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In this issue: 3 Market at Fifth from The Metropolitan Loan Fund Graeme Street. We of Pittsburgh Is Created are targeting May for a move-in date for the 12 seven apartments, all extraordinary in their Market at Fifth: Custom-built, layout, their high- Renewed by Hand quality finishes and fenestration. Tours 16 will begin in April. D. H. Burnham & Company To be on the invita- tion list, contact: in Pittsburgh [email protected] 24 or 412-471-5808, ext. 511. Events—Charles J. Connick: World Class Stained Glass in Pittsburgh

Reducing Costs but Moving Forward Although the economic crisis has caused Apartments Ready; Retail Announced our organization to curtail new projects for the time being and reduce costs Market at Fifth Set to Open in May wherever possible, we are doing our best to fulfill major project commitments in a six-county area (see below). This year The Pittsburgh History & Landmarks and difficult clean up and reconstruction we are completing our Market at Fifth Foundation’s strenuous efforts to rescue effort, requiring the stabilization of restoration in downtown Pittsburgh and restore three historic buildings walls and restoration of the existing and four campus heritage reports in at Market Street, Fifth Avenue, and historic fabric, brick-by-brick, board- neighboring counties. We are continuing Graeme Street downtown are resulting by-board, and window-by-window.” our neighborhood revitalization work in seven handsome apartments on the “Market at Fifth is opening at an in Wilkinsburg and our main street upper two floors, with excellent window opportune time,” said Mark Bibro, programs in several counties, assisting light, and a new first-floor retail space. chairman of the Pittsburgh History historic religious properties, and involv- Heinz Healey’s, the long-time anchor & Landmarks Foundation. “Across ing thousands of people in special tours men’s store at the Station Square Shops, Market Street, N & P Properties is and educational programs. These activi- will open a shop facing Fifth Avenue restoring the elegant terra cotta Buhl ties––and more––are described in this and Market Street, Building. At the northeast corner of issue of PHLF News. bringing high quality Market Square, the Piatt Company is men’s wear back to restoring the historic G.C. Murphy Fifth Avenue after block for apartments, a YMCA, and many years. retail. Work is to begin on revising Places Where PHLF Has Major Apartments on the Market Square itself, later this year; Project Commitments in 2009 upper floors of the and in 2010 Three PNC Plaza will open three historic buildings with a new parklet directly across from Beaver During the process of restoring Aliquippa, Ambridge, Armstrong include either one or 130 Fifth Avenue and 441 and 439 Market at Fifth. If you’ve been thinking Beaver, Bridgewater Apollo, Freeport, Leechburg two bedrooms. Two of Market Street, Landmarks acquired of moving downtown, now is the time.” Freedom, Midland the apartments have a For more details about the restoration Monaca, New Brighton, the adjacent Thompson Building that Rochester Indiana second-floor bedroom, will be renovated for commercial use. process, see pages 12 and 13. Indiana bath, study, and a roof deck and garden. Finishes include Mohave cream granite kitchen counters, recycled bamboo Ripple effects of flooring, and stainless steel appliances. Westmoreland restoration: the All seven apartments are available for Greensburg, Vandergrift Buhl Building and viewing by contacting Michael Washington Market Square Sriprasert, Landmarks’ manager of California, Place, including Washington real estate finance: [email protected] the former City of or 412-471-5808, ext. 511. Pittsburgh Candy Rama and “This effort has been long and Bloomfield, G.C. Murphy Co. difficult,” said Landmarks President Downtown, store, are being East Liberty, Arthur Ziegler. “When the City under renovated too, Fineview, Garfield, the Tom Murphy Administration owned Hill District, Homewood, on Fifth Avenue. Allegheny County Mexican War Streets the three buildings, the roof of one Braddock, Bridgeville, Crafton, building fell into the basement, and the Elizabeth, Glenshaw, Natrona, Plus: Educational building was open to the weather for Stowe, Swissvale, Tarentum, programs in the City many years. This created a complex Verona, Wilkinsburg and in Allegheny County P a g e 2 P H L F N e w s • A p r i l 2 0 0 9

Landmarks is working with Allegheny County to determine a new use for the former Penn- Lincoln Hotel (1927) in Heathside Cottage (416 Catoma Street, Wilkinsburg, at Fineview), with its delicate bargeboard, Penn Avenue and steeply-pitched roof, and diamond-paned Center Street. sash windows. Photo by Todd Tondera. Heathside Cottage for Sale Heathside Cottage, located in the Fineview neighborhood of Pittsburgh, was given to Landmarks in 2008 to support its mission. “Our goal is to sell this charming cottage, complete with a garden and city-view, to someone who Wilkinsburg Receives Approval for Neighborhood will continue to respect its architectural integrity,” said Landmarks President Partnership Program Arthur Ziegler. Landmarks can assist a qualified buyer with applications for Landmarks Community Capital A. William Schenck III, “because our to implement after-school programming financing and may carry a mortgage Corporation (LCCC), a nonprofit efforts will have a positive, long-term for youth. itself for a portion of the sale price. subsidiary of the Pittsburgh History & impact on the lives of many people in A Neighborhood Partnership Built around 1862 by bridge engineer Landmarks Foundation, is pleased to Wilkinsburg.” Committee, made up of Borough James Andrews, the Victorian brick announce that the Pennsylvania The goal of the NPP is to foster the Council members, ecumenical leaders, cottage located at 416 Catoma Street Department of Community and development of collaborations among school district board members, police, is listed on the National Register of Economic Development approved its corporate businesses, neighborhood County representatives, and residents, Historic Places, protected by a Neighborhood Partnership Program organizations, local government entities will provide ongoing counsel and advice. (NPP) application for the Wilkinsburg and residents in order to encourage “The NPP is a community-based Landmarks preservation easement, community. As a result of the program, high impact long-term investments in program that encourages strategic and was featured in Rick Sebak’s 1997 LCCC has already received $200,000 distressed communities. The Wilkinsburg economic development planning,” WQED “North Side Story.” from TriState Capital Bank, the business initiatives will include working with says Michael Sriprasert, manager of Advantages: sponsor for the NPP. For its contribu- Borough officials to adopt aggressive real estate finance for LCCC. “This tion, TriState Capital Bank will receive tax abatement programs for residential is a great resource for Wilkinsburg, • Completely remodeled interior with an 80% tax credit from the State. and commercial buildings; developing a and it helps the neighborhood move a home security system “We are excited about working with strategy to manage many of Wilkinsburg’s step closer to becoming a sustainable • Whole-house central air and the Pittsburgh History & Landmarks vacant and abandoned lots; supporting and thriving community.” 3 fireplaces Foundation and LCCC in the coming the local Main Street efforts; and • Includes 2 bedrooms/2 bathrooms; years,” said TriState Capital President collaborating with Wilkinsburg schools parlor; kitchen and dining room area; living room and den • Has a detached one-car garage plus off-street parking, and is located Wilkinsburg on a bus line Homeowner • Includes adjoining lot with a charming garden Thanks • Looks out over the city • Is less than ten minutes from Landmarks downtown Pittsburgh • Has beautiful windows Rachel Lamory sent this email to Michael Sriprasert, manager of • Has extra storage in basement real estate finance at Landmarks, • Has been painstakingly cared for on November 23, 2008. We by previous owner of 15 years reprint it with her permission. To learn more about owning Heathside Cottage visit: www.phlf.org or contact Dear Michael, [email protected] or 412-471-5808, Walter, the girls, and I are finally ext. 538. settled into our new home on Proceeds from the sale of the property 524 Jeanette Street. We wanted to will endow Heathside Cottage’s write and thank you for all that you preservation easement and support and everyone else at PHLF have Landmarks’ mission. done to make our dream a reality. The house is beautiful and more than we could have hoped for. Before and after photos showing 524 Jeanette Street, restored through funding assistance We also wanted to thank Dwight Quarles from the Allegheny County Department of Economic Development and grants to Landmarks [president of Eagle Construction] for from the Sarah Scaife Foundation, Hillman Foundation, Dominion, and others. all of his tireless work on our house. He was here early in the morning on behind the scenes to complete these We are proud to be part of the and late into the evening. He added a projects than we can ever imagine. Hamnett Place project, and proud to personal touch to the whole experience PHLF made the process as enjoyable and live in Wilkinsburg. We very much look and it is obvious that the house was smooth as possible. We felt like we were forward to watching Wilkinsburg more than just a project to him. working with people who really cared prosper, in no small part to PHLF. We know that there is more going deeply about the work they were doing. P H L F N e w s • A p r i l 2 0 0 9 P a g e 3

The Metropolitan Loan Fund of Pittsburgh press conference on February 13 was held in Homewood. From left to right: Neddie Hollis, Executive Director, Sickle Cell Society; Bob Hurley, Allegheny County; Mark Peterson, President & CEO, Bridgeway Capital; Mayor Luke Kimberly C. Ellis in the spotlight at the Ravenstahl; Dr. Howard B. National Trust for Historic Preservation’s leadership training conference in January. Slaughter, Jr., CEO, LCCC; Photo by Priya Chhaya, NTHP. Councilman Ricky Burgess; State Senator Wayne D. Fontana; Arthur Ziegler, President of Historic Hill Initiative Landmarks; and State Representative Joseph Preston, Jr. With the support of The Heinz Photo by Todd Tondera. Endowments, Landmarks is partnering with Kimberly C. Ellis on the Historic Hill Initiative. The initiative aims to revitalize the Hill District through The Metropolitan Loan Fund of Pittsburgh Is the preservation of the Hill’s historic Created to Assist Small and Minority Businesses buildings and heritage. Over the next several months, Kimberly will update the Historic Hill Registry During a press conference on February women-owned businesses in the region.” Allegheny County Executive Dan 13, Landmarks Community Capital A key component of the program is Onorato said, “The MLFP will benefit and design a plaque for the registry, Corporation (LCCC), a nonprofit for participants to utilize technical our region by increasing the number train young residents of the Hill District subsidiary of the Pittsburgh History & assistance from the beginning of the of minority-owned businesses and to give tours of their neighborhood, Landmarks Foundation, announced the process throughout the entire life of by encouraging additional economic conduct oral histories, and advocate start of The Metropolitan Loan Fund of the loan, “in order to help these firms development.” on behalf of the preservation of the Pittsburgh (MLFP), with $1.75 million navigate the vicissitudes of entrepre- Mayor Luke Ravenstahl noted that Hill District. As part of the Initiative, in funds committed to spur small and neurship,” Howard added. “Pittsburgh’s growth is predicated Kimberly will also represent the minority business opportunities in the “One of the goals of the loan fund,” on the growth of entrepreneurship. Pittsburgh Metropolitan Statistical Area. said Landmarks President Arthur Businesses bring jobs, jobs bring Historic Hill Initiative at regional The fund was formed by LCCC in Ziegler, “is to encourage businesses income stability and stability equates and national conferences. collaboration with State Senator to locate in historic buildings and on to vibrant urban communities.” Wayne D. Fontana, Allegheny County, historic main streets.” Eligible applicants include new or the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Senator Fontana said that “The existing businesses located in or serving LCCC Case Challenge: Pittsburgh, Neighborhood Business, Inc., Metropolitan Loan Fund of Pittsburgh the Pittsburgh Metropolitan Statistical and Bridgeway Capital, with support is evidence of the kinds of collaborative Area. The application process begins Urban Grocers from The Heinz Endowments. programs that can be created as a result with a letter of inquiry. For details “This public/private partnership,” of the economic development funds contact Annabelle Javier Wilburn, In partnership with the Heinz College of said Dr. Howard Slaughter, Jr., CEO of made possible through the gaming program coordinator at LCCC: Carnegie Mellon University, Landmarks LCCC, “is designed to provide flexible industry. It will provide a welcome [email protected]; Community Capital Corporation (LCCC) financing and technical assistance to source of financial and technical assis- 412-471-2110. Sixty people have engaged 25 students in the Heinz new and existing businesses, with tance to small businesses amidst a already called and nine people have College’s first-ever nonprofit case special emphasis on minority and global economic crisis.” submitted applications. challenge. In the “Landmarks Economic Development Case Challenge,” students were introduced to the issue of bringing Work Is Underway: quality grocery stores to urban markets. Specifically, they evaluated the efforts to New Granada bring either a Save-A-Lot or a Kuhn’s grocery store to the Hill District. LCCC At last and just in time! Work is under- took students on a site visit to the Hill to way to stabilize the New Granada speak with the local leaders engaged in Theater at 2007 Centre Avenue in the Hill, thanks to the cooperative efforts the grocery store development, and to of the Hill Community Development Wilkinsburg to meet with the Mayor and Corporation (Hill CDC)––the current the owner of the Save-A-Lot that opened building owner––and Landmarks. there two years ago. To date, asbestos abatement, selective demolition and about half of the masonry After a week of conducting their own restoration have been completed, and due diligence, students presented their temporary stairs and temporary electrical findings and conclusions on November 8, service and lighting have been installed. 2008, to a panel of judges made up of A new roof will be put on the building professors, economic development in April, and other stabilization work professionals, City of Pittsburgh leaders, will occur in May and June. The excavating crew from Repal Construction Company, at work on February 12. business professionals from the Hill Repal Construction Company, Inc. is Work began in December 2008 to stabilize the New Granada Theater. The Hill District District and Wilkinsburg, and LCCC the general contractor, Milton Ogot is the landmark was designed in 1927 by African-American architect Louis Bellinger as the architect, and Brace Engineering is the staff. After over an hour of deliberation, Pythian Temple and was remodeled in 1937 by Alfred Marks for the New Granada structural engineer. Massaro CM Services, the winning teams were decided upon: Theater. Lead grants from The Heinz Endowments, State, and County are funding LLC, is serving as the Hill CDC’s repre- • First Place (in favor of Save-A-Lot): critical stabilization efforts for this vacant, historic structure. Photo by Todd Tondera. sentative throughout the construction Chapel Dcunha, Jebran Syed, Shruti process and The Reinvestment Fund Mohandas, Emily Burnett, Ling Zhai (TRF) has been appointed as general Infrastructure and Tourism Fund, and cultural organizations, philan- consultant to the Hill CDC. administered by Allegheny County thropic and financial institutions, and • Second Place (in favor of Kuhn’s): The total estimated cost of stabilizing Economic Development. We thank local neighborhood and business groups Russell Pustejovsky, Matt Solomon, the New Granada Theater is about State Representative Jake Wheatley to study potential uses and develop Jarrod West, Eddie Wilson $1.1 million. We thank the following for obtaining the State funding. a business plan for the reuse of the • Third Place (in favor of Save-A-Lot): for their generous contributions: The New Granada Theater. Landmarks is Conrhonda Baker, Tramaine Heinz Endowments; the Commonwealth Next Steps continuing its efforts to see that the of Pennsylvania’s Office of the Budget New Granada is listed on the National Brathwaite, Jennifer Clarke, through the Redevelopment Assistance The Hill CDC and TRF have formed a Register of Historic Places. Hanna Smith Capital Program; and the Community committee of representatives from arts P a g e 4 P H L F N e w s • A p r i l 2 0 0 9

