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Published for the members of the Pittsburgh History & l¿ndmarks Foundation No. 139 July 1995 . The Smithfïeld Street Bridge: A Grand Restoration . LookingAhead to Cleveland . Once upon a Summer . Pittsburgh Architecture: The Terrain

Goal: f)ouble Landmarks' Preservation Loan Fund Richard King MeIIon Foundation Grants #200,000

La.ndmarks' Preseruation Loan Fund l)ittrbr¡¡gh lli\l(n'r \ I?H l iu(hììirk\ lìr¡nrl.rtirx¡ ]-,ì: prutides technícal and, fi.nancial øss¿s- {a tance to neighborhood groups that pro- S pose plans renutatíng hß- \ feasible for o o toric properties. The Laan Fund, has been uery effectiae through th.e years, with a reoolaingfund of one million Preseruation dollars. Now Lo,nd,marlts has embarked Loan Fund on an ffirt to double the assets of the Fund, and is pleøsed to annoutæe the first møjor grant toward achiaing this goal: a 8200,000 grantfrom the Ríchard, King MelLon Foundation. Howard B. Slaughter, Jr., director of Preservation Services, said, "Land- marks'goal is to financially enhance historic restoration efforts throughout development; and good housing in his- the county. The grant provided by the toric buildings has been provided for Richard King Mellon Foundation will many people. help us expand the work of the The Richard King Mellon Founda- Preservation Loan Fund." tion grant marks the first success in our Landmarks' Preservation Loan Fund campaign to double the size of the originated in the 1960s with neighbor- Preservation Loan Fund to meet the hood restoration revolving funds creat- continuing needs of our historic neigh- ed through grants from major Pitts- borhoods. An attraction for donors to burgh foundations; these funds were the Fund is that all of the money raised consolidated in the 1970s. At first, goes directly into our restoration Landmarks used the funds to acquire activities. No overhead or salaries and restore anchor buildings in historic will be charged to the new grants neighborhoods, then rented them to and donations. low- to moderate-income families. As neighborhood organizations grew stronger in the 1980s, the original con- cept of the Preservation Loan Fund was revised. In 1985, it began to provide risk, gap, and start-up loans to commu- nity-based organizations so råey could undertake restoration projects them- selves, particularly ones benefiting low- to moderate-income residents and A detøilof thcformer Horncr Mid.dle SchoolínwíIkùtsburg. Hosannø House, Inr. is minorities. Loans were also made avail- renoaøting th.e school os ø comrnuiity center, thønks in pørt to technínal assistan¿e able for technical assistance to the prouidcd by Lan dma.rks. neighborhoods and for educating neigh- borhood residents in regard to architec- ture, urban planning, real-estate devel- East Allegheny, South Side, Garfield, to help staffPCRG, and continues to opment, and financial management. East Liberty, and Homewood, to name provide funding for its annual analysis Through its three decades of activity, just a few. of lending practices in the Pittsburgh the million-dollar Preservation Loan The Fund was also used to help region. This funding and support has Fund has revolved over and over and create the Pittsburgh Community Rein- leveraged over $2.5 billion of bank leveraged about one billion dollars' vestment Group (PCRG), headquar- lending, and it continues to grow. worth of restoration activity. Members tered on the North Side. Now, PCRG is Through the years, the work of of Landmarks may be familiar with a consortium of 33 neighborhood or- Landmarks' Preservation Loan Fund some of the projects aided by the ganizations working with lending insti- has created positive results in restoring Preservation Loan Fund, including St. tutions in Allegheny County to help residential buildings and small com- Mary's Priory, the Eberhardt & Ober banks increase their commitment re- mercial properties in neighborhood Brewery and various neighborhood garding the Community Reinvestment communities. Many inner-city neigh- restoration projects in Manchester, the Act. Over the last six years, Landmarks borhoods have been improved; jobs Porches on Lioerpool Street in Mexican rùy'ar Streets, Allegheny West, has expended approximately $300,000 have been created through commercial Mønchester. Page2 PHLF News . July 1995 ffiNEV/S

Welcome ï{ew Members Tbustee Evelyn B. Pearson l)onates Books The Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation welcomes the following new members who recently joined Landmarks. We look in Honor of Barbara Drew Hoffstot forward to their participation in our work and special events. The Landmarks library has received a generous gift 100 Allegheny Valley School District of books from trustee Ann Ma¡ie Bajgier Evelyn B. Pearson donated to honor the L. W. Bassett 2.-4---*2ã "t- I life and work of Barbara Drew Hoffstot f*9 (1919-1994), Mulugetta Bimr PlJz F a founding trustee and vice- Beny Bittner iLZ;-."<. .- A'-' chairman of Landmarks. The books, W. Byron Boak '/4-ZÐ,u'"" ÊaZ-1" chosen by Mrs. Pearson from her per- Eileen Brown A,z2- I sonal library, include historical studies of Sally and Bruce Buchanan /""+ alL- 4-e.,*j4¿+, lüy'estern Luther Burch, Jr. Pittsburgh and Pennsylvania; Mr. & Mrs. Frank Cahouet 2"7 works on regionally- and nationally- Dr. & Mrs. E. G. Choby, Jr. 7aJ.4lÁ¿¿,"yz 4;4 known architects; and biographies, Margaret M. Christopher 774ã,";.b"- memoirs, fiction, and poetry by Mr. & Mrs. Henry C. Corson 6Zp-r,",r-.- d¿ -.¿:z¿-¿L a- á- Pittsburgh authors. Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Crouch Each volume has an especially Jim Cunningham /¿2¿/, "This Jean Davis and family designed bookplate that reads: Thomas Demko book is given by Evelyn B. Pearson in Detøil of Pittsburgh in the 7850s from Roseann DeNinno /'ø'-^ Honor of Barbara Drew Hoffstot." A Pittsburgh .Album, 1975 Eleanor H. Edwards a member Winifred H. Eifert Jane E. Colbom, of Landmarks for 25 years. Kingsley S. and Judith A. Evarts Scott E. Fabean From the Library: Victorian Hangover Johanna Fields Victor Charles Gordon Ruth and Paul Platek and family Gary P.Grabowski Donald and Virginia Platt Faith Renee Gray Catherine M. Potts Dena Holland and family Preservation Foundation Hopewell Elementary School of Palm Beach Lloyd Kaiser William H. Reed, Jr. Nellie S. Ken Ruth Richardson Tilda Klaus Margaret Rix Margaret A. Krill arld family Marie Rotondo Senko Deanna Kuder Hon. & Mrs. Paul A. Simmons William A. Lash Lawrence R. Smith and family Grace R. Maits Stephen and Susan Smith Louise and Michael Mahkoff and family and family Mrs. Jean W. Snyder Billie M. McCulloch Society for the Preservation Lucinda L. McDonough of the Murals of and family St. Nicholas Millvale Judy and Roger Mclntyre Mr. & Mrs. Eric W. Springer Ray McKeever and family Mr. & Mrs. Edward S. McKenna Mary Jane Stervart Mary Jo Meenen Patrick and Theresa Stroh Oliver Miller Homestead Nancy B. Thompson Associates Mr. & Mrs. L. D. Van der Veer Gary Morton C. A. Wagner and family Betty and Joseph Munay Mr. & Mrs. Milton A. Washington Anita R. Overcash Ron Weathers, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. James S. Pasman, Jr. Mrs. Helen Wolf Peebles Elementary School Jude A. Wudarczyk

Welcome Corporøte Members Recently the Library received a very suggest a Mid-Victorian house, Italianate interesting if slightly mysterious gift. or Second Empire, that was superficially Benefactors Partners (continued) "Portable Pittsburgh" docent Edward S. redecorated in the eclectic Japanese- Integra Financial Corporation Fayene Bank McKenna rescued a photographic album Queen Anne-Eastlake manner of 1880 or Matthews Educational Frank P. Hess & Company, Inc. containing interior views of a well- so, then gradually filled with objects all and Trust Charitable The Gateway Engineers appointed house. of which were there to stay. Light SmithKline Beecham Graham Realty Company Judging from the House & Garden obsessed the owner; this end of the parlor Consumer Healthcare Great American Federal Savings & Loan Association cover art at the bottom left and the name has eight lamps, three of which have Partners The Gustine Company, Inc. of the photographer, Trinity Court multiple outlets and whose luminaires Allegheny Valley Bank Horty, Springer & Mattern, P.C. Studio, this is a photograph ofthe 1920s, seem to operate on candles, oil, gas, and of Pittsburgh yet it is, even for the time, a picture of a electricity. Furniture is Eastlake, Chinese, Chubb Group of Insurance room from the past. It hints at why this and mediocre imitation Georgian as well Companies very period held the Victorian interior in as overstuffed nondescript. There are such abhorrence. What interior this is, we seven pictures, including one in the do not know; it comes from an album of overmantel minor, seven statuettes, and Memorial Gifts E. M. H. (Elizabeth M. Home). The five vases within sight. On the other The Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation thanks the follow- heavy cornice and archway moldings hand, there is only one bird cage. ing for their recent memorial gift contributions: . Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Edmunds in memory of Barbara Drew Hoffstot. . Alice G. Abbett, Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth S. Boesel, Mr. & Mrs. Nice ldeas V/illiam D. Gordon, Dr. & Mrs. Paul B. Steele, Jr., and Dr. & Mrs. Dusen Arensberg. Albert C. Van in memory of Gertrude Hays The New Urbanism: Toward an community with strong architectural defi- . Van Dr. & Mrs. Albert C. Dusen in memory of Chester LeMaistre. Architecture of Community. Peter Katz, nition and a popular transit service is ed., with essays by Todd W. Bressi, Peter appealing of course it is pretty much Calthorpe, Andres Duany and Elizabeth what we have between- Beechview and PHLF News is published five times each year for the members of the Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation, a non-profit historic preser- Plater-Zyberk, and Elizabeth Moule and Mount Lebanon on the Light Rail, and vation organization serving Allegheny County. Landmarks ís committed to Stefanos Polyzoides, with an afterword the contrast between this 1920 suburbia neighborhood restoration and historic-properry presemation; public by Vincent Scully. New York, etc.: and the inhabited litter around South advocacy; education and membership programs; and the continuing operatíon of McGraw-Hill,1994. xlii + 245 pps., Hills Village makes the appeal all the Station Square, an historic riverfront property opposite downtown Pittsburgh. many photos, renderings, and maps. clearer. But the Bewares are visible in A¡thurP. Ziegler,lr...... President $49.95 this book too, intentionally or not. Louise Sturgess Editor/Executive Dírector Beneath the roofs and behind the plank Elisa J. Cavalier ..... General Counsel Once more, the familiar roofs of Seaside, shutters of Rosa Vista are mobile homes, Tom Croyle...... Comptroller Florida, appear on a dustjacket, and one and the Colonial-looking houses of Kent- Mary Lu Denny...... Director of Membership Services wonders how long a planned community Mary Ann Eubanks...... Education Coordinator lands are not all that well-proportioned 80 acres can be milked. Seaside to be Barry Hannegan Consulting Director, Historic Parks and Gardens Sumey of and their windows, it is breathed, have Thomas Keffer...... Superintendent of Property Maintenance sure is only one of 24 communities that snap-in muntins. Fakeyness comes so Walter C. Kidney...... Architectural Hístorian rate individual and well-illusuated chap- easily when all one intends to do is return Linda Mitry...... StaffAccountant ters, but of this number most are subur- Howard B. Slaughter, Director Presemation to tradition. The skepticism of Todd Jr. of Servíces ban or resort-like in character and 14 are Albert M. Tann1er...... Historical Collections Director Bressi and Vincent Scully is good to heed Ronald C. Yochum, Jr...... Facilities Management Assistant in either Florida or California. The idea even as one is agreeing with so much. Greg þtlik...... Designer of a functionally diversified, rather dense July 1995 c PHLF News Page 3 A Legacy in Bricks and Mortar: African-Am,uican A Legacy in Briclts and Mortar: Landmarks ffiican-American Landnxarks in AIle gheny County in Allzgheny County Remarks by Esther L. Bush

