to introduce our first exhibit at private property owners, nor do they the Old Post Office Museum (now protect the structure in any way from part of the Children’s Museum of The Davidson Farm at 9701 Saltsburg Road The Van Kirk Farm at 337 Round Hill Road The McKeever Homestead, built c. 1840, is The Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad’s Mulberry Community Church (originally, First Presbyterian Church of Greensburg alteration or demolition. Recipients pay Pittsburgh), remind us why it is in Plum Borough includes a stone farmhouse in Elizabeth Township dates to c. 1813, while located at 825 Maginn Street in Perry South. Beaver Freight House was built in 1910 by Grace United Evangelical Lutheran Church) at 300 South Main Street in Greensburg, for and install the bronze (up to $575) important to document and recognize from 1802, with additions from 1820 and the farmhouse dates to c. 1845. The Van Kirk The brick farmhouse with a single-story Anderson & Cook. Located at 1 River Road is located at 601 Wallace Avenue in the Westmoreland County, was designed in or aluminum (up to $350) plaques. significant historic places through- after. In 2017, the owners donated a preser- Farm is listed in the National Register of front porch is in the Greek Revival style, in the City of Beaver, Beaver County, it now Borough of Wilkinsburg. It was designed 1916–19 by Cram & Ferguson of Boston. To download a plaque application, out the Pittsburgh region. In doing vation easement to PHLF and received a Historic Places. The owners donated an although the bracketed cornice is Italianate. houses the Beaver Area Heritage Museum. in 1915 by the Pittsburgh architectural firm please visit www.phlf.org and click on so, we identify, care for, and value the loan to purchase and renovate the farmhouse. easement to PHLF in 2003. of Kiehnel & Elliott. Preservation/Historic Plaques, or call “built things” that are unique and Frank at 412-471-5808, ext. 525. particular to our region. Our Historic Landmark plaque program, begun in 1968, is the most visible way for PHLF to recognize the historic places that contribute to the distinctive physical character of our region. On July 16, 2019, Selene Davis, chair of our Historic Plaque Designation Committee, announced that plaques would be awarded to one district and

“Thornfield,” the John G. and Agnes Kelly The William W. and Alice Willock House, The Andrew S. and Elizabeth Miller House, Faith Evangelical Lutheran Church and House, is being restored. Located at 124 at 705 Brighton Road in Allegheny West, designed in 1902 by Century Architectural Nabhi Christian Ministries (originally, Gordon Street in Edgewood Borough, the was designed c. 1891 by William Ross Company at 366 Lincoln Avenue in Bellevue Epiphany Evangelical Lutheran Church) asymmetrical house was built in 1886 with Proctor, architect. The Chateauesque town- Borough, now houses a restaurant, Revival was designed in 1928-29 by John Lewis an addition in c. 1895. Gables, a tower, house is clad in buff brick with sandstone on Lincoln (see page 20). Photo by Joe Riebling Beatty. The one-story Gothic Revival chimneys, porches, and decorative details ornamentation and has been immaculately landmark is located at 7060 Lemington compose this Queen-Anne-style house. restored. Avenue in Lincoln-Lemington-Belmar. The former St. George R. C. Church The former Temple Ohave Israel at 210 at 823 Climax Street in Allentown was 2nd Street in Brownsville, Fayette County, During a celebration on October 24, 2019, designed in 1910–11 by Herman Lang was designed in 1919 by Andrew P. Cooper, Dave Rankin unveiled a Historic Landmark of Edmund B. Lang & Bro., architect. architect. A classically inspired entrance plaque for Central Presbyterian Church, St. George Church Preservation Society dominates the brick-and-stone façade. located at 305 Allegheny Street in The Old Stone Tavern, built c. 1782, is is working to protect and maintain the Tarentum. The brownstone church was located at 434 Greentree Road in the West Romanesque landmark as a Catholic designed by Harry Wimer in 1913–14. End. The Old Stone Tavern Friends Trust is sacred space. The plaque was awarded in 2016. Many working to save and acquire the Old Stone of the stained-glass windows have been Tavern, Pittsburgh’s oldest commercial restored, thanks in part to our Historic building, and City Council has designated Religious Properties Program. it a City Historic Structure. Join PHLF on a special membership tour of Tarentum on April 18, 2020, nineteen significant structures designed to see the preservation progress happening between 1782 and 1929. The awardees throughout the community. We’ll enjoy included a portion of the Strip District, The Katsafanas Coffee Company Building Pittsburgh architect Thomas H. Scott In 1921–22, Pittsburgh architect Frederick Charles M. Bartberger & Son designed the lunch in the former railroad station and houses, historic religious properties, at 828 West North Avenue in Allegheny designed the Nora McMullen Mellon House G. Scheibler, Jr., designed the Clara E. former McNaugher Public School at 2610 sample coffee and chocolate in a new businesses, railroad buildings, a former West was built in 1902. The Art Deco façade in 1911. It is located at 5811 Howe Street Johnston House in the Arts and Crafts Maple Avenue in Perry South in 1907–10. Corbet Street store. For reservations, school, and a bridge. was renovated c. 1925. in Shadyside. This stucco house with brick style. A stucco building with wood trim, Thanks to a $25,000 grant awarded in April contact Mary Lu Denny: [email protected]; As you travel through the region detailing mixes English cottage and it is located at 6349 Jackson Street in 2019 to PHLF from the Buhl Foundation to 412-471-5808, ext. 527. in the new year, stop and take a closer American suburban architecture. Highland Park. underwrite initial architectural and engineering look at these places. Only the Davidson analyses, the North Side Partnership Project is Farmhouse is not visible from the main working to renovate the community landmark Larimer Avenue Bridge over Washington Boulevard connects two Pittsburgh road. as a mixed-use center. neighborhoods: Larimer and Lincoln-Lemington-Belmar. The concrete-arch bridge––with the third greatest span in the world when built—was designed in 1911–12 by the Pittsburgh Department of Public Works, with John A. Ferguson as engineer.

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We appreciate everything PHLF does to continue to support our students and staff and look forward to working with you again this school year, as we have done for decades. ––Kate Bowers, Coordinator, Private Funds, Pittsburgh Public Schools, July 8, 2019

James Hill, executive assistant to Mayor Bill Peduto, participated in PHLF’s educational programs in elementary school. On certain occasions, Fourteen high school apprentices (one seated, others standing) are joined by (front row, from left): Jenna Kappelt (Architecture Learning James welcomes Pittsburgh Public School students to the Mayor’s Office during PHLF’s “Building Pride/Building Character” trolley tours, Network), Nicole Kubas (CitySTUDIO), Paul Tellers (architect), David Lewis (urban designer), Louise Sturgess (PHLF), and Tracy Myers Pittsburgh Whittier funded by corporate donations to PHLF through the state’s Educational Improvement Tax Credit program and the McSwigan Family Foundation (PHLF). Back row, from left: Dave Yargeau (Mon Valley Initiative), Daniel Valentine (developer), Patrick Russell (Renaissance 3 Architects), Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation. On May 14, 2019, a Pittsburgh Beechwood student became Mayor for the moment. Our trolley tours this and Kelly Lyons (Carnegie Mellon University). Students: Advocates year begin in March with Pittsburgh Phillips. for Preservation

