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Mills, . As a reporter for the known work, although not often attrib- move from to where and at the Carnegie Internationals. Mary Pittsburgh. The Company, a vital cultural enduring words were her sketches of Museum, Car and Carriage Museum, Pittsburgh area, recognizing famous of the Junior Leagues of America. Kathryn was a divorcee and openly Pittsburgh Dispatch, she took on risky uted to her, is the portrait of Franklin D. they had relatives. After making a for- was a fierce advocate for education and force for 20 years, performed European middle-class life in idyllic, small-town Visitors’ Center and Museum Shop, MARTHA GRAHAM people, places, and events. A tablet in Mrs. Harry Darlington, Jr. was the enjoyed the expensive lifestyle her legendary ladies undercover assignments in places like Roosevelt which appears on every dime. tune in steel, Andrew founded the women’s rights. Seventeen of Mary’s works, such as Verdi’s Aida and La Traviata, “Old Chester,” and the adventures of Greenhouse, and The Café at the Frick. memory of Julia Hogg was dedicated on first president. Early efforts focused ministry afforded her. Nevertheless, sweatshops, slums, and jails. It was She was named a Distinguished Daughter Carnegie Institute of Technology (now works are part of the Carnegie Museum and African-American works, such as country parson Dr. Lavendar. Margaret It is Helen’s legacy to her hometown. June 10, 1941, on the 50th anniversary on volunteer work in hospitals, she was wildly popular, ministering George Madden, the managing editor of of Pennsylvania in 1993. Carnegie Mellon University), and the of Art’s permanent collection. Nathaniel Dett’s The Ordering of and was elected to the National Institute of of the Pittsburgh Chapter. It is located orphanages, and settlement houses to an estimated 100,000,000 people greater the paper, who gave her the pen name School for Women was named in honor Clarence Cameron White’s Ouanga. Arts and Letters in 1926. 42 THE FRICK ART & HISTORICAL CENTER in Highland Park on the reservoir stair in Pittsburgh and Sewickley. Today, during her career. A GUIDE TO WHERE WOMEN Nellie Bly from the song written by 28 HILL HOUSE CENTER of his mother. It was intended for the 39 43 entrance wall. with 390 active and sustaining mem- pittsburgh Pittsburgh’s . She was the 39 CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART limited training of women in secretarial 32 7101 APPLE STREET 14 1300 BLOCK OF LIVERPOOL STREET 46 THE bers, the Junior League is an organi- 5 FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH MADE HISTORY IN PENNSYLVANIA first woman to become a member of the work, household economics, costume 62 10 FORT PITT BLOCKHOUSE zation of women committed to pro- 19 HAZLETT THEATER region Pittsburgh Press Club. Moving to the New design, and “general science.” In token of Willa Cather (1873-1947) 44 HIGHLAND PARK moting voluntarism, developing the 31 4405 BIGELOW BOULEVARD PENNSYLVANIA COMMISSION FOR WOMEN York World, she continued practicing Margaret Byington (1877-1965) this the inner frieze of its elliptical open- Margaret Wade Campbell Caroline Endres Diescher potential of women, and improving 40 CARNEGIE MUSIC HALL Pulitzer Prize winner Willa Cather spent (1846-1930) Martha Graham (1894-1991) Edward G. Rendell, Governor undercover “stunt reporting.” Results of Margaret Byington was born in air entrance rotunda has the inscription: ten years in Pittsburgh from 1896 to 1906. Deland (1857-1945) communities in the Pittsburgh RACHEL Jane Holmes (1805-1885) her investigations into the Women’s Constantinople (now ), the “To make and inspire the home; To A graduate of the University of Nebraska, Prussian-born engineer John J. Endres World-famous American dancer, region. Signature projects include Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell’s Island capital of the Ottoman Empire. lessen suffering and increase hap- she was first hired as managing editor of a Author and social activist Margaret Deland trained his daughter Caroline in engineer- teacher, and choreographer Martha Jane Holmes, humanitarian, and one of establishment of The Children’s Susan E. Laird (dates unknown) were turned into a book, Ten Days in a She was a 30-year-old social piness; To aid mankind in its new Pittsburgh publication, Home Monthly, was born in Allegheny City, now the North ing. She assisted her father on the design Graham grew up in Allegheny City, now Pittsburgh’s earliest philanthropists, came Museum of Pittsburgh on the North Josephine McKim (b. 1910) Madhouse, published in 1888. Her most upward struggles; To ennoble Side of Pittsburgh. As a child Margaret Side, Vintage, Inc. in East Liberty for worker when she left a posi- and then, in 1897, went to work for the of the , the first Pittsburgh’s . Her father was to Pittsburgh in 1807 with her parents, Lenore Kight Wingard (1911-2000) famous feat, however, occurred in 1889 tion as District Secretary for and adorn life’s work, howev- Pittsburg [sic] Leader. Her work brought her lived for a time in the neigh- passenger incline in the Pittsburgh area, a family doctor, and his consulting Nathaniel and Eleanor Kerr Holmes, seniors, HEARTH in the North Hills The historic places following when she set out to beat the record of Associated Charities of er humble; These are interviews with the city’s brightest people, borhood, upon which she later based her which began operation in 1870 and still rooms and dispensary occupied the immigrants from Northern . for displaced women and children, Anna Mae Gorman (b. 1916) building in memory of his mother, Anna Jules Verne’s fictional character, Phileas to participate in women’s high prerogatives.” and she had time and opportunity for “Old Chester” novels and short stories. survives (though rebuilt). She also helped ground floor of the Grahams’ home at Raised in a deeply religious family, she and The Caring Place and Three each biography are keyed to Margaretta Schmidt, who immigrated to Fogg, for traveling around the world in 80 the classic six-volume The inscription was almost book reviewing and concert-going. At the While living in Boston, she and her hus- him design the Mount Oliver Incline (now 51 Fremont Street, now Brighton Road inherited considerable wealth from her Rivers Adoption Council in down- the maps on the reverse side. America from in 1843. Brought days. She completed the trip in 72 days Pittsburgh Survey of 1907- subjected to a grinding theater, she met Isabelle McClung, daugh- band Lorin F. Deland championed unwed gone) of 1871. That year, she married her near California Avenue. According to father and devoted her life and substance town Pittsburgh. The women’s swimming team spon- up in a strict Lutheran home, Anna had a and became a national icon. 1908: a work which con- wheel around 1990, the ter of Judge Samuel A. McClung. In 1901, mothers, and housed 60 of them and their father’s business partner Samuel biographer Russell Freedman, the to charity. Jane became a leading sored by the Carnegie Library of thorough knowledge of the . In his 18 CHILDREN’S MUSEUM OF PITTSBURGH tinues to provide scope of womanhood being Isabelle convinced Willa to come live in infants in their home from 1880 to 1884. Diescher, who designed the Duquesne Grahams’ nanny, Elizabeth (Lizzie) Episcopalian churchwoman at a time Homestead dominated women’s Maxine Goldmark 8 PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE BUILDING deemed too narrowly Divorce, adultery, women’s suffrage, and will, described his mother as “a 47 JUNIOR LEAGUE OF PITTSBURGH swimming nationally from 1928 to

