Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation 450 The Landmarks Building One Station Square Pittsburgh, PA 15219 Number 97 Spring 1986 1986 Work Plan and Priorities The Preservation Fund: A Restoration Opportunity Education News & Events Preview Iooâing Alteød: 1986 Work Plan and Priorities -.¡L We are well into the new year and have papers on the strip District and land iÎ[lI¡,'- many exciting projects underway and in use in the Golden Triangle and on the the planning stages. Thefollowing opposite riverfront areas (see Winter orticle highlights what we hope to 1985-8ó issue). accomplßh in seven major program As a result of the publication of areos, Inndmark Architecture: Pittsburgh and Allegheny County, we are keeping a Tuø PnnsnnYATroN tuND close eye on the life - and fate of Our priority this year is to augment the more than 460 significant sites- the Preservation Fund and inform described in the guide section. Allegheny County neighborhood groups, preservation organizations and Hrcroruc Pnopønrrgs individuals of the Fund's purpose and Landmarks is either directly respon- potential. Through the Preservation sible for, or closely associated with, six ..1.í Fund, Landmarks is able to provide historic properties in Allegheny loans and technical assistance to County: the Neville House and \üy'alker- groups or individuals in Allegheny Ewing property, both in Collier Town- County so that endangered historic ship; the Rachel Ca¡son Homestead in Susan Donley, director of educatíon, describes thel-andmark Survivors exhibit to Pittsburgh buildings can be restored. The Fund, Springdale; the Neill Log House in Public School teachers. managed by Lowe, Stanley is our most Schenley Park; Old St. Luke s in Scott printing an education brochure an- al celebration of the Allegheny County effective and fl exible preservation Township; and the Burtner House in nouncing our program opportunities; Courthouse in 1988. resource. Harrison Township. please call education director Susan This year, through'previous or This year we are beginning a long- Donley if you would like us to send one Musnupts current loans from the Fund, work on range planning effort in cooperation to you. We are back in the museum business the (North Hollander Building Side), with the Neville House Auxiliary, This year, approximately one dozen with the recent opening of the Station Rachel Carson (Spring- Homestead Colonial Dames of America, and an schools will work with our two travel- Square Transportation Museum (see dale), and Dickson Log (Ben House advisory committee (see page 4) which ing exhibits, Architecture: The Building page 3), and we continue to discuss Avon) is continuing. will lead to a thorough understanding Art and Landmark Survivors; 60 ideas on a staff level for a major More recently, loans were approved of the Neville House s 200-year history teachers will be trained in techniques educational,/cultural facility at Station to aid in the restoration and re-use of and a plan for its interior restoration for exploring and researching the Square relating to the history of Pittsburgl (North St. Mary's Priory Side), and to and continuing use. history of Pittsburgh and local com- ensure the replacement of the roof and The Neill Log House is to be more munities; 25 students and teachers will Spøct¿r Pnopos,qts steeple of the New Bethel Missionary year, attractively landscaped this participate in our summer workshop Providing we receive the necessary Baptist Church (Lawrenceville). Each thanks to the interest and involvement Pittsburgh Heritøge, and many funding support and project approval of these projects is described further of the Seeders and Weeders Garden hundreds'of members and friends will from various state and local organiza- on page 5 of this issue. Club, and the historic log house will be benefit from our tour, lecture, and tions, we will follow-through with: In February, we sent a special mail- open again for guided tours this special event programs. ing to members requesting their sup- o A thematic survey of the architecture summer, thanks to the continuing We are particularly pleased to port of the Preservation Fund. of Frederick G. Scheibler, We have volunteer involvement of the Junior announce that the Pennsylvania Jr. to already received many contributions establish the full scope Scheibler's Iæague of Pittsburgh. Humanities Council and the Allegheny of and plan to acknowledge gifts significance and to promote preserva- these in Funds are being raised for a new Conference on Community Develop- the next issue of PFIZF News. tion of the unique resources he created, educational facility for the Rachel ment are funding the creation of a Thank you! a number of which are endangered. Carson Homestead (see page 5), and summer institute for teachers (see page The survey would be conducted we continue to offer assistance and 7) titled "Hands-On History: An in Allegheny, Greene, Westmoreland, Scnn¡tunv P¿nr restoration guidance to