LDC Consulting Services Two New Dr. Howard B. Slaughter, Jr. is the CEO of Landmarks Development Corporation (LDC), LCCC a for-profit subsidiary of the Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation. Ruth Byrd-Smith, director Loans of the Allegheny County Department of Minority, Women and Disadvantaged Business Enterprises, Westmoreland chairs LDC and Keith Dorman, director of public Human Services, Inc. affairs at Burson-Marsteller, is vice chair. LDC’s accomplishments include developing Station Square Westmoreland Human from 1976 to 1994 (see page 9), launching the Main Services (WHS) is a nonprofit Street program in Vandergrift (see page 6), providing agency that assists other human service agencies by horticultural services for Kentuck Knob, and serving leasing office space to them as construction supervisor for the new condomini- for below-market rates and ums at 5000 Penn Avenue (see below). by financially supporting low- income initiatives throughout Westmoreland Human Services, Inc., 226 South Maple Avenue, Greensburg. Westmoreland County. Photo by Todd Tondera. Currently, WHS owns six office buildings totaling 80,000 square feet. The main office is located at 226 South Three Rivers Youth Maple Avenue in Greensburg. The two-story building Three Rivers Youth (TRY) is a nonprofit organization of 23,792 square feet is being financed with a $925,000 working to preserve and unite families, combat home- loan from Landmarks Community Capital Corporation lessness, enhance educational opportunities, and build (LCCC). The loan, awarded on December 9, 2008, life skills for at-risk youth. TRY operates a street allows WHS to restructure indebtedness with respect outreach program, a drop-in center, transitional living to the South Maple property and continue to purchase services, and an emergency shelter, with the goal of and restore other properties. According to Executive returning children to their homes. Director Tay Waltenbaugh, “Not-for-profits need On December 31, 2008, Landmarks Community the infusion of funds made available by LCCC to Capital Corporation (LCCC) loaned $1,350,000 to Prudential and LDC staffs (from left to right): get projects off the ground and moving quickly.” TRY, so it could purchase and rehabilitate 6117 Broad Cindy Cavallucci, Howard Slaughter, Annabelle Javier Street in East Liberty. The two-story brick Wilburn, Steve Marziotto, Francine Cameron, facility includes 18,000 square feet and Michael Sriprasert, and Eugene Matta. has on-site parking, adjacent public Photo by Todd Tondera. parking, and nearby public transportation. Prudential Insurance Company of America The loan will allow TRY to expand and continues to partner with LDC throughout consolidate its operations. “This capital infusion is not only an investment in Western Pennsylvania to assist with diversity TRY but in this community,” said TRY recruiting. “We see a tremendous opportunity in President & CEO Peggy B. Harris, M.P.A. developing a strong partnership with organizations “We also acknowledge the seamless that compliment our approach toward recruiting, professional and overall positive experience education, and financial empowerment,” said encountered in working with LCCC.” Steve Marziotto, managing director of Prudential’s This is the largest single loan made to Western Pennsylvania agency. “Landmarks date by LCCC. Development Corporation shares our vision and values of community.” Three Rivers Youth, 6117 Broad Street, To learn more about LDC, contact Howard Pittsburgh. Slaughter: 412-471-5808, ext. 547.

Making News Dr. Howard B. Slaughter, Jr., CEO of LDC and of LCCC, continues to be featured in the news: • He was named to the board of trustees of The Pittsburgh Foundation in January 2009. • In the February 1 issue of Focus (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review), “Something Old Something Renewed; CEO works to rescue landmarks, spur opportunity in Pittsburgh neighborhoods,” Grant Oliphant, president and CEO of The Pittsburgh Foundation, described Howard’s commitment to “finding funding to breathe life into rundown historical neighborhoods in need of low- and moderate-income housing.” • On February 19 Howard discussed foreclosures and the Obama stimulus plan with Larry Richert on KDKA-AM (1020). Preservation Loan Fund Progress • On February 23, WQED and Duquesne Light presented Howard with its 2009 African Three new loft-style townhouses (shown above in February) at 5000 Penn Avenue in Bloomfield will be completed in mid May, thanks, in part, to a $462,000 loan from Landmarks Community Capital American Leadership Award in the Civic, Corporation (LCCC) in 2008. In addition, Landmarks Development Corporation (LDC) is providing Community, and Humanitarian category. construction management services. All three homes are following the “Energy Star” program for • On March 29, Howard received an Outstanding construction. Similarly designed and constructed homes are 15 to 30 percent more efficient than Alumni Award from Robert Morris University’s other new homes. Some of the features of Energy Star Homes are high performance windows, School of Communications and Information effective insulation, tight construction, efficient heating and cooling, and qualified products Systems. such as light fixtures. The developer, Friendship Development Associates, has sold one of the three units. • Howard has been invited to attend the Yale CEO Leadership Summit on June 9 at the With an $885,000 loan from LCCC in 2007 and assistance from others, East Liberty historic New York Stock Exchange; summit Development, Inc. is converting 5809–15 Rippey Street (top right) into eight market rate discussions will focus on practical ways to condominium units, to be completed in August, and the former YMCA (bottom), at 120 Whitfield Street, into condominiums and retail space. prosper during hard times. Photos top right and right by Todd Tondera. P H L F N e w s • A p r i l 2 0 0 9 P a g e 5

Campus Heritage Grants In Memoriam

Set Preservation Priorities Doris F. Harris (1911–2008) Long-time Landmarks member and As a result of a $200,000 grant from the reports for each educa- friend Doris Harris passed away on Getty Foundation in 2008, Landmarks tional institution to November 23, 2008. The 97-year-old is completing Campus Heritage Reports review. Administrators, resident of Leesburg, Florida, was for Seton Hill University (Greensburg, professors, and students featured in the 2004 Summer Issue Pa.), California University of Pennsylvania at each institution will of Landmark Legacies where she (California, Pa.), Indiana University have a chance to attend a proclaimed her ongoing love for of Pennsylvania (Indiana, Pa.), and presentation by our team Pittsburgh and appreciation for Landmarks’ efforts to preserve the Washington & Jefferson College members and comment place that she still considered home. (Washington, Pa.). The reports include on the draft reports Lake Wales resident John Miller, during public meetings this spring. recommendations for the preservation, John Sutton Hall (1875), Indiana member and son of Jack Miller, conservation, and continued use of Their comments will be incorporated University of Pennsylvania. Landmarks’ director of gift planning, the historic landscapes and campus into the final reports. represented Landmarks at Doris’ buildings. The Campus Heritage project has memorial service where her family Eugene Matta, director of real estate elicited interest on the part of students, start of other revitalization projects requested that gifts in her memory and special development programs at particularly those involved with the combining economic development and be made to the Doris Harris Named Landmarks, is managing the project, universities/college newspaper and/or historic preservation. In Washington, Fund at Landmarks. Proceeds from a and Tom Keffer, Al Tannler, and Ron radio. Reporters from Washington & Pa., Landmarks is working to restore charitable remainder trust that Doris Yochum are surveying and researching Jefferson College’s student-run radio and reuse an historic train station as established are also being directed to the campus buildings and preparing the station interviewed our team members a farmer’s market (see page 7), and that Fund. reports. Ellis Schmidlapp, president of twice, and students from the other three Greensburg’s planning office and We thank Judith Harvey Cook and Landmarks Design Associates (LDA) universities featured the project in community development corporation family and Bob and Barbara Norton Architects, and Ron Block, landscape campus newspapers. are looking to Landmarks to restore for their gifts in memory of Doris. designer, are serving as consultants. Our In two of the communities, Greensburg and/or convert an historic building project team has completed field work, and Washington, our Campus Heritage into a hotel. Arthur J. Edmunds (1922–2008) and Landmarks is preparing final draft grant work may have influenced the A dedicated Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation trustee and Coover Hall (1939), California University The former St. Philomena Shrine Memorial Hall (1905), Washington & 24-year member, Art Edmunds chaired of Pennsylvania. (1956), Seton Hill University. Jefferson College. our Preservation Loan Fund Committee and was a great advocate of our educa- tional programs. He came to Pittsburgh in 1960 to serve as the executive direc- tor of the Urban League of Pittsburgh, just at the time of urban renewal and neighborhood unrest. As a result of all Art did to “open new and better oppor- tunities” for minorities in Pittsburgh, his name is inscribed in the Freedom Corner monument at Crawford Street and Center Avenue in the Hill. Mr. Edmunds died on October 5, 2008. During a memorial service at Calvary Episcopal Church on October Natrona Bank Building and Pennsalt Housing 14, Elaine Coles said: “He stood tall, both literally and figuratively, and that $100,000 Grant Funds Phase 1 Restoration made each of us stand a little taller.” Senator Ferlo helped secure a $100,000 grant in late 2008 through Allegheny County’s Tourism Fund, which will be put G. Christian Lantzsch (1925–2008) toward the first phase of building restoration. Landmarks’ top priorities are to install a new roof; repair the cornice to make sure A Sewickley Heights resident, distin- it is properly tied into the new roof; repair and refabricate wood guished World War II veteran, and sections as needed; and selectively repoint the exterior bricks. Mellon Bank executive, Chris Lantzsch became a member of the Pittsburgh Significant Workers’ Housing Close By History & Landmarks Foundation in 1985 and served as a trustee until his While Landmarks was assessing the Natrona Bank building last death on July 31, 2008. summer, a fire burned several non-historic buildings across the He was born in Krögis, Germany, street. This inadvertently created an opportunity by opening up a and came to Pittsburgh in 1969 as a direct sight line from the bank building to workers’ housing built senior vice president for Mellon Bank. c. 1850 by the Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Company. Walter “Chris traveled the world,” said C. Kidney wrote in Pittsburgh’s Landmark Architecture: The Landmarks President Arthur Ziegler, Restoration work is underway at the former Natrona Bank Buildings of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County (PHLF 1997): “and understood the economic value building at 46–48 Chestnut Street. “The sixteen earliest houses along Federal Street were tiny . . . of historic preservation. He was but their picturesque steeply pitched roofs and board-and- particularly supportive of our work At the request of State Senator Jim Ferlo and local resi- at Station Square.” dents, Landmarks helped the Natrona Comes Together batten siding gave them once the look of ‘model cottages,’ Association (NCTA) acquire the former Natrona Bank intended to attract workers, ameliorate the harshness of building in April 2008, at a bargain sale. Since then, industrial conditions, and promote good behavior among Don Riggs (1927–2009) workers and their families.” Landmarks has examined the building and is working A 28-year member of the Pittsburgh with Senator Ferlo, Allegheny County, and NCTA on a In 1981, Landmarks restored two workers’ houses, in an effort History & Landmarks Foundation, restoration strategy, along with a plan to inject new life to help preserve one of the few company housing plans that had pioneer broadcaster, skilled carpenter, into the immediate area. escaped demolition. The Natrona Bank building project now and avid pilot, Don Riggs was a trustee Located at 46–48 Chestnut Street, the building dates gives us the opportunity to continue that effort. We believe that a of Landmarks Development Corporation to 1900 and originally served as the Sweeney Hotel and restored bank building could stimulate restoration along the lower and served for years as the master of Saloon. It operated as a bank from 1918 until 1987. After retail alley to the Pennsalt housing complex and on to a newly- ceremonies for Landmarks’ Award of 1987, the ground floor was home to an antiques store and created Merit program. On many occasions, then a community theater. The building has been vacant riverfront he invited Louise Sturgess, Landmarks’ and abandoned since around 2004. NCTA spent several park. Such executive director, and school students days last summer cleaning and removing debris that had a revitalized to appear on his WPXI-TV show to accumulated in the building. core could publicize the positive impact of Landmarks’ educational programs. Structurally, the building is still sound, although the roof bring new “He was an enthusiastic promoter of is in very poor condition and is causing water damage. business, this region,” said Louise, “and knew The exterior and interior have fallen into disrepair, though life, and so much about its history.” Don the exterior maintains much of its historic integrity. distinction died on February 21 at his home in to Natrona. Mt. Lebanon. Pennsalt housing, c. 1850; Federal Street. Photo by Todd Tondera. P a g e 6 P H L F N e w s • A p r i l 2 0 0 9

Vandergrift Progress

Allegheny Foundation Augments Revolving Fund

In January, the Vandergrift Improvement Program (VIP) announced receipt of a $100,000 grant from the Allegheny A brick sidewalk along Washington Avenue Foundation to augment its Real Estate in Monaca, in need of repair. Revolving Fund. To date, Landmarks has assisted the VIP in raising $475,000 for this Fund, including a $300,000 seed Beaver County grant from the Allegheny Foundation and support from State Senator Jim Ferlo. Since June 2006, Landmarks has Elm Street News Washington Avenue, Bridgeville. Photo by Todd Tondera. been working with the VIP to implement Thanks to funding from the Pennsylvania a Main Street Program. The 3.5-square Department of Community and mile community of Vandergrift was laid Economic Development (DCED), out in 1895 by the firm of Frederick Landmarks Development Corporation Main Street News Law Olmsted. (LDC) will complete its work in nine Richard Scaife, president of the Beaver County municipalities in June. Six Communities was completed in 2008 and all four Allegheny Foundation and a trustee of In July 2007, the Community communities are now in the midst of Landmarks, said: “Our trustees have Development Program of Beaver County implementing the first of their annual been very impressed with the grassroots action plans. Landmarks is involved hired LDC to work closely with all nine in “Allegheny Main Street effort in Vandergrift. In with each community and with the Borough managers and community 2006, the Allegheny Foundation estab- County in recruiting new businesses representatives to identify an Elm Street Together” lished a revolving fund to be used for and advancing strategies to bring older project in each of their communities, the acquisition and restoration of buildings back into more productive vacant, underutilized, or deteriorating prepare cost estimates, submit residential As Allegheny County’s main street service. Elizabeth served as the site of historic buildings. The VIP, with guid- reinvestment grant applications to the revitalization program, known as Landmarks’ 2008–09 Architectural ance from Landmarks, has put the funds DCED, and work with the DCED Allegheny Together, enters its second Design Challenge for 150 middle and to very good use; we are pleased to be Regional Director’s office to obtain year, County Executive Dan Onorato high school students (see page 10). has expanded the program to include able to enlarge the fund and build on full funding for the nine projects. The The County’s façade matching this excellent momentum.” improvement projects being proposed the Bridgeville and Verona main streets grant program, known as “Allegheny and has entered into the implementation Restoration work is nearly complete for each community are as follows: Restores,” has helped kick-start the at 143 Grant Avenue, one of the projects phase in Tarentum, Elizabeth, Stowe, revitalization process by encouraging • Aliquippa: repaint pedestrian cross- and Swissvale. to benefit from the Revolving Fund. walks; landscape existing traffic islands; business and property owners in The façade has been fully restored, a For Bridgeville and Verona, year one Allegheny Together communities to install new welcome sign in a land- new roof has been installed, and interior of the program in 2009 means public restore and improve their building scaped setting. workshops, organizing a main street improvements façades. Allegheny County received have been made. • Ambridge: resurface two parking lots committee, and undertaking extensive 20 grant applications in the first round, planning and analysis. Landmarks is A first-floor along Melrose Avenue; install new and Landmarks is now working with leading those efforts in bakery and yoga decorative light fixtures and new signage. the County to evaluate studio will open partnership with Town these projects and manage • Beaver: add new planting materials, later this year, Center Associates. the construction process landscaping, metal fencing, benches, This work includes and the bakery/ according to the design yoga owners will and a water fountain to the park at developing a strategic guidelines that each com- live above in a Fifth and Park streets. plan to guide future munity has developed. revitalization efforts, second-floor • Bridgewater: repair and replace the carrying out a market apartment. curbs and sidewalks, adding two ADA analysis and a review Space is also curb cuts; install a new welcome sign, of existing zoning ordinances, and available on the landscaping and new planters in the creating design guidelines. It also third floor. Gateway area, at Leopard Lane and includes a traffic and parking analysis Mulberry Street. to address traffic mobility, the pedes- New • Freedom: install a new brick sidewalk, trian experience, and the existing supply Businesses a “green” parking area with steps and a of parking. This year Landmarks was Open and 143 Grant Avenue, railing leading to Vicary House, and fortunate to engage Wilbur Smith for The Murray House at 423 Washington Others restored. Photo by Todd Tondera. a new lamppost and sign. pro bono services to assess traffic calm- Avenue and the former railroad depot Choose ing options on SR 50 that goes through at 441 Station Street in Bridgeville to Stay • Midland: install landscaping, new Bridgeville’s downtown core. have been designated local Historic benches, picnic tables, a welcome sign, For Stowe, Tarentum, Swissvale and Landmarks. Photos by Todd Tondera. Four new businesses have opened in two new lampposts, and mural art for Elizabeth––the first four Allegheny downtown Vandergrift since the fall Together communities––planning work the Spring Lane Playground. of 2008—Carino’s Restaurant, • Monaca: fix brick sidewalks along Pampered Puppies Pet Store, Solomon’s Washington Avenue between Ninth and Allegheny River Boulevard, Verona. Photo by Todd Tondera. Tire Service, and Naomi’s Café—and Tenth streets; install new ADA curb two longtime businesses—Pugliese cuts and street signage. Flowers and Professional Phlebotomy Services—have decided to stay because • New Brighton: install 30 new street of the positive impact of the VIP and lamps along Third Avenue between Revolving Loan Fund. Thirteenth and Nineteenth streets. “These new businesses are bringing • Rochester: install six new decorative new customers and new energy to street lamps between Adams and downtown Vandergrift,” said Meade Jefferson streets; repair sidewalks Jack, president of the VIP Board of and curbs; add ADA curb cuts. Directors. Shaun Yurcaba, main street Repair the stairs and railing in front coordinator for Landmarks, added: “This private investment shows that so of the Borough building. much of our hard work over the past Once completed, these small but three years is beginning to pay off. significant projects will add to the There’s real positive momentum that safety, beauty, and accessibility of new businesses and residents want to be each community. a part of.” Jack Miller, Landmarks’ director of gift planning, helped the VIP acquire P H L F N e w s • A p r i l 2 0 0 9 P a g e 7

Renderings by Kirsten Hoelmer

139/141 Grant Avenue Photo by Todd Tondera.