researchers in-depth the McClung house in Squirrel Hill. Willa Incline, completed in 1877. The Duquesne Prendergast, a young Irish immigrant, when few social services existed and MCMASTERS MILLER HUNT RACHEL (1903-1996) woman of strong faith, and to it I attrib- information about life in defined. was hired to teach at Central High School single motherhood were themes featured Incline is still in operation, although now opened Martha’s eyes to the magic of most of the city’s charitable work 1934, and four club members—Susan ute any success I may have attained dur- Maxine Aaron married into a Pittsburgh early 20th-century (once in the Lower Hill), and in 1903 trans- in Margaret’s novels, poetry, and essays. it is electrically driven. The Dieschers the theater. In 1908, when Martha was was done by women. Jane’s will Laird, Josephine McKim, Lenore Kight Margaret Boyle Brown 38 MARGARET MORRISON ing my life.” was family of educational activists—her Pittsburgh. Byington was ferred to Allegheny High School. Also in Nevertheless, her most popular and lived on Mt. Washington, on Spring Street 14, the Grahams moved to Santa reveals a comprehensive Agnes R. Katz Wingard, and Anna Mae Gorman— (1862-1938) CARNEGIE HALL completed in 1938. Its glass, by Charles J. (1915-1987) father-in-law, Marcus Aaron, served on one of a group of reformers 1903, Cather published her first book, April and later on Garden Street, close to the Barbara, CA. In time, Martha became a understanding of the city’s competed in the Olympics. All were Connick of Boston (trained in Pittsburgh), daughters of Homestead mill work- the Board of Public Education for 36 After the death of her husband— who investigated, document- Twilights; unsatisfied with the book of inclines they constructed. major artist of the 20th century and, in human needs. She Katz Plaza in includes four stained-glass windows ers. Josephine won the bronze medal years. As her four children entered the Pittsburgh coal and coke magnate ed, and publicized the life of the poems, she bought and destroyed as many MARY CARDWELL DAWSON the words of Freedman, an “electrifying bequeathed to 17 organi- Pittsburgh's Cultural Rachel Carson 23 which are among the world’s tallest. in the 400-meter freestyle in the public school system, Maxine herself “Captain” W. Harry Brown—in 1919, American laborers; thus, focusing copies as she could. performer” with “a great gift for reveal- zations, crossing racial District is named in (1907-1964) 24 MONONGAHELA INCLINE These are dedicated to Tolerance, Truth, 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam. Four joined and subsequently held leadership Pittsburgh’s Margaret Boyle Brown spent the country’s attention on their deplorable ing emotion through the dances she lines, including homes memory of Agnes R. 30 1180 MURRAY HILL AVENUE Courage, and Temperance, with figures— years later, in Los Angeles, she and positions in the Parent-Teacher’s most of her time in Europe. Prior to her living and working conditions. She devised Rachel Carson—known as the “mother of created, expressing her beliefs and for the sick and aged, Katz and is a gift half of them men, half of them women— Lenore won gold medals in the 4 x Associations at the school level, city-wide, socialite days abroad, Margaret organized the concept of the family wage (the mini- the age of ecology”—lived in Springdale, telling stories in a way utterly new to hospitals, orphanages, from her children. Sarah Evosevich (1912-2001) to illustrate these virtues. Among the lat- 100-meter freestyle relay. After set- and at the state level. She became a a Pittsburgh branch of the Pennsylvania mum income required by the average fam- Pennsylvania for the first 22 years of her the world of dance.” Martha performed and schools such as Agnes Roman grad- Mary Cardwell Dawson ter are Nightingale, Clara ting five world records, Josephine member of the Pittsburgh Board of Division for National Preparedness, a ily to purchase the necessities of life) and life. From childhood, Rachel had a strong The inspiring life story of Sarah Evosevich, in Pittsburgh on two occasions: at the the Western uated from Peabody (1894-1962) Barton, and Madame Marie Curie. went on to work as a swimming Education in 1948 and served for 27 homefront extension of the Red Cross adapted the survey model created by interest in writing, but at the a Serbian farm girl from Croatia, speaks Pennsylvania School High School and stunt double in Hollywood. Lenore, years. In 1966, she was elected the first that organized women to make bedding, Charles Booth, W. E. B. DuBois, and Hull Pennsylvania College for Women (now Born in Madison, North Carolina, Mary to the struggles that thousands of immi- 63 HEINZ MEMORIAL CHAPEL for Blind Children. Her became the first who had taught herself to swim at woman president in the board’s 55-year feed transient troops, and secure monies House workers to her investigation. In Chatham College), she developed a pas- graduated from the New grants faced while building a new life legacy of giving contin- paid employee of the Carnegie Library of Homestead history. President during a time of labor for relief efforts. In 1930, she was made 1910, Byington published the results of her sion for biology. A reserved, thoughtful Conservatory of Music in 1925 and went in America. In 1931, 18-year-old Sarah ues. With few excep- what would become pool, also won a silver medal in the disputes and racial unrest, Maxine initiat- an officer of The French Legion of Honor, research in: Homestead: The Households of a woman, Rachel used her interests in writ- on to become one of the most influential married a widower in order to come to tions these organiza- Papercraft Sarah Sloan Young 1932 Olympics, breaking the world ed policies promoting economic fairness the award being based on her adoption of Mill Town. ing and science to initiate a new era of black female singers in America during the Pittsburgh. They settled on the South Side. tions are operating Corporation. She record in the 400-meter freestyle. and combating discrimination. Also 20 (some sources say 30) French war ecological thought worldwide. Her most first half of the century. She founded the When her husband died six years later, Heinz (1843-1894) today. married Joseph M. 70 THE BOST BUILDING She won every national freestyle title involved with the Child Guidance Clinic, orphans. In 1938, Margaret returned to influential book, (1962), Cardwell School of Music on Apple Street she had to care for three daughters and Katz in 1937, and when Sarah Sloan Young married H. J. 45 JANE HOLMES RESIDENCE from 1933 to 1935; won an Olympic the Chamber Music Society, Action her Pittsburgh home where she died. She sounded the alarm on the indiscriminate Papercraft was incor- in Homewood in 1927. After her marriage one stepson, and had no source of finan- Heinz in 1869, the same year 67 WESTERN PA SCHOOL FOR Housing, and Rodef Shalom Congregation, is interred at The Homewood Cemetery use of pesticides. Rachel did not live to to Walter Dawson, she organized the cial support. She took in boarders, learned porated in 1945, Joe and Josie Carey (1930-2004) that Heinz and Noble first BLIND CHILDREN Maxine was named a Distinguished in the family mausoleum, a distinctive see the phenomenal impact of her Agnes retained 60 percent award-winning Cardwell Dawson Choir English, operated a grocery store, worked began marketing horseradish. 68 WESTERN PA SCHOOL FOR THE Daughter of Pennsylvania in 1969. pyramid attributed to Alden & Harlow. efforts: she died of cancer two years after ownership and also sup- Born Josephine Vicari, this Pittsburgh which performed at the Century of the assembly line at Oliver Iron & Steel, As Heinz’s company grew into a DEAF native is best known as Josie Carey, the Silent Spring was published. Due largely to Progress Exposition in Chicago and the and then risked her savings to establish a plied the substantial working 50 PITTSBURGH BOARD OF EDUCATION 46 THE HOMEWOOD CEMETERY multi-million dollar enterprise, host of the Children’s Corner, a live daily the furor created by her book, Congress New York World’s Fair. In 1941, she found- restaurant of her own. Her luncheonette capital required for launching and 52 RODEF SHALOM CONGREGATION Sarah became active in various educational television program that aired passed the Clean Air and Clean Waters ed the National Negro Opera Company in grew into Sarah’s Ethnic Restaurant, area philanthropic causes. A financing the new company. The Acts and formed the Environmental Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt Clara Miller Burd (1873-1933) on WQED from 1954 to 1961. With cre- frequented by Pittsburghers, Hollywood mother of five and fond of chil- (1882-1963) family-operated corporation Aurora Reading Club ative partner Fred Rogers, Josie developed Protection Agency in 1970. celebrities, and visitors from around the dren, she was involved with the employed many women, and pros- Two dramatic opalescent transept win- a program that educated and entertained MARY STEVENSON CASSATT world. Sarah’s also became a gathering Even as a child in Pittsburgh, Rachel pered. Katz Plaza, a refuge from (1894-present) 41 CHATHAM COLLEGE Allegheny County Children’s the street, is filled with remark- dows in St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in millions of children. She wrote the lyrics 76 place in the 1960s, ‘70s, and ‘80s for local Aid Society and the South Side Miller had two overriding interests: The Aurora Reading Club was founded Pittsburgh are among the acknowledged for the 68 songs performed on the pro- preservationists who wanted to revitalize Hospital, as well as the botany and books. She produced some able contents including