On May 3, the Pittsburgh History & Further, to understand why Monticello Street is included in the book. Lo.ndmarks Foundation released A When I attended Westinghouse High Legacy in Bricks and Mortar: African- School, which is also in the book, I American Landmarks in Allegheny would frequently visit friends on Count¡ The B4-page book by Eliza Monticello Street. I always marveled at how well kept and attractive it was I Smith Brown, Frank E. Bolden, and never knew about "The Battle of - Laurence A. Glasco was based on a. sur- Monticello Street." uey of buildings and sites signi,ficant to The book also includes many places I was not familiar with, but I know I will the Afr ic an- Amer ican c o mmunity. soon visit; St. Matthew's AME Zion More tltan 100 m.embers andfriends Mona N. Generett (lcft), r:íce-president Church in Sewickley which was estab- of La.ndrnarks and the African- of Comrnunity Deuelopment of Dollar lished in 1855 by six runaway slaves. I Amcrican comrnunity attended, the Bønk, and. Esther L. Bush, presi.dent will also visit the Kuykendall-Forsythe- authors' reception on May 3 at the ønd CEO ofthe Urban Leøgue of Reed farmhouse in Jefferson because is of the -sites where Píttsburgh. it one few surviving Homewood Branch of the Carnegie slaves were believed to have lived and Library of Piusburgh. Valerie A. worked. ties. And many times, when we realize McDonald, thefi,rst black City Council- Our history is so rich that a renewed the history of a structure, a new sense of respect for African-American contribu- wonlan, presented. Howard B. pride, hope, and dreams can develop. tions and struggles are sure to emerge as ORDER FORM Slaughter, Jr., d,irector of Preseraation I believe that sufficient knowledge of you read the book. one's history helps you to know your Seruices at l,andrnarks, with a com- In closing, I encourage you to purchase Published by the Pittsburgh History (t possibilities. I learned a long time ago or check out from the library this signifi- Landmarþs Foundation mcmoratiue plaquc from Pittsburgh that an old dish, vase, or piece of fumi- cant book. It is easy reading. It makes Text by Frank E. Bolden, Laurence A. Mona N. Generett, uice- City Council. ture evolves from something just plain you think and it's "personal Black histo- Glasco, and Eliza Smith Browt president of Community Deuelopment of old to an antique of significant value. The ry" that we can relate to as we carry on Soft cover; 84 pages; 115 photos landmarks identified in this book Dollar Bank, presented, the copy of our everyday lives. I'd like to thank fi.rst - - tsBN 0-916670-17-1 $8.9J are of significant value to the history of Dollar Bank for investing in this educa- the book. to Esther L. Bush, president all residents of Allegheny County and the tional resource. And I ask the Black com- A Legacy in Bricks and Monar and. CEO of the Urban League of Pitts- country. munity to help themselves by learning Black history becomes easy when you burgh. We are pleased to reprint Mrs. more about their history and I ask the Number of copies that I can pass by it every day and share with Bush's remarlæ, with her perrnission. white community to read it in order to would like to purchase, @ $8.95 children, family, and visitors the histori- understand the contributions and strug- cal significance of some structures in our gles of the African American in Amountdue: Thank you. It is a community. My review of the book was a Allegheny County. Vy'hat can I say, ladies heartfelt pleasure for 70o/" discount members history lesson that overlaid my growing and gentlemen? It is a good book. A must for me to accept this up in Pittsburgh. For example, I walked read. Thank you. of Landmarks: book,A Legacy in past the former Lemington Center at least PA residents add 7o/" sales Þx: Briclcs and Mortar: twice a day for years because I attended African-American Lemington Elementary School which was Plus postage and handling: Landmarks in next door I didn't know that it was the Allegheny County.I fÏrst home -for elderly Black women in M,.**",, One to four books: $3.00 Esther L. Bush Five to 10 $7.00 know it will educate, Western Pennsylvania. I just thought it books: motivate, and give pride to many as it - was a big, pretty house with a fabulous TOTALDUE: did for me when I read it. I reflected on front porch. the personal and historical memories that I now know that celebrities like Lena these great structures in our neighbor- Horne and Roberto Clemente used to rent (Please make your check payable to the hoods and throughout Allegheny County the Harris house on Apple Street for the Pittsburgh History (y Landmarks provide. same reason that Black college students This building that we are in - The stayed at the Centre Avenue YMCA- Foundation, referenced " Legaq Homewood Branch of the Carnegie because they couldn't live or eat in Book.") Library of Pittsburgh - not only was a Oakland or Downtown. Please mail the book(s) to: resource for me growing up but it was Today, it hurts me to go past the Ellis built in 1910, the same year the National Name: Hotel on Centre Avenue. There was a fire Frotn lcft to rþht: Louße Súurgess, Urban League was founded. This is there recently and I wonder if it will executiae dírector of Løndmørks ; Vøbríc historical information that gives me a be restored. - A. McDonal.d of Pittsburgh City Council Address: greater appreciation and connectedness to It is educational to not only read about (District t9); and. Houard B. Slaughter, the building. the establishment of our great Black director of Preseroøtion Serai.c,es at Bricks and mortar - structures - are newspaper The Pittsburgh Courier Jr., tangible history that remind us of what but to learn -the role its publisher played- Land.marks. our neighborhood used to be and how we in "The Battle on Monticello Street." evolved. Everything has a history and a purpose. This book answers many of the z whys about our local African-American Phone: history. It is appropriate and appreciated À that the book has 35 pages about how Blacks in Pittsburgh lived from the mid- Return this completed form with payment 1700s through to today. These pages to: Louise Stutgess greatly enhance one's respect for the 62 Pitßbargb Histoty 4ç l¿nùna*s Founfutiot structures shown in the book by Onc Station Square, Sait¿ 450 community. - Pittsburgh, PA 1 S 219 -1 1 70. Pittsburgh has always had a prominent Black population, and efforts to retain its Atry questions: call Louise at (412) 471-5808 progress and challenges through architec- Thankyou order! ture now known as landmarks foryon throughout- Allegheny County are -neces- sary. Therefore, I want to thank the Pitts- burgh History & Landmarks Foundation for their wisdom in the publication, and equally important, for the distribution of this book [to all Pittsburgh Public School libraries and to all Camegie librariesl. These landmarks provide a better under- standing of certain streets and communi- The øuthors (from lcft to rþht): Eliza Smíth Broun; Laurence A. Glasco; and Frank E. Boldcn. Page 4 pHLF News . July 1995

The Smithfield Street Bridge: a Grand Restoration, Finatly Arthur P Ziegler, Jr. and Waher C. Kidney