annual design challenges, Landmarks Architecture is very much like Buildings house human beings and After touring Chatham Hall Scholarship Program, and special initia- storytelling. Like the King in Alice human beings always house history (formerly the Bigham House) in As a second grader, In Good Hands: Educating the Next Generation tives with the Manchester Academic in Wonderland said, “Begin at the and culture. That’s the joy of being I was given the wonderful Charter School and Children’s Museum beginning and go on till you come to an architect: to get to be able to get Chatham Village on February 14, Louise Sturgess 2019, fifth-grade students from opportunity to explore my of Pittsburgh. They’re inspirational! the end; then stop.” Exploring an idea to those roots and give them voice. Pittsburgh Whittier on Mt. neighborhood and open my We have many good stories to share, is what you are doing. I love listening Architecture … touches all aspects Washington were asked to build eyes to the incredible history attesting to the lasting impact of to you and seeing how you are of life––all of history, all of topography, David Lewis confronting a blank piece of paper. a case for preserving the house behind the streets our educational programs. The chance and community. Architecture is the encounters with people are often the on Architecture When you emerge through the drawings spider in the middle of a huge web, if it were ever endangered. Here of Mount Lebanon that most heart-warming. Take Ronald Ray at the other end of the process you have are a few of their arguments: David Lewis is a founding trustee of so wonderfully rich and meaningful. I walk every day. Butler, for example. He participated in many stories to tell: how your building PHLF, a distinguished urban designer, In Pittsburgh, we live in an area On a separate trip PHLF’s Camp DEC (Design Explore relates to its neighbors; how your I would … beg them not to take and an eloquent speaker. He participated of small towns. Each town has a main the next year, in 2016, Create) in 2011. During one assign- building is useful for the community; the Bigham House down because in the final session of PHLF’s 2019 street, a residential community and its I was able to venture into ment, he imagined being a landscape how your building draws others to this it is all about history and was a stop Architecture Apprenticeship on own distinctive culture. Our challenge architect and drew a community garden, community, etc. I’m very touched and on the Underground Railroad. the streets of Downtown December 13, commenting on each is to be able to provide for these com- “Piano Place.” His design actually Ronald Ray Butler (left) at Assemble in encouraged by the next generation. Pittsburgh to be enlightened student’s design for a new building munities a sense of their individuality, inspired the creation of a community December 2019 and at the dedication of We will be in good hands. I would say, “No, this is a historical on the many fantastic on East Eighth Avenue in Homestead and to make them part of a whole garden that exists today in Wilkinsburg. Piano Place (fourth from right) in 2012. landmark. Do you really want to features my city has to offer. and sharing his decades of wisdom on I’m fascinated that so many of these society as well. We have in Homestead He participated in the ribbon-cutting take a big chunk of history away architecture and community building. projects include the community. As a the presence of one of the most These experiences ceremony on October 27, 2012. differences compose a fascinating, “PHLF has an impact that continues Here are excerpts from his remarks: society, we are so locked up in our groups, beautiful rivers. Where are we going and not be able to put it back? allowed me to further Seven years later, on October 12, distinctive city. long past the tour itself,” said Karen particularly in my generation, and here as a community? What are we trying Can you just hesitate for a moment appreciate and understand 2019, Ronald (who now goes by his Author Jen Bryant contacted Mary Lu Cahall after completing a walking tour Architects stand on the threshold in this generation we are opening the to do? I commend you all for making and please reconsider?” middle name, Ray) reconnected with Denny, PHLF’s director of membership on December 10, 2019, with high school of the past and the future. None of us the area I have come to know doors to young and old, to people of a piece of architecture belong in the PHLF at the Architecture Learning services, via e-mail on November 15, 2019. students from North Allegheny. On can exist without buildings. Buildings as my home. diverse backgrounds and cultures. Think flow of the past that is leading us into If people wanted to tear down the Network’s annual family event. He Several years before, Mary Lu had their Pittsburgh exploration from Point are like our clothes––we live in them–– about where people are coming from the future of the community. The Main Thomas J. Bigham House, I would ––Mackenna Pozza, 7th grade, introduced himself to Sarah Greenwald arranged for Karen Cahall, PHLF’s edu- State Park to the City-County Building and buildings hang together. It’s a great December 10, 2019 and how they are coming together. Street has a past and a future that we do everything possible that I could and Tracy Myers, who joined PHLF’s cation coordinator from 2009 through (where their gingerbread houses were privilege to me at my age to look at your I’m noticing the Mister Rogers’ are still discovering. to change their minds. And if they staff on August 12 as co-directors of 2019, to take Jen on a “wonderful and displayed), Karen realized that several of young faces and to know that you are quote on the wall behind where your education. Now an artist, poet, and very informative walking tour” of the the students had toured with her before. interested in carrying on the mission of still wanted to, I’d sit inside and presentation drawings are taped. resident of the Hill, Ray is working Hill. Jen thanked PHLF for helping her They were recalling key facts about the creating our communities for tomorrow. they would have to remove me Through his life work, Mister Rogers Continued on page 14 at Assemble, a community space for in her research process, and mailed city’s history and architecture. One themselves. Look to the grassroots of a community. taught us that everyone is welcome in arts + technology in Garfield. He helps Mary Lu and Karen autographed copies of the students expressed her intention Find out what its real passions and the world. The world is asking for your young people design, explore, and of her new book, Feed Your Mind, to apply to our scholarship program. traditions are. Build on those. help in its evolution. That’s what young create––and he visits Piano Place. A Story of August Wilson. The last story I’ll share relates to architects are about. … We reconnected with Indea Herndon On November 29, 2019, I was Jacalynn Sharp, who participated in in the spring of 2019 when we began admiring the gingerbread houses in the our Architecture Apprenticeship developing our “People and Places” City-County Building corridor with my program as a high school student and trolley tour for Pittsburgh Public School tour group. Just as I finished pointing then was awarded a scholarship from students. Indea was working at the out how wonderful it was to have the PHLF in 2013. I always remembered Each student brings something different to the project August Wilson African American Roman Colosseum placed next to the Jacalynn because she used to roller blade and there’s an enormous sense of accomplishment Both my children Cultural Center, which was one of our U.S. Steel Tower, PPG Place, and Port from Squirrel Hill to our Apprenticeship participated in stops on the new tour. Fifteen years Authority Bus sink hole, a mother came program in Homestead. We met a few when the teams present their ideas that give new life PHLF’s second-grade earlier, in 2004, PHLF had awarded up to me and said, “My son made the months ago, by chance, outside a coffee to a vacant and historic building. walking tours. Indea a Walton Family scholarship. Colosseum. I am so glad you noticed it.” shop on Banksville Road. Jacalynn She is now employed by UPMC as an Her son was with her, and he glanced immediately told me how much she loves ––Westmoreland County teacher, 23rd Annual Architectural Design Challenge, I remember them April 5, 2019 pointing out all they learned engagement and inclusion consultant. at me shyly. Her daughter then turned this city; she wants to give back when Interestingly, we teach young people to me and said, “Are you the group that she can. She will receive her master’s in as we walked along to value diversity, inclusion, and engage- leads the Downtown Dragons walking Mechanical Engineering from the Washington Road ment as they explore Pittsburgh with us. tours? I went on that tour last year. University of Pittsburgh this April, and On April 5, 2019, high school students from several Westmoreland County schools presented their models showing how the vacant Railroad Roundhouse at Hazelwood Green in Pittsburgh for years afterward. Buildings are “dressed” in different I remember looking up to see the details is glad to know that the educational could be adapted for new uses. Architects who judged the competition stood with the students. styles and have different ages and programs that made a difference in her ––Marilyn Oberst-Horner, on the buildings, and I still wear my On April 2 and 3, 2020, middle and high school students from Westmoreland County will Constituent Services Representative, purposes. It’s the differences that make T-shirt.” life are continuing at PHLF. present their models showing how the historic landmark at 227 Main Street in Latrobe, PA, Office of Senator Pam Iovino, buildings stand out, worth valuing, “Yes,” I said proudly, “we are that On pages 13 and 14, please read can be adapted as a cabaret theatre. Each year the design challenge is different, but it always September 19, 2019 and one of a kind. And together the group.” about our Architecture Apprenticeship, involves adapting a historic structure to meet the needs of people today.