a bronze by Mrs. Rachel Jones in 1894, also a masterpieces created by this New York- gram in its seven-year run; Fred wrote South Side’s historic main street and Presbyterian church. In 1913, 126 of her own bindings, and in 1911 fountain cascade 25 feet high and co-founder of the Home for Colored based glass artist and book illustrator. the music, played the organ behind-the- neighborhood. Sarah closed her restau- several years after her death, H. exhibited 34 of them at the New York three pairs of large granite bench- Working Girls. Its goal, the improvement Clara, who never married, studied in New scenes to accompany Josie, and operated Mary Stevenson Cassatt rant in 1993, when she was 81 years old. J. Heinz opened the Sarah Heinz School of Applied Design for Women. In es resembling human eyes, all of African-American women, is reflected York at the National Academy of Design the puppets. In 1955, the program won (1844-1926) Her life story is documented in Sarah: Her House—a community center for 1913, she married Roy Arthur Hunt, who designed by sculptor Louise in its motto, “Lifting As We Climb.” In the and in with painter Gustave the Sylvania Television Award for best Life, Her Restaurant, Her Recipes. children still in operation on became president of . Her first Bourgeois. beginning, topics ranged from books and Courtois. She worked for Tiffany Glass & local television show in the country. After Mary Cassatt—experimental painter, leg- Pittsburgh’s North Side. present to Roy was a Book of Common music to current events, but starting in Decorating Company, J. & R. Lamb Children’s Corner, Josie hosted children’s endary printmaker, cultural icon, and 21 52 SOUTH TENTH STREET Prayer that she had made herself and 1 AGNES KATZ PLAZA the early 20th century, the club became Studios, and Church Glass & Decorating programs on KDKA-TV and South the only American invited to join the 20 SARAH HEINZ HOUSE embossed with aluminum. After the more politically-oriented, covering histo- Company. Soon after completing St. Carolina Public TV. She returned to French Impressionists—was born in 46 THE HOMEWOOD CEMETERY birth of her four sons, she lectured and ry, health care, women’s issues, race Andrew’s windows for Church Glass in Pittsburgh and hosted Josie’s Attic on Allegheny City, now the North Side of Helen Clay Frick (1888-1984) wrote on botany, literature, bookbinding, Kathryn Kuhlman relations, and religion. Later, the club 1911, she established her own firm in WQEX in the mid-1990s. A pioneer in the Pittsburgh. Although the Cassatt family Helen Clay Frick was the third child of and collecting. She was named Honorary (1907-1976) became involved in outreach programs New York. development of children’s television, her left the Pittsburgh area when Mary was industrialist and art collector Henry Clay Julia Katherine Hall Vice President of the American Born in Missouri, Kathryn Kuhlman and supported charities. A recent focus innovative use of improvisational skits four years old, her iron will and altruism Frick (1849-1919) and his wife Adelaide Horticultural Society in 1956, and in began her career as a traveling 54 ST. ANDREW’S CHURCH Carnegie Music Hall on April 30, 1937 Hogg (1839-1910) has been community literacy, an effort and interaction with puppets paved the were shaped by her family’s roots in Howard (1859-1931). Helen 1960 was awarded an honorary doctor- evangelist at age 16. In 1948, she and at the Mosque on February promoted through the Carnegie Library way for shows such as Mister Rogers’ . Mary attended grew up at “Clayton,” the Frick family A descendent of patriot Elihu Hall, Julia ate by the Carnegie Institute of brought her faith-healing ministry 12, 1947. Pop artist Andy Warhol created of Homewood. Neighborhood and Sesame Street. the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine residence in Point Breeze, and retained a Hogg established the Pittsburgh Chapter Technology (now Carnegie Mellon). The to Pittsburgh. For twenty years, she Dr. Selma Burke (1900-1995) a portrait of Martha Graham, and two Arts in from 1860 to 1862, fondness for her childhood home of the Daughters of the American next year she and Roy dedicated the conducted “Miracle Services” in 35 CARNEGIE LIBRARY 66 WQED MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATIONS silkscreen prints are part of the Andy Artist Selma Burke came to Pittsburgh in and later studied works of the old mas- throughout her life. Although the family Revolution (D. A. R.) in 1891. She also Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt Botanical ’s Carnegie Music Hall and OF PITTSBURGH— Warhol Museum collection. 1968 as sculptor-in-residence at The ters in Europe. In 1871, when Mary was moved to New York in 1905, Helen organized 32 other D. A. R. chapters in Library, now the Hunt Institute for in the First Presbyterian Church, HOMEWOOD Pennsylvania during her service as first Carnegie Institute, under the sponsorship still an unsold artist and about to give requested that her debutante party be 17 ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM Botanical Documentation. downtown, purporting to cure ail- Margaret Morrison Carnegie regent from 1892 to 1898. In 1894, LENORE KIGHT WINGARD of the A. W. Mellon Educational and up her artistic ambition, the Catholic held in Pittsburgh in 1908. Helen’s great- 40 CARNEGIE MUSIC HALL ments in audience members. She (1809-1886) Bishop of Pittsburgh commissioned her Pittsburgh land heiress Mary Croghan 37 HUNT LIBRARY NELLIE BLY Charitable Trust. Through 1976 she taught est interest was in works of art, a passion also developed a radio ministry, Nellie Bly to make copies of Italian frescos for use Schenley donated the Fort Pitt art to over 60,000 African-American Margaret Morrison, a daughter of a shoe- she shared with her father. In 1970, she and held broadcasts from what is bronze medal in the 400-meter (1864-1922) in the newly-constructed Saint Paul’s Blockhouse and adjoining land to the school children at the Carnegie, and maker, married William Carnegie, a opened The Frick on the now the Hazlett Theater, on freestyle in Berlin in 1936; and Cathedral, then in . Anna Margaretta D. A. R., who saved and restored the Junior League of Pittsburgh Nellie Bly, pioneer opened neighborhood art centers in weaver, in 1834. They lived in family estate, which displays her art Pittsburgh’s North Side. She lived in retained the 800 and 1500-meter (Both the cathedral and frescos are (1822-1899) five-sided military outpost and opened (since 1922) investigative Homewood and East Liberty. She gave a Dunfermline, Scotland where their sons collection. Before her death, Helen made Schmidt Heinz Schenley Farms in Oakland, at 4405 crowns in 1936. Anna Mae served as gone.) As her fame grew, she maintained it as a museum. From 1892 to 1976, the journalist, was bronze bas-relief sculpture of a family Andrew and Thomas were born. In 1848, plans for the opening of Clayton as a Founded in 1922 by 10 charter members, Bigelow Boulevard. A controversial alternate for the 1932 Olympic team. her Pittsburgh connections, exhibiting Henry , founder of the H. J. Pittsburgh Chapter of the D. A. R. placed born Elizabeth Jane embracing, “Together,” to the Hill House when William could not find enough house museum. The Frick Art & Historical Heinz Company, bequeathed to the the Junior League of Pittsburgh became figure, even within the Pentecostal with the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh commemorative tablets around the 71 CARNEGIE LIBRARY OF HOMESTEAD Cochran in Cochran’s Center in Pittsburgh. Her most well- work, Margaret organized the family’s Center includes Clayton, The Frick Art money for a the 48th League to join the Association and Evangelical communities,