About 20 years ago, we began attend,- PennDot had a variety of traffic issues ing mcetings to discuss the restoration to deal with: the question of how to' include both buses and automobiles yet of the Srnithfi.eld Street Brid,ge. During give buses some preference during peak the years many issues deueloped, aher- periods was troublesome, as were the natiaes were eaaluated, and many intersections at either end. We at Station wanted parties were h,eardfrom. In the end, the Square to be sure that we had a bus stop, which was lacking during rush concerted of those inuolued ffirt all hour in the past, thereby stranding all the and the sensitiaity and willingness of employees and customers who wanted to PennDot combined. to prod.uce afine go to the South Hills via bus; they had to walk into town in order to ride back! At restorøtion of Pinsburgh\ oldest the same time, PennDot had to maneuver extant brid,ge. buses into the old trolley tunnel as well as permit left turns for buses and cars onto The Past Carson Street. There has been a Smithfield Street Structural questions were alarming Bridge since 1818, when the seven-span from the beginning. Would the old steel covered timber work of the carpenter support the loads that were required? Werntaag's bri.dge of 1818 experi.enced. the ill effects of ø "freshet" in Lewis Wemwag opened as the first river How much of the structure would have to 1832 as Russell Smith's painting sl¿o¿os. bridge in the Pittsburgh area. The Fire of be replaced? In the end it turned out that 1845 took this out, but in the next year it repair work was needed to the super was replaced by John Augustus structure but no major replacements. The Roebling's suspension bridge, built on floor structure underneath the span was the old piers and a modest predecessor of almost fully replaced, on the other hand. his masterpiece of a quarter-century later, the Brooklyn Bridge. This proved too light for traffic by 1880, and in 1883 its replacement, the downstream half of the present bridge, opened. This was the work of Gustav Lindenthal, who went on to New York and the Queensboro and Hell Gate Bridges. Its main spans were light and limber lenticular trusses, the inward pull of whose steel catenaries at pavement level was cancelled out by the thrust of the wrought-iron arches above. Roebling's bridge in its Last days, probably in 1880. In the bøck- In 1889 the bridge was widened in the Røcíng the June 20 deadlíne for pøint- ground, extretne Left to ríght: thefi.rst P&LE passenger statíon, upstream direction, then widened still ing. The paínting ß thefi.nøIphase of opened in 1879; the u¡ood.en tracle structure of the first Mononga,hela further in l9l I, when the old cast-iron a 820 millíon repair and renooatíon Inclíne, in operation since 1870; the glassuorks of WíIliøm McCully & portals of the 1880s, ponderously project by PennDot. were place, Co.; the SIígo lron Works of PhiIIþs, Nímiclt & Co.; the P&LE round- Romantic, removed. In their around 1915, came the lighthearted house; the settbment of Clinton u:ith St. Malnchy's Church; and the mock-Gothic portâls of the City Architect Clínton lron Works of Graff, Bennett & Co. u;ith the Clínton Furnace Stanley Lawson Roush, which include Solutions itself, first bl.ast furnace in the Pittsburgh area. the City escutcheons, showy strapwork Design issues were the major concem finials, and grotesques oflaborers by a of Landmarks and of others in the preser- sculptor not yet identified. vation community. The aluminum railing on the bridge dates from the 1930s, and a The Problems question arose as to whether a new railing The most frightening possibility that should be installed, and if so whether it developed during the course of stress should be formed according to the origi- analysis was that of demolishing the nal design, the design of the current rail- bridge and building a new one, either on ing, or a new design. Finally it was the same site or at a different location. agreed that the current design should be PennDot conducted studies of the alter- used on the bridge. natives and even considered adding to the Painting the bridge was preceded by bridge on the upstream side but con- considerable research by PennDot to cluded, fortunately, that the bridge in its ascertain the original colors. Everyone present form could serve contemporary was delighted to find that the original needs. color was primarily a deep blue with

Looking touatd toun in the 1890s. The ornate coaers where the diago- nals met are lang gone, ønd probøbþ neoer seraed a practical pur- pose. Through the ørch the neu Post Office is uisibb, and Franlt Líndenthal's bridge as buíh, u¡íth the present down- fi.rst Furness' B&O Statinn of 1887 appears through the trussutork. strectnr maín spans. The steel eyebars of the catenari.es are stamped KLOMAN PAT ENT PROCESS .I88.t.

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stone (pale tan) on the portals and a Credit brown floor structure. PennDot has The fact that so many people came repainted the bridge according to the together to work positively to achieve the original colors. best possible restoration, including the The question of lighting arose, both for Bureau Preservation of the traffic and for the necklace lighting that for Historic Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Landmarks had (with Station Square ten- and the Public Works ants) installed on the bridge on the down- Commission Department of the City of Pinsburgh, stream side in 1983. Studies were carried indicates how much people cherish the out of alternative forms of lighting, to Street Bridge. Landmarks'dismay, by the Greater Smithfield PennDot has extended its life for many Pittsburgh Office of Promotion. We were years and done so handsomely. For the opposed to floodlighting the bridge, first time in a long time we have a bridge which we felt would denude it at night crossing the rivers downtown that is not and result in over-illumination of the painted with the unpleasant Aztec Gold, waterway and the banks. Finally, an inof- that exhibits its original design and char- fensive roadway fixture was chosen and acter, that is illuminated beautifully at the necklace lighting was to be augment- night in such a way that its shape and ed in accordance with the original under- structure are outlined, and that has its standing between Landmarks and finials of 1915 (that had been removed PennDot. It will be placed on both the and safely stored by PennDot for some downstream and upstream chords of the years) back in place. bridge and should be lighted this summer. The bridge is a landmark that will Studies were also conducted of the visitors in and of itself, and will possibility of cleaning the piers in the attract The decoratiue portøI lannps and their substitutes. elegantly link downtown with Station river, but because of environmental prob- Square. lems PennDot decided not to do so. We ourselves do not object to seeing the piers coated with the black coal dust repre- senting the fiery years of the city's indus- trial might.

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Deteríoro,tion of ø portal. Today, the originøI lamps haae been restored. Page 6 PHLF News o July 1995 Education News

"Portable Pittsburglf ' Introduces over 31600 People to Pittsburgh History 120 Tþachers The "Portable Pittsburgh" program Participate Ín EVENTS wound up its seventh year with 43 sessions scheduled in May alone! Our 14 Landmarks'June loyal and energetic docents presented Only the dates and titles of upcoming these sessions, as well as the other l0l events are listed below. Invitations with Inservice Classes presentations scheduled since September detailed information will be mailed to all 1994. Just as our work with students and members, so be alert when sorting May is by far the busiest month for the "Portable Pittsburgh" comes to an end in throughyour mail! On call Inndmarks "Portable Pittsburgh" program. Many June, our work with teachers and summer Monday through Friday, between 9:00 teachers request the program as a wrap- inservice classes begins. This June, 20 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., at (412) 471-5808 up to their required Pinsburgh curricu- teachers participated in Landmarks' "Exploring forfurther information or to make lum. Teacher corrunents on the evaluation Architecture" inservice taught reservations. forms show the program strengths: "Ex- by architectural illustrator Thomas cellent presentation both my students Demko; 20 teachers parricipated in Landmarks' "Exploring July I0-14 and I were fascinated- by Pittsburgh's Your S tudent s fr om C ano n sb ur g M iddlê Neighborhood" Community Technicol Assistonce past"; "As a teacher it was a learning class taught by architect SchooI Anne-Marie Lubenau; Cenler (CTAC) Conference experience for me"; "Wonderful pro- and about 80 teachers participated gram! I enjoy it more each time I see it." in a "Gateway to Music" program featuring July I0-14 In the early years of the program, most Student Architects architecture, at taught by Landmarks' executive director The Africqn-Americsn Legocy in requests for "Portable Pittsburgh" came from Louise Sturgess. Piffsburgh Teocher lnservice (AlU) schools within Allegheny County. Kennywood This year, eight sessions were presented Landmarks will offer two more inser- On May l1 students from Vy'est Mifflin outside of Allegheny County. From Sep- vice classes in July: '"The African- July 17-21and24-26 Area Middle School, Vy'aynesburg Central tember 1994 through early June of this American Legacy in Pittsburgh" and Pifisburgh Heritoge I Teocher High School, Peabody High School, year, Landmarks presented "Portable "Pittsburgh Heritage I." For information lnserwice (AlU) North Star East Middle School, and Pittsburgh" to eight adult groups, five on these classes, call the Allegheny Canonsburg Middle School participated Pittsburgh public schools, 23 private Intermediate Unit at 394-5761. July 22 and 23 in "The 30-Minute Kennywood schools, and 3l Allegheny County The agendas vary from class to class, Combridge Springs ond Grove Architect" program created by David schools. This represents a total of 144 but all teachers learn that the built envi- City Weekend Bus Tour with Julian Roth of the Downtown Design presentations reaching about 3,660 ronment can be a resource for enriching Company and Louise Sturgess, Arthur Ziegler people. executive traditional classroom curricula, stimulat- director of Landmarks. The students ing student creativity, and developing August 5 and 6 toured the Lost Kennywood area, critical thinking and cooperative learning Downlown Drogons Fomily Fun sketched architectural details, and skills. Wolking Tour designed future rides and buildings.

September25, October2,9, 16 and2I Landmarks Assists Ccring for Your Historic Home THp LnNoUARKS (Pitt's Informal Program PIP) Citiparks \ryith Summer - Møgøzine Srone September 9 The Book For the second year in a row, the City of and Gifr Shop of the Bus tour to Glevelond, OH Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundarion Pittsburgh has sought the help of the Pittsburgh History & Landmarks September 17 Foundation in publishing Citiparks' Touring lhe Allegheny County Summer Magaeine. Pittsburgh History & Courthouse AND Joil Landmarks Foundation staff member Bill After heoring hþhlþhts a.bout Lichauer designed, produced, and October 8 Pittsburgh's 200aeør hßtory, Alison managed the printing of the annual Gotewoy Clipper Riverboat Sza.Ikoutski irnagined. Pittsburgh as the publication. The Summer Magazine is a Cruise "Sunny City" 50 yearsfrom nou. Alíson one-hundred page comprehensive guide is øfourth grad,er a.t Ross Ebmentary of all City and community events, educa- October 5 an"d 7 Schoolin Ross Townshíp. tional and community programs. If you Pirlsburghb Architecturol are interested in obtaining a Summer Treosures, Pgrt I We express our deep thanks to the fol- Magafine, call Citiparks at 255-2539. (Pitt's Informal Program) lowing docents who presented "Portable Pittsburgh": Bob Jacob, Nancy Stewart, October 23 Bob Bennett, Judy Mclntyre, Arlene Distinguished Lecture, McNalley, Jeanne V/eber, Ray McKeeve¡ LnN**ÀRKS Membership Dinner, ond Awsrd Rita Martin, Cam Witherspoon, Ed of Merit Presentotion. McKenna, Becki Butler, Janeen Swaby, \X/elco;mes Laura Ricketts and Marjorie Scholtz. Charles Duell, president of Middleron After a well-deserved summer vacation, Place Foundation in Charleston, South the docents will return in the fall to pre- Carolina, will be our Distinguished SrelN¡o Gress sent "Portable Pittsburgh" once INT¡cR¡ FINANCIAL Lecturer. again. ConponerloN Kiln-fired Stained Glass Reproductions of December 3 Designs from An Museum and Architecural MRrrrr¡ws EDUcATIoNAL Foundation Collecrions Neville House ond Old Sr. luket Holidoy Tour AND CHARITABLE TRUST by John La Farge, Louis C. 1ìffany, Dante Gabriel and Roseai, \ù(iilliam Morris, Mary Cassatr, Frank S¡r¿IrnKuNE BEECHAM Lloyd Vright, Marc Chagall, and others.