Rendering of the proposed Leechburg Hotel at 127–129 Market Street, courtesy of Landmarks Design Associates (LDA) Architects, and a postcard view from the 1920s. “FLAG” Progress

As Landmarks enters its second year off-season demand for hotel rooms. working with the Freeport, Leechburg, This weakness could be offset by devel- Apollo Group (FLAG) on a regional oping a restaurant and lounge on the effort to revitalize the main street busi- first floor, along with a catering facility ness districts, we are awaiting word to serve the Lingrow Farm events center. 134 Grant Avenue from the State on whether FLAG will be Linda is exploring this option and designated as a State regional main Landmarks and FLAG are both continu- Photo by Todd Tondera. street. We assisted FLAG last year with ing to help her identify a realistic path its designation application and are hope- forward. That path will likely include ful, but are also watching the impact of developing the project in phases, with State budget cuts closely. the first phase focusing on some needed In the meantime, we continue to exterior renovations, as well as building work hard on several important out the kitchen catering facility and projects. The most significant of these possibly the bar and restaurant. is restoring the Leechburg Hotel. Built “This is a tough time to take on a in 1904 and known in its early years as project of this scale,” Linda said, the National Hotel, the four-story brick “but it would be such a shame to lose structure served as a regional hotel at this building and the opportunity to least through the 1950s. Over the past bring it back to its original use. I am several decades, the building has fallen looking forward to working with into serious disrepair. It is currently Landmarks and FLAG to figure out vacant and at risk of demolition. how to make this work.” Landmarks has been working with FLAG to identify a viable alternative. Pampered Puppies, 124 Grant Avenue In fact, with support from FLAG and Photo by Todd Tondera. grant money made available through State Senator Jim Ferlo, Landmarks two buildings in 2008: 139/141 Grant was able to oversee a comprehensive Avenue, housing Pugliese Flowers and feasibility study in 2008 to identify the Professional Phlebotomy Services, capital costs of the project, study the and 134 Grant Avenue, a former Naomi’s Café, 163 Columbia Avenue regional market to gauge potential J. C. Penney building that has been Photo by Todd Tondera. demand for a 30-room hotel, and build vacant for 10 years. For details about a realistic pro forma. the charitable gift annuities, see PHLF ing façades and upgrading interiors, Throughout this process, Landmarks News (September 2008). the Vandergrift Improvement Program has been working with Linda Alworth, A new roof has been put on 139/141 seeks to revitalize a community.” owner and operator of the Lingrow Grant Avenue, and the VIP is working Farm just outside of Leechburg. Linda Washington train station of 1902 with Landmarks and the Pennsylvania New Staff converted an 1850s barn into a remark- Historical and Museum Commission David Farkas, a 2006 graduate from able events center that is situated in to restore the façade. The long-term Armstrong County’s bucolic country- goal is to renovate the five upper-floor Kenyon College with experience in Washington, PA: construction, business recruitment, side. Now in its fourth year of opera- apartments. tion, the events center is considered a Farmer’s Market Plans are in the works to restore and commercial real estate, is helping manage the Vandergrift Main Street premiere location for weddings. 134 Grant as an art center and small- Right now, there are no hotels serving The City of Washington, Pa., has a business incubator. State Senator program for Landmarks while Shaun successful farmer’s market set up in Yurcaba is on maternity leave. David Leechburg and the surrounding Kiski Jim Ferlo and the Department of Valley. That means that weekend a parking lot, once a week for three Community and Economic Development returned to Landmarks in the fall of hours, three months out of each year. 2008, providing valuable assistance wedding guests are forced to travel over have identified up to $600,000 in thirty minutes to find accommodations The Main Street Farmer’s Market is a possible state funds; the VIP has raised to our Main Street programs, and is program of the Washington Business capably filling this short-term position in either Murrysville or at Pittsburgh $100,000 more and still needs an Mills Mall. “From my own experience, District Authority, and the city gives additional $300,000 match. in Vandergrift. permission for the parking lot to be For further information about I see a critical need to provide quality As Brian C. Rittmeyer noted in his lodging in the Leechburg area,” said used for this purpose. January 24, 2009 article in Valley News the VIP call 724-567-5286 or visit: The City of Washington also has www.officialvandergrift.com. Linda. “Having a hotel in Leechburg Dispatch, “Beyond fixing roofs, restor- would help my events center business an historic train station, designed by and could stimulate broader economic Price & McLanahan, built in 1902, growth. We bring in over 5,000 people and closed in 1929. Landmarks believes a season, and many of those folks are that the historic train station is ideally looking for other places to visit during suited for reuse as a year-round, perma- their stay.” nent Main Street Farmer’s Market. Landmarks’ market study showed The Pennsylvania Department of strong weekend and peak market demand Community and Economic Development Carino’s Restaurant, for a modest-sized hotel in Leechburg. (DCED) has awarded a $43,000 grant 133 Grant Avenue Such a hotel would also help FLAG to Landmarks for restoration/reuse project planning; $61,250 of gaming Photo by Todd Tondera. realize its long-term goal of becoming a destination for regional tourism based revenue generated in 2008–09 from the on river and trail recreational opportu- Casino at the Meadows also has been nities. However, the market study also awarded to Landmarks. identified only modest weekday and P a g e 8 P H L F N e w s • A p r i l 2 0 0 9