Daisy Lampkin (1888-1965) parties. She died in Oklahoma City in 1975 nile justice, and presented it to audiences called The Rolling Stones. She made under Carrie Chapman Catt. A supporter61 Mary Croghan Schenley Skinner (1892-1995). Together they Law School, and was the top student in career in 1842 by submitting a politi- Mother Mary Francis Lincoln Elementary School, Mary and is buried in the Mesta mausoleum in in and beyond the . In 1906, memorable television and movie of many local organizations, Jennie (1826-1903) joined Connick’s firm and led it after the graduating class of 1916. Governor cal commentary to the Spirit of Liberty, Lou began performing as a child, Born in Reading, Pennsylvania, Daisy The Homewood Cemetery. she wrote to the editor of Charities and the appearances with Bo Diddley, including served as recording secretary for the his death. Frances excelled at painting, John Fisher appointed Sara to the bench a Pittsburgh abolitionist newspaper. Xavier Warde (1810-1884) and often sitting on someone’s lap to Lampkin came to Pittsburgh in 1909. Commons urging a study of Pittsburgh a performance on the famous UK music Twentieth Century Club, incorporated in The young Pittsburgh woodcarving, and textiles, as well as of the Allegheny County Courts in 1930. By 1848, she was editing her own the Sisters of Mercy reach the keyboard. Later, she per- Three years later, she organized a 46 THE HOMEWOOD CEMETERY social conditions. The study, remembered program Ready, Steady, Go! After four 1894 for the purpose of creating an heiress Mary E. Croghan glass. Her Pittsburgh fairy tale win- She was the first woman to serve as a paper, the Pittsburgh Saturday Visiter,in formed locally at the Crawford Grill In 1843, Mother Frances Warde led women’s rights tea to support women’s 74 MESTA HOUSE as the Pittsburgh Survey, resulted in years of tours and recordings, Duchess “organized center for women’s work, was 15 years old when dows were designed in 1937 but not judge in Allegheny County, and the first which she attacked the institution of in the Hill District and the Regent six Sisters of Mercy from Carlow, suffrage. She led the African-American 75 MESTA MACHINE COMPANY reforms in housing, public hygiene, and left show business to marry and raise thought, and action, the advancement of she eloped with a fabricated until 1954. woman judge in the state of slavery and advocated women’s (Kelly-Strayhorn) Theater in East Ireland to Pittsburgh to establish the community far beyond its quota in maternal and infant care. a family. her interests, the promotion of science, dashing, 43-year-old Pennsylvania. Judge Soffel served in the rights. Following her divorce from Liberty. Mary Lou wrote and 61 first of many U. S. Mercy founda- Liberty Bond drives during WWI and PERLE MESTA literature and art, and…a quiet place of British Army Officer, courts for 32 years. During her tenure as James Swisshelm in 1857, she and her arranged for many of the Big Bands tions. They devoted their lives to organized the first American Red Cross 3 ALLEGHENY COUNTY JAIL (FORMER) 6 MELLON ARENA meeting for its members.” Captain Edward W. judge, she was the first woman to join infant daughter moved to the of the Swing era. Throughout her serving the sick and the poor, and to chapter among African-American Schenley. Though the Board of Trustees of the University of Minnesota frontier. Although Jane life, she continued to work with educating women and children. In women. Daisy was also active in 59 THE TWENTIETH CENTURY CLUB lived Eliza Jane Kennedy Smith Pittsburgh. She resided with her sisters in Grey Swisshelm could not hold public new styles and to develop her own 1844 they set up a school in their politics, twice serving as an alternate Lillian Russell Moore Helen Richey (1909-1947) in England for the (1889-1964) the home built by their father at 16 office or vote, she became a leading highly personal musical style. downtown home on Penn Street. In delegate to the National Republican (1861-1922) rest of her life, she Greenbush Avenue on Mt. Washington. figure in Minnesota politics and has Though barely five feet tall, Helen Richey HELEN RICHEY Eliza Jane Kennedy, daughter of 1847, the Sisters established The Convention. She was on the board of visited Pittsburgh been called “The Mother of the 27 CRAWFORD GRILL NO. 2 The mission of the Pennsylvania Commission After a spectacular career as a light shattered records and recorded firsts for steel mill engineer Julian Kennedy, Mercy Hospital of Pittsburgh, the directors at the Urban League, and with her family, and 2 ALLEGHENY COUNTY COURTHOUSE Republican Party.” In 1866, she 48 KELLY-STRAYHORN THEATER opera actress from 1879 to the early women in aviation. This native of symbolized the spirit of reform that city’s first hospital and the first for Women is to identify and advance the traveled across the country organizing became its most gen- 55 returned to Pittsburgh. Many years 49 LINCOLN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL 1900s and three failed marriages, Lillian McKeesport, who called herself Propeller characterized Pittsburgh politics after Mercy Hospital in the world. In 1929, branches and youth councils of erous expatriate. Her 60 UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH after her death, in 1936, the City of diverse needs and interests of Pennsylvania Russell married Alexander P. Moore, edi- Annie, was the first local woman to earn 1920. Born in Pittsburgh, she completed the Sisters founded Mount Mercy the National Association for the gifts included: 300 acres Pittsburgh completed the purchase of tor and publisher of the Pittsburgh Leader. a pilot’s license (in 1931); the first woman her education at Vassar College in 1912 College, now Carlow University, to women and girls; to inform, educate and Advancement of Colored People of land in 1889 to the City the Swisshelm Estate and incorporat- Margaret M. Winters Their wedding in 1912 was held in the to get an instructor’s license from the before marrying fellow Pittsburgher R. provide higher education for women. (NAACP). Her efforts helped raise plus 120 acres sold to the City Alice Bennet Sotter (1882-1967) ed it into Frick Park, thus extending (1907-1979) Hotel Schenley, and Lillian continued to Civil Aeronautics Authority; and the only Templeton Smith. After vigorous and The Sisters of Mercy remain advocate for its constituents; and to provide tens of thousands of dollars to support at a negligible cost that became the park to its present size. occupy a suite there until she and her woman, in her time, to train military successful campaigning for women’s Alice Bennet was born and educated in committed to serving the people Pittsburgh native Margaret Winters opportunities to empower women and girls the work of civil rights lawyers like husband moved to Point Breeze in 1916. pilots. She and Frances Marsalis set a Pittsburgh’s ; five acres suffrage, she dedicated her life to educat- Pittsburgh. She attended the Pittsburgh acquired a B.S. in architecture from Thurgood Marshall. in 1890 to the Western Pennsylvania 25 of this region. Lillian wrote newspaper articles and lec- women’s endurance record in 1932, stay- ing women to use their newly won right School of Design for Women and 43 FRICK PARK Carnegie Institute of Technology to reach their highest potential. Institution for the Blind; and the dona- 7 MERCY HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH 26 2519 WEBSTER AVENUE tured on social rights, health, beauty, and ing in flight for nearly ten days. Helen effectively. Eliza organized the Allegheny Carnegie Technical Schools (now (now Carnegie Mellon), as well as tion in 1894 of the Fort Pitt Blockhouse 34 CARLOW UNIVERSITY 46 THE HOMEWOOD CEMETERY love. During , she raised was also the first woman to pilot a com- County League of Women Voters and Carnegie Mellon University) and became degrees from Wellesley and Cornell. money for the American Legion, recruit- mercial airline, flying the Washington- to the Daughters of the American succeeded in getting thousands of an apprentice at Rudy Brothers Art Glass After graduating from Cornell in In keeping with our mission, we are proud to Revolution. She also donated the 19 Mary Elizabeth Tillinghast ed for the Marine Corps, and sang on the Pittsburgh-Detroit route for Central phantom voters off the registration Company in 1904. It was during this (1845-1912) 1936, she began her career in land- offer a brochure featuring the many places in steps of the City-County Building to sell Airlines beginning in December 1934, acres on which the Carnegie Library of rolls. When a conservative Democrat apprenticeship that she met George W. JANE GREY SWISSHELM scape architecture as director of the Mary Flinn Lawrence Pittsburgh was built. The Schenley CROGHAN SCHENLEY MARY Pennsylvania where women made history. We (1886-1974) war bonds. At President Harding’s until discrimination brought about her unexpectedly became mayor in the Sotter (1879-1953), who became a Mary Tillinghast—recognized today Pittsburgh Garden Center, but left for request, she toured Europe in 1922 as resignation in November 1935. During name is remembered in many Roosevelt landslide of 1932, he appointed well-known painter and gathered together.” Gertrude established as one of America’s first professional an extended period to work in invite you to discover colorful and compelling Between fox hunts, costume parties, and special investigator on immigration and World War II she served in the British Air Pittsburgh places, including the Hotel Eliza as budget advisor. She and the artist. They