CoNsuv¡R H¡RrrHceRr Oval, round, square and rectangular shapes to hang or display on r/r Elegant Tempor ary Housing o a srand. 3 inches to 24 inches, from $26.95 to $199.95. Dêcorator Furnished as Corporate Member Benefactors Studio. One or fut-glass lamps designed by L.C.'Iìffany are Two Bedroom Su¡tes Beaut¡f ully Acces- of the Pittsburgh History 6c * available by special order. sor¡zed and rncludes equrpped kitchen, Landmarks Foundation. Free local phone, VCR. ... everything! Members of Landmarks receiue sHoRTTERM FLEx¡BLE a * LEAsE 70o/o discount '10 Landmarks appreciates tbe commitment on eaclt item. M¡nutes f rom Downtown. S Minutes * to Hospitals & Un¡versitles. 17r Blocks of Integra Financial Corporation, f rom Walnut Street's Fashionable Shops Manheras Educational and Charitable Tlust, THe Snops er SrerloN 5405 Fifth Avenue and Fine Reslaurants Squenr and SmithKline Beecham Consumer B¡rcoNy L¡vs¡- 682-2300 * MAJoR cREDrr cARDS Heabbcare in helping us create a future Prrrsauncu, PA r 5zt9.rr7o The Suite Life... at an Affordable Rate for Pinsburgh by preseruing its þast. Qrz) 765-ro4z July 1995 . PHLF News PageT

Looking Ahead to Cleveland

D o us nto u n C lco ela.nd s till høs three old. commcrcial a,rcødeso a.mong uhi.ch the Arcad.e of 1890 ß truly

dís tinguís he d : b etu e e n it s møssûse fronts øre fioe Leuels of business a.nd co¡n¡nerce beneøth a, glazed roof. The ørchitects, J ohn Eisen¡nønn ønd. George H. Smith, dcsþned ín ø sobmn rnanner thøt d.id. notfully plcase the orøners in the Art Deco periad.; al this time the stairs in the great space uere reutorked utíth delicate curues ín the railíngs ønd. lnmps.

Frorn what we have been told, Cleveland is a renascent city, risen from its decadence of ten or twenty years ago and making a confi- dent approach to its Bicentennial next year. But of course, as we are bound to do, we are looking ahead on our September 9 tour to Cleveland's past rather than its future, to buildings such as these:

Abooe: Fairmount Bouleuord. is tIæ Iùd of suburbon slwuplate onc expecæ ø Mi.døesærn cí*y to løoe, oll lw,lf-timber, Georgíø.n brbk, a.nd. trees. The community is Clarcland. Heþhts. Abooe ríght: Unioersity Círcle lies ad.jacent to Wade Park ønd. Ca,se Western Resertse Unhtersity, tpith thc Clcuela'nd. Synphony's Seuerance Hall ønd. the Cbuelønd. Museum of Art as outstand,ing feotures. Thc Museum is a utork of 1916 by locøl ørchitects HubbeLl& Benes, a mørblc rnonu¡nent set in a care.fuþ composed. Beau"x-Arts entourage ofterraces, trees, ond shruhs.

Th.e West Si.d.e market is a The Ol.d. Stone Church sta.nds tnonumznt to protein, its on Clctsela.nd's old. focus, mpøt housed, Public Squøre. It utas buíh in and døiry stølls beneath ri¿h brousn aaults of 1856 by the buiLd.ers-turncd'- ín archítects Chørlcs Heord Guastøoino tilc. Outside, øn L-shøped, col.onnade, are ønd. Si¡neon Porter, then the and. oegetablcs. remodel.ed in 1884, in a more fruíts The buil.d.ing, by Hubbell& Ri,char ds oniøn Roma,nesque, by the ex-Bostonía.ns Charl¿s Benes, dates frorn 1906- ønd. Julíus Schueinfurth; the Cleoel,ønd's sþnøture is the former of these desþned. TerminøITouer of 1930 some of the most distín- (shoun here ín its early guishedbuild.ings on days), øn elnment of the Clcoel¡tnd's street of fashian, Unian Terminol (now the P r esid.ent G ørficld. lie s u¡ithin Euclíd Aaenue. Touser Cíty det:elopmnnt ) thß ¡nausobum desþned that theVøn Sueringen øround 1885. The exterìor ß brothers, Oris ønd Mantk, impressùte but the interior is utere compelled.to build: hao- sensa,tionøI : gr øníte ønd ing deoeloped. Shøher mosaics surroundíng a stotue Heþhts, eøst of the cíty, as a of Gørficld. The architect cotnìnuter suburb, thcy hød uto,s George Kell.er øt to buíId. a troll.ey linc; to get Ha.rtþrd., uthose desþnß in the trolby line ínto tousn the bulhy butfonciful Gothic expedítiously, they had. to øssociated. u:ith the buy ø roílroad rþht-of-uøy; E nglishm øn W illíom B ur ge s. ønd., hooing ø røilroad they Burges ínføct had employed. feh induced to ghte it an ode- P. Wøher Lonsdølc, desþncr qucLte statíon, uhich ínfact of the tomb's mosaics and becøme a union støtinnfor gløss, ønd John S. Chøppb, seaera,I røíIroods as utell øs a uho ossßted. on the d,røw- huge commcrciøI compl,ex. ings. Cospar Buberl, ø sculp- The orchítectsfor the tor utellhnou¡n at the time, Terminøl itself uere ¡nodelcd. the exterior terrø- Graham, Anderson, P robst cotta reli.efs. Join f."rrAmarks on September 9 for a one-day bus tour to &White of Chica.go. The Cleveland. We will see most of the places shown here, and ou)rr¿rs of Touer City todøy enjoy lunch ât the Watermark Restaurant and dinner in a øre Forest City Enterprßes, private residence. Call Mary Lu Denny àt (4t2) 471-5808 pa.rt-ou)ners of Støtíon Squore. for details. Page 8 PHLF News . July 1995

Bayuood in aII its spLendor. The consß- tency of styl.e betu¡een the house and the grounds ß remarkabb. In the house, the pønel.edfricze ctt the base of the ma.nsa.rd roofs, the dentils of the møín corníce, the quoíns, the stripes of the øutníngs, ønd the bolustrades of the porch ønd. bal- coníes all contribute to a sharp, rhyth- mic pattern of smøll-scøl.e units repeated. ooer and otser øgøin and relicrsed by the smooth expanses of uall ønd. roof sur- faces. The søme pattern ís eoident in the repetition of small plant units, in the rib- bon of cørpet bedding along the d,riae, and, ín the støccato interruptions ofLarg- er units the standard bay tree in - an Ito.líøn terra-cotta pot and. the clump of castor bean ín the rþhtforeground. These ebments clre set offby itnmacu- l,o,tely groomed grauel ønd grass, ushbh utorlt oisually in the same u)ay crs the roofs a.nd ualls d.o for the house.

Once upon a Summer Barry Hannegan

hat could be so rare as a summer's day in 1900 spent at "Baywood," the estate of Alexander King near the Highland Park end of Negley Avenue? That experience is denied us by the passing of time, but the camera recorded enough to tell us what we've missed and to sharpen the sense of loss at the disappearance of one of Pittsburgh's great gardens. The panoramic view taken from the margin of Highland Park shows a pastoral setting of a tree-dotted meadow dominated by the sparkling mansion. To the left, a small mansarded service building conceals a long greenhouse from our sight. In the center of the landscape rises the English Parapet, a massive retaining wall, heavily buttressed and bravely capped by a series of small stone towers. One of these, when they were still standing some thirty years ago, carried the engraved date of 1898, and since the photograph of the entire estate was published in l90l in the old Pittsburgh Index, we have here the ponrait of a grand Pittsburgh demesne at the dawn of the twentieth century. Closer views of the gardens reveal all of the signa- Bayuood,, ture features of the High Victorian landscape style, Su¡nmcr 1901 already a little out of date by 1900 but sumptuously and meticulously realized. Most conspicuous ¿ìre the ex- panses of bedded-out flowers an orderly massing of It is the English Parapet, however, that lifts the And here in Pittsburgh, at "Baywood," we could plants in precise patterns to form- carpets of vividly col- estate to a quite exceptional level. Answering the need have walked along the brow of the Parapet, past the ored intricacy. One view shows an extended parterre for a rather ambitious retaining wall, the Parapet was crenellations, from one rooklike turret to another, gaz- effect formed of flower beds shaped like commas, designed (by whom?) as the major architectural elemenr ing alternately at the perfected garden on the one hand, arranged to create a large fan-like design. Another of the garden. As an ornament, leaving aside its practical and at the wilderness (albeit polite) of Highland Park on photograph shows the same practice of bedding out, here role, it is a later-day revival of those small buildings the other. More impressive súll would have been the confined to a ribbon-like border along the drive (itself a (Gothic, Greek, Saracenic, etc., etc.) introduced into the promenade along the terrace below the Parapet, looming beautiful demonstration of the level of maintenance grand private parks of eighteenth-cenrury England up along its buttress-ribbed expanse, with its alert little expected of such a property), where the small repeat where they are designated follies. Follies perhaps they towers cutting into the summer sky. Can this be pattern suggests nothing so much as the elaborate tile may be in their whimsy, artifice, and unexpectedness, Carcassonne or Warwick Castle? Pittsburgh, it was not. pavements favored by Victorian architects. All these but they are also serious and calculated inventions meant countless tiny, richly tinted plants were carefully set out to heighten one of the great, pervasive techniques of juxtaposition after the threat of frost had passed, and very probably landscape design - the of a man-made were grown in the estate's own greenhouse by the resi- form against the textures and shapes of Nature in order dent staff of gardeners (perhaps two in the winter but to create a picture more engaging than either one alone surely at least five in growing seasons). Surely, too, it could possibly provide. would have been from those greenhouses that came the lush tender plants so heavily banked along the endless porches. July 1995 . PHLF News Page9