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In Good Hands: Educating the Next Generation Continued from page 13 New Planned Gifts Support Education and Thank You I can’t think of an organization that Preservation for Years to Come Corporate has done more Benefactors over so many years John Harmon and Jack Miller, both than PHLF has in spreading members of our Development Advisory Covington Investment enthusiasm for and education Committee, shared good news with Advisors, Inc. about this city’s rich interested members about our donor- Haritan Photography/ architectural heritage, advised funds and other planned-giving Videography opportunities during informal “Lunch and putting such effort into and Learn” events on April 23, 24, December Gifts Huntington Bank preserving it. Scholarships and 30, 2019. With a one-time gift Matched by Donor Millcraft are a key to transmitting of $10,000 or more, an individual this passion and knowledge may establish a donor-advised fund A generous donor matched all Giving Omni William Penn Hotel to the next generation. and generate perpetual income to Tuesday Campaign donations directed to PHLF, beginning on December 1 and Pittsburgh Downtown Cheers! (And lions’ roars!) support mission-related programs. Gift Partnership annuities, retained life estate agreements, PHLF staff and docents continuing through December 17, 2019, ––Dorothy Spangler, Dollar Bank, charitable trusts, and easements are honored Karen Cahall dollar-for-dollar, up to $10,000. Gifts July 15, 2019 Pittsburgh Steelers among the many other ways that an during a reception at from the following people were matched:

Renaissance Pittsburgh Hotel individual may benefit financially and the Grand Concourse I actually came across support PHLF. on August 27, 2019. • Janice Menke Abraham TriState Capital Bank the first architectural project One of our members who attended From left: Kay Pickard, • Jo Ellen Aleshire VisitPITTSBURGH I did in 8th grade a Lunch & Learn event told us that she Karen Cahall, Lu Ann • Anonymous has named PHLF as a beneficiary of Abelson, Marie Miller, • George Balderose at the Pittsburgh and Pat Farkas. Public Schools gifted center one of her annuities. She explained • Nancy Hoff Barsotti PHLF welcomed four new Landmarks Scholarship recipients during a reception at Dollar Bank’s as part of a program her reason for doing so: • Al Bowers Now Available: Heritage Center on July 11, 2019. Seated, from left: Nancy Beinlich (Elizabeth Forward High that PHLF was supporting, Several years ago, I had a casual • Karen and Mike Cahall School/College of William & Mary), Francesca Lojacono (Pittsburgh CAPA/Cornell University), Alan I W Frank House: so we have a long history! conversation with friends about a poster Karen B. Cahall The Robert J. Jucha • Trish and Sam Carlson Maya Berardi (Avonworth High School/University of Pennsylvania), and Lauren Jasper (The showing the Jenkins Arcade with the • Laurie Cohen Ellis School/Cornell University) are seated with Louise Sturgess of PHLF. Dollar Bank Senior The Modernist ––James P. Washabaugh, AIA, headline, “Things that aren’t there Education Fund Adult Education Fund • Pat DiRienzo VP Joe Smith (far left), Scholarship Committee Chairman David Brashear (center), PHLF staff PHLF Scholarship recipient, 2004, anymore.” We reminisced about old Thanks to a generous contribution After attending a Lunch & Learn event, Masterwork by July 23, 2019 • Mary Beth Doheny (including President Arthur Ziegler), Scholarship Committee members, donors, and former buildings, amusement parks, sports of $10,000 from The Daniel Eric Fund Bob Jucha made a generous contribution recipients complete the group. Photo by Randall Coleman, Redd Vision. • Mary Ann Eubanks venues, bridges, steel plants, car of the Ayco Charitable Foundation, to PHLF in July 2019 that resulted in a Walter Gropius • Joan Fairbanks barns, and marketplaces from our a permanently restricted donor-advised deferred charitable gift annuity and the and Marcel Breuer • John Farkas childhoods—things that haven’t been fund was established in September 2019 establishment of a permanently restricted • First Presbyterian Church We congratulate a part of the Pittsburgh landscape for in honor of Karen Cahall, PHLF’s educa- donor-advised fund to support adult of Edgewood Alan Frank on decades. It’s amazing how sentimental tion coordinator from 2009 through education (including tours, publications, Explore the Children’s Museum • Grambrindi Davies Fund of the release of this people get when thinking about things 2019. During that time, Karen scheduled and presentations). A Pittsburgh native and places from their pasts. more than 500 walking tours for school and graduate of Baldwin-Whitehall High The Pittsburgh Foundation book, the first of Pittsburgh’s North Side Campus I know that progress, deterioration, groups and led many of them (no matter School, Bob received his PhD from • Kathleen Guinn to feature the this March and April and public safety demand that outdated the weather), helping young people George Washington University, based on • Ellen Handel Frank House, structures be demolished and replaced. appreciate the built environment his dissertation documenting Shadyside’s • Volker Hartkopf designed by Free Guided Tours of the MuseumLab (intended for adults) But, in some circumstances, does throughout the Pittsburgh region development from 1860 to 1920. • Nila Hill Walter Gropius Always from 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. everything from our past need to be and develop a sense of belonging and For almost thirty years, Bob lived • Susan Holmes and Marcel Breuer, razed in order to create the future? hometown pride. She also presented and worked in other parts of the country. • Saturday, March 14 • Nancy James two of the most As a life-long Pittsburgher, I question Portable Pittsburgh and career aware- When he returned to Pittsburgh, he con- • Saturday, April 4 • Pam and Tom Keffer influential architects and furniture widespread demolition with little regard ness programs to many Pittsburgh tinued working as a senior development • Saturday, April 25 • Deborah Kresen designers of the twentieth century. for historic preservation or the repurpos- Public Schools and assisted with after- editor for Cengage Learning and became Advance reservations are required: • Judith Kroll Built in 1939–40 on East Woodland ing of existing structures. I believe it’s school enrichment programs, summer a docent. He has been leading tours [email protected]; 412-471-5808, ext. 527. • Nicole Kubas Road in Shadyside, the house embodies vital to support the preservation of our camps, poetry and art workshops, and since 2009 and