married in 1907 and Alice an internationally famous and progres- women stained glass artists—created one Philadelphia, New York, and society dinners, Mary Flinn Lawrence reported in favor of isolationism and Transport Auxiliary, and as a WASP. Schenley, the Schenley Farms neighbor- public auditor prepared a budget collaborated with her husband on sive salon in Paris, authored a dozen of her finest windows for Pittsburgh in Washington, D.C. She returned to historic sites, buildings and monuments that advocated women’s rights, charitable restricted immigration. One of the most Despondent at her inability to land a hood, Schenley High School, and eliminating payroll padding and illegal stained glass projects thereafter. books including The Autobiography of Alice 1903 for the on a Pittsburgh and in 1957 co-founded speak to the achievements and impact of the causes, and conservation. She created a talked about women of her time who had pilot’s job after the war, Helen committed Schenley Memorial Fountain. expenditures of all kinds. Upon her Together they designed and made all B. Toklas (1933), and wrote the text for commission from Jane and Matilda GWSM (Griswold, Winters, Swain, & luxurious country estate, beginning in a penchant for dressing in men’s clothes suicide. She is buried in the McKeesport- 10 FORT PITT BLOCKHOUSE death, Congressman Robert Fulton the windows at Sacred Heart Church two operas, Four Saints in Three Acts (1934) Smith. After studying painting in Paris, Mullin), Inc., which became the women of this Commonwealth. 1927, with money she inherited from her and smoking cigarettes, Lillian is buried Versailles Cemetery. 56 SCHENLEY MEMORIAL FOUNTAIN eulogized Eliza as the “conscience in Pittsburgh, and upon her husband’s and The Mother of Us All (1947). Mary (who never married) became associ- region’s most prominent landscape father, State Senator and Ruth Crawford Mitchell in the Moore mausoleum in Pittsburgh’s 57 SCHENLEY PARK of Pittsburgh.” death in 1953, Alice completed the ated with artist John La Farge in New York design and planning firm; she founder of Booth & Flinn Construction 69 12 850 BEECH AVENUE City, first as a textile designer, then as (1890-1984) Allegheny Cemetery. windows in its Lady Chapel. worked on GWSM designs for Point We feel strongly that understanding the past Company. Mary lived at “Hartwood” with 73 MCKEESPORT—VERSAILLES CEMETERY 4 CITY-COUNTY BUILDING manager of the La Farge Decorative Art State Park, Chatham Village, and Old her husband John Lawrence and their 4 CITY-COUNTY BUILDING 77 HELEN RICHEY FIELD Scaife 46 THE HOMEWOOD CEMETERY 36 CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY in all its richness will provide women and girls Born in , educated at Vassar (1903-1965) Company. Her glass and decorative Economy Village in Ambridge, PA. Her two adopted sons. She founded the College, and employed by the American 25 ALLEGHENY CEMETERY 53 SACRED HEART CHURCH, LADY CHAPEL Rachel Pears McClelland designs earned gold medals at several masterpiece, created over ten-years, 65 HOTEL SCHENLEY a clearer focus and better perspective on their Home for Crippled Children, led Red Cross in , Ruth Sarah, the daughter of Richard Beatty Sutton (1887-1982) World’s Fairs. Her most notable secular is a private garden in Pittsburgh’s Pittsburgh’s suffrage movement, and was Crawford Mitchell came to Pittsburgh Mary Roberts Rinehart Mellon, married Alan Magee Scaife in Jane McGrew Smith (1832-1911) windows are Urania in Pittsburgh and the Squirrel Hill neighborhood. present and future lives. (1876-1958) Agnes Lynch Starrett (1889-1988) a board member of the Pennsylvania in the early 1920s to lecture in the 1927, and two of Pittsburgh’s most promi- and Matilda Hudson Smith Rachel McClelland was a member of a 1908 Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in the State Forest Commission. She said, “If we Department of Economics at the nent and philanthropic families united. famous and socially-active Pittsburgh New York Historical Society. 9 Born in Allegheny City, now the North Side (1837-1909) The first book to be published by the promote natural beauty we are doing University of Pittsburgh. She became Sarah attended what is now Winchester clan. Her grandfather James Henderson 22 CHATHAM VILLAGE of Pittsburgh, Mary Roberts trained as a University of Pittsburgh Press was a his- 15 ALLEGHENY OBSERVATORY 36 CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY something of great value for posterity.” instrumental in creating the “Nationality Thurston School in Pittsburgh and Miss Philanthropists Jane and Matilda Smith McClelland was an abolitionist. Her nurse but gave up her profession when she tory of the University: Through One 80 OLD ECONOMY VILLAGE In 1969, she sold her 480-acre estate to Rooms,” inspired by Chancellor John G. married a prominent Pittsburgh surgeon. Spence’s School in New York. In were life-long residents of Allegheny City, Hundred and Fifty Years: The University of father, James Henderson McClelland, Jr., a Allegheny County. Thousands of people Bowman’s wish to honor the cultures of The mother of three boys—and a prolific Pittsburgh she led the Junior League, and now Pittsburgh’s North Side. Their mater- Pittsburgh (1937). The author was Agnes homeopathic physician, commissioned MARGARET M. WINTERS Edward G. Rendell Leslie Stiles visit Hartwood Acres each year to tour immigrants who had built the city. The after her marriage she became a benefac- nal grandfather co-founded the first fire the building of “Sunnyledge,” the family’s Elise Mercur Wagner writer—Mary became one of America’s Starrett, class of 1920, then in the English (1869-1947) Women of “Woodville” the mansion, hike, horse-back ride, represent most popular authors and journalists, pro- tor of major charitable, educational, and insurance company in Western Department. She was to continue active home designed by A. W. Longfellow, a Governor Executive Director attend weddings, concerts, light festivals, cultures in Eastern and Western Europe, ducing over 60 books, eight plays, and hun- cultural institutions, primarily in Western Pennsylvania. The sisters were active in in University publications, as editor of senior designer for Henry Hobson Elise Mercur, Pittsburgh’s first document- For nearly two centuries, the women and polo matches. The Lawrences are Scandinavia, , and the Middle East, dreds of short stories and articles. Most Pennsylvania. Her gifts to the Carnegie numerous Allegheny City social service Pitt Magazine, and as director of the Richardson. Rachel McClelland and sister ed woman architect, was raised in Anne Lee Willet (1866-1943) of four families related by marriage buried in The Homewood Cemetery in and now include 26 classrooms on the Museum of Art included important paint- Sarah attended Pennsylvania College for popular were her mystery stories, which agencies, including the Orphan Asylum, University of Pittsburgh Press from 1947 Towanda, Pennsylvania, Bradford County. Anne Lee was born in Bristol, helped care for “Woodville,” a the Flinn family mausoleum. first and third floors of the Cathedral of ings by Perugino, Frans Hals, Goya, Women, now Chatham College. They blended mystery, love, and humor. Her first Home for the Friendless, Allegheny to 1964. She edited over 50 books and Her mother Anna was a poet, her father Pennsylvania and studied art at the Virginian vernacular plantation Learning. With the exception of Munch, Gauguin, and leading French Widows’ Home Association, and traveled extensively and worked with 46 THE HOMEWOOD CEMETERY book, The Circular Staircase (1908), incorpo- wrote The Cathedral of Learning, 1921-1937; Mahlon a banker, and her uncle Ulysses Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine home. Begun c. 1785 by John and www.WomenMadeHistoryInPa.com a two-year period from 1944 to 1946 Impressionists. In her memory, her family Allegheny General and West Penn many homeopathic and social welfare 72 HARTWOOD ACRES rated the stair in her own Beech Avenue The Maurice and Laura Falk Foundation; and served as chief justice of the Pennsylvania Arts in Philadelphia. In 1896, she Winifred Neville, “Woodville” sur- when Ruth served in with the U.N. and the Sarah Scaife Foundation gave the organizations. While Sarah became more RUTH CRAWFORD MITCHELL home, where she lived with her family Hospitals. They were generous supporters The University of Pittsburgh in World War II. Supreme Court in the 1880s. She studied married William Willet, a stained vived the of 1794. Relief and Rehabilitation Agency, she Scaife Gallery to the Carnegie—creating, politically inclined, Rachel made a living from 1907 to 1912. She was