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roo¡n thøt uøs reached from the lanaer tetace. The full med.icoalßm of the Pøropet is extremcly røre ín Amerícan gørden desþn of the period. The onþ approximate parallel

hotneaer, ít seraed utilita,rian ends a.s a, supportfor espøli.ered grape tsines.

ln lhe memory of most reoders, the King eslote belonged lo lhe €ity. lt wos during lhol long period of uncerloin custody thqt I first went lo "Boywood," with Jomie Vqn Trump os my guide. ln those doys, olrhough the house slepl glumly ond lhe gordens were only ghosls, lhe English Poropel still stood os o ploce of pilgrimoge. Sodly, it, loo, yielded lo time ond grovity, sliding ond lumbling down the hill- The lndy in uhíte oppeørs agøin ín the pørterre gard.en. The The la.dy ín uhite appeørs once øgøin beþre ø grape ørbor thøt side, unsloyed by rhe Lobe-shapedbeds øre trimly d.efinedby a uníþnnborder and. seems to fonn a small summer roorn. Such rusti.c gard.enfeotures municipol hond. Recently, contøin only one or tu)o kinds of flouers, bedd,ed. out ín ¡na.ss, uere populnr through the nineteenth century, ønd, just øround the property hqs relurned lo This arrøngement confonns to Víctoria.n tøste uhbh, for proper- th.e time these photogrøphs uere tøken, roere being refincd into privote ownership of o tics of this urbønity, froutned. on mí.xed. pla.nting whích utøs relc- the pergola, supporting roses or øisteria,, that røpid.ly became knowledgeoble ond ouspi- gøted to the "Old. Fashíoned." or cottage gord,en style. A groae of one of the essentirtl elem¿nts of ø seriaus garden. The pøth here cious kind. The house is cannøs erupts som.eushere neør the center of the pørterre, ushilc is d.efi.ncd (?) ønd. by colcus ca.nnas whbh re-appeorførther responding to this new the is utith u:hat a.ppeo.rs to be a ooricty of bøck ín o cl,assìc Víctorian combination uith elcphønts'eors. foreground. rtUcd kindness, ond ¡t w¡ll be oiburnum. Ahhough u¡e haae no identiftcøtianfor the la.d.y in øhíte, her inleresting lo see if such presence in these oinuts strongly s!€gests thot she uos, ínfact, piety will summon up even the chøtela.ine of the estøte, Mrs. Alcxond.er King. o port of Boywood's gordens. Honnegon -Borry

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PITTSB IIRCH ARC HITE CTT]RE : The Terra,irt Waher C. Kid.ney

D I reservation of buildings and districts should not claim our whole attention: what about the land itself? The legacy of hundreds of millions of years of change to the land has given us spatial drama rare in densely inhabited places. Houses so often robbed of all character by remodeling are mere flecks on the slopes and the hilltops, and even larger buildings, as a rule, punctuate rather than dominate the sky- lines and the plains. On a sleety morning we may envy the inhabitants of a prairie town, but in less severe weather we may bless the superb effects of such spaces.

The riaer pl.a.ins ønd some inland raoines haue been mørtyred to industry: ushich has, at bast, created huge and intrþuing forms in the process of proui.ding the region u¡ith a.n economi.c base. Here is J. Painter & Sons, on the south shore of the Ohin, in 1888.

IUNCTION HOLLOW has long suffiredfrom the øtti- tude that it is a mere aoid to be fi.Ibd. The Bellcfield. BoiLer Pl.ant in 1904, the Oøklnnd Corporation planfor fiUíng up flush in 1963, ø pørking gørage, ønd tuo parkíng Ints øt lcast q.re the indþnitics, øctual or pro- posed, in the pøst to ushat has been a bea.utiful space. Nou, ue høae the new Roberts HøII, concrete ønd chunlty, rising to maslt the ushite-and-cream Hømerschl.ag. Further, the Schenley Bridge ís líned utith chain-Iinkfences paínted a ui.eu:-inhibítíng lþht rust brou¡n. Instectd of a gracíous pørk bridge crossing a raoíne to link npo uorlts of monumentøI ørchítecture use hanse a suspícion-laden bridge thøt might connect ooprojects." ttuo Again, we øre heøring of ø proposøI to line 3,000 feet of Junction HolLou¡'s west sid.e øith ø 15- floor housing deaelopment, faced in mirror gkrss ønd theo r etic øIly ino isible.

P s -3(.) "The Panther Hollau: [actually, Junction HoIIou] project uiII transform into one of the architecturøI usond.ers of the o o u;orl.d a d.esolate raaine, u:hich splíts the eørth through this urban ed.ucational-scíentífic-cuhural compLex líke ø huge and carelzssly cut furrou." Thus, the Oøhlønd Corporation in 1963.

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The amiabb spectøclc of the little houses on the hills, here ooerlaokíng the Ohío Riuer from Elliott, ís parti.culørþ pleasant. It ís the mixture of uíld. nature a.nd human habitation tha.t is so enjoyabl.e; the hilk u:ithout sþns of construction rnþht be ø little dull. lt is the controst betueen the bþ and anci.ent with the littlc, trønsitory, and senticnt hu¡nans and their shehers that gbes the scene íts uiai.dn¿ss.

But this depends on small scal,e and compl,exity. A big crate of a building contøining rnany units of housíng ouercomes the surføces, cuts into the undulntions of the la,nd Eueryone knou¡s the standard. cølcndør uicw upríaer towo,rd. the Point, but how often do ra.ther than ri.ding the¡n boat-Iilee as the littl.e houses do. people loolc down the Ohia, through the ol.d. Gatewøy to the West?

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And. beyond that, hou møny peopb appreciøte, not only the grand sta,ti.c aíeus thot extendfor ¡niLes but also the small-scabd ui.ews, such as this southuardfrom Grandticut Aoentte) that depend on parallnxfor their effect? ParøILax ís the phenomcnon that malæs thíngs seem to slíde across your oision at dífferent rates ushen in føct ít is you that moaes. It is thefricnd of small-scøLed, c omp le xþ inhabite d p er s p ecth) es.

Ho* feasible are official, legally binding historic designations of ravines, slopes, and hilltops the "landmarking" of the land? No one in Pittsburgh- is actively advocating Historic Review Commission designations yet, but the chance architecture of the terrain can be marred, just as a district can. (The easements described in the article on page 12 are an alter- native possibility for very restricted areas.) Page 12 PHLF News . July 1995 J Io LA NDM A RKS

Support the PÍttsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation in its work to: . Identify and preserve the architectural, Preserving Chestnut Hitt historical, and industrial landmarks in Allegheny County; Those of you familiar with the Chestnut . Encourage and support the revitaliza- Hill part of Philadelphia can witness that tion of historic inner-city neighbor- in large part it is an Earthly Paradise. It hoods through Preservation Fund has homely row houses and small shops, ini- ,3 tiatives and programs; but much too remains of the hilltop . Manage Station Square, the historic village that the railroads first reached in riverfront project initiated by 1854, the ambitious real-estate specula- Landmarks in 1976; tions of Henry Howard Houston in the () ' Create tours, publications, and educa- 1870s and '80s, and the further develop- tional programs on local history and ments of George Woodward in the early architecture; twentieth century. The result is a mixture . Educate the public about historic of Italian Villa, the craggy quasi- preservation through the resources of medieval manner of Frank Fumess and Landmarks' library and archives; others, some rural French, some Colonial ' Continue a well-managed, responsive, Revival, some Arts and Crafts, a lot of and creative membership organization Cotswold: lots of the silvery-gray, lami- with the ability to implement these nated Wissahickon schist, laid on bed and goals on a long-range basis. off, in thin mortar joints or warm-tinted well-buttered ones, some stucco, some Membership Benefìts mellow red brick, always pleasing, set among the trees. o Free subscription to PHLF News. Built at the edge of Wissahickon . Many volunteer opportunities. Valley, a park that has been permitted to ' A l0%o discount at The Landmarks grow naturally, the houses have a rich Store in The Shops at Station Square. and often unkempt and even wild appear- 81 37 -39 Germøntoun Aaenue : conseraation and edsement. . Free access to ourreference library in ance, bringing the Wissahickon wilder- facade The Landmarks Building at Sration ness right into the yards of Chestnut Hill. Square. Great trees tower over the marvelous o Discounts on, or free use of, all educa- houses, and mowing grass has been tional resources. eschewed in favor of yards filled with . Reduced rates on tours, and invitations shrubs, conifers, perennials, and trees. to lectures, seminars, and special Much less work is involved on the part of events. the homeowners, much less fertilizer and weed killer (if any) are required, and Membership Categories privacy is gained because the house becomes an almost private preserve in its Please enroll me as a member of the individual woods, linked to the woods of Pittsburgh History & Landma¡ks the neighborhood. The place is unusually Foundation. I have enclosed a contri- interesting visually and ecologically, a bution in the amor_¡nr of (check appro- constant source ofjoy for the pedestrian. A close-up of 8137-39 Ccrma.ntousn 429 West Chestnut HiIl Aaenuc: corlser- priate category): It has maintained its individual business Aoenu.e. uøtion eosernent. Property border (lcft) district in Main Street fashion, with a on edge of Føirmount Park. tr Individual $20 or more strong sense of community. o Family $25 or more The Chestnut Hill Historical Society, ¡ School and Non-profit $25 or more the preservation protector ofthe area, is tr Senior Citizen $10 or more engaged in taking a rare form ofease- tr Corporate Supporter $50 or more ment. The group is concentrating on E Corporate Member $250 or more landscape easements protect plants to the 8840-48 n Life Benefactor $5,000 (one-time gift) and trees and prevent any further sub- Montgom.ery division ofthe larger properties. People Aaenue, ooer The portion of you¡ dues exceeding $15 is tax- are not required to follow any particular deductible. landscape plan nor are they required to the city líne in Springfiel.d.: "A copy of rhe official regisrrarion and linancial info¡- keep everything as-is. The easement is madon of the Pirrsburgh History & l:ndmarks realistic and practical. It requires that the conseroation Foundation may be obtained from rhe Pennsylvania Depanmenr of Srare by calling toll free, witliin trees be retained and that the general andfacade Pennsylvania l-80G732-099. Regisrrar.ion does nor imply endorsemenr." (as rcquired 5y PAAc.202) effect of the landscaping continue. At edsefnent. times facade easements are taken as well aaaaaaaaaaaaa to protect the exteriors of the houses, but landscaping is currently the group's Please enroll me as a member of priority and it is meeting with consider- the Pittsburgh History & Landmarks able Foundation. success. Landmarks is studying this easement Name approach to see if it is applicable to the Pittsburgh area. Street City FOn SerE By OwNER State Zip

