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Preservation Magazine OnlineSeries 1 | Bibiliography Howard Gilman Wilbert (1891-1966), Pittsburgh: Nave windows, from windows designed and made 1939-62 for the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer; E. Donald Robb, for Frohman, Robb & Little, architects Photographs of stained glass windows by Glenn Lewis © 2009/glennlewisimages.com. Text copyright © 2007 ... Read More
Series 1 | Bibiliography Henry Wynd Young (1874-1923), New York: “Christ Enthroned,” c. 1922, Chapel chancel window in East Liberty Presbyterian Church; Ralph Adams Cram for Cram & Ferguson. Window originally installed in a transept of the previous building, Longfellow, Alden & Harlow (1886-88), architects Photograph ... Read More
Series 1 | Bibiliography George W. Sotter (1879-1953), Pittsburgh: St. Matthew and St. John, 1914-15, Synod Hall; Edward J. Weber, architect Photographs of St. Matthew and St. John and text copyright © 2007 Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation The invention of opalescent glass and the “painterly” approach ... Read More
Series 1 | Bibiliography Leo Thomas (1876-1950) for George Boos (1859-1937), Munich, Germany: Chancel window and detail of transept angel, 1910-11, St. Paul’s Roman Catholic Church, Butler, Pa., John T. Comes, architect; “Tu Es Petrus” and St. George, 1911-12, St. George’s Roman Catholic Church; Herman J. Lang, ... Read More
Series 1 | Bibiliography Mary Elizabeth Tillinghast (1845-1912), New York: Urania, 1903, Allegheny Observatory; T. E. Billquist, architect Photographs and text copyright © 2007 Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation The Allegheny Observatory, established in 1859 and given in 1867 to Western University of Pennsylvania (later the University ... Read More
Series 1 | Bibiliography Henry Hunt (1867-1951) for Leake & Greene (1889-1906), Pittsburgh: Window, 1895-96, Hawthorne Avenue Presbyterian Church, Crafton, Pa.; Boyd & Long, architects Photographs and text copyright © 2007 Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation Peripatetic in arrival and swift and enigmatic in departure best characterizes the ... Read More
Series 1 | Bibiliography Ludwig Grosse (1862-1917), Pittsburgh: Robert S. Johnston Memorial, 1892, Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd, Hazelwood; William Halsey Wood, architect Photographs and text copyright © 2007 Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation Most of the finer productions in stained and mosaic glass used in this ... Read More
Series 1 | Bibiliography Alfred Godwin (1850-1934), Philadelphia: Harvest window, 1883?/1892 and Library window 1892, Clayton, Henry Clay Frick residence; Andrew W. Peebles (1882) and F. J. Osterling (1890-92), renovation architects Text and photograph of Library window copyright © 2007 Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation. Photograph of Clayton ... Read More
Frank Lloyd Wright and an admirer, Bruno Zevi, were in front of Santa Maria delle Salute in Venice. Wright said, "Bruno that’s a good church." It had a wooden dome with fake wooden buttresses, it had pediments, it had pilasters. "But Mr. Wright, you don’t ... Read More
Fourth Avenue still contains a few "swagger banks," with facades contrived to give a small-but-O-My! impression even though the properties are diminutive. One of these is Number 337, now the Pittsburgh Engineers’ Building, once the Union Trust Company, a work of 1898 ... Read More
The Conestoga Building stands at Wood Street and Fort Pitt Boulevard, a work of about 1890 by Longfellow, Alden & Harlow. It has a steel frame within solid masonry walls, and its ground-floor openings have a detail that is enlivening in an almost subliminal way. The openings are squarish, and ... Read More
When you live in a building element that takes the form of a tower, you can imagine yourself in a castle if you wish—if you can keep objectivity at bay. A party-wall castle with a front porch, after all, merely suggests a dwelling with ... Read More
George B. Post’s Bank of Pittsburgh (1895) adhered to the Temple of Finance cliché in full, with a hexastyle Corinthian order boldly confronting Fourth Avenue. When the bank as a whole came down in 1944, replaced by nothing more than a parking lot, the architect ... Read More
We are not really sure what happened at 5510 Centre Avenue, but the story seems to go like this. Someone had an old house, dating from the 1860s to judge from the concave sides of its mansard and gambrel roofs. It stood back from ... Read More
Go to Forbes Avenue behind Warner Centre on a bright morning around 10 o’clock, and look toward Fourth Avenue: splendid architecture rises before you, the upper flourishes of tall buildings as these were conceived in the 1900s. Here is a variety of capitals in the old base-shaft-capital formula of tall-building ... Read More
A view down Ellsworth Avenue, when the trees are bare, gives quite a Gothic impression. Closest is the more or less Tudor tower of the Episcopal Church of the Ascension, 1898, by the brilliant and short-lived Halsey Wood. Gothic was not really inspiring to Wood; he liked to fantasize in ... Read More
The Eclectic period, from 1900 to 1940 say, witnessed a good bit of excess, not surprisingly since architecture as a whole was pretty histrionic. One has the impression, looking back, that architects, clients, and developers egged each other on and that the sense ... Read More
"Shingle Style" is a label invented by Vincent Scully, and the New England and Philadelphia examples he chose for his book of that name tend to be bold and sculptural, the shingles giving texture and sparkle to towers and other sweeping, curved forms. But ... Read More
Walter C. Kidney December, 2001 "Vernacular," granted, is an awkward term: four-syllabled, academic, viewing the subject from outside and above. But is may be the best word we have. In an Old World context, we would speak of "folk architecture." To build in te vernacular is to respond to an objectively-stated building ... Read More
Walter C. Kidney December, 2001 Recently, Landmarks called renewed attention to Sacred Heart Church, in Shadyside, by holding its Awards of Merit ceremony there and by giving one Award to the Church itself. Begun in 1924 and with church construction finished in 1954, Sacred Heart virtually signaled the end of the Eclectic period ... Read More
by James Van Trump Nowadays problems and uncertain prospects abound in the city of Man, to say nothing of our particular city here where the rivers join. There is scarcely a day when the most pressing of questions are not asked, questions having to do with our life and our survival, ... Read More