the first, also, of the Western University of For about 50 years, she and her husband music in Germany, but after she returned glass artist. The couple moved to In time, the home passed from made Pittsburgh her home. in effect, Pittsburgh’s Museum of Modern as an artist, specializing in regionalist oil Perle Mesta (1889-1975) to use the phrase, “The butler did it.” In Pennsylvania (later the University of lived on Mt. Washington in Chatham to the United States she studied art at the Pittsburgh in 1897 where they Neville's son Presley and his family World War I, she became the first Art, designed by Edward Larabee Barnes Pittsburgh), which relocated from Village, now a National Historic scenes of Pittsburgh and natural land- Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in to his first cousin Eliza Kirkpatrick Produced by a Heritage Tourism Cooperative Marketing Grant, 61 CATHEDRAL OF LEARNING opened their own glass company in Known as the “Hostess with the Mostess” Norma-Jean Wofford and completed in 1974. Her giving contin- Pittsburgh to Allegheny City in 1882 scapes. She exhibited at the Arts and Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development, American woman to work as a war corre- Landmark. In 1954 Agnes was named a Philadelphia. In 1894 she joined the office 1899. They considered their relation- and her husband Christopher after an Irving Berlin song, Perle (Pearl) (c. 1942-2005) spondent, and also inspected field hospi- ues through the Sarah Scaife Foundation. (returning to Pittsburgh in 1909). They Distinguished Daughter of Pennsylvania. Crafts Center—now the Pittsburgh Center of architect Thomas Boyd in Pittsburgh. Cowan. One of their daughters, Mary Richardson MATILDA HUDSON SMITH ship to be an artistic collaboration, Tourism Office. Mesta was the daughter of Oklahoma oil tals for the Red Cross. established the Smith Geological for the Arts—and other galleries in the That year she entered the competition to Ann, married John Fletcher Alice B. Montgomery Legendary bluesman Bo Diddley was 39 CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART 22 CHATHAM VILLAGE and the work of their studio was and real estate tycoon William Skirvin. Collection at the University in 1888, and city, and had a one-woman show at design the Women’s Building for the Wrenshall. They and their family (1862-1926) known for having a female “sideman” in 13 954 BEECH AVENUE 60 UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH labeled, “Designed and made by She moved to in 1915 and in 1900 provided funds for equipment, Carnegie Mellon University in the early Cotton States and International lived at “Woodville” until Mary Ann’s Created in cooperation with the Pittsburgh History & Landmarks his band. Between 1962 and 1966, that 64 SARAH MELLON SCAIFE William Willet and Anne Lee Willet.” met George Mesta, owner of Mesta As Pennsylvania’s first juvenile probation flooring, and the art glass win- 1970s. She married William Sutton in Exposition. She won, and her building was death in 1896. “Woodville” remained female sideman was Pittsburgh native One design attributed solely to Anne Foundation and the Senator John Heinz Pittsburgh Regional History Machine Company, at a dinner party host- officer, Alice Ballard Montgomery was an dow created by Mary E. Tillinghast in the 1920, and some of her work is now erected at the Exposition held in Atlanta. in the hands of the Wrenshall fami- Norma-Jean Richardson (née Wofford), Lee Willet is the 1908 Lady Chapel Center, with contributions from: Eliza Smith Brown; John Canning; ed by her aunt. They married in 1917 and ardent advocate of reform for juvenile Frances Van Arsdale Skinner Allegheny Observatory. Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) shown under the name Rachel Elise established her own Pittsburgh ly descendants through 1973. better known as “Duchess.” McClelland Sutton. window at Calvary Episcopal Church settled into the Mesta mansion in West offenders rather than punish- Jennie Bradley Roessing (1895-1979) architectural office in Room 704 of the Shortly thereafter, the Pittsburgh Abigail Carlin; Ronald C. Carlisle; Ladies United for the Preservation She provided some back-up (1882-1963) 15 ALLEGHENY OBSERVATORY Gertrude Stein, one of America’s most in Pittsburgh, exhibited at the Homestead, Pennsylvania. Perle quickly ment by imprisonment. When famous expatriates and authors, was Times Building in 1898. Later, she moved History & Landmarks Foundation of Endangered Cocktails; Kathy Leahy; Barbara Ruane; Laureen vocals but was not the cliché and Sleeping Beauty are 16 ALLEGHENY WIDOWS’ HOME ASSOCIATION 36 CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY Architectural League of New York in immersed herself in the welfare and Pittsburgh’s Juvenile Court began Jennie Bradley Roessing and her fellow born in Allegheny City, now Pittsburgh’s her office to Economy, Pennsylvania (now purchased “Woodville” to protect it decorative girl singer. Instead, among64 20 fairy tale characters animat- 51 PITTSBURGH CENTER FOR THE ARTS 1910. Anne retired in 1934. Schulte; J. Vater; Laura Baccelli Vondas; and Kathleen Washy. social concerns of the Mesta employees. in 1902, Alice was invited to serve suffragists struggled to implement the North Side. Although her family moved Ambridge) and continued to practice from demolition. Now a National she played electric guitar ed by light and color in the German 58 SUNNYLEDGE HOTEL & TEA ROOM Through her efforts, George started a as consultant because of her “Pittsburgh Plan” that would lead the to , when she was one architecture through the early years of the 33 CALVARY EPISCOPAL CHURCH Historic Landmark, “Woodville” is alongside Bo Diddley, who Nationality Room windows in the Sara Mathilde Soffel cafeteria and hospital at the plant and prior work with the Philadelphia state of Pennsylvania to women’s suf- year old, she remembered her Allegheny 20th-century. Only two of her buildings the Pittsburgh area’s principal link Photos courtesy of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh; Carnegie had coached her on emulat- University of Pittsburgh’s Cathedral of (1886-1976) established a program to provide two courts and her experience as a frage. A divorcee in a time when it car- City roots. In 1908, when Gertrude are known to have survived. with 18th- and 19th-century life Museum of Art; Frick Art & Historical Center; Homewood Cemetery; ing his distinctive “Bo Diddley Learning. They were designed and made Jane Grey Swisshelm hours of schooling each day for young resident of a settlement house. ried enormous stigma, Jennie refused to Educated in the Pittsburgh Public Schools learned that Mary Cassatt, also born in Mary Lou Williams and architecture. Beat.” Duchess performed by Frances Skinner, a senior craftsper- (1815-1884) 11 TIMES BUILDING Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Carnegie Mellon apprentices, with pay. George’s death in She became Chief Probation retreat from the public eye. In 1904, she and a 1908 graduate of Wellesley College, Allegheny, was in Paris, she invited her to (1910-1981) with Bo Diddley at the son for Charles J. Connick (1875-1945). 29 ST. PAUL’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH 78 “WOODVILLE” PLANTATION University; Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation; and Senator 1925 left Perle in charge of Mesta for a Officer in 1903, serving until was a co-founder of the Allegheny Sara taught German and at her apartment. After Mary met a number Jane Grey Canon, artist, journalist, aboli- Pittsburgh (now Connick, one of America’s most impor- 79 MCILVAINE HALL During much of the 20th century, time. In 1949 President Truman appointed 1907. One of her first tasks was County Equal Rights Association, and in Schenley High School in 1916 during its of Gertrude’s friends and looked at her tionist and feminist, was born in John Heinz Pittsburgh Regional History Center. Mellon Arena) in 1962. They tant stained glass artists, trained in Mary Lou Williams was arguably her Minister to Luxembourg, and she used to remove children from impris- 1912 was president of the Pennsylvania inaugural year, and also enrolled in the Picasso’s and Matisses’s, she told a friend Pittsburgh’s Swissvale area. At age seven, toured the UK in 1963, shar- Pittsburgh before establishing his firm the most accomplished female her legendary parties as a tool for solving onment with adults in the coun- Woman Suffrage Association. She then law school of the University of that she had “never seen so many dread- following the death of her father, she ing a bill with The Everly in Boston. Frances was trained in instrumentalist and composer in diplomatic problems. Her later years were ty jail to safer quarters. She cre- served as chairwoman of the National JENNIE BRADLEY ROESSING Pittsburgh. She was the first woman to ful paintings in one place”…and had taught lace-making to help support the Brothers, Little Richard, and Rochester, New York, where she met jazz. Born in 1910 to an unmarried devoted to lecturing, writing, and hosting ated a “Pittsburgh Model” of juve- American Woman Suffrage Association receive her entire legal education at Pitt “never seen so many dreadful people family. She embarked on her journalism RACHEL CARSON an up-and-coming band and married another glass artist, Orin E. mother, she moved with her family from Georgia to Pittsburgh when NORMA-JEAN WOFFORD RICHARDSON explore she was about four. A student of 14 15 PITTSBURGH 25 44 54 in Northwest Pittsburgh in Northeast Pittsburgh

