NORTHSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD TRAILS Info and Printing Instructions ABOUT THE PROJECT The Northside neighborhood trails are part of the Northside Neighborhood Connectons project of One Northside. One Northside is a community initatve driven by thousands of neighbors working to improve the quality of life in all 18 neighborhoods in Pitsburgh’s Northside. We hope you can use these maps to rediscover your own neighborhood, get to know a neighborhood that is new to you, or fall in love with the Northside! Visit gtechstrategies.org/projects/trail to learn more about this project. PRINTING INSTRUCTIONS If you would like to print these maps in bulk, please contact GTECH at [email protected] or call 412-361-2099. If you are just printng a few for your own use, please follow these instructons for the best outcome. The trail maps are meant to be printed as tri-fold brochures. Each map should be printed using the following setngs: 11 x 17 inch paper, landscape orientaton, centered page positon, double-sided with short-edge fip, and color. Afer printng, cut the page just under the 8.5 x 11 inch size so no white borders are showing on the side of the page without a map. Fold the paper into a tri-fold brochure with the map on the inside. REFERENCES The base data used in these maps are from the City of Pitsburgh Department of City Planning GIS Division and Northside Asset Inventory Mapping, a project of GTECH and One Northside. The route for the trail and featured treasures were chosen based on input from Northside residents, community groups, and an advisory commitee. The network of existng and proposed bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure was also taken into account. Informaton in the neighborhood descriptons and trail directons was gathered with the help of Northside residents, partcularly Northside historian John Canning. For additonal references, please visit gtechstrategies.org/projects/trail. LEARN MORE ABOUT ONE NORTHSIDE www.onenorthsidepitsburgh.org ALLEGHENY CENTERDistance: TREASURES 1.5 Miles Allegheny Center occupies the area which, in the 1788 survey of “the land opposite Fort Pit”, Suitable for walking or was to become the town center of the fronter village called ALLEGHENY Start biking. Best to visit on Friday afernoons in warm Alleghenytown. Much of modern Allegheny Center was part your journey weather. Difculty: easy of a controversial urban development project in the 1960’s, in Allegheny for which over 500 buildings were leveled and the street CENTER Center next to the Half hour network was signifcantly changed. Preservaton actvists NEIGHBORHOOD TRAIL Healthy Ride Staton walk succeeded in saving a number of historic buildings which can (1) at Federal St and North be seen along the trail. Ave. Cross the street and head west in the park on the path. Cross Allegheny Commons was established in 1869 and is the Arch St and contnue on the path untl oldest park in Pitsburgh. It wraps around the Allegheny you reach the frst of many Monuments (2) Center and Nova Place neighborhood, providing a peaceful that you will see in Allegheny Center, this one sanctuary and area for recreaton. The park also contains a representaton of George Washington. Contnue the picturesque Lake Elizabeth. Allegheny Commons along the path - on the lef is the Natonal Aviary (3) is now recognized on the Natonal Register of where you can see and learn about hundreds of birds from Historic Places. around the world. Contnue through the park and cross the two bridges over Lake Elizabeth (4). Turn lef afer the lake Nova Place, one of the city’s high tech and when the path reaches a T, take a right and then a quick incubators, is surrounded by a lef to walk behind the Aviary. You will likely hear and see variety of housing optons and birds through the glass walls of the Aviary’s Wetlands exhibit. cultural insttutons that MARSHALL- Take a right and contnue down the path to the intersecton all contribute to the SHADELAND of Arch Ave and Ridge Ave. There you’ll see Saint Peter rich diversity of the Catholic Church (5), designed by Pitsburgh architect Andrew neighborhood. Peebles and built between 1871 and 1872. Contnue on Ridge Ave and cross W Commons to enter into Buhl Community The Allegheny Center Neighborhood Park (6) which holds the Cloud Arbor (7), a public art piece Trail is part of the Northside Neighborhood by Ned Kahn that produces clouds. Next to the park is the Connectons project of One Northside. One Children’s Museum of Pitsburgh (8) which is built into the Northside is a community initatve driven by thousands historic Allegheny Post Ofce and the Buhl Planetarium. As of neighbors working to improve the quality of life in all 18 you contnue through the park you’ll pass