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aeleuation please phone 381-1665 courtesy of Doruld Miller and Aaron Sheon, Organic Vision (Hexagon Press, 1980) ¡I July t995 o PHLF News Page 13 Preservation Scene

ès Thx Credit to be Introduced A revised form of the Historic Preservation Tax Credit for homeowners $ may be introduced in this Congress. As it € stands now, it will probably be a credit of 20 percent of qualified expenditures, the latter not exceeding $250,000. The build- ing would have to be listed on the National Register or be a contributing building in an historic district that has been certified by national or State preser- vation offices. It may include condomini- ums and co-ops as well. The Secretary of the Interior's Standards of Restoration would apply. A major innovation would be that only a State preservation office review would be necessary rather than Restoration of Calvary United both the State and federal review as is Avenue now required. In fact, there may even be Grandview and Us: the Future Methodist Church Progresses an effort to delegate the review down to The exterior cleaning of Calvary United May l6 saw a public hearing on Bohlin designed not only for its purpose of the City level. More details to follow. Methodist Church currently underway is Cywinski Jackson's "Grandview Avenue retaining earth and rock but also so as at the most visually dramatic component Corridor Urban Design & Development least not to deface the scene. of the ongoing restoration work at the his- Study," a document of 1993 that has been After the long delay regarding the posi- toric Allegheny West church. The archi- somewhat updated after comments by the tioning of the new Monongahela River tects, Vrydaugh and Shepherd with T.B. residents of Mount Washington. bridge and the configuration of its south- V/olfe, not only created a landmark in the As might be expected, the document is ern approach, we have the Station Square spire but also marked the beginning of very largely concemed with Grandview master plan to reconsider and the ques- the end for Romanesque, so fashionable Avenue and the adjacent streets and prop- tions of supply and demand as regards for a few years, in choosing such an elab- erties. Yet the Avenue runs parallel to parking. In the western restaurant area of orate Gothic. Station Square some 370 feet below, Grandview the planners would like to see overlaps Station Square for about 4800 continuous street walls, which would By June 4,1995, when the congrega- feet, and is connected to Station Square probably lessen the parking up there, and tion celebrated the 100 anniversary ofthe by an incline at each end of the overlap. would create heavier usage for both the completion of the building, cleaning of Furthermore, the slope of Mount western Station Square parking lots and the open tower had been finished. The Washington is a background for Station the historic and picturesque Duquesne entire exterior is expected to be clean by Square, and the distant view of Heights Incline, assuming both to have the end of August, thus completing the Grandview Avenue, giving an impression adequate capacity. visible part of Phase I of the restoration. Phase also planning Neighborly Monument on of building models on a mantelshelf, is As an element of its own neighbor- I will include of future work: glass and interior. the beguiling climax to this background. hood, Grandview Avenue has a multiple Clyde Street In briel Station Square is obviously role to fill. At one place or another cog- Clyde Street, once a little street of houses involved, and the Mount Washington nizance must be taken of the needs and \ in western Shadyside, bends so as to Community Development Co¡pqralion pressures of tourists and restaurant cus- reach both Fifth and Ellsworth Avenues assured us, at the hearing, of its desire tomers; those who hang out or cruise; at right angies, and at the bend is a little that we should be. gem of a place with a Grecian Ionic tem- those who live on the Mount and walk, o One concept included in the Study is jog, sit, or park there; and those who live o ple front: Solon Spencer Berman's First that of an "urban trail loop," with the on the street and have the pleasure of the Church of Christ Scientist. The limestone inclines connecting east-west routes top views and the penalties of the summer- church of 1905 has a calm, cool, collect- and bottom: the Station Square route our evening crowds. There is the delicate ed look that contrasted with the coarser internal road that will probably have a jit- question, too, of relating Grandview architectures of the adjoining houses, yet ney some day to connect its more-than-a- Avenue visually to the neighborhood despite its monumental effect it is not a mile-apart termini, the upper route per- behind: making it a neighborhood Main very big building, nothing to overwhelm haps the north walk at Grandview, though Street and "urban trail" for all Pittsburgh. its surroundings by its size. A good the ups and downs of the walk around the Random comments: Replacing the neighbor in the street scene. head of McArdle Roadway make that cold, crude 1960s lighting with some- For a long time it was desened, but pretty arduous. (There is supposed, how- thing more subtle and subdued is a good now it has a new existence as the ever, to be an incline-to-incline bus route idea, but the idea terminating vistas University of Pittsburgh's University that would mitigate the trip.) northward with planting can spoil the Child Development Center. The children Beyond communications, the face of marvelous effect on such a street as will be preschoolers, whose conduct will Mount Washington is our remarkable Shiloh, where the pavement is level and be studied. The exterior will be very backdrop, and its integrity is a concern on one seems to be dwelling in the sky: much as built and in many ways the new which we spoke. nothing beyond the end of the block but 100 years of grime høs been remoued interior work has been sympathetic to the Station Square's steep wooded back- hilltops, and the tops of skyscrapers. from the open tou)er of Calaøry United original building; original flooring, mold- ground is precious, and we may look for- Also, though admitting that Shiloh could Methodist Church in All.egheny West. ed plasteç columns, and leaded glass ward to the effect in the future, when we do with a stronger entrance, is there as windows are intact. On the lower level, build to moderate height: between the much wrong with radio towers as the One hundred and fifty attended the rooms have been modified and new structures, some rather tall, and the hill- Mount Washington Community Devel- centennial anniversary dinner and wor- rooms added that respect the brick side behind we may achieve an effect opment Corporation has implied in its ship service. Pittsburgh Mayor Tom supports for the building that penetrate most associated with Rio de Janeiro. Vy'e comments? In their drama they are Murphy lauded the restoration effort and through the areas and create a good agree with the planners, who seem to be superb big, colorful, playing against United Methodist Conference bishop feeling in what once had been dolorous saying though not precisely in this the clouds- or shades of color that vivify George W. Bashore delivered the sermon. space; from the outside, the execution of - RJE Consulting, led by Mary Kukovich way - that large buildings should not the space beyond them. new stairways and added space is well descend conspicuously below the This is an important City of Pittsburgh and Rege Ebneç has been hired to man- done. Grandview Avenue level on the north and neighborhood study that the age public relations and the individual But compromises and economies, espe- side of the street, and that existing views Community Design Center of Pittsburgh gift campaign segment of Calvary's cially due to the cost of meeting asbestos from either side of the street should not is funding. Jennifer Higgins of $550,000 restoration fund drive. They and lead requirements, have forced expe- work be seriously cut off. The proposed Ritz- Maclachlan, Cornelius & Filoni has been will with Susan Brandt, restoration diencies that have affected the worship Carlton of the last few years was an hired to develop the conceptions and director. space. Thus, the elliptical-vaulted sanc- example of what could happen without design lighting, paving, and street furni- tuary will henceforth contain ductwork, proper restraints. It would have occupied the side colonnades of what is now the ture, and in other ways to bring them The Ornament: More Salvos the One Grandview Avenue site and have closer to realization. main activity area are to some extent extended far east and north. Plans to Professor Wilfred Rouleau is continuing enclosed, and the triple entrance from the develop the portions of the Mount his campaign to keep the lavish bow portico will be a double emergency exit; Washington slope in the Saddle and 'S7r ornament of the 1905 armored cruiser the present entrance is from the parking Pow¡n Pennsylvania Sycamore Street areas east of the end of rr off the roof of Camegie- lot. The original design is thus at odds Grandview Avenue affect the setting of Preserve our region's history and Mellon University's Roberts Hall, now with the present plan in important ways. landmarks for future generations. under construction. the eastern end of Station Square and Along with local But it is good, all the same, to have kept Add rhe Pittsburgh History 6c publicity given will be conspicuous from downtown- that he has the matter, he intact this outstanding piece of street Landmarks Foundation as a has written and are thus of concem to us. Whatever- is to John H. Dalton, secretary architecture. beneficiary under your \ùØill. If you the Navy, built up there is conspicuous, and speaks of for intervention in the matter would like to discuss this giving option, "Navy Department for the city, and should be of Accession Number ofquality please call beyond average. Engineering work lz-l-F," the Ornament still being Navy Elisa Cavalier at (4rzl 47t-58o8. property. us against the hillside henceforth should be Let see if this will make the difference. Page 14 PHLF News . July 1995 Preservation Scene continued