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Beaver Pittsburgh makes up one of the most historically rich regions of women’s history in the country. To County 72 help guide you through the attractions located in the city, use the large map above. You’ll find that a 80 Allegheny 76 great story lies around every corner. To locate the points of interest in the outlying areas, use the map County to the left. The amazing beauty of the region creates the perfect ambiance for a day of unadulterat- ed history. Each of the sites is associated with a legendary woman, whose biography can be found on 70 71

74 the reverse side. 78 75 Westmoreland Map in hand, you’re ready for a great experience. All you need now is a good pair of walking shoes. 69 73 County 77 Ready > set > go. 79 Washington For further tour information, contact the Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation: www.phlf.org. To learn more about women in Western Pennsylvania, visit the County Senator John Heinz Pittsburgh Regional History Center: www.pghhistory.org.

DOWNTOWN 23 DUQUESNE INCLINE 32 7101 APPLE STREET, 15206 43 FRICK PARK 52 RODEF SHALOM 62 FRICK FINE ARTS BUILDING 72 HARTWOOD ACRES AND THE NORTH SIDE Samuel Diescher, 1877; track rebuilt 1888 (former home of National Since 1919; Lowell & Vinal and Innocenti CONGREGATION A. Kenneth Johnstone & Associated Alfred W. Hopkins, 1929 LOWER HILL Negro Opera Company) & Webel, landscape architects; John Palmer & Hornbostel, 1907 Architects, 1967 1197 West Carson Street & 1220 Russell Pope, architect 215 Saxonburg Blvd., 15238 Grandview Avenue, 15211 c. 1895 4905 Fifth Avenue, 15213 , 15213 (412) 767-9200 12 850 BEECH AVENUE, 15233 • • www.county.allegheny.pa.us/parks 1 AGNES KATZ PLAZA (412) 381-1665 incline.pghfree.net Privately owned Beechwood Blvd., and S. (412) 621-6566 rodefshalom.org (412) 648-2400 Daniel Urban Kiley; Michael Graves; c. 1870 Open seven days a week, running from Braddock Avenue The Biblical Botanical Garden is open www.pitt.edu/~arthome.index.html Open Wed. through Sat., 10 AM to 3 PM Louise Bourgeois; 1999 5:30 AM to 12:40 PM (412) 682-PARK; (412) 422-6550 June 1 through Sept. 15, Sun. through Call for gallery hours. Open Sun., Noon to 4 PM Privately owned Mary Cardwell Dawson www.pittsburghparks.org Thur., 10 AM to 2 PM; Wed. evening, Penn Avenue & Seventh Street, 15222 Gertrude Stein Caroline Endres Diescher The Jane Grey Swisshelm plaque is located 7 to 9 PM; and Sat., Noon to 1 PM Helen Clay Frick Mary Flinn Lawrence www.pgharts.org on a boulder near the intersection of 33 CALVARY EPISCOPAL CHURCH Maxine Goldmark Aaron Agnes R. Katz (Lady Chapel) Braddock Ave. and Rt. 376, the location of 13 954 BEECH AVENUE, 15233 Cram, Goodhue & Ferguson, 1907 her homestead. 63 HEINZ MEMORIAL CHAPEL 73 MCKEESPORT—VERSAILLES Charles Zeller Klauder, 1938 c. 1900 CEMETERY 315 Shady Avenue, 15206 Helen Grey Frick 53 SACRED HEART CHURCH 1856 2 ALLEGHENY COUNTY South Bellefield Avenue, 15260 Privately owned (412) 661-0120 • www.calvarypgh.org Jane Grey Swisshelm (LADY CHAPEL) COURTHOUSE Call for guided tours. Carlton Strong; completed by Kaiser, Neal (412) 624-4157 1608 Fifth Avenue Henry Hobson Richardson, 1888 Mary Roberts Rinehart & Reid, 1924-53 www.discover.pitt.edu/chapel McKeesport, 15132 Anne Lee Willet 44 HIGHLAND PARK Open Mon. through Fri., 9 AM to 5 PM, (412) 672-1176 Grant Street & Fifth Avenue, 15219 325 Emerson Street, 15206 Sun: Noon to 5 PM www.mckeesportcemetery.com www.county.allegheny.pa.us/directions/ Begun 1889 14 1300 BLOCK OF LIVERPOOL (412) 441-1582 Open September 1 through April 30: comm/jail.asp North Highland and Bunkerhill St, 15206 www.sacredheartschool-pgh.org Anna Margaretta Schmidt Heinz 8 AM to 5 PM. May 1 through May 31: Open Mon. through Fri. during regular STREET, 15233 34 CARLOW UNIVERSITY c. 1880 and after Established 1929 (412) 682-PARK • www.pittsburghparks.org Open Mon. through Fri., 7:30 AM to 4:30 PM 8 AM to 8 PM. June 1 through August 31: business hours 8 AM to 7 PM Julia Katherine Hall Hogg Alice Bennet Sotter Sara Mathilde Soffel Margaret Wade Campbell Deland 3333 Fifth Avenue, 15213 64 HILLMAN LIBRARY (800) 333-CARLOW • www.carlow.edu Helen Richey 3960 Forbes Avenue, 15260 Mother Mary Francis Xavier Warde and 45 JANE HOLMES RESIDENCE 54 ST. ANDREW’S CHURCH (412) 648-8190 • www.library.pitt.edu 3 ALLEGHENY COUNTY JAIL 15 ALLEGHENY OBSERVATORY The original illustrations used in Mary Thorsten E. Billquist, with John Alfred the Sisters of Mercy (formerly the Home for Aged Carpenter & Crocker, 1906 74 MESTA HOUSE (now serving the Family Court Protestants) Roberts Rinehart's books are displayed on c. 1900 System) Brashear and James E. Keeler, consultants, 5801 Hampton Street, 15206 the third floor, outside the Special 1900 Barr & Moser, 1869 Henry Hobson Richardson, 1886 35 CARNEGIE LIBRARY OF (412) 661-1245 Collections Dept. Open Mon. through 540 Doyle Avenue Observatory Hill, 159 Riverview Dr, 15214 PITTSBURGH—HOMEWOOD 441 Swissvale Ave, Wilkinsburg 15221 Clara Miller Burd, East Transept window, Fri., 9 AM to Noon; 1 PM to 5 PM West Homestead, 15120 400 Ross Street, 15219 • (412) 321-2400 • www.pitt.edu/~aobsvtry Alden & Harlow, 1910 (412) 731-0511 janeholmesresidence.org Annunciation/Nativity/Presentation, 1908 Privately owned www.county.allegheny.pa.us/jail/history/asp 23 DUQUESNE INCLINE Private, assisted-living facility Clara Miller Burd, West Transept window, Mary Roberts Rinehart To tour the jail museum, contact the Urania, opalescent glass by Mary Tillinghast Perle Mesta Call for public tour hours 7107 Hamilton Avenue, 15208 Ascension, 1911 Pittsburgh History & Landmarks (412) 731-3080 Jane Holmes Foundation: (412) 471-5808, ext. 527 Jane McGrew Smith and 24 MONONGAHELA INCLINE www.clpgh.org/locations/homewood/ Clara Miller Burd 65 Alice B. Montgomery Matilda Hudson Smith John and Caroline Endres, 1870; rebuilt Open Mon. and Wed., 11 AM to 7 PM; Tues., (originally, Hotel Schenley) 75 MESTA MACHINE COMPANY Mary Elizabeth Tillinghast 1882, 1983 Thur., and Sat., 10 AM to 5 PM 46 THE HOMEWOOD CEMETERY Rutan & Russell, 1898; Williams (now WHEMCO plant) Incorporated 1878 55 SCHENLEY HIGH SCHOOL Trebilcock Whitehead, 1983 renovation West Carson Street near Smithfield Aurora Reading Club Edward Stotz, 1916 West Homestead, 15120 4 CITY-COUNTY BUILDING Street & Grandview Avenue at Wyoming Dallas & Aylesboro Avenues, 15217 Bigelow Blvd. & Fifth Avenue, 15260 (412) 464-4400 Edward B. Lee, with Palmer, Hornbostel & 16 ALLEGHENY WIDOWS’ HOME Street, 15211 (412) 421-1822 Bigelow Blvd. & Centre Avenue, 15213 (412) 648-7812 for hours www.WHEMCO.com/wgoc_home.htm Jones, 1917 ASSOCIATION (formerly • www.homewoodcemetery.org/index.html Schenleyhs.net (412) 442-2000 www.portauthority.org 36 CARNEGIE MELLON Lillian Russell Moore Perle Mesta Orphan Asylum of Pittsburgh Open Mon. through Sat., running from UNIVERSITY Office hours: Mon. through Fri., 8:30 AM Grant Street at Forbes Avenue and Allegheny) to 5 PM; Sat., 8:30 AM to 3 PM Call for Sara Mathilde Soffel (412) 255-2626 5:30 AM to 12:45 AM Open Sun., running Henry Hornbostel et al, 1905 and after John Chislett, 1838; additions, c. 1873 from 8:45 AM to midnight gate hours. www.city.pittsburgh.pa.us/main/html/Pitts 5000 Forbes Avenue, 15213 66 WQED MULTIMEDIA 76 RACHEL CARSON HOMESTEAD burgh_links.html 306-22 North Taylor Avenue and 1319-27 Caroline Endres Diescher Margaret Boyle Brown 56 SCHENLEY MEMORIAL COMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION Open Mon. through Fri. during regular Sherman Avenue Rachel Pears McClelland Helen Clay Frick FOUNTAIN Paul Schweikher, 1970 business hours. Mexican War Streets, 15212 Alice Bennet Sotter Sarah Sloan Young Heinz Victor David Brenner (sculptor) and 613 Marion Avenue Private housing Margaret M. Winters H. Van Buren Magonigle, 1918 4802 Fifth Avenue, 