Station Square and the Union Project Nathaniel Guest, who is pursuing two graduate degrees concurrently—a masters in historic preservation plan- ning at Cornell and a JD at Temple University—has written “Perspectives on Pittsburgh Preservation: Station Square and the Union Project” (Fall 2008). We reprint an excerpt from the preface of his 54-page paper: A sign in the [Union] Project’s base- ment helped to put both stories in context: “Sometimes I really hate With a $4,000 matching grant from Landmarks, the Allegheny Unitarian Universalist Church in the Mexican War Streets will be Pittsburgh because I love it so able to replace portions of the slate roof and flashing (left). Stewart Avenue Lutheran Church in Carrick is one of three technical much.” It would be an exercise in assistance recipients (right). Walter Kidney admired the “lively and well proportioned design” of Stewart Avenue Church. naiveté to think one could fully understand the preservation uni- verse of a city as large as Pittsburgh Generous Year-End Gifts Keep Historic by looking at just two projects, even groundbreaking ones such as the Religious Properties Program Going Union Project and Station Square.... However, the Union Project sign belies a noble commonality driving “Our trustees, members, and several $31,000 in hand, the committee decided • Triumph the Church & Kingdom of preservation in Pittsburgh in all its private foundations came through for to only approve grants for critical God in Christ, 618 Lillie Avenue hard-scrabble, against-the-odds us,” said George C. Dorman, chairman building projects, including roofing (Braddock); Charles Mathias jagged brilliance: in the absence of of Landmarks’ Historic Religious and door repairs, gutter and downspout Bartberger, architect; 1901. major public funding or consistent Properties (HRP) Committee. “They replacement, and masonry work and • Valley View Presbyterian Church, government support for preserva- responded more generously than ever to repointing. Awards were presented 601 N. Aiken Avenue (Garfield); tion, Pittsburghers have rallied our special 2008 year-end appeal by during a reception on March 4: architect not known; 1901. around and preserved those things donating a total of $31,000. That is the Grants sacred to the soul of their city. amount we were able to award to eight Technical Assistance historic religious properties that needed • Allegheny Unitarian Universalist In the face of a history of urban • Kerr Presbyterian Church, 157 Bridge renewal that destroyed and segre- our help in order to undertake critical, Church, 416 West North Avenue Street (Verona); architect unknown; gated much of the city, Station emergency projects.” (Mexican War Streets); Robert 1872. In every year since 1997––the incep- Maurice Trimble, architect; 1909–10. Square and the Union Project pro- • Stewart Avenue Lutheran Church, tion of our Historic Religious Properties posed restoration and community • Church of the Holy Cross, 7507 Kelly 2810 Brownsville Road (Carrick); Program––Landmarks has been able to as better solutions. While both Street (Homewood); Carpenter & O. M. Topp, architect; 1927. sought to be economically viable, allocate funds to augment the year-end Crocker, architects; 1905–06. gifts received from its members and • Waverly Presbyterian Church, 590 neither contemplated get-rich-quick • First Presbyterian Church, 320 Sixth friends. “However, we were not able to S. Braddock Avenue (Regent Square); schemes. Preservation in Pittsburgh Avenue (Downtown); Theophilus Ingham & Boyd, architects; 1930. is, as the sign in the Union Project budget additional funds this year,” said Parsons Chandler, architect; 1903–05. Landmarks President Arthur Ziegler, Windows by R. Toland Wright. suggests, an effort borne of love. • Glenshaw Presbyterian Church, “because of the economic climate and 300 Glenn Avenue (Glenshaw); Energy Study the responsibilities we have to complete Lawrence Wolfe, architect; 1927. (courtesy of the Saxer Foundation) several major restoration projects.” Braddock, PA On January 14, Landmarks’ Historic • St. Philip Church, 50 W. Crafton • Deer Creek United Presbyterian Religious Properties Committee Boulevard (Crafton); William P. Church, 33 Bairdford Road The following is reprinted from “Rock reviewed applications from 22 religious Ginther, Akron, Ohio, architect; 1906. (Gibsonia), architect unknown; 1850. Bottom for Decades, but Showing properties in Allegheny County request- • Swissvale United Methodist Church, Signs of Life,” by David Streitfeld (The ing a total of $170,000. With only 2018 S. Braddock Avenue (Swissvale); New York Times, February 1, 2009): Harry Viehman, architect; 1928. Everyone in the country is asking, “Where’s the bottom?” said the mayor [of Braddock, Pa.], John Thank You for Giving (December 1, 2008 – January 22, 2009) Fetterman. “I think we’ve found it.” Mr. Fetterman is trying to make an Leadership Gifts Cornerstone Gifts Ronald Hartman and Leslie Wilfred and Ruth Rouleau ($200–$10,000) (up to $200) Golomb asset out of his town’s lack of assets, Jean E. Rowan Anonymous Michael and Karen Agostinella Christine A. Hartung calling it “a laboratory for solutions Virginia W. Schatz Babcock Charitable Trust David H. Archer Thomas O. Hornstein to all these maladies starting to Rose Mary Schulz Esther Barazzone, Ph.D. Joanne E. Bald Eileen Boyd Hutchinson knock on the door of every com- Debra Shapiro David Barensfeld Mark and Patricia Bibro Kenneth Jaros and Karen munity.” One of his first acts after Laurie Graham Shearer David and Janet Brashear Janet and William Bird Hoesch being elected mayor in 2005 was to Mildred M. Stevenson The Anne L. and George H. Edward N. Blair Mr. & Mrs. Jay Jarrell set up, at his own expense, a Web Norrine and William Taylor Jr. Clapp Charitable and Denise S. Bogden Bill and Virginia Keck Harley Trice site to publicize Braddock––if you Educational Trust Frank R. Braden, Jr. Kathy A. Koch Jane Van Kirk can call pictures of buildings Russell Coe Arthur M. Brandenburg Emily and Joshua Lilly Ann P. Wardrop destroyed by neglect and vandals a Selene and Arnold Davis John and Martha Burkholder Jane and Robert Long Roger C. Westman form of promotion. . . . George and Eileen Dorman Thomas C. Camarda Louise and Michael Malakoff Frances H. Wilson Lois Scott Emler All this [including the development Jae and Bob Cannon Angela and Doug Marvin Mary Wohleber of urban farms on empty lots, Charles E. Felix Mr. & Mrs. Randall W. Lyle J. Matey creating a community center in a Ferry Electric Company Casciola Melissa M. McSwigan former church, and encouraging Harry C. Goldby Mary Davis Susan Meadowcroft St. Philip Church in Crafton will Martha M. Jordan Harmar D. Denny IV Dr. & Mrs. Thomas A. Fossil Free Fuel to open its business use Landmarks’ $4,000 matching David A. Kleer Keith G. Dorman Medsger, Jr. in a vacant warehouse] is movement grant to repair the bell tower. in the right direction, but the Paula M. Lockhart Lowrie C. Ebbert Mary Anne and William Mistick uninhabited buildings are still Grant McCargo Doctors Jonathon and Judith Muriel R. Moreland falling down. Dozens are scheduled Eliza and Hugh Nevin Erlen Jeffrey and Nancy Orman for demolition. “If struggling James and Pauline Parker George and Roseann Erny Ray Pendro communities don’t preserve their G. Whitney Snyder Charitable Mr. & Mrs. James Fisher Fund Alan H. Perer architecture,” Mr. Fetterman said, James W. Garvey Judge & Mrs. William L. Mark T. Phillis “there’s no chance of any resur- Susan G. Golomb Standish Marirose and John Radelet gence down the line.” Sometime Lee C. Gordon Peter H. Stephaich Matthew J. Ragan soon, he worries, Braddock will pass H. Yale Gutnick Louise and Martin Sturgess Julianna and Douglas Haag Neil M. Resnick and Susan L. the point of no return. Greenspan Kathy and Louis Testoni Mr. & Mrs. John Campbell Carol Yaster and William Harmon Dr. & Mrs. George S. 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Why Welcome Landmarks? New Trustees During its Spring Board meeting on March 24, trustees of the Pittsburgh What an impact Landmarks has had on Western Pennsylvania since its founding History & Landmarks Foundation in 1964. When government wrote off approved the following nominees to the Manchester, Mexican War Streets serve on its board and subsidiaries: and South Side neighborhoods, we used Pittsburgh History & sound development strategies, sweat Landmarks Foundation equity, and minimal public dollars to help revitalize those communities and Claudia P.Bermudez showcase their unique diversity of his- Lu Donnelly toric buildings. Today, property values The Langenheim house Emmanuel I. Osagie, Ph.D., PMP in those neighborhoods have increased of 1883 at 1315 Liverpool substantially. Street, shown in 1967 Landmarks Development When we were told that preservation- (left) and now (above). Corporation (a for-profit subsidiary) based commercial development The house was rescued, Molly Blasier wouldn’t work, we acquired Pittsburgh restored, and remodeled Ruth Byrd-Smith & Lake Erie Railroad property, used for apartments, thanks preservation as the attraction, and to Landmarks and Landmarks Financial Corporation Manchester citizens. developed the riverfront site. Station Otto H. Chu Above: Photo by Todd Tondera. Square used no local or state tax dollars, Marina Persic Lehn yet today is Pittsburgh’s largest tourist attraction and most successful urban Landmarks Community Capital development of the past half century. Corporation (a nonprofit subsidiary) We continue to shepherd cutting- The following trustees were appointed edge projects that not only emphasize in August 2008: the integration of older buildings and Joseph A. Hardy III landscapes into new development, but Audrey J. Murrell, Ph.D. enhance the quality of life for people living there, proving again and again that preservation is the stimulus for economic and personal development. However, whether it’s Landmarks’ 2008 Board Giving investment of time and resources in Market Square, Main Street and Elm Last year, the 102 members of our Street Programs in Vandergrift, Apollo four boards contributed $1,213,722 in and Beaver, or our farm preservation financial support and countless other program in Allegheny and surrounding gifts of time and talent to support counties, or our Historic Religious Landmarks’ mission. Properties Program, or the educational programs we provide for more than Above: The Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Additionally, nearly 20 percent of our 12,000 people, or projects of national (P&LE) Railroad Terminal Buildings in board members have made Landmarks 1951. These historic buildings, now significance like Bedford Springs, Heinz the beneficiary of some form of planned Lofts, or The Cork Factory, we can only reused, are the nucleus of Station Square. Courtesy, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. gift, from bequests and insurance and remain a leader with the support of our retirement plan beneficiary designations own volunteer leadership and members. In light of the economic and preserva- Right: The P&LE passenger waiting to gift annuities, named funds, and tion challenges we now face, never room, before restoration in 1976 for preservation easements. the Grand Concourse Restaurant. before have membership gifts been more This generosity makes it possible for important. Gifts in any amount are Landmarks to continue historic preser- welcome and gifts of $1,000 or more For information on naming-rights gifts, with income, often coupled with tax result in your enrollment as a planned gifts or gifts of appreciated benefits and significant recognition and vation projects and programs during Landmarks Heritage Society member. securities, please contact Jack Miller, legacy opportunities. We invite you to difficult economic times and shows For those with a greater capacity to Landmarks’ director of gift planning, visit our Web site or contact Jack Miller foundations and corporations that our support our work, certain gifts will at [email protected] or 412-471-5808, to learn more about these opportunities. volunteer leadership is committed to qualify for naming rights on our Market ext. 538. Finally, we assure you that everything furthering our work. Square buildings (see pages 1, 12–13). As you consider 2009 giving options, possible is being done to maximize the Credit card gifts may also be made we remind you that Landmarks has impact of our resources during these “Results begin with leadership,” says on our homepage at www.phlf.org. giving tools that can also provide you turbulent economic times. Landmarks President Arthur Ziegler. “We’re fortunate to have so many board members who take a personal interest in our work and lead by example. We are An Uplifting Gift Strategy most grateful for their commitment.” New Gift Annuity Rates in a Down Economy In response to changing economic Hold the Date conditions, the American Council on Gift Annuities has adjusted the rates If your savings have been disappearing A reverse mortgage is typically a The 2009 Landmarks Heritage Society that it recommends that charities use in or your cash flow isn’t what you need, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Event, honoring those who have made there may be a way that Landmarks Development backed program that is providing income payments to donors. annual gifts of at least $1,000 or can help. based upon the equity in your home. Beginning on February 1, 2009, the included Landmarks in their estate following rates are in effect: First, you might consider directing You do not need income or good credit some of your savings to create a charita- to qualify. The loan does not have to be plan, is tentatively set for the evening Single Life Two-Life ble gift annuity. Doing so can provide repaid until you either sell or perma- of Tuesday, September 15. For details, Gift Annuity Rates Gift Annuity Rates you with fixed income for life at higher- nently leave your primary residence. contact: [email protected] or 412-471- Age Rate Ages Rate than-CD-rate returns and a federal With a reverse mortgage, you get to use 5808, ext. 538. 65 5.3% 60/65 4.8% income tax deduction (See pages 46 and the lump sum cash payment or monthly 70 5.7% 65/70 5.0% 47 of the January 12 issue of FORBES proceeds however you like, without 75 6.3% 70/75 5.3% magazine). having to make any monthly payments. 80 7.1% 75/80 5.8% For persons over the age of 62 who This strategy can not only create cash, 85 8.1% 80/85 6.5% own and live in their home, a reverse but can effectively restructure debt and 90+ 9.5% 85/90 7.5% mortgage may be obtained to free up eliminate mortgage payments. 90/95 9.0% some of the equity in that home to fund To receive a free brochure on reverse a gift annuity and/or eliminate any mortgages and gift annuities, contact: remaining mortgage payment. 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ThankYou Mary Ann; Involving the Next Generation in . . . Welcome Karen After serving as Landmarks’ education coordinator since 1993, Mary Ann Eubanks retired on December 31, 2008. Knowledgeable about the city and its neighborhoods, Mary Ann was instru- mental in developing the Downtown Dragons walking tour and was primarily responsible for our teacher in-service and Portable Pittsburgh programs. Now a 4.0 student at Vet Tech Institute in downtown Pittsburgh, Mary Ann continues to amaze and inspire us. Karen B. Cahall, Ed.M., joined Landmarks’ staff on January 1, after serving as a docent for eight years. She has assumed Mary In their master plan for Elizabeth, Valley High Ann’s responsibilities and School team members suggested adding a multi- is becoming acquainted purpose banquet hall, historical center, and with the full range of Landmarks’ work. retail zone in the area of the fishing dock, while The Elizabeth-Forward (Team 2) model shows a restaurant rising on pillars from preserving space for fishing. “It’s an absolute joy working at the fishing dock, and a rendering of the view toward Second Avenue. Landmarks, developing such innovative programs,” said Karen. For details about school tours or teacher in-services, contact: [email protected]; . . . Master Planning and Renewal Efforts in Elizabeth, PA 412-471-5808, ext. 537. “We were thrilled to serve as the study improvements along Plum Street from Barbara Cain, Debbie Clark, Kirsten site for Landmarks’ 13th Annual the Monongahela River to Second Hoelmer, Sheri Kosh, Andrew Lang, Architectural Design Challenge,” Avenue and constructed a scale model Kelly Lyons, David Morgan, Megan Apply for Landmarks said Carol Hill of Elizabeth Area showing how either the fishing dock, or O’Hara, and Richard Schmitz. Development Corporation. “During the a vacant historic house at Plum and Scholarship final presentations on February 18 and Water Streets, or the former train station College-bound high school students 19 at Elizabeth Elementary School, at Plum Street and First Avenue could be who live in Allegheny County, have a students showed in their models and reused. “The solutions students proposed Belle Vernon Area High School students 3.25 grade point average or above, and master plans how we can better connect took into account the needs of the converted the former train station into a care deeply about the Pittsburgh region Elizabeth’s waterfront to Second Avenue. community and the unique history candy and ice cream soda shop, complete may apply to Landmarks Scholarship Their ideas, all documented through and topography of Elizabeth,” said with an indoor water fountain to gener- Program. The deadline is April 24. written reports and photographs, will Education Coordinator Karen ate electricity. Visit www.phlf.org to download an influence the plans we develop with Cahall. “Students always rise to the application or call: 412-471-5808, Landmarks through the Allegheny challenge when given real-world ext. 536 and we will mail one to you. Together Main Street initiative” problems to solve,” added (see page 6). Landmarks’ Executive Director Eighteen middle school teams and Louise Sturgess. nine high school teams from 13 schools We thank Joe Nickol and Thank You Interns in Westmoreland County participated, Kirsten Hoelmer of Urban Design Dagan Bontrager is assisting Landmarks along with three teams from Elizabeth Associates for teaching the students through July, thanks to PULSE Forward High School in Allegheny about the master-planning process (Pittsburgh Urban Leadership Service County. For the first time, Landmarks’ during orientation sessions in Experience). Laura Becker, Ramsey design challenge included an urban- October 2008 at the Grand Theatre. Blair, Matthew Dorsch, and Sydney planning exercise as well as a model- Thanks also to the following archi- Karpowich––all from the University building assignment. Each team tects and designers who served as of Pittsburgh––completed (or are presented a master plan showing judges on February 18 and 19: completing) volunteer internships with Landmarks. Todd Tondera, a photography student from Oakbridge . . . Documenting the Significance of the Hill District Academy of Arts, braved the cold, gray weather in December, January, and In January and February, 20 students presentation and conversation on Lorenz streets.” At the conclusion of February to take many of the photo- from Pittsburgh Miller, located in the February 19 with Mikhail Pappas from the Stevens ESW program, Larry Berger graphs in this issue of PHLF News. former McKelvy School on Bedford State Senator Jim Ferlo’s office. Larry emailed the following note to Louise: Two graduate students are also Avenue, explored their school and Berger, executive director of SLB Radio “Teaming on events like this . . . creates completing volunteer internships: community with Landmarks during Productions, Inc., interviewed the a wonderful opportunity for the children. Sheri Kosh (Chatham University/ the Pittsburgh Public Schools’ ELECT students and recorded their comments I am amazed by how much they learn, interior architecture) has developed Student Works (ESW) after-school for broadcast. by how verbal they are (the cue cards furniture floor plans for Market at Fifth enrichment program funded by the “We involved students from Pittsburgh indeed help them develop a specialty and Heathside Cottage and is providing Department of Education and Stevens in a similar process in November area that they become more extempora- design assistance for main street busi- Department of Public Welfare. and December 2008,” said Louise neous about), and by their creativity. ness owners, and Aleksandra Carapella After creating two huge murals docu- Sturgess, “and were thrilled to have I think the multi-week experience is (CMU’s Heinz School/public manage- menting the significance of their school State Senator Wayne D. Fontana talk one they will remember all their ment) is assisting St. Nicholas Church and neighborhood and posters featuring with the students about their school, the lives . . . . I know this will help them in Millvale with fundraising efforts. several historic sites, the students shared Elliott neighborhood, and their ideas for become better citizens.” what they had learned during a final improving a vacant lot at Crucible and P H L F N e w s • A p r i l 2 0 0 9 P a g e 1 1

Three-Year Grant The Alfred M. Oppenheimer (AMO) Memorial Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation is committing $15,000 per year for three years to support general education Pittsburgh Fulton programs at Landmarks. “The AMO was students gather with established in 1963 to support interfaith and Louise Sturgess on interracial understanding,” said Chuck Half, the grand stair of a trustee of AMO and of Landmarks. “The the Allegheny intent of this grant is to support Landmarks’ County Courthouse educational programs that provide in-depth (H. H. Richardson, explorations of historic sites, architecture, architect; 1884–88), neighborhoods, and culture along with oppor- the most impressive tunities for interaction among participants.” of Pittsburgh’s great “This is a tremendous and most welcome buildings. source of support,” said Louise Sturgess, Landmarks’ executive director. “Since its founding in 1964, our organization has been committed to offering educational programs that help people realize the value of historic structures and neighborhoods and motivate them to work together to improve the life of their community. The AMO grant will . . . Building Pride and Character Through City Tours provide a base of funding for us in these challenging economic times.”

By April 30, eleven Pittsburgh Public House; and ride Schools will have participated in the Duquesne Landmarks’ Building Pride/Building Incline up Mt. Gifts Fund T-Shirts Character city tour, described by a Washington for T-shirts will be given to all students who teacher as “one of the best [field trips] a city view. participate in our Downtown Dragons ever.” The innovative educational Character- walking tours this spring, thanks to contribu- program is sponsored through the building words tions from the Gailliot Family Foundation Commonwealth of Pennsylvania’s are associated and Mr. & Mrs. James M. Walton. To check Educational Improvement Tax Credit with each out our most popular educational tour visit: program and was funded as a result of architectural www.phlf.org/dragons/. contributions Landmarks received in landmark: for the fall of 2008 from six corporations: example, the PNC Bank; Allegheny Technologies, words respect- Matthews Funds Public Inc.; Frank B. Fuhrer Wholesale Co.; ful, responsible, ESB Bank; Bridges & Co., Inc.; and tolerant, and Art Awards Hefren-Tillotson, Inc. proud are associated with the City- Pittsburgh Fulton students watch the County Building; the Courthouse is wire-rope cable pull the car up the On February 12––on the occasion of a described as robust, dignified, and inclined plane (above) and view 200th-birthday celebration for Abraham impressive; the Fort Pitt Museum Pittsburgh from Point of View Park Lincoln––State Senator Jim Ferlo announced is a place of discipline and loyalty; on Grandview Avenue (below). the winners of his “Public Art in Public the Block House is adaptable and a Places Contest,” offered in cooperation survivor because of caring people; with Landmarks and others in celebration and the incline brings to mind the of Pittsburgh’s 250th birthday. Matthews words courageous, ingenious, and International Corporation funded seven prizes cooperative. At the end of the tour, of $250 each for students from Carrick High students are asked to select several School, Frick International Studies Academy, words to incorporate into their and Seton-La Salle High School. character. Pittsburgh Morrow students board Throughout the day, students Molly’s Trolley. record thoughts and facts in a MORE Free Tours Trip Journal that they can use as The Urban Redevelopment Authority of Third-grade students explore a reference back in the classroom. Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Mainstreets, Pittsburgh on board Molly’s Trolleys, The tour builds pride by introduc- VisitPittsburgh, and the Pittsburgh with Landmarks’ staff, docents, and ing students to some of the places Downtown Partnership are working with college interns serving as tour guides. that give this city its character and Landmarks to publicize and expand its free The day-long tour includes five stops: by challenging students to build walking tour program. Join us: the City-County Building, Allegheny character within themselves. County Courthouse, Fort Pitt Museum, What an Downtown, Every Friday, Noon to 1:00 p.m. Fort Pitt Block House, and Duquesne adventure! • May: Grant Street & Mellon Square Incline. Students meet with their Council • June: Revitalizing Fifth & Forbes representatives in the City-County • July: Penn-Liberty Cultural District Building; climb the grand stair in the • August: Fourth Avenue & PPG Place Courthouse; learn about Pittsburgh’s • September: Bridges & More founding in the Fort Pitt Museum; explore the 245-year-old Fort Pitt Block Oakland Civic Center • October, Every Friday, Noon to 1:00 p.m. Walking Our Mainstreets Ten Saturdays, 2:00–3:30 p.m. • Sept. 5: Mt. Washington • Sept.12: Friendship • Sept.19: Lawrenceville Attention! Pittsburgh Fulton • Sept. 26: Downtown students experience what it • Oct. 3: Strip District means to be disciplined and • Oct.10: West End loyal during a military drill • Oct. 17: Bloomfield outside the Fort Pitt Museum • Oct. 24: South Side in Point State Park. • Oct. 31: North Side • Nov. 7: East Liberty