especially likes the history and our heritage. We have so architectural design challenges. Karen Fourth Avenue, Upper Penn Avenue, • Phillis and Robert Lavelle the Bauhaus “total work of art” Family Events (for young children and their parents) much to be proud of. If I had been here developed strong relationships with Gateway Center, and Oakland walking • Katie Le philosophy. Gropius and Breuer • Tuesday, April 7, from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. in 1792 when Fort Pitt was decommis- many school teachers and architects tours. Bob also teaches Osher Lifelong • Gordon and Kate MacVean Fund designed every aspect of the building • Thursday, April 9, from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. sioned and the salvageable items were throughout the region and with our Learning classes at the University of of The Pittsburgh Foundation and site. The book’s release coincided We love the mural. • Saturday, April 25, from 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. sold at auction, I would have been the fifty docent volunteers. In her retirement, Pittsburgh focusing on Downtown • Carl Mancuso with the one hundredth anniversary It is great to see settler carrying the “Save Fort Pitt” sign. Karen is staying involved with PHLF, Pittsburgh and the East End. Free with admission to the Children’s Museum and MuseumLab. • Jack McKinnon of the Bauhaus, a German art school the students interact with their Pittsburgh History & Landmarks leading tours as a docent and assisting Bob cares deeply about PHLF’s Reservations are not required. For information, contact: • Melissa McSwigan founded by Walter Gropius in 1919. work and the voices Foundation has been in the forefront our new education staff. mission because of its focus on historic [email protected]; 412-322-5058, ext. 214 • Patricia Miller Published by Rizzoli, the 256-page on the recordings. of the preservation movement in our Income generated from the Karen preservation education. “Today we are • Gerald Lee Morosco book ($65.00) includes critical city and in the region. It takes courage, B. Cahall Education Fund will be used competing with cities throughout the We thank the McSwigan Family Foundation Fund ––Phylissa L. Thomas, M.Ed., • Karen Menke Paciorek and essays by Kenneth Frampton, Barry of The Pittsburgh Foundation for supporting this new initiative. Middle School Principal, vision, and a sprinkling of old-fashioned primarily to support PHLF’s K–12 nation and comparing ourselves to them. Michael Paciorek Bergdoll, and Charles A. Birnbaum, Manchester Academic Charter School, chutzpah to fulfill the mission of PHLF. educational programming, as well as What separates Pittsburgh from others October 6, 2019 • Mary Beth Pastorius prominent architecture and landscape Of course, it takes financial support. new educational initiatives, including is the amount of historic architecture in Recently, I had a chat with my attorney the creation and publication of printed this unique landscape. The combination • Madeline Quigley historians. Lavishly illustrated with Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, Buhl Community Park, and MuseumLab and my financial advisor. We agreed materials. “This is a significant, lasting, of the two is unique. This is something • Marirose and John Radelet more than 150 images, it includes in Allegheny Square. Photo © Eric Staudenmaier Manchester Academic Charter School that it would be to my advantage to and meaningful way to honor Karen,” to be recognized; something to point out • Venisa Reichert new photographs by Richard Barnes students unveiled a 36-foot-long mural they created with PHLF showing details name PHLF as a beneficiary of one of said PHLF’s Louise Sturgess. Members to others. Here in our city, the historic • Sonja Reis and Richard Pare. of significant places on the North Side my annuities. It’s too late to save Fort and friends who value our K–12 holds its own against the modern.” • Kathy Ruffing Alan Frank is the son of the Pitt, but I want to contribute to the educational programming may con- during an opening celebration on To learn more about planned-giving • Marie Rotondo Senko original owners and is president preservation of my city. tribute to this permanently restricted Saturday, August 24, 2019. A detail opportunities, please contact Karamagi • Luanne and Jim Shock of the Alan I W Frank House fund. “Several people have already made of the mural is shown above, along We are very pleased to know about Rujumba, director of development and • Society for the Preservation Foundation, whose mission it is to with a “StoryBox” of audio clips. donations in Karen’s honor that have this gift and appreciate the donor’s communications: [email protected]; of the Duquesne Heights Incline restore and preserve the Frank House. The installation is located in their new augmented the fund,” said Louise. commitment to our cause. 412-471-5808, ext. 547. • Wayne Sommerfeld PHLF awarded a $10,000 grant from middle school, on the second floor of “We are grateful.” the former Allegheny Regional Library, • Becky Spina its Walter C. Kidney Library and renovated by the Children’s Museum • Jill Tolle Publications Fund to the Alan I W of Pittsburgh for its MuseumLab on • The Walden Trust Frank House Foundation in 2016 the first floor (see page 7). The Fine In Memoriam • James Warren to help fund the book. Mr. Frank has Foundation and the McSwigan Family • Nan Weizenbaum inscribed a book for our James Foundation Fund of The Pittsburgh The following people contributed to PHLF in many ways during their lifetime. We worked with them closely to improve inner-city • Todd Wilson D. Van Trump Library. Foundation funded the collaborative neighborhoods and promote historic preservation. We continue to be inspired by their example and extend our sympathies to their families: project initiated by PHLF and • Charles H. Booth, Jr. (1919–2019), a PHLF board member and CEO of Burrell Construction & Supply Company in New Kensington; • Peggy and Jim Wojcik completed in cooperation with the • Agnes Jean Brose (1934 –2019), a community advocate for Garfield who helped establish the Bloomfield-Garfield Corporation; • Marilyn Zawoyski Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, • Sarah B. Campbell (1922 –2018), one of Homewood’s most dedicated neighborhood activists; Saturday Light Brigade, Greg Pytlik (designer), and Emily Newman and • Janet Clever (1919 –2019), a loyal member for 50 years; Hassan Sharif (MACS art teachers). • Kent A. Edwards (1949 –2019), a respected architect and preservationist; and • James R. Ferry (1939 –2019), a Landmarks Development Corporation board member and chairman of Ferry Electric Company.