15213 Springdale, 15144 Lillian Russell Moore Daisy Lampkin (412) 622-1300 • www.wqed.org (724) 274-5459 Mary Flinn Lawrence Eliza Jane Kennedy Smith Jane McGrew Smith and LAWRENCEVILLE Schenley Plaza, 15213 Josie Carey www.rachelcarsonhomestead.com Matilda Hudson Smith Perle Mesta Open for tours throughout the year, 37 HUNT LIBRARY, HUNT Eliza Jane Kennedy Smith Mary Croghan Schenley by appt., and on summer weekends. INSTITUTE FOR BOTANICAL 5 FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 25 ALLEGHENY CEMETERY 67 WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA Theophilus Parsons Chandler, 1905 17 ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM DOCUMENTATION Rachel Carson Lawrie & Green, in association with SCHOOL FOR BLIND CHILDREN William G. Wilkins Co., c. 1913 4734 , 15201 47 JUNIOR LEAGUE OF 57 SCHENLEY PARK 320 Sixth Avenue, 15222 Deeter & Ritchey, 1960 PITTSBURGH Since 1889 George S. Orth, 1894; enlargements, 1980s • (412) 682-1624 (412) 471-3436 www.fpcp.org 117 Sandusky Street, 15212 www.alleghenycemetery.com 201 North Bellefield Avenue, 15213 77 HELEN RICHEY FIELD • Frew Street, 15213 1620 Murray Avenue, 15217 101 Panther Hollow Road, 15213 (412) 237-8300 www.warhol.org Office hours: Mon. through Fri., 8:30 AM (412) 621-0100 Kathryn Kuhlman (412) 268-2434 (412) 422-8580 • www.jlpgh.org (Visitor’s Center) Renzie Park (Renziehausen Park) Open Tues. through Sun., 10:00 AM to 5 PM to 5 PM Sat., 8:30 AM to 4 PM. Call for Virtual tour: Open Fri. until 10 PM www.huntbot.andrew.cmu.edu Junior League of Pittsburgh (412) 682-PARK; (412) 687-1800 Eden Park Blvd. gate hours. Open Mon through Fri., 9 AM to noon www.pittsburghparks.org www.wpsbc.org/a_about/a1_tour.php McKeesport, 15132 6 MELLON ARENA Martha Graham and 1 PM to 5 PM; Sun., 1 PM to 4 PM, Jane Holmes (412) 675-5020, ext. 632 Lillian Russell Moore when exhibitions are hanging, Mary Croghan Schenley (formerly Civic Arena) Jane Grey Swisshelm www.mckeesport.org/renziePark.php Deeter & Ritchey, 1961 excluding holidays. 48 KELLY-STRAYHORN THEATER 18 CHILDREN’S MUSEUM OF Harry S. Bair, 1914; renovated 1995 Helen Richey 66 Lemieux Place, 15219 Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt 68 WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA PITTSBURGH 5941 Penn Avenue, 15206 58 SUNNYLEDGE HOTEL (412) 642-1800 • www.mellonarena.com AND TEA ROOM SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF William Martin Aiken, 1897; (412) 363-3000 • www.kelly-strayhorn.org After 1892; Alden & Harlow, administra- Ingham & Boyd, 1939; Koning Eizenberg Longfellow & Harlow, 1886 Norma-Jean Wofford Richardson HILL DISTRICT 38 MARGARET MORRISON Call for performance schedule. tion building, 1903 Architects, 2004 5124 Fifth Avenue, 15232 CARNEGIE HALL Mary Lou Williams 300 East Swissvale Avenue, 15218 (412) 683-5014 • www.sunnyledge.com 10 Children’s Way, 15212 Henry Hornbostel, 1907, 1914 (412) 371-7000 • www.wpsd.org (412) 322-5058 • www.pittsburghkids.org 26 2519 WEBSTER AVENUE, 15219 The library is open to the public. Open Mon. through Sat., 10 AM to 5 PM Margaret Morrison Drive Jane Holmes Privately owned 49 LINCOLN ELEMENTARY Rachel Pears McClelland Sutton Open Sun., Noon to 5 PM Margaret Morrison Carnegie SCHOOL Junior League of Pittsburgh Daisy Lampkin Pringle & Robling, 1931 59 THE TWENTIETH CENTURY 39 CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART 328 Lincoln Avenue, 15206 ALLEGHENY www.lincolnes.pghboe.net CLUB 19 HAZLETT THEATER (originally 27 CRAWFORD GRILL NO. 2 (including Scaife Gallery) George H. Schwan, 1910; Janssen & COUNTY Carnegie Hall) Opened in 1943 Longfellow, Alden & Harlow, original Mary Lou Williams Cocken, 1930 building, 1892-95; Alden & Harlow, Smithmeyer & Pelz, 1890 2141 Wylie Avenue, 15219 78 WOODVILLE PLANTATION Forbes Ave section, 1907; Edward Larabee 4201 Bigelow Blvd., 15213 69 ALLEGHENY COUNTY AIRPORT Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, North Side Mary Lou Williams Barnes, Scaife Gallery addition, 1974 50 PITTSBURGH BOARD OF (412) 621-2353 Stanley L. Roush, architect, 1931; addi- Allegheny Square, 15212 EDUCATION Private club; open for tours by request. tions probably by Henry Hornbostel, 1936 (412) 316-1600 4400 Forbes Ave, 15213 78 “WOODVILLE” PLANTATION (412) 622-3131 • www.cmoa.org Ingham & Boyd, 1927 Jennie Bradley Roessing www.ppt.org/about.htm#HAZLETT 28 HILL HOUSE CENTER Church Road Begun c. 1785 Open Tues. through Sun., 10 AM to 5 PM West Mifflin Township, 15122 7 MERCY HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH Edward Stotz, 1928 341 S. Bellefield Avenue, 15213 1375 Washington Pike Kathryn Kuhlman • (412) 461-4300 Dr. Selma Burke (412) 622-3500 www.pps.k12.pa.us Bridgeville, 15017 1835 Centre Avenue, 15219 60 UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH www.pitairport.com/AboutUsServlet?option Mary Stevenson Cassatt (412) 221-0348 (412) 392-4400 • www.hillhouse.org Maxine Goldmark Aaron =aca_background www.Pitt.edu www.woodvilleplantation.org/index.html 7 MERCY HOSPITAL OF 20 SARAH HEINZ HOUSE See Together, bas-relief, by Selma Burke Sarah Mellon Scaife PITTSBURGH Robert Maurice Trimble, 1915 Sara Mathilde Soffel Helen Richey Open for tours by appointment; Dr. Selma Burke Agnes Lynch Starrett special events are held on weekends 1400 Locust Street, 15219 1 Heinz Street, 15212 in the summer. • 40 CARNEGIE MUSIC HALL (412) 232-8111 www.mercylink.org (412) 231-2377 • www.sarahheinzhouse.org (part of Carnegie Museums 70 BOST BUILDING Women of “Woodville” Mother Mary Francis Xavier Warde and Sarah Sloan Young Heinz 29 ST. PAUL’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH 1892 the Sisters of Mercy (now Christian Tabernacle of Pittsburgh) Kodesh Church of Immanuel) 623 East Eighth Ave, Homestead, 15120 Martha Graham • Elise Mercur, 1896 (412) 464-4020 www.riversofsteel.com Kathryn Kuhlman Open Mon. through Sat., 11 AM to 4 PM 8 PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE 2601 Centre Avenue, 15213 Home of the Rivers of Steel National BEYOND BUILDING SOUTH SIDE Heritage Area ALLEGHENY COUNTY AND (412) 621-8820 34 Blvd of the Allies, 15222 41 CHATHAM COLLEGE MT. WASHINGTON Elise Mercur Wagner Since 1869 Margaret F. Byington (412) 263-1100 • www.post-gazette.com 79 MCILVAINE HALL Nellie Bly Woodland Road, 15232 Elise Mercur, 1897 21 52 S. TENTH STREET, 15203 (412) 365-1100 • www.chatham.edu 71 CARNEGIE LIBRARY OF Rachel Carson HOMESTEAD Washington & Jefferson College Privately owned EAST END AREA Alden & Harlow, 1898 Washington, PA 15301 9 POINT STATE PARK (888) W AND JAY Sarah Evosevich Margaret M. Winters 510 Tenth Avenue, Munhall, 15120 www.washjeff.edu 42 THE FRICK ART & HISTORICAL (412) 462-3444 www.washjeff.edu/sociology 30 1180 MURRAY HILL AVENUE, CENTER (including “Clayton” 15217 c. 1900 www.einetwork.net/ein/homestead/ 22 CHATHAM VILLAGE and The Frick Art Museum) Open Mon. through Fri., 10 AM to 7 PM; Elise Mercur Wagner 10 FORT PITT BLOCKHOUSE Ingham & Boyd, architects; Clarence S. Stein Privately owned c. 1870; Frederick J. Osterling, architect for Open Sat., 9 AM to 5 PM Colonel Henry Bouquet, 1764 and Henry Wright, planners; Ralph E. remodeling, 1892 Willa Cather 42 CLAYTON Susan E. Laird, Josephine McKim, Lenore (412) 471-1764 Griswold and later Theodore Kohankie, land- 7227 Reynolds Street, 15208 80 OLD ECONOMY VILLAGE scape architects; 1932; 1936 Kight Wingard, Anna Mae Gorman Founded 1905 www.fortpittmuseum.com/wel- (412) 371-0600 • www.frickart.org comepage.html 51 PITTSBURGH CENTER 61 CATHEDRAL OF LEARNING Virginia Avenue & Bigham Street, 15211 31 4405 BIGELOW BLVD., 15213 Open Tues. through Sun., 10 AM to 5 PM (including the Nationality 270 Sixteenth Street Open Wed. through Sun., 10 AM to 5 PM Privately owned but open to the public Reservations are recommended for tours FOR THE ARTS Ambridge, PA 15003 Louis S. Stevens, c. 1920 Charles Barton Keen, 1912 Rooms) Julia Katherine Hall Hogg during the day. Margaret Winters designed Helen Clay Frick Charles Zeller Klauder, 1937 (724) 266-4500 Mary Croghan Schenley a rose garden at the base of the flagpole. Private residence 6300 Fifth Avenue, 15232 www.oldeconomyvillage.org Kathryn Kuhlman (412) 361-0873 • www.pittsburgharts.org 4200 Fifth Avenue, 15260 Open Tues. through Sat., 9 AM to 5 PM; Agnes Lynch Starrett (412) 624-6000 • www.pitt.edu/~natrooms/ Sun., Noon to 5 PM. Call for guided tours. Margaret M. Winters Open Wed. through Sat., 10 AM to 5 PM 11 TIMES BUILDING Open Sun., Noon to 5 PM The Nationality Rooms are open to the public; call for guided tours. Margaret M. Winters Frederick J. Osterling, 1892 Rachel Pears McClelland Sutton Ruth Crawford Mitchell 346 Fourth Avenue, 15222 Frances Van Arsdale Skinner Elise Mercur Wagner