¿ L Historic Landmark Plaques Awarded

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Edgewood Station: a Station Again Frank Furness gave the Pittsburgh area several products of his eccentric bril- liance: a Baltimore & Ohio terminal, a Farmers Deposit National Bank, and the East Liberty and Edgewood Stations of the Pennsylvania Railroad. All these but the last have disappeared, and this, a minor work of 1902, has long been out of Highland Park the transportation business. It seems like- The end of May brought the news that the ly, though, to make a return, as a halt on Moretti sculptures at the Highland and the extension of the Port Authority's East Stanton Avenue entrances to Highland Busway now proposed. Park are very to be restored. The likely Three hom.es: the uernacuktr Wallter- City will put up $150,000, and the Public Art in Strawberry Way Wøy house (aboae); the Colani¡rl Ret:íoal Highland Park Community Council Late April brought the Pittsburgh "Muottas" (rþht); and the pi.cturesqueþ seems confident of raising any further Planning Department's announcement of Eclcctic Kl.ages house (belnu rþht). money for these and a bronze sculpture. a competition to place public art on Now, what about the reservoirs, and the Strawberry Way: a modest beginning to squalor of plastic sheeting versus the what might be a Triangle-wide campaign. Landmarks' Historic Plaque Committee, placid reflections of water? In the latter Allegheny County artists are alone eligi- chaired by Richard M. Scaife, met on case, it appears that a veneer of water ble, but no limitation seems to be placed June 7 to review 17 plaque applications would sit atop a too-expensive concrete on medium. Strawberry Way is a tiny submitted over the past year. Committee decking; in the former, people would street, so positioned and proportioned as members agreed to award 1l plaques to look upon something like a l6-acre the following sites of outstanding archi- unraised tent. Thus far, the City has only tectural and/or historical interest: come up with a request from the State for more time to reach a decision. Walker-Way house, I 8 I 0-20 / l84l I 19 l0:' 19t2 Beaver Road near Quaker Road, Edgeworth Joseph Fiorne house, i889, Longfeilow, Alden & Harlow 838 Lincoln Avenue, Allegheny V/est FrankAlden house I, 1889-90, Longfellow, Alden & Harlow 617 Linden Avenue, Point Breeze "Red Gables" [Frank Alden house III], Littlc míd-níneteenth century houses, 1892-94, Longfellow, Alden & Harlow Historic Bridgeville House u:íth the SmithfteLd. United Church. 605 Maple Lane, Edgeworth Needs Rescuer "Bagatelle," 1895, Longfellow, Alden & The Middleswart-Murray house, a one the to create remarkable contrasts: USX Harlow and one-half story double frame house walls; the Tower rising beyond close-set Little Sewickley Creek Road, Edgeworth built c. 1828 at 745 V/ashington Avenue the elegant Telephone openings of Bell "Muottas," 1903, Alden & Harlow in Bridgeville, stands on land slated for arcade little alleyway building framing Little Sewickiey Creek Road, Edgeworth new construction. The owner is seeking a buildings hardly taller; the nervous First Hungarian Reformed Church, buyer for the building willing to move it United Gorhic frerwork of the Smithfield 1903-04, Titus de Bobula to another site. The 2,545-square-foot and Church. Between Grant Smithfield, 221 Johnston Street, Hazelwood house is pictured and described on p. 164 walking Strawberry Way is an interesting Herbert Preston Malick house, 1909 of lnndmark Architecture of Allegheny place, quietly place where enjoyable. A 3406 Brownsville Road, Brentwood County Pennsylvania (196'l): Jamie Van what subtle art and design would improve Allen M. Klages house,1922-23, Trump wrote of it: The Long-pulled Plug of Glory is already good and where gaudy art, or Frederick G. Scheibler, Jr. A recent visit to the City-County art that ignores the good qualities of the 5525 Beverly Place, Highland The structure is a very agreeable exam- Building led to the chance discovery of a buildings, would merely be something to Kennywood Racer,l927 ple of the simple frame vernacular dark tablet in the Grant Street porch, be waited out. Kennywood Park stemming from the late Classical style attached to a pier and facing away from Steinberg house, 1950-51, Cornelia and ofthe eighteenth century ... It is said the street. This proved to be a memorial County Planning Director Peter Berndtson also to have been once a toll house for a bridge across the Chartiers Creek. to V/illiam Flinn, Pittsburgh's late Resigns 5139 Penton Road, Squirrel Hill Victorian paving monopolist, "A Builder Ray Reaves, Allegheny County Planning These awards were unanimous, and sev- Anyone interested in the Middleswart- For and Among Men." The sculptor Gleb Director, resigned May 1, effective June Murray house should contact Bob Fryer Derujinsky chose to cope with a location eral Committee members commented on 2, to become business and economic quality properties ar (4r2) 221-1000. of extraordinary gloom with an expedient the high of the submit- development consultant for the city of ted this year. Several other plaques may used elsewhere in 1925: a bronze picture Novokuznetsk in Siberia. year lamp with tubular bulbs in a long shade be awarded this after further discus- Mr. Reaves supervised the creation of above the image. Today, though, the sion or investigation. the Allegheny County 2001 report, an tablet is plunged in gloom. When we first With these, 324 sites in Allegheny effort to obtain the participation of com- noticed it, a commonplace lamp cord County now are identified with a munity leaders and residents who attend- plaque dangled in Flinn's face. Now it has been Historic Landmark from the ed l9 town meetings. It was one of the cut short, up near the border, and he is Pittsburgh History & Landmarks first times that the County tried to reach not so silly-looking though still unillumi- Foundation. Although a Historic out to its citizens for advice on areas of pro- nated. His glory is departed, and even the Landmark plaque offers no legal critical concern to everyone. admittedly handsome Ligonier block he tection, it does give public recognition to Mr. Reaves also almost single-handed- forced upon the city is gone from Grant the outstanding architectural landmarks ly opposed the Southern Expressway, Street. It seems unlikely that the plug- or historically significant sites in Alle- feeling that it will do more to drain the ging-in of Mr. Flinn will ever be a public gheny County built before 1945. Ifyou County and the City of business than issue and that he will be freed from would like to nominate a property for a bring it in, a point well taken. obscurity. Historic Landmark plaque, please call The city of Novokuznetsk in Siberia Walter Kidney at(412) 471-5808 for has a population of 620,000, and Mr. an application. Reaves will help establish a service for small and middle-size businesses. July 1995 o PHLF News Page 15