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that give the buildings character and integrity.” In her study of architects Longfellow, Alden, and Harlow, Margaret Henderson Floyd called “the small Regal Shoe Company Building [an] arts and crafts landmark in Pittsburgh’s Triangle.” She noted elements in Frank Alden’s design—the overhanging roof, the ribbon clerestory windows, the contrast of dark wood and roughcast walls—and suggested their origins in three sources: the Japanese-inspired railway stations Pat Walker of Alliance of Alden’s mentor, H. H. Richardson; Drywall, Inc. the residential architecture of English architects C. F. A.Voysey and C. R. Ashbee; and the adaptation of their forms Contributors and finishes by Frank Lloyd Wright and his Midwestern contemporaries. The following contributed to Market at (Perhaps coincidence, but a sizeable Fifth, LP,a downtown revitalization contingent of English arts and crafts project of the Pittsburgh History & architects, including Ashbee, and of Landmarks Foundation: Midwestern architects, including • Duquesne Light, façade lighting This second-floor apartment in the former Regal Shoe Company Building will overlook a Wright, exhibited in 1907 at the new parklet across Fifth Avenue when Three PNC Plaza is completed in 2010. biannual architecture exhibition in • Laurel Foundation, for restoration Pittsburgh.) At the same time, this small of historic clerestory fenestration building is supported by a steel frame; its architects, Professor Floyd reminds • PPG Industries, for donating the us, erected “the Carnegie Building services of Artistic Director Josette Market at Fifth: (1893–95), Pittsburgh’s first fully steel- Buisson for paint color consultations framed, curtain-walled skyscraper.” If the Regal Building is related to the • Pittsburgh Paints, a brand of Custom-built, arts and crafts movement, the adaptive PPG Industries, for underwriting work of our current team of architects, the costs of a documentary video craftsmen, electricians, consultants, of the Market at Fifth restoration, and others carries on that tradition of craftsmanship. “So much of the work to be produced by Vince Sebal of Renewed by Hand has been done by hand,” said Paul Legal Eye Productions. Boggeman, project superintendent for As is often the case, Regal Shoe Sterling Contracting, LLC, “since the the words of co- Company––is historic structure was fragile and there Project Team founder Jamie Van indeed an “ele- was little space for heavy machinery.” Trump (1908–1995) gant pendant” to “The first day on the job, we knew • Landmarks Design Associates continue to inspire Market Square. this would be an arduous task,” Paul (LDA) Architects the work of the The $4.5 million said, “but we didn’t know how bad the Pittsburgh History LEED-certified buildings were until we really started to • Iams Consulting, & Landmarks project (see side- get into the job. 439 Market had been MEP engineering services Foundation. Jamie bar on page 13), including a • Konefal & Company, realized the potential of the former Regal $35,000 grant structural engineers Shoe Company from the Laurel • Hilbish McGee Lighting Design building at Market Foundation to Street and Fifth Downtown Pittsburgh Survey photo, 1975. restore the his- • Lovorn Engineering Associates, Avenue that had toric clerestory commissioning engineers for been “badly mauled” when he noted in the fenestration, provides first-floor retail LEED certification Downtown Pittsburgh Survey of 1975: space, seven custom-designed apart- “This structure, chiefly interesting for its ments on the second and third floors, • evolve: environment architecture, smallness and its human scale, could, if it and a “green” roof. LEED consultant were sympathetically restored, be an elegant “Landmarks has turned three historic pendant on Fifth Avenue to the Market buildings––the Regal Shoe Company of • Sterling Contracting, LLC, Square environment.” 1908 designed by Alden & Harlow and general contractor Thanks to Landmarks’ leadership and two adjacent brick buildings of c. 1870–– substantial financial commitment, Market into something new and quite exciting,” • Moore & Morford, Inc., at Fifth––the new name for a complex of said Historical Collections Director Al steel fabricators three adjacent buildings including the former Tannler, “while conserving the elements • Marsa, Inc., masonry Rendering from the Pittsburgh Architectural Club, Fifth Exhibition, 1910. • Pro-Mech, mechanical contractor • Manion Plumbing, Inc., plumbing contractor • Union Electric Construction, Inc., electrical contractor • Preferred Fire Protection, Inc., sprinkler alarm systems • Pennsylvania Roofing • Alliance Drywall, Inc.

• Arc Limited, a Formglas Company • A.J. Vater & Co., Inc., painting and decorating • Norelco Demolition Company

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Going for Gold Market at Fifth is going for a Gold “LEED” certification. “Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design” is a national rating system created by the U.S. Green Building Council to recognize how “green” a building is. Platinum, gold, and silver LEED ratings are awarded based on various categories, including: sustainable sites (existing building reuse); water-efficiency use; energy and atmosphere; materials; and indoor environmental quality. In green building, initial construc- Left: There are 78 windows in the three buildings comprising Market at Fifth. The ceilings in the apartments are about 12 feet high. tion/project costs might be more, Right: The cast-iron window hoods were taken down, stripped, repainted, and reinstalled. “When one window hood cracked, but major savings in operation will we made a new one––and it’s impossible to figure out which is the new one,” said Paul Boggeman. be realized over the years.

I knew this would The green features of Market at be a job I would Fifth are: not forget for • Maintaining 75% of the existing the rest of my roof, walls, and floor structure life. There is something about • Reusing bricks to rebuild struc- saving and turally unsound walls making two 130- year-old buildings • Insulated windows with argon gas new again that is to reduce overall transfer of heat most gratifying. and to block ultraviolet sunrays A vegetative roof of sedum is one of many Together, these green-building features (see sidebar). three buildings • Reflective roof membranes to have a lot of reduce heat absorption character and a extensively damaged by fire and later by lot of history. • Vegetative roof to reduce heat water after the roof collapsed. We had To be able to save absorption and reduce rainwater to build new floor systems all the way that history is the Paul Boggeman, project superintendent runoff into the sewer system up, pocketing into the existing walls of best. Nothing can speak to that.” for Sterling Contracting, LLC, is a true the adjacent 441 Market. Both 439 and The brick walls of the two buildings craftsman, with 34 years experience. • LED (light emitting diode) fix- 441 Market were built around 1870. facing Graeme Street were dismantled tures for lighting the exterior of “As we got deeper into demolition by hand, at night, for safety reasons. the building to reduce nighttime and things started collapsing in on us, The bricks from 441 Graeme, the more historic façade, were saved, cleaned, and light pollution reused to rebuild the outer wall of 441. “In my 27 years with Landmarks,” • High-efficiency furnaces said Property and Construction Manager Tom Keffer, “this has been one • Energy recovery unit to recapture of the most complicated, challenging, and use conditioned air to reduce and rewarding projects. So many aspects An excerpt from “An Attractive Store Building,” the amount of energy needed for of the work––from the Regal Building initial condition The [Pittsburgh] Builder (September 1909) clerestory and canopy to the custom- built bay windows facing Graeme–– • Water-saving plumbing fixtures The idea in this building was to produce an attractive were done by hand.” store and one that would give the most pleasing results “Landmarks is a hands-on organiza- • Using rapidly renewable materials both architecturally and commercially. tion,” said President Arthur Ziegler. such as bamboo flooring and The location of the lot . . . is exceptionally fortunate “Preservationists are by tradition crafts- agrifiber doors and presented possibilities which were unusual. men rather than designers or planners The present solution of the problem was suggested working on a large scale.” • Diverting a minimum of 75% of by the old half-timbered houses still to be found in The intrinsic relationship between the the construction waste from a France and Germany, buildings where each story Arts & Crafts movement and historic landfill by sorting and recycling juts beyond the one below it until the occupants of preservation is often overlooked. the upper floors can almost shake hands with their However, William Morris, progenitor • Using new materials with recy- neighbors across the street. . . . of the Arts & Crafts movement, estab- cled content such as gypsum The construction is of the same type as the modern lished the Society for the Protection of board, metal studs, and carpet skeleton frame office buildings, which . . . serves as an Ancient Buildings (SPAB) in 1877. Well enclosure without aiding in any way in the support of into the 1930s, long after many believe • Using materials manufactured the floors. In order to avoid cutting into the old party the Arts & Crafts movement had faded, within 500 miles to reduce wall, steel columns were placed close against this wall a committed group of architects trained transportation fuel use resting on steel cantilevers which occur below the by SPAB co-founder, architect Philip basement floor so that this building will be as truly a Webb, worked with SPAB to protect • Using Forest Stewardship Council skeleton frame structure as the tallest “sky-scraper” and preserve historic buildings in (FSC) certified wood products in the country. . . . Britain. from managed forests The roof will be of red shingle tile of varying length Market at Fifth demonstrates how so laid as to give an irregularity to the horizontal lines 21st-century architects, craftsmen, • Use of low VOC (volatile organic in keeping with the generally picturesque character of preservationists, and business people compounds) paints, sealants, and the building. . . . can reuse local landmarks in a way carpet that reenergizes a section of Downtown Pittsburgh. To tour Market at Fifth or • Energy-efficient compact fluores- for further information, contact cent bulbs in light fixtures Michael Sriprasert, manager of real estate finance: [email protected]; • EnergyStar-rated appliances Left: Specifications by Alden & Harlow, 412-471-5808, ext. 511. • Purchasing “green power” from Pittsburgh’s leading architectural firm a utility company between 1896 and 1908, as reproduced in American Architect and Building News (September 7, 1910). 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Worth Noting Preservation Scene: Endangered

Landmarks Assists City with Help Save St. Nicholas Enhancement Grant, the federal govern- ment could pay 80% of the cost to restore PennDOT has initiated a discussion on the Section 106 Compliance a historic bridge. What is the incentive to demolition of St. Nicholas Church for its Over the past several months, Landmarks restore a historic bridge when a new bridge Route 28 improvement project. St. Nicholas has commented on the City of Pittsburgh’s will cost local agencies about the same? Church was the first Croatian Catholic proposed demolitions in National Register- Why is there no funding to preserve a church in the United States and is a City listed and eligible historic districts, particu- historic bridge alongside a new bridge? Historic Landmark. The original Route 28 larly in Manchester. Under Section 106 of Though the cost of demolition could be plan presented by PennDOT in 2004 called the National Historic Preservation Act, the applied to restore the bridge, it usually is for the demolition of the building. After City must “seek ways to avoid, minimize not. Do not look to the federal economic several groups, or mitigate any adverse effects on historic stimulus spending to help save historic including properties” prior to expending federal bridges; that funding is primarily being Landmarks, monies on demolitions. used to replace, not restore, historic bridges. rallied for the The City has drafted a Programmatic In fact, the first project to receive stimulus preservation of Agreement to streamline the Section 106 money is the replacement of the Tuscumbia St. Nicholas and review process. As a “consulting party,” Bridge, a National Register-eligible truss its possible reuse Landmarks provided comments on the bridge in Missouri. as a Croatian document. The underlying theme of our Historic bridges are dramatic evidence of cultural heritage concerns is that the City needs to engage our engineering and transportation history center, PennDOT in more preservation planning and, in some and are part of each community’s distinctive redesigned cases, demolition planning to preserve the identity. They are often the only physical the project in historical and architectural character of Photo by William Rydberg, PHOTON. records of the craftsmen who constructed 2006 allowing he City’s historic districts. them. They can become tourist attractions for the building’s preservation. Photo by John Wee. Planning is a main concern raised by or features in parks or be reused as bridges However, St. Nicholas Church is still Landmarks because the City continues to on trails. Their restoration and maintenance owned by the Diocese of Pittsburgh and Lawrence Hall Illuminated devote significant funds to demolition can generate additional employment in the remains vacant. A new nonprofit corpora- Point Park University’s Lawrence Hall rather than to rehabilitation activities. job fields associated with the work, thus tion, Friends of Saint Nicholas (FSN), is (Janssen & Cocken, 1927–29) at Wood Half of the $2 million Neighborhood stimulating the economy. raising money to purchase and adaptively Street and Third Avenue is illuminated at Stabilization Program (NSP) funds that the Imagine Pittsburgh with only indistinc- reuse and restore the church as a one-of-a- night, thanks to a $100,000 grant from City received through the National Housing tive, modern bridges. Unless local and state kind Immigrant Citizen Museum telling the Duquesne Light’s Power of Light program. Recovery Act of 2008 have been allocated agencies are mandated to have a “preserva- stories of all immigrant groups to Between 2003 and 2007, the Pittsburgh to demolish about 125 structures. The City tion first” attitude for all eligible historic Pittsburgh. FSN is raising funds for a design History & Landmarks Foundation worked also has submitted a grant application to bridges, key bridges will continue to be lost. and economic feasibility study for the with the University to raise funds for and the state requesting an additional $20 mil- Public support for all historic bridges is museum, and for three related initiatives: restore Lawrence Hall, originally the lion of NSP funds and intends to use a large paramount. Fifty years ago, covered bridges a new branch of the Allegheny River Trail Keystone Athletic Club building, and to portion of those funds, if granted, for faced the same problem. Thanks to special through the museum and along the Troy designate it as a Historic Landmark. demolition activities. federal legislation, the few remaining Hill Bluffs; an entrance parklet to Troy Philadelphia, on the other hand, is using covered bridges are no longer in danger Hill; and a trailhead parking lot to serve the its $16.8 million allocation of NSP funds of replacement. Let us work to make sure museum and neighborhood. The “Three to acquire, rehabilitate, and resell vacant that historic metal and concrete bridges will Bags of Gold Campaign”––representing the and foreclosed-upon properties. Landmarks be saved and maintained too. Contact your three bags of gold St. Nicholas gave to a is urging the City of Pittsburgh to give local, state, and federal representatives. poor family––asks each person interested preservation a similar priority. Many concerned people have created in Pittsburgh’s immigrant heritage and in Web sites to document bridges before St. Nicholas to send $3.00 to: Friends of they are demolished. Some sites have Saint Nicholas, Inc., 818 Western Avenue, hundreds of contributors. My site, Pittsburgh, PA 15233. To see a map of the www.bridgemapper.com, will eventually project plan call 412-322-8223. contain over a thousand bridges from all over the United States. Here is a sampling Historic Metal and Concrete of other Web sites: Record Visitation at Bridges Are Threatened www.historicbridges.org Woodville Plantation www.oldohiobridges.com Todd Wilson memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/ Since taking ownership of Woodville in habs_haer/ Collier Township on September 18, 2007, The imminent demolition of the 1888 www.historicbridgefoundation.com the Neville House Associates (NHA) has Dorrington Road Bridge in Collier www.pghbridges.com completed the first comprehensive restora- Township (Allegheny County) and the www.nationalbridges.com tion of the Cowan bedroom in 20 years; proposed replacement of the 1909 Hulton www.dot.state.pa.us/Internet/Bureaus/ set an all-time-high visitation of 1,901 Bridge (Oakmont) have engaged bridge pdCulturalResources.nsf people (January–December 2008); and preservationists across the country and hosted 24 educational programs. The PennDOT authorities in dialogues about Editor’s Note: Todd Wilson is a local civil engi- National Historic Landmark was featured the challenges of saving historic bridges neer, a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, and a Landmarks Scholarship Winner (2002). in an eight-page spread in “Early American of national significance. Based on the Life” (November 2008). current national demolition rate, any Landmarks purchased the historic house, historic metal bridge that is not preserved begun c. 1775, in 1976 when it was threat- will be demolished within 15 years. ened with demolition. As part of the 2007 Photo by Todd Tondera. According to bridgehunter.com, transfer agreement, Landmarks contributed “Pennsylvania appears to be the leader nearly $20,000 in 2008 to help underwrite Jury Assignment Room in replacing historic bridges with Ugly annual operating costs. Restoration Underway Concrete Eyesore Bridges (UCEBs).” This year the NHA hopes to restore the Landmarks is currently restoring the Jury The National Historic Preservation Act of front hall passage, rehabilitate the Still Assignment Room in the City-County 1966 and Section 4(f) of the Department of House as a multi-purpose visitor’s center Building, the principal ceremonial room for Transportation Act of 1966 were intended and meeting room, and continue to increase the Allegheny County Court of Common to make it more difficult to replace historic visitation and programming at Woodville. Pleas. This effort has been spearheaded by resources. However, loopholes, exceptions, Visit www.woodvilleplantation.org for the Honorable Raymond Novak, retired and a lack of funding render the legislation event details. Woodville is open year round Court of Common Pleas judge and ineffective. Agencies determine they cannot for guided tours on Sundays from 1:00 to Landmarks trustee. avoid harming the structure (even if the B. F. Jones Cottage 4:00 p.m.: $5 per adult; $10 per family. To date, the carpet, seating upholstery, new structure is built on a different align- Preservation Pennsylvania and the window treatments, and metal chair bases ment) and therefore offer the bridge to a National Trust for Historic Preservation have been replaced or repaired. The exist- third party to assume full responsibility and National Register News are helping the Cresson Area Historical ing lighting fixtures still need to be replaced liability. If no one assumes responsibility, The Century Building (Rutan & Russell, Association (CAHA) raise $100,000 by with historically appropriate ones and the the historic bridge is demolished. Common 1906–07), at 130 Seventh Street in down- June in order to save the Benjamin Franklin wood paneling and tables need to be approaches to meeting the requirement to town Pittsburgh, was listed on the National Jones cottage from demolition. Designed in refinished. mitigate the demolition of the historic Register of Historic Places on August 22, 1887 in the Queen Anne style and listed on Lead donors to the continuing campaign bridge include documenting the old bridge 2008, making historic rehabilitation tax the National Register of Historic Places, include: The Allegheny Foundation; Tucker and adding modern architectural treatments credits available for its conversion to apart- the cottage was owned by B. F. Jones Arensberg, P.C.; Allegheny County Bar to make the new structure look somewhat ments. On September 4, 2008, additional (1824–1903), a founder of Jones & Association; Savinis, D’Amico & Kane, historic. Do simulated masonry and replica- documentation for the Union Trust Laughlin Steel in Pittsburgh. President LLC; and Allegheny County. If you would period railings make up for a demolished Building, already listed on the National Benjamin Henry Harrison made an accep- like to make a donation, contact Anne bridge with a unique structure? Register, was approved, as were expanded tance speech from the balcony. To help save Nelson: [email protected] or 412-471-5808, The federal government will typically boundaries for the Mexican War Streets the house contact: [email protected]. ext. 545. fund 80% of the cost for a new bridge. National Register District. However, by using a Transportation The goal: $100 apiece from 1,000 people. P H L F N e w s • A p r i l 2 0 0 9 P a g e 1 5