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So Much to See Charles L. Rosenblum

The information age is terrific for your interests in historic architecture. More photographs, maps, and articles are available than ever before. And books. That obscure, unobtainable volume can be delivered right to your door. You can gain access to a universe of historic architecture without ever leaving your chair. This would, of course, be a terrible mistake. Of all the great architectural experiences—reading, researching, collecting––nothing exceeds the experience of seeing and being inside the actual place. By intention and longstanding habit, PHLF has developed a roster of tours for all varieties of Pittsburgh’s historic architecture and neighborhoods, from the prominent monuments to the hidden treasures, to the gone-but-not-forgotten icons. Each tour reflects the unique delights of its place.

Pittsburgh History & Land marks Foundation Tours

The Samuel Black House, built in 1891 in Edgeworth for a real estate developer, is probably the earliest pure Colonial Revival house anywhere outside of Boston.

The Frick Fine Arts Building in Oakland contains reproductions of fifteenth-century Florentine Renaissance artwork by Russian artist Nicholas Lochoff. The building and the paintings were gifts of Helen Clay Frick.

Oakland Old-World reverence reborn with New- World possibility. Oakland’s current United Methodist Church of 1859 Building’s Renaissance Revival faience firm,” wrote scholar Margaret A series of historic tours in Pittsburgh gallop into hospitals and labs pales in became the City Theater in 1991, by Janssen & Abbott (see page 6) faces Henderson Floyd. The adjacent Red begins especially well in Oakland, where comparison to these historic treasures. its sense of community and ritual still Alden & Harlow’s former Regal Shoe Gables Carriage House (1891–92) is a the grand buildings, though surpassed in continuing in the old ecclesiastical Company, an Arts and Crafts gem simpler frame structure with a double- height and breadth by others elsewhere, structure. In an area where glass brought back from dereliction by gambrel profile. It was one of five tem- still loom with grandeur. Mary Schenley’s South Side was made throughout the nineteenth PHLF as part of its “Market at Fifth” porary residences that Alden designed, gift of parkland and developer Frank The South Side’s walkable nature and century, an industrial warehouse from restoration (see page 2). Two very inhabited, and sold. The Samuel Black Historic photos on the former Ford Assembly Plant (above) Nicola’s vision of a cultural center much of its appeal as a night spot come the early 1900s has become 15th Street different ruminations on the revival House (1891) was actually the firm’s catch the attention of tour participants. UPMC is renovating stimulated the growth of this outdoor from the preserved streetscape of East Glassworks condominiums, with of lost arts in architecture conclude first in the area, built for a respected 5000 Baum Boulevard to serve as a medical innovation hub. museum of architecture, where august Carson Street. In a consistent fabric unmistakably modern rowhouses an especially rich tour. Pittsburgh developer. Its reuse of plans Look up to see a winged wheel (right) on the façade of the profiles are familiar, but flourishes of of historic façades, some real standouts at traditional scale adjoined to the from the Thorp House in Cambridge former Samson Motor Company building of c. 1919 at small detail are best appreciated on foot. of Victorian architecture remain. Muriel-Street side of the older structure. Longfellow, Alden & preceded the national trend for the 4643–51 Baum Boulevard in North Oakland. The University of Pittsburgh’s Frick Fine Fat Head’s may be a bar, but its façade On the South Side Slopes, seen from Harlow in Sewickley Colonial Revival style instigated by the Arts Building brings a genteel setting at 1805 East Carson is a delight of below, St. Michael Archangel, Charles World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893. of early Renaissance Italy to the edge Victorian proportion and ornament. “Longfellow, Alden & Harlow Houses Bartberger’s church of 1861, retains At the Charles McKnight House (1895) of the railroad tracks and cobblestones. PHLF’s preservation work began in in Sewickley” was a special bus tour and enjoy the pleasant balance of Luna Park, the almost otherworldly its liturgical profile and spirit, as does in Glen Osborne, the firm introduced Its contemplative cloister is lined with this neighborhood in the late 1960s created in 2019 in collaboration with Gothic-infused early Art Deco that amusement park opened in 1905 at Frederick Sauer’s adjoining rectory of the English Manorial style that soon painted reproductions of twenty-three with a Main Street program. Since then, the Sewickley Valley Historical Society makes this former Hupmobile, which Baum and Bigelow that only operated 1890; both are now condos. The well- became popular among Pittsburgh Early Renaissance masterpieces––visual East Carson Street has been designated (SVHS). Tour guides included Mary became the Pontiac Building in 1926, for six short years. But an ornamental preserved streetscapes maintain their millionaires in Sewickley Heights and rewards for those who enter. Just down a National Register Historic District Beth Pastorius, a scholar of Longfellow, so pleasantly urban. Or move further winged wheel in terra cotta is still visible historic appeal with changing uses and PHLF’s Louise Sturgess points out hand- the East End. The mature work of the street, remaining wall fragments (1983) and a City Historic District Alden & Harlow and trustee of both to the Aldi grocery store, formerly at 4643 Baum as a reminder of the judicious additions. carved details at First Presbyterian Church Alden & Harlow appears in the Samuel provide evocative relics of storied (1993), with an expansion in 1999. PHLF and SVHS; Joe Zemba, vice a Chrysler dealership designed by heyday of both cars and architecture. on the “Downtown’s Best” walking tour. Adams House (1903–04) in Sewickley’s Forbes Field, the sporting palace demol- These designations don’t freeze president of SVHS; and Tim Merrill, renowned Detroit architect Albert Kahn Take the tour or risk missing such Downtown Pittsburgh Second Historic District, a duo-colonial ished for a style of architecture called construction in amber, but rather PHLF docent and SVHS member. in 1934. Here, the streamline era still details. Nothing quite matches Downtown Hotel—each seemingly intent on design melding seventeenth- and Brutalism. The unseen memories of this provide incentives and review processes, In addition, Mary Jane Carpenter, yielded dramatic architecture in sleek for its dense panoply of structures and outshining the previous one. But any eighteenth-century New England and other lost delights need to be retold, ensuring that ongoing change still a Martha’s Vineyard-based scholar horizontals with a placemaking round Conclusion associated histories. PHLF’s walking competition simply made winners for with Richardsonian landscape-based more than ever, along the way. preserves the best historic work. of Frank Alden’s life, joined the group. tower, while enclosing impressively There is no substitute for being there tour, “Downtown’s Best,” weaves a rich everyone to enjoy when walking from principles. Singular scholarly expertise Simply walking through the PHLF’s South Side walking tour Twelve miles northwest of the Point sturdy and functional concrete ramps. in person, and there is no better way architectural treasury with instructive one grand lobby to the next. Historic and special access in a rarefied domestic Cathedral of Learning Commons Room begins across from the former Market along the Ohio River, posh, suburban Another great triumph of early than to hear the expertise of PHLF thematic links. Pittsburgh’s government churches provide a relatively contempla- setting made this a particularly remark- is an aspirational fantasy of stone House. The building seems old, but it is Sewickley and the adjacent boroughs automobile-era architecture remains, staff, docents, and others while resides in the great masterpieces of tive respite amid Downtown’s bustle. able tour. tracery and Guastavino tile. “A room actually the fifth structure to occupy the of Edgeworth and Glen Osborne were mostly, in the Ford Assembly Plant, exploring the sites on foot, perhaps Grant Street: H. H. Richardson’s Gordon Lloyd’s Trinity Cathedral that will so grip a boy that he will never site. The historic character of Charles the perfect locations for Longfellow, where a steel-and-concrete building with a bit of assistance from a tour bus, ruggedly elegant Courthouse and Jail of 1870 thrills with its Gothic Revival Automobile Row enter it with his hat on,” Pitt Chancellor Bickel’s German-influenced architecture Alden & Harlow to establish several has muscular expression in brick with on occasion. You’ll see places that you and Henry Hornbostel’s City-County architecture, as does Theophilus To see Pittsburgh’s Automobile Row, John Bowman famously said of the persists, especially in its offset from the residential test cases for Colonial a blend of classical and Arts and Crafts would otherwise speed past obliviously, Building, where eccentric Beaux-Arts Chandler’s First Presbyterian Church your best bet is to park and walk––with space. The adjoining Nationality Rooms regular street grid, which reinforces a Revival architecture. The tour on details. Notably altered for its reuse or maybe not visit at all. And you’ll hear pomp animates a rigid office block. of 1905 next door. First Presbyterian’s a PHLF tour, of course. In current times, affirm the identities of immigrants who European urban sensibility. The tour September 14 started with Red Gables by UPMC, it still has historic images stories that will come alive in the telling Both monuments feature unparalleled thirteen Tiffany windows are a special you might forget that the prosperity have contributed to the Pittsburgh leaves the beaten path to explore nearby (1892–94), the third house Frank Alden from the automotive heyday in its on site. public spaces. You must go inside. additional attraction. The tour ends not of the automobile was very good for region through architecture and citizen- side streets, where ghost markings and built for himself as home and calling ground-floor windows. Across Grant Street, Henry Clay Frick’s far from the Fairmont Hotel, where architecture, since it led to the expansive ship. To finish the PHLF walking tour signs on party walls indicate lost build- card. Tucked in the wooded enclave of Other landmarks are lost, such as patronage infused style and wealth a museum-quality display of artifacts construction of buildings in hopeful and in Heinz Chapel, with its relatively ings and enterprises, even as remaining Maple Lane, its dormered gambrel roof Gulf’s first filling station, a remarkably into an eclectic series of monuments–– excavated from the building’s own site unfettered styles that maintained rich modest size and yet spectacularly tall structures have the renewed power to and stone base adapted Boston Arts and modern cantilever-roofed pavilion the Frick Building, the Union Trust nestles between the office and hotel artistic expression and ornate detail. stained-glass windows, is to contemplate support changing uses. The Bingham Crafts sensibilities to Greater Pittsburgh. formerly at Baum and St. Clair. So is Building, and the Omni William Penn lobbies. Across Fifth Avenue, the Buhl It’s “as fine as any work designed by the Start at the Spinning Plate Artist Lofts