The Twin Certtenrlial: The Carnegie arld, the Pittsburgh Sy*phony Orchestra

If you look into the Pittsburgh past, you can play a little historic game with the infamous regional reputation: when did the City Beautiful, America's turn-of-the- century ideal, start to emerge from the Smoky City? And how did the new emer- gence manifest itself? As regards archi- tecture, consider the Courthouse and Jail: begun in 1884, simple and lucid in design, executed in light-colored granite, looking beyond the Victorian period with its sooty sandstone and accumulations of detail. As regards public recreation, in Schenley Park, whose land was donated in 1889, a truly versatile and picturesque park came to Pittsburgh replacing what- ever scraps of hillside and riverbank had served before. From Schenley Park we move naturally to the two centennials being observed this year, other advances toward the City Beautiful in their own ways. In 1881, Andrew Carnegie, a New Yorker for 14 A hallutay in the Cørnegíc Instítute of years, had looked back on Pittsburgh and 1895, decorated by the Bostoninn Elmer attempted to give it a free library. Legal Gørnsey. technicalities had long made this unfeasi- The Library aestibulc øs built ín 1895, u:ith intrinate linear painting in the aa.ults. The ble, but in 1890 a national competition outsí.d.e entra,nce ß behínd. the cømerø, ønd, the d.oor on the la.nd.ing l,eads to a stair to for the Carnegie Institute was held, and in the Reference Room. 1895 the winning design, by the Boston- Pittsburgh a¡chitects Longfellow, Alden & Harlow, was realized. The building itself, ifnot quite as visually organized as ible in the basement.) Recent interior the Courthouse or Jail, was still a pro- restorations have done a little to mitigate gressive design of the time, the slight the on-and-off modernizations of the last passé Romanesque transmuted into 50 years. The rather nasty entrance sys- Quattrocento, with picturesque composi- tem for the Library has been replaced by tion a dwindling presence. a decent wood-and-glass screen that What was really new, though, was real- divides the old, gracious space but at ly the combination of functions the least looks as if somebody actually Renaissance interiors were to house: designed it. Upstairs, murals in the corri- library, art gallery museum of science dor and the old central reading room and natural history and music hall. This (now for Social Science) have been competition and the slightly earlier one restored, and original 1895 decorations for the Cathedral Church of St. John the by Elmer Gamsey have been uncovered Divine in New York were the most and restored. In most rooms, opaque or important American architectural compe- translucent basins throw indirect lighting titions to date: means of testing the pro- up to the ceilings, while the coves of the fession's accomplishment at that time in Music and Art rooms have their own creating very large and honorific institu- indirect lighting. In Social Sciences, tional buildings. As architecture, the tables carry green-shaded lamps as of old, Longfellow, Alden & Harlow building though these are confined only to that that opened in 1895 was imperfect, still room, money it is said having run out for The Cørnegie Institute in 1897, utterly uíthout la.ndscøping: Forbes Street behind the with the Victorian compositional flaw of the others. Doorcases remain painted in carncra and the St. Picrre Røaine, la.ter fi.Ilcd infor Schenlny Pla.za, to the ríght. The being assembled from independent-look- most places, and much of the laborious, round form of the Music HaIl u¡os Inter boxed ín by the present foyer block, but can still ing elements: a music hall with a rather expensive process of genuine restoration be partly seen ín the basem.ent. The uhob desþn still shouts Romanti.c pi,cturesqu.eness Parisian look, two Venetian towers, and a remains to be done. and. Cl.assi.col simplicíty in conflict. palace from, perhaps, fifteenth-century The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Florence. The interiors, though rather has ma¡ked its century of triumphs, ornately painted, were more unifÏed, extinctions, prosecution for Sabbath vio- more serenely geometrical, in most parts. lation, and recoveries with no specific In 1907, after a second Carnegie build- architectural symbol all its own: the ing campaign of four years, the Institute Music Hall of the Camegie Institute, the had quadrupled in size with new fronts Syria Mosque, and since l97l theHeinz by Alden & Harlow in a rather Germanic Hall adaptation of the Loew's Penn classicism with the towers gone, natural movie house have been its homes. Back history and fine arts vastly expanded, and in the 1960 period, when the marvelous skylit Halls of Architecture and Sculpture houses of the lower Hill District were (casts) at the building's heart. Extemally demolished, the sacrifice was for the nothing fundamental happened thereafter Civic Arena, meant for light opera, and a except the accumulation of soot until a new showplace for the Symphony. After The Symphony'sfi.rst home: the Musi.c third campaign that led to the building all the demolition of what might have HølI ín the Cørnegí.e Institute, opened. opening of the Sarah Scaife Gallery of a restoration effort, nei- been showcase in 1895. the Museum of Art, completed in 1974 to ther the Civic Light Opera nor Symphony the gray, planar designs of Edward uses the site today. Larrabee Barnes. The Camegie Institute has bought and built elsewhere, but their distinguished home of 1895 and 1907 is still their home, a remarkable place in the city. These days the original lighrgray sand- stone is out from under the soot again, Syriø M osque, the Shriner s' auditorium save for one inconspicuous area of wall in Oaklnnd' housed the Symphony for kept velvety as black a memoir of the mdny years before the 1971 openíng of (There past. remains also a section of the Heinz HaIl. Music Hall's original curved front, boxed A construction shot of Loeutos,45 years in by the 1907 foyer addition but still vis- before its rejuuenation øs Heinz Hall. Page 16 PHLF News . July 1995

Ar THE Historic Property News LNNDMARKS Improvements to the SroRE Neville House Property

The Book and Gift Shop of the Thanks to a grant from the Mary McCune Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Edwards Foundation Fund, Landmarks Foundation has been able to implement the first phase of a master landscape plan prepared by GWSM, Inc. for the Neville House in GuroeeooKs ro Gnper Collier Township. When the National Pracrs AND Gn¡.No Historic Landmark house opens its sum- mer season of events on July ló, visitors Burrorucs will be able to park in a new lot that has been carefully designed to be in keeping At The Landmarks Store we carry with the environment of the eighteenth- many guidebooks designed for the trav- century house. A new pathway also leads eller interested in exploring great archi- up to the house. Sopko Contracting, Inc. tecture at home and abroad. Most are completed the parking lot and walkway copiously illustrated. Here are some of in June. Appropriate lighting fixtures the most useful. soon will be added, and trees and bushes Seeing the World: Several fine series will be planted in the next few months. highlight great buildings and places By the fall, the first phase of the master worldwide. "Architectural Guides for landscape plan will be complete! Travellers" identifies historic buildings in China, Egypt,India,ItalS Spain, and Turkey; hardcover, $18.95 each. A British view of the architectural delights Landmarks Supports Fundraising for One of County's Oldest Buildings of London, Paris, Florence, Rome, and Venice may be found in the "Butter- Diane I. Daniels worth Architecture Architect's Guide" series; paperback, $19.95 each. The house built by Oliver Miller in l772.In Homestead to serve a writ imposing a "Art in Focus" series guides us through 1808, the Millers added a stone house to fine of $250. When an argument broke museums and art collections as well as the right side of the original log house; in out, farmers fired several shots at the buildings in London, Florence, and 1830, they demolished the log house and officers. These were the first shots fired New York (with other cities to follow); replaced it with another, larger stone in the Whiskey Rebellion. paperback, $12.95 each. house. Today the Oliver Miller Home- ln 1927 the land just over 65 acres Seeing the World on Foot: Valking stead consists of the stone houses erected was purchased for- the formation of tours of historic sites and neighbor- in 1808 and 1830, a spring house, a -South Park. Every Sunday fromApril23 hnndc /ac ¡¡rell as infnrmatinn nn lrlo¡l¿cmith chnn a fu'^-cf^ñ' l^^ n-^^-L^- 1? :- ^âh:- "-r:le^rr¡¡ vvwv¡r¡vv¡ ¡ , r ðq¡uwù-,,:l^^ ¡¡¡ ç¡Ër¡!v9¡¡u¡-^:^L]^^-]L hotels, restaurants, and uansportation built in 1988 that functions as a visitors' century dress conduct tours of the build- facilities) are presented in the "Henry center, research library, and gift shop, and ings, discussing local history and demon- Holt rù(/alk Series" which offers walking various gardens. strating various pioneer crafts: spinning, tours of Paris, London, Jerusalem, Dependent upon grants or donations weaving, quilting, open-hearth cooking, Florence, Rome, Venice, Vienna, Since 1993, members of the Oliver Miller for major preservation efforts, the group and blacksmith work. Prague, Barcelona, and New York; Homestead Associates have been work- is seeking over $15,000 for exterior and Mary Pat Swaugeç president of the22- paperback, 51,2.9 5 each. Walking tour ing with Landma¡ks to raise funds to pre- interior work. Funds will be used for year-old Oliver Miller Homestead guidebooks to U.S. cities include serve the Homestead in Allegheny improvements such as repointing the Associates, says the project has great sig- Historic Walks in Old Boston, $1+.9S; County's South Park. The history of the stone houses, repairing water damage to nificance to the community. "This pio- Historic Walþs in Cambridge, $72.95; Homestead dates back to 1772. the walls, upgrading the lighting in the neer landmark serves as a way for people and Wasbington on Foot, $6.95 (all The Homestead is owned by Allegheny stone house, and relocating electrical out- to learn their history." paperback). County and administered by the Depart- lets. A wish list of I I projects has been Great Britain: Britain's National Tiust ment of Parks, Recreation, and Con- presented to Howard B. Slaughter, Jr., presents an overview of its historic servation. The property is operated by the director of Preservation Services at properties in the National Trust Oliver Miller Homestead Associates Landmarks. Handbooþ, whlle Historic Houses under agreement with Allegheny Counfy. From 1772 to 1927 five generations of Handbook is devoted to great houses The mission of the hundred-member vol- Millers lived on the land. Three sons of and stately homes; paperback, $8.95 unteer group is to maintain the existing Oliver Miller became involved in the each. Grand residential rural architec- buildings while improving the site as a Whiskey Rebellion of 1794, when ture is the subject of Country Houses in living history museum. General John Neville guided United England; paperback, $23. Buildings in The original homestead was a log States Marshals to a home near the London since 1980 are highlighted in A ,%//b/ Guide to London's Contemporary Arch itecture; paperback, $24.9 5. Earth Day Celebration at Rachel Carson Homestead United States of America: The National ø-'-/%á Trust for Historic Preservation publish- On April 20, U.S. Interior Secretary es A Guide to National Monuments Bruce Babbitt came to "the birthplace of BENEFITING THE and Historic Szles; paperback, $12. The the modem American environmental VrsrrrNc Nunsr Assocnrrox American Institute of Architects has movement" the Rachel Carson FouNoerloN prepared AIA guidebooks for a number Homestead in- Springdale to challenge of cities including Atlanta, Boston, Americans to "send a message- SeruRoav, Sppr¡ùrsen r99 rVashington, of 3o, S Chicago, New York, and renewed commitment and hope to D.C.; paperback, from $18.95 to Washington." His speech marked the The black-tie dinner dance $22.95. There are also fine guidebooks beginning of a week-long tour to win will be the highlight of to other cities including Baltimore, public support for maintaining environ- "HoMETw¡rr HoMEr" Cincinnati, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, mental protections. and San Francisco; paperback, $16.95 The occasion marked the twenty-fifth the Foundation's two-week-long to $24.95. anniversary of Earth Day and the twenti- silent auction/exhibit of If we haven't mentioned your eth anniversary of the Rachel Carson exceptional bird houses at the intended destination, call The Homestead Association. The non-profit PPG ÏTintergarden Landmarks Store and ask if a guide- Association works to preserve and main- book is available. tain the birthplace and childhood home of in downtown Pittsburgh, September Members of LandmarÞs receiue a Rachel Carson and to present educational 17-30. L0o/o discount on each item. programs based on her precepts. For To purchase tickets for many years, Landmarks has provided U.S. Interior Secretøry Bruce Babbitt rhe events or THr LeNo¡vrRnrs Sron¡ for. information on how ro conrribute assistance to the Rachel Carson speaking at the Røchel Carson Ber-coNv L¡,vnr a bird house of your own design, Homestead Association as its members Homestead øt 613 Marion Auenue in Tr¡e Snops nr SrRuoN Squnnr work to preserve the mid-nineteenth-cen- contaü rù(/est Spríngdale. Tþrri at937-8350. PlrrssuncH, PA t 5zr9-t t7o tury farmhouse. 4tz-765-to4z