Critical Acclaim and Brisk Sales: Architectural Glass Whirlwind and Connick Books Web Page

A Web page about architectural glass In the February 2009 issue of Pittsburgh To order either book, visit “The book is very well written and in Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania Magazine, Stephen Knezovich wrote in www.phlf.org or contact: edited, and superbly illustrated, with his review of Whirlwind Walk: [email protected]; 412-471-5808, an exterior image of each building, is now accessible at www.phlf.org. Architecture and Urban Spaces in ext. 525. address, architect, etc., and its relevant Go to Education, scroll to Downtown Pittsburgh and Charles windows. . . . This book should be in InteractiveMultimedia, then open J. Connick: His Education and His Praise for every stained glass library.” Architectural Glass in Pittsburgh and Windows in and Near Pittsburgh that ––Rolf Achilles, Curator, Western Pennsylvania. “buildings––like books––are enduring Whirlwind Walk Smith Stained Glass Museum, Chicago experiences. They are permanent The Web page, designed in association fixtures, always there to be enjoyed time “Whirlwind Walk empowers the walker “Many thanks for the outstanding with Ian Owens, designer of the and time again. . . .” He went on to to observe, see, understand, appreciate, book on Charles Connick! . . . I really Web site of The Charles J. Connick appreciate your in-depth treatment of praise the two books released on and value; a most useful guide, Stained Glass Foundation, Ltd. beautifully illustrated.” his education and life, and his work in October 28, 2008 by Landmarks that (www.cjconnick.org), consists of an ––Roberta Brandes Gratz, preservationist and near Pittsburgh. I will never look at encourage the reader to “look up,” introduction, a series of eight essays, notice, and explore the architectural and noted urban author stained glass the same way!” beauty of Pittsburgh. ––Edward R. Bosley, Executive Director, and a bibliography. “We distributed The Gamble House, Pasadena 84 pages, soft cover Whirlwind Walk 5" x 8", 148 color photos to our members . . . “As always, your research and your ISBN 978-0-9788284-4-8 at our holiday writing are impeccable and $8.95, trade discount available luncheon. The room incomparable.” became almost ––Janice Chadbourne, Curator, entirely silent as more Fine Arts Department, Boston Public Library Whirlwind Walk packs than 200 people a big punch. The self- “It is a triumph! . . . a truly masterful began paging through guided walking tour, production. The photographs are the book! . . . I’ll be beginning at Grant Street glorious, the format extremely attractive ordering extras to mail and ending at Point State and the organization of material clear to the members who Park, features 45 major and comprehensive. . . . I really do think were unable to downtown buildings and, that many people [in Britain], historians attend.” with a few twists and turns and enthusiasts as well as stained glass ––Barbara E. Wise-Rau, along the way, 35 more. More Executive Director, artists, would find the book of great than half of the books have been sold BOMA Pittsburgh interest. It really struck me how many Detail, St. George window (1911–12), in the first six months of publication. excellent visual lessons there are for the designed by Leo Thomas for George Boos Landmarks member Carl Wood “I love the book! It is just what we keen artist.” of Munich; St. George’s R.C. Church Brown, whose initial contribution of needed here to showcase our architec- ––Sandra Coley, Editor, (St. John Vianney Parish), Pittsburgh. $7,000 in 2008 helped underwrite tural history. . . . We will be sending The Journal of Stained Glass Whirlwind Walk, was so pleased with one of your books to all of our guest The eight essays cover notable the book that he made an additional lecturers as thank yous.” “Fabulous book––Wonderful . . . very architectural glass created between contribution of $5,000 to Landmarks in ––Nancy Hart, Director of Development & scholarly, accurate, full of good 2009 to help cover the design and print- Operations, Community Design Center of Pittsburgh information and a good read. . . .” 1883 and 1962 in architecturally ing costs. “Carl’s encouragement and ––Jean Farnsworth, Director, significant buildings. support throughout the publication Stained Glass Census of Philadelphia, The glazers are Alfred Godwin, process made the book possible,” said Connick Book: and Editor and Co-author, Ludwig Gross, Henry Hunt for Leake Louise Sturgess, executive director of Reviewers and Stained Glass in Catholic Landmarks. “He and his wife Susan live Philadelphia (2002) & Greene, Mary Elizabeth Tillinghast, in Florida, but have remained loyal Readers Leo Thomas for George Boos, George members of Landmarks. In its 250th “The book is a model for 176 pages, soft cover W. Sotter, Henry Wynd Young, and birthday year, Carl knew Pittsburgh what can be done with a 5 3/4" x 9" Howard Gilman Wilbert. needed to have a fully-illustrated guide- big subject on a small 114 illustrations book to downtown.” (94 color, 19 b/w) The architects are Andrew W. Peebles, scale. . . . Over the past Frederick J. Osterling, Alden & Harlow, Charles J. Connick was featured in decade Tannler has become ISBN 978-0-9788284-3-1 $19.95, trade discount William Halsey Wood, Boyd & Long, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review’s Focus a first-rate scholar of available Magazine (November 23, 2008) and Pittsburgh’s great treasury of Thorsten E. Billquist, John T. Comes, listed in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s historic stained glass, and Herman J. Lang, Edward J. Weber, Year’s Best “Local Picks” for books through his tours, articles and Longfellow, Alden & Harlow, Ralph (December 14, 2008). “On so many topics lectures, our foremost educa- this will be a most Adams Cram, and E. Donald Robb. This year, Al Tannler’s book is serving tor on the subject as well. This as the basis for a special series of events useful book. I love the archival The sites are Clayton, the Henry Clay book is a worthy capstone to his material you show on Connick. . . . And (see page 24), “Charles J. Connick: investigations. . . .” Frick estate in Point Breeze; the World Class Stained Glass in thanks too for more information on ––Patricia Lowry, “A radiant beauty . . .,” Goodhue in Pittsburgh.” Episcopal Church of the Good Pittsburgh,” to be offered May through Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, December 9, 2008 Shepherd, Hazelwood; the Hawthorne October by Landmarks. Peter Cormack, ––Janet Parks, Curator, Drawings and Archives, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Avenue Presbyterian Church, Crafton; an English Connick scholar and author “One of the great merits of Albert Columbia University, New York City of the book’s foreword, will present the Tannler’s excellent and well-designed the Allegheny Observatory on the keynote lecture on Sunday, May 24 at book is that it publishes a lot of new Thoughtfully written and thoroughly North Side; St. Paul’s R. C. Church, Calvary Episcopal Church. According to information about Connick’s early documented [and] introduced by the Butler, Pa., and St. George’s R. C. Cormack, Connick understood stained career. . . . All this is in the first thirty foremost Connick scholar, Peter Church in Pittsburgh’s Allentown glass windows to be “the most poten- pages or so . . . .The rest of it is devoted Cormack, [the book] is also beautifully neighborhood; Synod Hall in Oakland, tially expressive and exciting of all the to careful and well-researched individual designed and full of gorgeous color East Liberty Presbyterian Church, and visual arts.” His designs “are full of accounts of Connick’s windows in and photography. Thus begins the rescue of the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer inventive new ways of depicting tradi- near Pittsburgh, all of them photographed 20th-century American stained glass in Squirrel Hill. tional themes, conveying ideas and with remarkable care. . . . Tannler is from those tepid scholars whose excuse emotions that would resonate freshly good throughout on Connick’s relations has been that it could never equal with contemporary Americans.” with architects and architecture. He is Victorian glass, never mind Medieval With your Connick book in hand, sharp on how [Ralph Adams] Cram’s work. In Charles Connick’s glass it join us as we explore and learn more great and creative patronage of artist- already has.” about the buildings in and near craftsmen is not understood today.” ––Douglass Shand-Tucci, biographer of Pittsburgh containing work by the ––Alan Crawford, The Journal of Stained Glass Ralph Adams Cram and Isabella Stewart Gardner “world’s greatest contemporary crafts- (British Society of Master Glass Painters) XXXII (2008) man in stained glass” [New York Times, December 29, 1945]. P a g e 1 6 P H L F N e w s • A p r i l 2 0 0 9

Daniel H. Burnham Daniel Hudson Burnham (1846– 1912) was trained primarily in Chicago architecture firms. In 1873 he established the partnership of Burnham & Root with John Wellborn Root. After the latter’s death in 1891, the firm became D. H. Burnham & Company. Burnham coordinated the efforts of the leading American architects who designed the exposition build- ings for the World’s Columbian Exposition, an international fair Burnham’s Union Station (1898–1902) was remodeled in 1988 as The Pennsylvanian, with offices on the lower floors and apartments above. The former passenger waiting room can be rented for special events. Photo by Todd Tondera. created to celebrate the 400th Anniversary of Columbus’ discov- ery of America which opened in Chicago in 1893 (one year late!). D. H. Burnham & Company in Pittsburgh It was also Burnham who took this ideal city and reshaped it as a Albert M. Tannler model for actual urban develop- How many of Cities, by ment. In 1901 he was asked to buildings Burnham friend review the 18th-century master designed by and collaborator plan for Washington, D.C., and D. H. Burnham Charles Moore prepare recommendations for the & Company (1921), provides a future placement of government of Chicago chronological list buildings and the arrangement and were erected of buildings by beautification of public spaces in Pittsburgh? completion date. Moore lists 15 surrounding them. The success of The question was brought to my atten- tion in April 2008 when architectural Burnham buildings this plan led other American cities film maker Judith Paine McBrien of in Pittsburgh. to commission him to review their The Archimedia Workshop, Chicago, Architectural urban streets and landscapes and invited me to a Pittsburgh preview of historian Thomas S. prepare master plans: Cleveland in her forthcoming documentary film, Hines, Burnham of 1903, San Francisco and Manila in Make No Little Plans: Daniel Burnham Chicago: Architect 1905, and finally the Chicago Plan and the American City, to be shown this and Planner (1974), of 1909. September. The question was especially attempted to revise pertinent since Lu Donnelly, editor and and correct Moore’s Daniel Burnham’s 1903 master principal author of the forthcoming list. Hines’ list enu- plan for Cleveland so impressed Buildings of Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh merated 16 buildings, Pittsburgh architects that they and Western Pennsylvania (Society of including Union incorporated many of his sugges- Architectural Historians, 2009), was Station which Moore omitted from his list tions into their own city planning preparing her book for publication and sought accurate information but discussed in his in 1904; Burnham thereby influ- about Burnham buildings in text; Hines also enced the character of the Civic Western Pennsylvania. revised some dates Center in Oakland. The most recent study of architect and incorrectly Burnham, together with McKim, Daniel H. Burnham (1846–1912), changed Virgin Daniel H. Burnham: Visionary Architect Avenue to “Virginia” Mead & White, established the and Planner, by Kristen Schaffer (2003), Avenue. Unlike modern architectural office as a states: “In Pittsburgh alone, the firm Moore, Hines did A pencil sketch of Union Station by Pittsburgh architect major corporate business, similar designed some twenty buildings, and not identify clients. Edward B. Lee in 1922 showing the train shed. to that of many of their clients. constructed seventeen, between 1898 Otherwise, both lists Thomas Hines quotes Louis and 1912.” [148]. Her source is are identical. Both include an Institute of Chicago, in “On Sources” Sullivan’s evaluation of Burnham: Franklin K. Toker, Pittsburgh: An unidentified cemetery monument for [387–400]. Urban Portrait (1986); the claim [40], R. Trimble [1908]; a possible client is Although references to Burnham During this period there was well however, is undocumented. Walter C. Robert Trimble (b. 1856), chief engineer commissions and buildings in Pittsburgh under way the formation of mergers, Kidney, Landmark Architecture (1985), of maintenance for the Pennsylvania are found in diaries and letters (some combinations and trusts in the did not address the number of commis- Company and a founding member of are quoted by Moore), no blueprints, industrial world. The only architect sions but posited 16 executed buildings; the Engineers’ Society of Western drawings, or specifications are preserved in Chicago to catch the significance in the 1997 revision he increased the Pennsylvania, profiled in “Pittsburgh in the D. H. Burnham Collection (now searchable online). There are, however, of this movement was Daniel number to 17, a number I too have cited Business Proclamation,” The Pittsburgh on architecture tours. The numbers, Index, 1903, 113. 1903 shop drawings for the Wood Street Burnham, for in its tendency derived from earlier scholarship, require Hines also provides a detailed Building in the Ernest R. Graham Study further scrutiny. description of source materials, most Center for Architectural Drawings, The first major study of Burnham, notably the Burnham papers at the Department of Architecture and Design, Daniel H. Burnham, Architect, Planner Burnham and Ryerson Library, The Art The Art Institute of Chicago. (continued on page 18) P H L F N e w s • A p r i l 2 0 0 9 P a g e 1 7

Photo by Todd Tondera.

Union Station (The Pennsylvanian), 1110 Liberty Avenue.

Right: detail, Union Station rotunda.