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I enjoyed the PHLF walking tour of the cultural district with my sister who was visiting from out of town. We were thrilled to participate in the surprise optional tour of Heinz Hall at the end of the walking tour. Wow! What an experience! ––Christi Townsend, October 9, 2019

Jim Dawson was an excellent guide. His knowledge of the area is unsurpassed and he brought history alive with all the personal tales The Fairbanks Archive contains train timetables, of Carnegie legends––past and official rail guides, a library present. Transitions have of transportation books and changed the landscape but magazines, and Frank Fairbanks’ have addressed the needs personal papers on his extensive of the community. It is a very rail travels. viable town with Please contact Frank Stroker a bright future. ([email protected]; 412-471-5808, ext. 525) to schedule an appoint- ––Al and Mary Zamba, ment to visit our James D. Van Trump October 21, 2019 Library or Frank B. Fairbanks Rail changing prices of silver and gold, the Transportation Archive any weekday, advent of the automobile, and several from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. PHLF Tours in 2020 News from Our Library and Archives: natural disasters and wars. After World Visit www.phlf.org and click on War II, the railroad was in danger of Editor’s Note: In December 2019, “Tours & Events” for details on: Taliesin West in Scottsdale, Arizona, is a National Historic Landmark and the home of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation and the closing, but Hollywood revived the Lauren and her husband moved to Notable Letters flagging rail line. Several movies filmed • Neighborhood walking tours Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture. Taliesin West and Fallingwater are among the eight places designed by Frank Lloyd Wright Colorado in order to be closer to family. scenes on the train, including “Ticket (various dates, April through October) and inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in July 2019. Photo by Andrew Pielage and Train Travel Out West We wish them the best, and thank to Tomahawk,” “Butch Cassidy and Lauren for all she has done for PHLF. • Special membership bus and walking Lauren Eisenhart-Purvis the Sundance Kid,” and “Around the She served as a volunteer intern with tours (offered only once) The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation World in 80 Days.” However, the train PHLF in 2017, during her graduate • Jail Museum tours (most Mondays, From Pittsburgh works to continue Wright’s legacy During my time as PHLF’s first full-time I also became intrigued with our continued to lose popularity as the archivist, I had the pleasure of getting Frank B. Fairbanks Rail Transportation studies at Duquesne University. As an February through October) and to keep his work and principles nation’s highway system expanded. employee from September 4, 2018 to Taliesin West relevant. We are honored that the to know the organization by reviewing Archive, established through a planned In 1981, the railroad was purchased • Downtown’s Best (every Thursday, until December 6, 2019, Lauren created Emily Butler Pittsburgh History & Landmarks its extensive administrative files, housed gift to PHLF and dedicated on October from the Denver & Rio Grande Western June through August) in the James D. Van Trump Library. 29, 2003. Frank Fairbanks, a mechani- an archival records retention policy for Foundation is helping us keep Wright’s Railroad and transformed into a heritage programs and projects, implemented • Free walking tours of Downtown As the preservation manager of the PHLF’s history is detailed in correspon- cal engineer and former PHLF trustee, work relevant by preserving and tourism railroad. Visitors today are able our Archival plan, organized major Pittsburgh (every Friday, May Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation in dence and documents beginning in accumulated over 150,000 miles of rail promoting his work and the work to ride the train year-round on original administrative files, applied for funding through October). Two different free Scottsdale, Arizona, I was especially of some of his earliest apprentices in 1964. It includes the opening of the travel over the course of his life. Forty- steam engines from the early twentieth interested to read Albert Tannler’s to support archival activities, and hosted guided walking tours will be offered Pittsburgh and the surrounding area. Old Post Office Museum on Pittsburgh’s five of those miles were on the Durango century. It is a National Historic article in the December 2018 issue a meeting of the Three Rivers Archivists each month: one from 10:00 a.m. to Emily Butler and Indira Berndtson at On a more personal note, I am North Side in 1972, the renovation & Silverton Narrow-Gauge Railroad Landmark as well as a National Historic of PHLF News: “An In-depth of Station Square from the 1970s to in southwestern Colorado. This scenic on December 4, 2019. Also on that day, 11:00 a.m. and another from Noon Taliesin West in November 2019 fortunate to know and work with Civil Engineering Landmark. The Exploration of Frank Lloyd Wright 1994, our successful efforts to save railroad connects the old mining towns we welcomed Anna Samuels as our to 1:00 p.m. The tours feature eight Indira Berndtson, the daughter of railroad is one of the last remaining new, full-time archivist and librarian. Architecture in America: Visitors from Now working at Taliesin West, I am Cornelia and Peter. After a recent trip the Fifth and Forbes area in Downtown of Durango and Silverton, nestled high narrow-gauge lines in the United States different areas in Downtown Around the World Begin Their Study entrenched in the rich community that to Pittsburgh, she told me how happy Pittsburgh in the late 1990s and early in the Rocky Mountains. The railroad and is just as scenic today as it was in Pittsburgh and are offered in cooper- Trip in Southwestern Pennsylvania.” Wright created and continued through she was to see her parents’ work so 2000s, and our innovative educational rises 2,500 feet in elevation over forty- the 1800s. ation with VisitPITTSBURGH. The article describes how PHLF the talented architects who studied well cared for and valued as important programs over five decades. five miles while running alongside the organizes tours for private groups that under him. Fellows are taught Wright’s Tour details will be on our website contributions to the diverse and A few notable items within the beautiful Animas River. Open to Members are eager to explore homes designed principles on Organic Architecture and collection caught my attention. Helen The town of Durango was founded by April. Or, contact Mary Lu Denny, stunning architectural landscape One of the benefits of a PHLF member- by two of Frank Lloyd Wright’s learn about Wright’s unique aptitude Clay Frick and dozens of notable in 1880 by the Denver & Rio Grande director of membership services: of Pittsburgh, a place she and I both ship is free access to our James D. Van apprentices, Cornelia Brierly and for designing a building that is perfectly have called home. Pittsburghers wrote letters in support Western Railroad. Construction on [email protected]; 412-471-4808, Trump Library and Frank B. Fairbanks Peter Berndtson. The article resonated suited to its location and seamlessly of PHLF’s incorporation in 1964. the railroad across the mountains to Rail Transportation Archive. Our library ext. 527. with me because of my current work integrated with its environment. In 1965, Senator Robert F. Kennedy Silverton began in 1881. Although includes architectural surveys, books, and my prior connections with enquired about PHLF and requested difficult to build because of the moun- and periodicals pertaining to regional southwestern Pennsylvania. Tour T-Shirts for Sale Frank Lloyd Wright received guests in his private living room and hosted formal weekly additional information about our work. tainous topography and rough terrain, history, architecture, historic preserva- Growing up in Pittsburgh sparked Franco Harris, who played for the the railroad was finished in eleven tion, urban planning, engineering, To purchase our “Look Up” T-shirt gatherings with the Taliesin fellows. Photo by Andrew Pielage my love of old buildings and intro- Pittsburgh Steelers from 1972 through months. It began transporting millions interior design, and landscape design. ($20 less a 10% membership duced me to the architect, Frank Lloyd 1984 and served as a PHLF trustee for of dollars of gold and silver, as well discount), visit our “Store” Wright, who would have a profound many years, sent us a note in the fall as passengers and tourists. (www.phlf.org) or contact Frank Stroker: effect on me, as well as on generations of 1976 thanking us for letting him rent Over the next six decades, [email protected]; 412-471-5808, of people across the globe. I can still one of our apartments at 408 North the success of the Durango ext. 525. The letters in the words remember my first trip to Fallingwater Taylor Street in the Mexican War & Silverton Narrow- “Look Up” and the two arrows are and the awe I felt walking out onto Streets. He eventually purchased his Gauge Railroad rose those cantilevered porches and looking composed of architectural details own house on West North Avenue. and fell with the down onto Bear Run. It wasn’t until from six Pittsburgh landmarks: college that I discovered that preserving Mellon Institute, The Pennsylvanian, these important works of architecture Allegheny County Courthouse, could be a possible career path. After City-County Building, Market Square college I was able to explore that career Frank Fairbanks photographed Engine No. 476 of the Durango & Silverton Narrow-Gauge Railroad Place, and Emmanuel Episcopal path when I landed a dream position Frank Fairbanks’ ticket from Church. A detail from The Landmarks at Wright’s Kentuck Knob in Fayette during his trip to Colorado in 1957. Engine No. 476 is still in service today. July 10, 1957, to ride the Durango Building, our headquarters building County and worked there for nearly & Silverton Narrow-Gauge Railroad. at Station Square, appears on the front five years. While at Kentuck Knob, In 1957, the Denver & Rio Grande of the T-shirt. Proceeds support our I was fortunate to get to know the Western Railroad still owned the line. tour program. great work and people of the Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation, who advocate for the preservation of Wright’s work in the Laurel Highlands and also for the work of Cornelia Brierly and Peter Berndtson, early members of Wright’s Fellowship who lived in southwestern Pennsylvania and designed and built many homes there.