by the New Hazlet neighborhoods in Pitsburgh’s Northside. We hope you can Theater (9), a space for artstc performances in what was once use this map to rediscover your own neighborhood, get to the frst Carnegie Music Hall, built in 1889. Contnue onto East know a neighborhood that is new to you, or fall in love with Ohio St, then take a lef onto the park trail. If you’re visitng the Northside! Visit gtechstrategies.org/projects/trail to learn on a Friday afernoon during the warmer seasons, you’ll fnd more about this project and get access to other Northside the Pitsburgh Northside Farmer’s Market (10) along the neighborhood maps. trail. When the path reaches a garden, take a lef, contnue along the path, and you will have returned to the Healthy Data from: Ride Staton. Check out Allegheny Commons: A Visitors Guide City of Pitsburgh Department of City Planning GIS Division and from Allegheny Commons Initatve for more info about trees, Northside Asset Inventory Mapping, a project of GTECH and public art, and cultural destnatons in the park. One Northside The route for the trail and featured treasures were chosen based on input from Northside residents, community groups, 1 3 8 and an advisory commitee. The network of existng and proposed bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure was also taken into account. LEARN MORE ABOUT ONE NORTHSIDE www.onenorthsidepitsburgh.org 1 2 10 3 4 9 8 ALLEGHENY CENTER 5 6 7 NEIGHBORHOOD TRAIL ALLEGHENY WESTDistance: TREASURES 1.3 Miles Allegheny West is one of the smallest neighborhoods in Pitsburgh. Despite its size, this Walk or bike this route. ALLEGHENY B e g i n Best for a summer neighborhood has a lot to ofer. Located directly north of at the lunchtme stroll. the North Shore, the neighborhood has housed some of Healthy Ride Difculty: easy Pitsburgh’s most infuental people in its long history. In WEST Staton (1) at the the late 1900’s, the steel industry’s leaders lived in lavish intersecton of Ridge Half hour walk mansions on Ridge Avenue and Brighton Road. Many other NEIGHBORHOOD TRAIL Ave and Brighton Ave. Go wealthy professionals populated the streets of Allegheny west on Ridge Ave out of the West. Afer many of the original families moved away, a park and you will fnd yourself in a decades-long process of transformaton, disinvestment and cluster of buildings that are part of the demoliton took place. The remaining structures, however, Community College of Allegheny County. First you’ll see B.F. Jones House (2) on your remained intact. In the 1970’s, a reclamaton process began right, the former mansion which once belonged to lif the neighborhood and its houses back to their to the son of the founder of Jones and Laughlin Steel former brilliance. Co., who lived just down the road. Contnuing on, you’ll The neighborhood’s business district on see West Hall (3) which was formerly part of the Western Western Ave is known as a great lunch Theological Seminary. These stately buildings were built in spot. Thousands of students fock 1910 and 1912 respectvely. Turn right onto Galveston Ave and right again on Lincoln Ave, passing by 841 Lincoln Ave to the neighborhood for the (4), a house built in 1878 which has been marked as a historic Allegheny Branch of the landmark by Pitsburgh History and Landmarks Foundaton. Community College of MARSHALL- Turn lef onto Rope Way, then lef again on Western Avenue Allegheny County. SHADELAND (5), a beautfully restored business district and a great spot Enjoy your visit for lunch. Turn right onto Allegheny Avenue and you’ll come to Allegheny upon Calvary United Methodist Church (6), a Gothic Revival The Allegheny West Neighborhood West! cathedral built in 1895 containing three massive Tifany Trail is part of the Northside Neighborhood windows. Turn again onto Beech Ave (7), a tree-lined street Connectons project of One Northside. One with homes built in the mid to late nineteenth century. While Northside is a community initatve driven by thousands many homeowners lef throughout the Great Depression, the of neighbors working to improve the quality of life in all 18 majority of homes on Beech Street have been remarkably neighborhoods in Pitsburgh’s Northside. We hope you can preserved through the years. You’ll pass by 850 Beech Ave (8), the birthplace of American novelist and poet Gertrude use this map to rediscover your own neighborhood, get to Stein, who was born in 1874. Turn right on Brighton Rd and know a neighborhood that is new to you, or fall in love with lef on West Ohio St, following along the sycamore lined the Northside! Visit gtechstrategies.org/projects/trail to learn streets of Allegheny Commons Park (9), Pitsburgh’s oldest more about this project and get access to other Northside park, established in 1869.