“It is the domed rotunda . . . with its magnificent National and regional Numerical Confusion architectural journals, If we read the names of the remaining four-centered arches and its elegant turrets that is especially archival holdings, and five buildings on the Moore/Hines lists regional newspapers, maga- distinguished. Very nearly related to the Exposition more carefully, several things become zines, guide books, and com- apparent: architecture of the time, it has at once a bright festal gaiety, memorative civic publications and in the interior a mysterious cave-like air; it is a pavilion of identify these 11 buildings as • the Wood Street Building and the work of D. H. Burnham McCreery & Company are two enchantment and light and a grotto of contrived, & Company. Buildings entries; they are, however, one curvilinear shadows, endlessly fascinating.” commissioned by Henry building (see No.7); the New York Clay Frick are extensively department store was the first tenant ––James D. Van Trump documented at the Frick Art and had opened its Pittsburgh Reference Library in New branch in the Wood Street Building York, including the Frick by autumn of 1904 (see sidebar on Eleven of the 16 buildings on the 6. Third National Bank, Wood Street Monument (1901–03) in page 20); Moore/Hines lists can be authenticated: at Oliver Avenue, 1903 Homewood Cemetery, not included on • the Virgin Avenue [Alley] building (demolished 1997) the Moore/Hines lists. (Lu Donnelly 1. Union Trust Company, 337 Fourth kindly shared copies of documents relat- (1903) and the Oliver Avenue building Avenue, 1898 (now Engineers’ 7. Wood Street Building, 528–542 ing to Burnham’s Frick commissions in (1906); and the Oliver building (1908) Society of Western Pennsylvania) Wood Street, 1902–04 (altered 1939 Pittsburgh that she received from the are not three different buildings, but and after; now 300 Sixth Avenue the same commission for one building 2. Union Station, 1100 Liberty Avenue, Frick Art Reference Library.) A major Building) initially located on Virgin Alley, which 1898–1902 (now The Pennsylvanian) collection of material related to Henry was renamed Oliver Avenue in 1904; 8. Frick Annex, 439 Forbes Avenue, Clay Frick’s buildings in Pittsburgh 3. Western Pennsylvania Exposition the building was subsequently erected 1905 (now the Allegheny Building) was transferred to the Archives Service Society Building, Duquesne Way, Center of the University of Pittsburgh and named in memory of the client 1901 (demolished 1941, 1951) 9. Henry W. Oliver Building, Library by the Frick Art Reference as the Henry W. Oliver Building 535 Smithfield Street, 1907–10 (see No. 9). 4. Henry Clay Frick Building, Library and may be consulted by 437 Grant Street, 1901–02 10. Highland Building, 121 South appointment. The Carnegie Mellon We are left with two unidentified Highland Avenue, 1909–10 University Architecture Archives has attributed commissions: the Stewart 5. Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette, copies of drawings pertaining to Union 525–529 Wood Street, c. 1901–03 11. First National Bank, Fifth Avenue Station. Owners of other Burnham- (continued on page 19) (demolished 1969) at Wood Street, 1909; enlarged to designed buildings may have material 22 stories in 1912 (demolished 1969) not available to the public.

The Union Trust Company building, 337 Fourth Avenue, was D. H. Burnham & Company’s first Pittsburgh commission (1898). The Engineers’ Society of Western Pennsylvania acquired the building in 1986. The original 8-foot- diameter, 3-foot-thick bank vault is part of a first-floor dining space. Photos by Todd Tondera.

“Classicists would produce a simple academic façade or interior, then add bursts of sculptured ornament, intricate metal railings, or great surfaces of heavily veined marble as if some Victorian urge to decorate things would be denied no longer.” ––Walter C. Kidney P a g e 1 8 P H L F N e w s • A p r i l 2 0 0 9

Daniel H. D. H. Burnham & Company in Pittsburgh (continued from page 17) Burnham (continued from page 16)

toward bigness, organization, dele- gation and intense commercialism, he sensed the reciprocal workings of his own mind. Burnham was Chicago’s architect of the “American Renaissance.” American Renaissance architecture (1880–1915) was a revival of Classical architectural forms–– themselves revived during the Italian Renaissance (roughly 1400–1580)––and as taught at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts (School of Fine Arts) in Paris, whose training methods were followed at almost all of the architectural schools established Left: “The Famous Frick Building, in Pittsburg. In massiveness of construction, in finish and equipment, the finest office building in the world.” Right: The Frick Building, 437 Grant Street. in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The example of the Chicago Fair energized architects and inspired “Massive and powerful in both form and detail, eminently suited to the spirit of the city and the wealthy “merchant princes” to time, the building leaves little doubt that Frick, one of Pittsburgh’s great industrial leaders, subsidize American Renaissance intended it as a kind of monument to his financial might.” ––James D. Van Trump “palaces,” for both individuals and for the public, and to support the Renaissance ideal of the partner- ship of architects and artists. In addition to great houses, archi- tects designed palatial libraries, concert halls, museums, banks, office buildings, railroad terminals, and government buildings throughout the country, especially in Washington, D.C. and New York City. In addition to Burnham, leading American Renaissance architects included Richard Morris Hunt, George Post, McKim, Mead & White, Cass Gilbert, and Grosvenor Atterbury of New York The Frick Building entrance and lobby in 1902. The bronze lions by A. Phimister Proctor and opalescent window, Fortune, by John La Farge, were at eye level. Right: Courtesy of Archives of Industrial Society, University of Pittsburgh. and Alden & Harlow and Henry Hornbostel in Pittsburgh. Detailed studies of the work of each of the above, most written during the past decade, attest to a renewed interest and appreciation in their work. Although the monumental Classicism of the American Renaissance would be marginalized and reviled by the 1930s, it could still impress. As the father of Brutalism, Le Corbusier, wrote in 1935: “In New York … I learned to In 1913, Grant Street was lowered 15 feet appreciate the Italian Renaissance. and the basement level of the Frick Building It is so well done that you could became the first floor while the original first believe it to be genuine. It even has floor become the second. A bronze marker a strange, new firmness which is on the building corner at Fifth Avenue and Grant Street marks the “street grade prior to not Italian but American!” 1912.” Above: Courtesy of Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. —AMT The Frick Annex (1905), 439 Forbes Avenue. Photo by Todd Tondera.

The Frick Building lobby entrance as it is today. Photo by B. Glenn Lewis©2008/ glennlewisimages.com P H L F N e w s • A p r i l 2 0 0 9 P a g e 1 9

Photos by Todd Tondera.

The Henry W. Oliver Building (1907–10), 535 Smithfield Street. The Henry W. Oliver Building lobby. Photo by B. Glenn Lewis©2008/glennlewisimages.com

“The Frick Building is rather like our image of the man himself, gentlemanly in bearing but made of steel and granite. . . . The Oliver Building, above its base, is faced in the much more facile terra cotta, easily molded or modeled and thus encouraging floridity. And yet the façade is generally restrained, breaking out only in its capital into a pilastered arcade with a broad and delicate cornice, the handsomest that survives in the city, to crown everything.” ––Walter C. Kidney

Building (1903), and the Liberty Avenue (AIS). An article in the Pittsburgh from Liberty Avenue across Wood Street to Allegheny and Homewood cemeteries Building (1906); the first for Henry W. Dispatch, February 8, 1904, devotes to the burial ground on land given and elsewhere so that Virgin Alley could Oliver, the second for the Oliver Estate. three columns to Oliver “As a Property by the Penn family in 1787 to the be expanded from 20 feet to a 50-foot- Owner.” All the buildings he owned at First Presbyterian Church and Trinity wide street and to provide additional Henry W. Oliver the time of his death are listed by Episcopal Church (now Trinity Cathedral) space for the anticipated Oliver Building. address, previous owner, and purchase in the block between Wood and Permission to move graves south and Moore attributes seven Pittsburgh price; new construction is noted. There Smithfield Streets. east of Trinity Church was granted by Burnham commissions to industrialist are the building permits in Records of By 1901 Oliver had obtained a 99- the city on February 1, 1904; seven Henry W. Oliver (1840–1904). It is the the Pittsburgh Department of Public year lease on some of the land owned days later, Henry Oliver was dead. Oliver commissions that are listed more Safety, Bureau of Building Inspection by First Presbyterian Church (by deed it Pittsburgh City Council renamed than once, as shown on page 17, or that 1877–1928, also at AIS. There are plat could not be sold) prior to constructing Virgin Alley, Oliver Avenue, and Oliver’s remain unverified. Certainly, Oliver was maps and city directories. There are the Wood Street Building. In 1902 brother George T. Oliver, publisher of responsible for the Commercial Gazette books such as J. Cutler Andrews, remains from some of the graves in the the Gazette, became trustee of the Building and the Wood Street Building Pittsburgh’s Post-Gazette (1936) and cemetery were exhumed. In 1903 First Oliver Estate and oversaw the erection (which he did not live to see finished); Henry Oliver Evans, Iron Pioneer: Presbyterian’s building was razed and of the Henry W. Oliver Building. he initiated the commission that resulted Henry W. Oliver (1942), that while construction began on a new church I have not found any evidence of a in the Oliver Building, and—although helpful may not be entirely reliable. facing Sixth Avenue and on the Wood Liberty Avenue Building or a Stewart Moore does not list him as the client— Plat maps show Henry Oliver as the Street Building, built on the site of the Building (perhaps a Pittsburgh office Oliver also commissioned the Third dominant landowner in Pittsburgh’s former church. More controversially, for James Stewart & Company, the National Bank. Unfortunately, Oliver 3rd Ward; his properties eventually Oliver leased or purchased a 30-foot- New York-based construction firm left no archive as such. There is useful extending from Fifth Avenue on the wide strip of land along Virgin Alley that erected Burnham’s Exposition and information to be found in a scrapbook south to Strawberry Way on the north, and behind Trinity Church that was part Gazette buildings; not to be confused in the Oliver Iron and Steel Company Liberty Avenue on the west and Grant of the burial ground. Additional remains with the Pittsburgh firm of James L. Records at the University of Pittsburgh Street on the east. The key artery was would need to be exhumed and moved Library’s Archives of Industrial Society Virgin Alley, which originally extended (continued on page 20)

Left: perspective drawing of the Highland Building (1909–10). Courtesy of Archives of Industrial Society, University of Pittsburgh. The Wood Street Building (1902–04) The first three floors of the Wood Street as originally designed. McCreery & Building were refronted in brown marble Above: cornice detail, Company was its first tenant, opening in 1941–42 and a glass mural of a Highland Building, in 1904; the Pittsburgh branch of the puddler was installed. Further changes 121 S. Highland Avenue, New York department store closed were made in the 1960s and the building East Liberty. in 1938. is now the 300 Sixth Avenue Building. Photo by Todd Tondera. Photo by Colin Hines. P a g e 2 0 P H L F N e w s • A p r i l 2 0 0 9

Left: A photograph published in 1908 of the Pittsburgh Commercial Two photos of the First National Bank at Fifth Gazette Building at 525–529 Wood Street, designed c. 1901–03 and Avenue and Wood Street showing the original demolished in 1969. Right: Third National Bank (1903) at Wood Street building of 1909 (above) and its 1912 expansion and Oliver Avenue was demolished in 1997 to make way for into a 22-story skyscraper (right). The building the short-lived Lazarus department store building (now Piatt Place). was demolished in 1969 to make way for One PNC Plaza.

D. H. Burnham & Company in Pittsburgh (continued from page 19)

Stuart Company, who erected the Oliver eventually moved his practice to “Tuscan palatial architecture of the Quattrocento provided the Building and the First National Bank), Pittsburgh. and can only assume, until other infor- stylistic theme [for the First National Bank], and the mation is found, that these were possi- Burnham’s Successors fifteenth-century Piccolomini Palace in Siena was the model for ble commissions discussed by Oliver and Burnham that never materialized. Following Burnham’s death, Graham, adaptation. The great vaulted banking room lined with green In 1969, many Oliver-owned buildings Anderson, Probst & White (GAPW) and white marble is, however, in its style and amplitude more were demolished and Oliver Avenue was established by Burnham’s chief itself between Liberty Avenue and Wood designers as his successor firm—senior Edwardian than Italian Renaissance. The revivified Sienese Street was eradicated to build PNC partner Ernest Graham had worked palace masks the huge foundations of a skyscraper; Plaza. One of the casualties was the with Burnham since 1888 and senior former Gazette Building, which the designer Peirce Anderson since 1900. a feat of architectural slight of hand not uncharacteristic newspaper had occupied for only a Their Commission Register 1912–1936, of the period. In 1912 a great tower of twenty-two stories decade and replaced with a new head- including projects “abandoned early in quarters designed by Pittsburgher the planning stages” and printed in was added to the palace, and the whole building was treated Edward B. Lee in 1913. Sally Chappell’s 1992 study of the firm, as if it were an order.” ––James D. Van Trump By 1905, Burnham had lost his lists Pittsburgh bank and theatre principal Pittsburgh patron and faced projects, a Pittsburgh headquarters for James L. Stewart & Company [sic], increasing competition from Pittsburgh Rodd planned to build a D. H. Arcade is gone but their Art Deco and various projects for Thomas Rodd architects Alden & Harlow and New Burnham & Co.-designed house at masterpiece, the Koppers Building, (1849–1929), a chief engineer for Yorkers Grosvenor Atterbury, who Aiken and Ellsworth Avenues. The pro- stands at 436 Seventh Avenue (1927–29). the Pennsylvania Railroad, an architect, designed Pittsburgh buildings for the ject was apparently inherited by GAPW As of 2009 the number of documented and the developer of Roslyn Place. Phipps family, and Henry Hornbostel, but never built. (Rodd worked with the D. H. Burnham & Company buildings The projects included a Pittsburgh resi- who won major local design competi- firm from 1913–19 as chief engineer of designed and built in Pittsburgh is 11, dence. Indeed in 1901, as Pittsburgh tions, taught the first architecture the Chicago Union Station.) A 1920s and of these, seven remain. researcher Diana Ames discovered, courses at Carnegie Tech in 1905, and GAPW bank remodeling in the Union

Brangwyn (1836–1907), was a Gothic C.P.Brangwyn and McCreery & In its first advertisement in the Revival architect and designer. Cuthbert’s Pittsburgh Architectural Club exhibition older brother Philip (b. 1870) emigrated Company in Pittsburgh catalog in 1905, the Pittsburgh branch of to Canada and became an interior decora- the prestigious New York department tor. The best-known family artist was [Author’s note: Last summer I purchased an exhibition catalog, Frank Brangwyn store McCreery & Company, established eldest brother Frank (1867–1956), 1867–1956 (2007). The subject was an English artist about whom I wanted to learn by James McCreery in 1867, proclaimed painter, muralist, designer of interiors, more since he had collaborated with architect and designer Arthur Mackmurdo, its ability to provide “the artistic and furniture, stained glass, textiles, glassware, worked for Morris & Company, and painted murals and designed stained glass for practical in house adornment. …Artists metalwork, etc., whose paintings were L’Art Nouveau, Siegfried Bing’s Paris shop that gave its name to a movement. In the of pre-eminent ability devote their time shown at eight Carnegie International biographical chapter by art historian Libby Horner, I saw a reference to Pittsburgh entirely to developing effective designs, exhibitions between 1896 and 1928. and made some inquiries.] suggesting harmonious color schemes, His principal works in the USA are copying the French ideas of decora- murals in the RCA [now GE] Building in tion…or any plans that are ordered.” Rockefeller Center in New York City. If some customers were drawn to Louis XIV, XV, and XVI, others visited Cuthbert came to the USA in 1903. the Craftsman’s Room, where Gustav At some point he settled in New York Stickley’s American Arts & Crafts City and took a position with McCreery furniture and decorative art was displayed & Company. On July 8, 1906, Cuthbert and sold. (Stickley furnishings were also married Margaret E. O’Conner (b. circa used in the store dining rooms.) 1876) and soon after moved to McCreery’s Pittsburgh branch; the couple settled on From 1906 to 1911, the head designer Mt. Washington. In November 1907, a of rugs, draperies, and interiors at year after Cuthbert’s arrival, McCreery McCreery’s Pittsburgh store was Cuthbert advertised its interior decorating services Patrick Joseph Brangwyn (1875–1911), as follows: “This department is prepared a member of a remarkable, artistic British to execute, in town or country, orders that family. The father, William Curtis require specific and technical knowledge of the science of Interior Decorations, A McCreery & Company dining room operating under the directions of furnished with Gustav Stickley’s architects, their plans and specification. Craftsman furniture. Original drawings by artists submitted P H L F N e w s • A p r i l 2 0 0 9 P a g e 2 1

Western PA Research Collection Given to Library Lu Donnelly, editor and principal author of Buildings of Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania, Views of the Western Pennsylvania Exposition Society Buildings on Duquesne Way. Burnham’s 1901 Exposition Building has donated her research files comprised the Music Hall (top left) and Main Building (top center; interior shown below in post card ). On the right is the Mechanical Hall of 1889, designed by Pittsburgh architect Joseph Stillburg; it was the only section of the previous Exposition documenting and assessing the Building to survive the fire of March 17, 1901. These buildings were demolished between 1941 and 1951 for the creation of architectural character of 33 Point State Park. Western Pennsylvania counties to the James D. Van Trump Library. “This collection greatly expands our knowledge of Western Pennsylvania architecture,” said Al Tannler, historical collections director at Landmarks, “and will substantially support our projects in Armstrong, Beaver, Fayette, Greene, Indiana, Washington, and Westmoreland counties.”