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Dining Out in Storied Spaces Angelique Bamberg and Jason Roth The experience of dining out is about so much more than a meal. Restaurants are special places where we can focus on enjoying good food in the good company of one another (along with the undeniable luxury of not having to shop, cook, or clean up). In a restau- rant, for an hour or two at least, we can be free from the cares and obligations that crowd us at home. Dining in a historic building is an extra-special experience, equal parts sanctioned trespassing and something akin to time travel. Historic houses, in particular, make wonderful restaurants because they give us the chance in the twenty-first century to experience the intimate environments of people far removed from us in time and culture.

Mansions on Fifth Until 2011, most of us could only Located about forty miles south of Downtown Pittsburgh, Century Inn at 2175 East National Pike in Scenery Hill is the imagine life inside one of the oldest continuously operating inn on the National Road. Photo by Gene Uger, courtesy of Margittai Architects mansions of Fifth Avenue’s Millionaire’s Row in Shadyside. Only a few of these old mansions even remained to suggest the lifestyle of Brugge on North A freestanding stone building across Pittsburgh’s Gilded-Age from the historic Allegheny Cemetery, If historic taverns and houses are no- elite. Among them was the the premises’ former roles as a masonry brainers for dining establishments, 20,000-square-foot McCook Revival on Lincoln (top and above), located shop, metals foundry, and funeral home at 366 Lincoln Avenue in the Borough of building types historically unrelated to mansion at Fifth and Amberson have resulted in a sprawling, eclectic Bellevue, is just beyond the City’s northwest food and family bring the “wow” factor avenues, built in 1906–07 for Willis and array of spaces embellished with border. The Young Preservationists of transformation. And in Pittsburgh Mary McCook and their ten children. medieval-esque stonework, heavy Association of Pittsburgh named Christopher right now, nothing says “transforma- Willis F. McCook was counsel for wooden ceiling beams, and stained Driscoll, part owner and founder of the tion” quite like the Garden Theater Henry C. Frick and other influential glass—details that lend it an almost- restaurant, the 2019 Preservationist of the block of West North Avenue. While the corporate leaders. The McCook’s religious, deeply Old-World atmosphere. Year. PHLF awarded a Historic Landmark Mexican War Streets Historic District mansion was designed by Carpenter It would take a highly iconoclastic plaque to Revival on Lincoln in 2019 has flourished since PHLF’s advocacy & Crocker of Pittsburgh. Its Elizabethan Photos by Joe Riebling vision to adapt this assemblage to a (see page 10). and investment in the area in the 1960s, Revival style carried the whiff of ances- restaurant, and Abbey owners Eric The Priory Hospitality Group acquired the National-Register-listed Mansions on Fifth in this block lagged behind, marred for tral English privilege. But wealth can Century Inn is elegant and refined. The Kukura and Chris McAleer have supplied 2016. Both the McCook mansion and adjacent McCook-Reed house (far left), comprising decades by an unsavory adaptive reuse be ephemeral, and the McCook family paperwork placing it in the National just that. Within its various rooms are Mansions on Fifth in Shadyside, are protected by an easement donated to PHLF in 2010. of the historic Garden Theater as an lost the house in the Great Depression. Register of Historic Places declares it an array of dining options that could adult cinema. When that closed, the It was purchased at sheriff’s sale by Emil the “pride of Washington County and easily satisfy someone from early morning entire block became poised for revital- and Margaret Bonavita. The Bonavitas one of the most important buildings to after-hours: a coffee bar, cocktail first-floor rooms offer a gracious ization. Brugge on North, the latest ensured they would always have income Revival on Lincoln in western Pennsylvania.” Guests have bar, and dining room (also with bar). dining experience with well-wrought outpost of Pittsburgh’s popular Belgian- to maintain the mansion by renting In Bellevue, another historic architectural included Andrew Jackson and the To pull all these spaces together, a fairly Contemporary American cuisine in themed casual eateries, shares the airy, rooms to students attending Carnegie gem has opened its doors to the dining Marquis de Lafayette. Abraham Lincoln brief gastropub menu that spans the surroundings that range from ultra- high-ceilinged first floor of a former The Abbey on Butler Street (above and below left), in Lawrenceville, is located within sight Mellon University; Andy Warhol, public. The aptly named Revival on is reported to have breakfasted there, globe keeps things interesting without traditional, with cut-glass light fixtures, Masonic Hall with the City of Asylum of Allegheny Cemetery’s Butler Street Gatehouse, designed by John Chislett in 1847. Shirley Jones, and one of the authors Lincoln is listed in the National Register lured by the reputation of the food. rambling on. to more modern, with deeply colored Bookstore and event space in the of this article were among the tenants. of Historic Places as an unusual and The inn operated continuously until walls. Toward the back, a smaller room Alphabet City complex of arts organiza- However, a devastating fire in 2004 elaborate residential example of the 2015, when a fire devoured everything has been converted to an intimate bar tions and venues. Designed by the So Many More (soon after the death of Margaret Classical Revival style. The house was except its stone walls and façade. Along that made us wish we lived near enough local firm of Bartberger & East, this These five restaurants only scratch the Bonavita) rendered the mansion designed by the Century Architectural with the building, the fire consumed the to become regulars. Romanesque Revival style fraternal hall surface of historic dining experiences uninhabitable and placed its future in & Engineering Company and built in invaluable collection of antique western was built in 1893–94 for the Allegheny in southwestern Pennsylvania. From question. Fortunately, husband-and-wife 1902 for Andrew S. Miller (an attorney Pennsylvania furnishings and artworks Century Inn Chapter of the Royal Arch Masons. It is purpose-built to commercial to preservationists Mary Del Brady and and Bellevue Borough councilman), inside. The Harrington family, which One of the most historic restaurants in reflective of the social life of the period, residential, the region’s strong legacy Richard Pearson supplied a vision to his wife Elizabeth, and their sons. has owned and operated the inn since western Pennsylvania is not an adaptive which centered on societies, clubs, and of architectural excellence provides rehabilitate the mansion as a boutique Dominated by its massive columned the 1940s, was determined to rebuild. reuse, but has been offering hospitality service organizations that brought endless opportunities to sup in spaces hotel and event center. (PHLF supplied portico, the Miller House was part of They restored what could be salvaged since 1788. The Century Inn in Scenery together people of similar backgrounds, that have stories to tell. critical financial support.) This had the an early-twentieth-century building and replicated what could not, using the Hill, Washington County, first opened skills, and interests. In an updated way, wonderful benefit of opening the private boom in Bellevue and other streetcar building’s charred remains as a guide, as Hill’s Tavern, providing rest and that is exactly what the building does residence to guests. Because hospitality suburbs of Pittsburgh. Subsequent and combed antique markets for new refreshment to weary travelers along today, with the addition of the best is never without food, the former owners converted the residence to a furnishings and decor to recreate what soon would become the National mussels and frites this side of Belgium. billiards room is now a pub called the funeral home in 1938, and it functioned historically correct, yet comfortable Road. Built of stone quarried from the Brugge on North, at 40 West North Avenue Oak Room, offering craft cocktails, as such for over sixty years. In 2018, interiors. Only the inn’s frame additions surrounding area, the inn is a vernacular on the North Side, occupies a portion of fine wines, microbrew beers, and a fresh Christopher Driscoll, an architecture were designed anew by Margittai The Abbey on Butler Street expression of the Georgian Style––its City of Asylum’s Alphabet City headquarters menu of soups, salads, and panini. buff and director of technology at the Architects of the South Side. Reopened Pittsburgh’s Lawrenceville neighborhood formality, symmetry, and ornament building. PHLF helped save the former The public is welcome to dine in the Katz Graduate School of Business at the in 2017, the Century Inn offers a menu has been on the up-and-up for many Masonic Hall by extending a loan in 1988 derived from ancient Greek and Oak Room Pub and explore the University of Pittsburgh, and John King, its Colonial-era guests could only have years and was designated a National to the North Side Civic Development Council. Roman prototypes. An addition in main floor. retired chef at the Allegheny Country dreamed of, including crab cakes, seared Register Historic District in 2019. City of Asylum purchased the corner building 1794 accommodated a dining room Club in Sewickley, teamed up to create salmon, and pappardelle, along with Butler Street offers a veritable feast for from the Urban Redevelopment Authority in and kitchen with a massive stone hearth. Revival on Lincoln. The restaurant’s peanut soup, a Century Inn tradition. the eyes and palate, but one of its more 2015 and completed an impressive mixed- Though its architect is unknown, the unique destinations is The Abbey, a use renovation. coffeehouse, pub, and restaurant.