the auxiliaries Introduction to Classroom Methods and Montgomery Counties. What began as an idea of staff of the Burtner House and Old St. for L,ocal History Research." Seventy- r A thematic survey of industrial sites member Christina Schmidlapp after Luke s who are making excellent five teachers and members will be and resources associated with the steel her completion of the Schenley Park progress. Providing we can secure invited to attend a five-day institute in industry as it developed and flourished National Register nomination is now a funding, we very much want to restore August where professionals in the in the Pittsburgh region between c. major staff effort, involving the City of the Victorian farmhouse on the fields of oral history, folklore, archival 1845 and c. 1945. Pittsburgh, the Western Pennsylvania Walker-Ewing property. The log house resources, and architecture will be . The publication of Pillsburgh Conservancy, the Sculptural Heritage is already handsomely restored and presenting lectures and workshop in Your Pocket: Society, and park consultants from maintained as a residence. activities. A Pocket Guide to Pittsburgh Areq Architecture, which would include other cities. The goal of the Schenley In our publications department as architectural/historical information on Park Restoration Project is to raise Eouc¿rtoN elsewhere our many ideas are only- approximately 50 sites, 40 photo- funds so the significant landscape After one year of operation, the limited by -our funding resources. How- graphs, and a guide map. features, buildings, and monuments of concept of a revolving fund for educa- ever, we do hope to publish an oral ¡ The nomination of the Penn-Liberty Pittsburgh's great urban park can be tion is proving a success. Esta.blished history based on the life of Sarah Historic District to the restored and an effective maintenance through a generous grant from the Evosevich, owner of the Yugoslavian National Register of Historic Places and com- program implemented. We are using Claude Worthington Benedum Foun- restaurant on the South Side. Sarah, pletion of required marketing and the Park's centennial in 1989 as a focal dation, and annually supported by dedicated in memory of Bosanka economic feasibility studies and point for the restoration project. Phase several private foundations, the Educa- (Sarah's daughter and a former Trustee detailed financial pro-formas. I is now fully funded (see page 8) and tion Revolving Fund includes our tour, of Landmarks), is an incredible ¡ The implementation of Phase II of the we are making excellent progress and lecturg publications, and student,/ account of an immigrant's life in Neill [,og House tour program to focus receiving strong public support for teacher workshops for members and Pittsburgh from the 1930s to the pres- public attention and use on the this project. the general public. (See page 3 ent. historic resource in Schenley Park. Events; see pages 6 andT Educs-- We also will be continuing our fund- Aot oc¿cY AND ANALYSß tion). Our primary goal this- year is to raising effort in support of the publica- This year is a busy one, and we hope It is impossible to predict what inform public and private schools tion by James D. Van Trump tilled Two to accomplish these projects and others building issues we will become involved throughout Allegheny County, as well Centuries of l¿gal Architecture in which occur to us as a result of a \,r'ith this year, but we know that we will as community groups, of Landmarks' Allegheny County which we hope to member's phone call or local preser- continue to promote our position educational resources. We will soon be release on the occasion of the centenni- vation need. I Page 2 PHLF News Spring 1986 NTE\MS lWe/corne New Menzbers Pønnins for Gold Paul D. Adomites Janet K. Lubon -1935 Robert D. Anthony, Jr. Carole Maistros Architectural References to Pittsburgh: 1905 Jan Barson David J. Malone Il/ølter C. Kidney Martha L. Berg Mr. & Mrs. R.A. McConnell Kathy Berger Sally McGinnis The Berger Family Richard C. Michels Deborah Jeanne Bickel Catherine L. Murphy Mrs. C.J. Bohlo Mr. & Mrs. James W. Myers Paula Brodsky Pat Nysewander Helen Beedle Campbell Carole Olup Karen Stewart Davis Mr. & Mrs. Norman E. Perssoh Mr. & Mrs. Theodore C. Diller Marian Peterman Al Frioni, Jr. Ellen Poese Helen Gudalis William Polachek, Jr. Susan D. Heide Margaret T. Robison Lois M. Hoffman Julia B. Rots Alma Johnson Louis Schorsch Moody Johnson Carol Slagle As temporary archivist for Landmarks, I Tl¡e Mellon Institate in ø rendering of c. Pamela Jubera Rosemary Tanney groups neuer executed. Donna L. Killmer Nancy Trice recently had the task and the privilege of 193J, witl¡ scu/þtural Frances Stein Kotler John Trubic combing through the 560 architectural (This is a detail from a full-page ad for James M. Lavine Washington & Jefferson College magazines recently donated to us by Roger Na t io nøl Radia tor C orp ora tion, w hic lt "wørmed" David A.