Photo by Todd Tondera.

The research materials, collected between 1996 and 2008, reflect the work of Lu and her team, including co-authors Franklin Toker and H. David Brumble. Prior to this donation, Landmarks’ research files concentrated on Allegheny County: in 1965–66, Landmarks co-founders Arthur Ziegler and Jamie Van Trump conducted the first county-wide architectural survey in the United States; that effort was augmented by for consideration.” Cuthbert joined the a comprehensive survey, carried out Pittsburgh Architectural Club and from 1979 to 1984. (Lu Donnelly participated in the 1907, 1910, and 1911 joined Landmarks’ staff in 1978 exhibitions. He exhibited an unidentified as a survey assistant, and she directed design for McCreery & Company, and the survey from 1982 until its designs for an entrance hall and bronze completion.) The survey remains a gates under his own name in 1907; principal resource for Landmarks’ a Louis XVI decoration and a ship’s smoking room in 1910; and in 1911 historical and educational work in Frank Brangwyn’s etching The Bridge Allegheny County. of Sighs, Venice, Cuthbert’s graphic, Buildings of Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh The Cathedral Gates, and his design for and Western Pennsylvania will be a dining room in the style of Robert published this fall by the University Adam, illustrated in the catalog. of Virginia Press under the sponsor- Cuthbert Brangwyn died on May 18, ship of the Society of Architectural 1911 at the age of 35. The funeral was Historians. It is part of the Buildings held at St. Mary’s on the Mount Roman of the United States “series of richly Catholic Church, Grandview Avenue. illustrated guidebooks to the Obituaries appeared in the Gazette, Post, architecture of the United States.” Press, and Sun-Telegraph. Cuthbert was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, New York City, on May 20, 1911. He was com- memorated in the 1912 Pittsburgh Architectural Club exhibition catalog, and an obituary in The Decorative Furnisher, a national interior design magazine, noted that he had earlier acquainted with all the period styles and his friends have lost a man of ability, “contributed a series of drapery sketches” details which go to make up a first-class character and strong personality.” to that magazine, and stated: “In the designer. His death will be mourned by —AMT capacity of designer Mr. Brangwyn all those who knew him, for in his passing displayed considerable ability, being P a g e 2 2 P H L F N e w s • A p r i l 2 0 0 9

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The latter building Pittsburgher who has seen Mary Ann Kaminski was designed in 1889 by Frederick Lisa Thomas Kaonohi and family than I had imagined. what you and your staff Kerr United Presbyterian Church Osterling in a style James D. Van Although I have traveled Trump called “aggressive” Gothic. have done to keep Mr. & Mrs. J. Thorne King and family The Osterling Church building M. Eugenia Lagotic extensively, there certainly “the old Pittsburgh” Robert J. Lanza continued to be used by secular Sharon W. Lehr remains “no place tenants until 1985 when it was alive for my children Patrick J. Loughney like home.” torn down for a new office building. and grandchildren. Rita A. 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“Through the place, we renew the spirit of the people. Historic preservation can be the underlying basis of community renewal, human renewal, Thank You for Contributing (July 10, 2008 – January 28, 2009) and economic renewal. Continuing support from members, foundations, and businesses is especially important during these Preservation is not some isolated challenging times. cultural benefit.” Charles J. Connick Book Gift Memberships (continued) ––Arthur P.Ziegler, Jr., President, • Darrell Alfred • Marilyn Miller, for a gift membership for Rita A. Madak Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation • Mary Ann Eubanks • Willis McCook Miller, for a gift membership for • Randal J. Loy Mrs. Le Roy Thompson • Anne E. Nelson, Esq., for gift memberships for Continue giving to Corporate Matching Gifts Bill and Pam Batz, The Honorable Mary Jane Bowes and Barbara and Barry Nelson Landmarks. • AT&T Foundation, for matching a gift from • Shirley and Tom Phillis, for a gift membership for Mark Phillis Colleen Joyce-Sauvain • Matthew Ragan, for a gift membership for Kip Noschese • Dominion Foundation, for matching a gift from Your money is put to good use • Dana Spriggs, for gift memberships for Dorothy Stenzel James B. Richard and Mary Weise and the need is great. • Norfolk Southern Foundation, for matching a gift from • John Thomas, for a gift membership for Lisa Thomas Kaonohi Allen T. Bankson • Elaine and Joe Wertheim, for a gift membership for Contributions this year are helping Ben Wertheim Landmarks: Easement Program • Scott Wise, for a gift membership for Robert Moore • complete Market at Fifth, a $4.5 million • • Celeste Woods, for a gift membership for Antoinette Ventura Bedford Resort & Partners, Ltd. green-building project; • The Ferchill Group • Ron Yochum, for a gift membership for the Maridon Museum • stabilize the New Granada Theater; Educational Improvement Tax Credit Historic Farm Preservation Program • continue neighborhood revitalization efforts in Wilkinsburg; Program • Commonwealth of Pennsylvania’s Department of Community and Economic Development • continue main street programs in six • Amsco, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of ESB Bank Allegheny County communities and in • Bridges & Company, Inc. two neighboring counties; • Frank B. Fuhrer Wholesale Company Historic Religious Properties Initiative • continue operating our Preservation • Hefren-Tillotson, Inc. (see page 8) Fund that provides loans to nonprofit • Oregon Metallurgical Corporation, an Allegheny community development groups; Technologies Company Landmarks Scholarship Fund • PNC Bank • assist historic religious properties in • Donald G. Block Allegheny County in carrying out critical • Judy and James E. Brashear restoration work; Educational Programs • Russell W. Coe • continue our Historic Landmark plaque • Anonymous program and research; • H. M. Bitner Charitable Trust Main Street Programs • offer educational programs and • Barry L. Chad • Wilbur Smith, for a study of traffic-calming techniques in opportunities to thousands of people, • The Anne L. and George H. Clapp Charitable and the Bridgeville central business district Educational Trust promoting awareness of the significance • Daniel W. and Barbara Ernsberger of this region; and • Gailliot Family Foundation Memorial Gifts • offer creative gift planning opportunities • Sheri Kosh Charitable Foundation (for gifts in memory of Doris Harris see page 5) to people who share our goals. • Carol Meese • Barbara Jo Morgan Named Funds • The G. Whitney Snyder Charitable Fund Facts about Landmarks • Carl Wood Brown, for a gift to the Carl Wood Brown • Kathy Testoni Named Fund • George and Eileen Dorman, for a gift to the George and • Founded in 1964 Endowment Eileen Dorman Named Fund • Governed by a board of 75 community • Anonymous • Kim and Janice Menke Abraham, Audrey and Kenneth leaders Menke, Michael and Karen Menke Paciorek, and • Fair Oaks Foundation Jack Zierden, for gifts to the Audrey and Kenneth Menke • Recognized as one of the nation’s most • The Walden Trust Named Fund for Education innovative and effective nonprofit historic preservation organizations Farm Preservation Program Neighborhood Revitalization • Has had a balanced budget in each year • Anonymous and Preservation Services of operation since its founding • Involves people of all ages in carrying • The Allegheny Foundation out its mission Frank B. Fairbanks Rail • Anonymous (2) Transportation Archive • Mr. & Mrs. Henry Bent • Provides leadership and assistance to local, state, national, and international (for donations of materials and artifacts) • The H. M. Bitner Charitable Trust • Charles and Gertrude Booth organizations • Alexander Binder • The Anne L. and George H. Clapp Charitable and • Obtains grants and investment capital • Gabe Funaro Educational Trust through a nonprofit subsidiary, Landmarks • Dr. William S. Garrett • Russell W. Coe Community Capital Corporation, to fund • Christopher Milne • The Community Foundation of Fayette County development projects within a 250-mile • Richard M. Scaife • County of Allegheny radius of Pittsburgh that help revitalize • Gregory C. Yochum • The Desai Family Donor Advised Fund of The Community historic areas Foundation for the National Capital Region • Provides consulting services and develops Getty Campus Heritage Preservation • Johanna Favrot Fund of the National Trust for Historic real estate through a for-profit subsidiary, Project Preservation Landmarks Development Corporation • Mr. & Mrs. James Fisher • California University of Pennsylvania • The Heinz Endowments • Indiana University of Pennsylvania • Henry Phipps Hoffstot III • Seton Hill University • The Gordon and Kate MacVean Fund of The Pittsburgh “Most people don’t stop to realize that • Washington & Jefferson College Foundation restoring a building and adapting it • Ray and Trevi Pendro for a new use creates jobs, Gift Memberships • Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission • Sally Dawson, for a gift membership for James Dawson • Pittsburgh Steelers Sports, Inc. provides business opportunities, • Rose and John Evosevic, for a gift membership for • Patricia and Daniel Rooney adds to the stability of a neighborhood, Elaine and Alexis Lozada • The G. Whitney Snyder Charitable Fund and encourages further • Christine Ferguson, for gift memberships for Phillip M. • Dr. & Mrs. Albert C. Van Dusen, in honor of Ruth Ferguson and Ken Miller and David Miller restoration activity.” • Irvin Guyett, for a gift membership for Betty Havryluk ––Dr. Howard B. Slaughter, Jr., CEO, • Stanley A. Lowe, for a gift membership for Betty Jane Ralph Landmarks Community Capital Corporation; • Jack Miller, for a gift membership for Mr. & Mrs. John C. Landmarks Development Corporation Miller III P a g e 2 4 P H L F N e w s • A p r i l 2 0 0 9

CharlesEVENTS J. Connick: World Class Stained Glass in Pittsburgh Mark Stephen Bibro, Chairman Our Staff This year we offer a special series of public lectures and tours based on our book, Charles J. Connick: His Education and His Windows in and near Pittsburgh, by Albert M. Tannler. Contact Mary Lu Denny to make reservations, to become a member Arthur P. Ziegler, Jr., President ($15 and up), or for further details: [email protected]; 412-471-5808, ext. 527. Dr. Howard B. Slaughter, Jr., Any member or non-member who registers and pays for the whole series of events by May 12 will be given an autographed copy CEO, Landmarks Community of Albert Tannler’s book at the Keynote Lecture on May 24. The retail price is $19.95 (see page 15). Series price: $130 members; Capital Corporation; Landmarks $230 non members. Development Corporation Phipps Hoffstot, Chief Financial Sunday, May 24 Sunday, July 12 Sunday, September 27 Officer 2:30–5:30 p.m. 2:00–4:00 p.m. 1:45–5:45 p.m. Louise Sturgess, Executive Director/ In his keynote address, eminent English Curator Anne Madarasz will present Board a bus at Station Square and tour Editor, PHLF News historian Peter Cormack will discuss the an illustrated talk on glassmaking in three historic churches: Church of the international significance of Charles J. Pittsburgh, “From the Everyday to the Nativity, Crafton (1908–10), designed Preservation Programs & Services Connick’s work. His illustrated talk Extraordinary: Pittsburgh Glass––1797 to by O. M. Topp, with glass by the four will be given in Calvary Episcopal Church, the Present.” Afterwards, Anne will guide generations of artists who have led Hunt *David A. Farkas, Business Recruitment and Main Street Manager Shadyside, where some 70 Connick participants through the Heinz History Stained Glass Studios; Sacred Heart Parish windows were installed from 1922 to Center glass exhibit. (1924–53), designed by architect Carlton Thomas Keffer, Property & 1939. A tour of the church will follow. Members: $10; non-members: $20 Strong with glass by George and Alice Construction Manager Event sponsors: The Connick Sotter; and Church of the Redeemer Eugene Matta, Director of Real Estate Foundation, Calvary Episcopal Friday, September 4 (1936–37), designed by architect E. Donald and Special Development Programs Church, and an anonymous donor. 9:15 a.m.–1:15 p.m. Robb of Frohman, Robb & Little, with glass by Howard G. Wilbert. Albert Anne E. Nelson, Esq., General Counsel Members: $10; non-members: $20 See stained glass artists at work. Select one tour only. (Only 15–20 people can attend Tannler and stained glass artist Nicholas Colleen L. Newsome, Administrative Parrendo will be your guides. Assistant to CEO of Landmarks Sunday, June 21 each tour.) Community Capital Corporation 2:00–4:00 p.m. • Hunt Stained Glass Studios and Stained Members: $45; non-members: $75 Author Albert M. Tannler will present a Glass Resources Ethan Raup, Manager, Community Sunday, October 25 Revitalization Programs talk at First Baptist Church (1909–12) in • John Kelly Art Glass Company and Oakland. He will explore the competing 2:00–5:00 p.m. Michael Sriprasert, Manager of Pittsburgh Glass Center approaches to architectural glass design Albert Tannler and Connick experts Joan Real Estate Finance • Rona Moody Studio and fabrication in the 1890s when Charles Gaul and Ronald Klebick will lead a tour Sarah Walker, Receptionist & Connick learned his craft. Connick All buses depart from Station Square. of Connick glass at the University of Secretary; Administrative Assistant designed and made all the windows in the Members: $45; non-members: $75 Pittsburgh, with visits to the Stephen Foster to the President church and parish house. Memorial, Cathedral of Learning, and Heinz Memorial Chapel. Between 1936 *Marilyn Whitelock, Community Members: $10; non-members: $20 Relations Coordinator and 1941, Connick designed and made windows for these three impressive buildings. *Annabelle Javier Wilburn, Program FREE Guided Coordinator/Research Associate Members: $10; non-members: $20 Gregory C. Yochum, Horticulturist Walking Tours Ronald C. Yochum, Jr., Chief • Downtown Information Officer Every Friday, May through September Shaun Yurcaba, Main Street Noon to 1:00 p.m. Each month is a new tour featuring a Coordinator different part of downtown Pittsburgh. L a n d m a r k s w e l c o m e s Finance and Gift Planning THE SOCIETY FOR • Oakland Civic Center Every Friday in October Jack Miller, Director of Gift Planning THE PRESERVATION OF Noon to 1:00 p.m. ESB Bank and Tom Croyle, Comptroller • Walking Our Mainstreets FHLBank Pittsburgh Linda Mitry, Staff Accountant Ten Saturdays, Sept. 5–Nov. 7 2:00 to 3:30 p.m. Education Programs & Research Each week features a different City as Mainstreet. Offered in cooperation *Karen B. Cahall, Ed. M., Education with the Urban Redevelopment Corporate Member Coordinator Authority of Pittsburgh and Benefactors Pittsburgh Mainstreets. Mary Lu Denny, Director of Dedicated to the preservation of Membership Services that which cannot be replaced *Judith Harvey, Fairbanks Librarian Thank you for helping us Marie Miller, Secretary & Education For a membership For details, see page 11, or: protect the places Assistant www.phlf.org that make Pittsburgh home. please phone 412-381-1665 412-471-5808, ext. 527 Frank Stroker, Assistant Archivist & Sales Manager Albert M. Tannler, Historical Collections Director CARVEYOURNAMEINHISTORY *Part-time

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