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Education and His Windows in and A Tribute to Albert M. Tannler near Pittsburgh, published by PHLF in 2008. Al’s publications on architectural Louise Sturgess glass also include William Willet in Our Staff Pittsburgh 1897–1913, and articles in Al Tannler was a valued member of Your diligent, Stained Glass, Connick Windows, and Arthur P. Ziegler, Jr., President PHLF’s staff for twenty-eight years, scholarly research informs the British Journal of Stained Glass. from January 4, 1991 to April 18, 2019. Michael F. Sriprasert, Vice President; your excellent books about He co-authored Art Glass in Pittsburgh: Hired as an archivist and editor, he President, Landmarks Community Pittsburgh architecture. You A Tour of Glass Designed by J. Horace became our historical collections director Capital Corporation; President, Rudy and Rudy Brothers Company in 1994 and is now architectural historian have made a real, lasting The Landmarks Development and A Tour of Later Gothic Revival emeritus. Al continues to live in his contribution to this city. Corporation Architecture and Stained Glass in Shadyside condominium that he gifted Louise Sturgess, Editor, PHLF News, ––Marylynne Pitz, Metropolitan Pittsburgh. A series of to PHLF in 2011. This year, we will Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Advisor, Education his essays on architectural glass is on begin creating the Albert M. Tannler our website. Collection, archived in our James D. Preservation Services preservation movement with a national In 2013, PHLF published Pittsburgh Van Trump Library, thus making Al’s perspective in mind. He helped us realize David A. Farkas, Director, Architecture in the Twentieth Century: extensive work in documenting this Real Estate Development the full significance of our built environ- Notable Modern Buildings and Their region’s architectural heritage accessible ment and the trend-setting nature of Architects, by Al Tannler. It is the first Umer Humayun, to the public. our work. Al authored a special issue Project Manager guidebook devoted solely to twentieth- of PHLF News in 1994 on the occasion century buildings in metropolitan Thomas Keffer, Director, Your scholarship and of our thirtieth anniversary that, even Construction Pittsburgh. Al also authored a guidebook research remain a lasting now, as we enter our fifty-sixth year, on H. H. Richardson’s Allegheny County Karamagi Rujumba, Director, legacy to Pittsburgh. remains one of the most insightful and Courthouse and Jail, published by PHLF Development & Communications relevant statements about the unique –– Angela and Doug Marvin, in 2016, and he served as a co-editor of Robert E. Wagner, character and accomplishments of PHLF members several other architectural guidebooks Senior Loan Officer our organization. and publications. Sarah J. Walker, Administrative As a skilled researcher, writer, and Through his lectures, tours, and When Al arrived here from Chicago Assistant to the President; respected archivist who oversaw two publications, Al helped our staff, in December 1990, he was immediately Office Manager libraries at PHLF, Al established docents, and members––and visitors impressed with Pittsburgh’s landscape. Marilyn Whitelock, Administrative meaningful contacts with architectural from around the world––appreciate After spending time with and reading Assistant for Real Estate Services scholars and historical organizations the surprising beauty and exceptional books by PHLF Co-founder Jamie Van here in Pittsburgh, throughout the United quality of Pittsburgh’s historic built Gregory C. Yochum, Trump (1908–1995) and Architectural States, and overseas. He researched Horticulturist environment. And, as a mentor, he Historian Walter C. Kidney (1932–2005), and created profiles on more than 120 inspired many in the next generation Ronald C. Yochum, Jr., Al realized that “the city still contained architects who worked in this region, of preservation leaders and educators. Chief Information Officer an extraordinary (if not widely known) and wrote numerous articles for the range of fine buildings preserved by Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Focus

Educational Programs an active and effective preservation between 1994 and 2004. Mary Lu Denny, Director, movement.” After a decade of research into Membership Services As the outsider of our group, Al Pittsburgh’s architectural glass and the Sarah J. Greenwald, MA, took on the mission of researching and discovery that buildings in metropolitan Co-director, Education writing about Pittsburgh’s architectural Pittsburgh possess some of the most Marie Miller, Secretary legacy and about PHLF’s key role in the extraordinary glass to be found anywhere, & Education Assistant Al wrote Charles J. Connick: His Tracy Myers, Co-director, Education Anna Samuels, Archivist & Librarian Your meticulous research, always so liberally shared Frank Stroker, Director, Historical with others, and your devotion to the built heritage of your Resources & Collections adopted city, have truly made you Pittsburgh’s priceless Finance “Civic Treasure.” Rebecca K. Spina, MBA, –– Peter Cormack, distinguished British author and stained-glass authority Chief Financial Officer A. J. Marks, Senior Accountant Albert M. Tannler revealed the Pittsburgh region’s extraordinary architectural heritage Rachel Ranii, Staff Accountant through his writings, tours, and lectures. We are fortunate that this native of eastern Legal Pennsylvania, who worked in Chicago for Donald A. Kortlandt, Esq., twenty-one years, chose to move to Pittsburgh General Counsel and join our staff in 1991.

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