Pittsburgh has a wealth of historic buildings. How these buildings are historically designated and whether these buildings are protected by their designations varies depending on the type of designation. This primer provides a brief overview of the various historic designations of buildings and districts throughout Pittsburgh. National Historic Landmarks: Brings Benefits ... Read More
Thursday, February 10, 2011 By Karen Kane, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Grant to Help Return Saxonburg Main Street to 1850s Saxonburg's Main Street program manager says he's feeling "pretty blessed" by the news last month that the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation had come through with a $1.4 million grant. The money was both needed ... Read More
Tuesday, February 08, 2011 By Len Barcousky, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Deal Reached to Save Historic Franklin County House A history-loving physician has worked out a deal to save an 18th century home in Mercersburg. Dr. Paul Orange said today the William Smith House will be taken apart piece by piece over the next ... Read More
Tuesday, February 08, 2011
By Brian O'Neill, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Around Town: Point of Realism Interferes With Preserving Arena
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Saturday, February 05, 2011 By Len Barcousky, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Picketing Planned to Save Historic Mercersburg House When the British government failed to protect their homes and farms, residents of Pennsylvania's Conococheague Valley gathered in 1765 at a house in what is now Mercersburg to organize themselves into a militia. That historic house ... Read More
By Bill Vidonic PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW Thursday, February 3, 2011 Former City Councilman Sala Udin was among the 8,000 residents and businesses in the lower Hill District who were displaced in the 1950s for construction of the Civic Arena. On Wednesday, he urged Pittsburgh's Historic Review Commission to reject a push to grant ... Read More
Thursday, February 03, 2011 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The Historic Review Commission Wednesday approved demolition of the original ice house at the Iron City Brewing Co. in Lawrenceville, one of a collection of buildings on the site that has the city's protection of historic status. The one-story building, which sits behind the original brewhouse, is ... Read More
Panel considering historic designation for Hill landmark Thursday, February 03, 2011 By Mark Belko, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette [caption id="attachment_8722" align="alignright" width="160" caption="John Oyler, right, an engineer, talks Wednesday about how important the Civic Arena is as an example of structural engineering because it was done in the days before computer design. Speaking before the ... Read More
By Bill Vidonic PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW Thursday, February 3, 2011 The city's Historic Review Commission will allow the president of Iron City Brewing Co. to tear down a dilapidated building at its former Lawrenceville production site. The commission on Wednesday said Tim Hickman should provide it with photographs and other documentation of the ... Read More
By Craig Smith PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW Wednesday, February 2, 2011 [caption id="attachment_8663" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Arthur Ziegler, president of the Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation, surveys Fifth Avenue, Downtown, part of an area his group has earmarked for more redevelopment like its Market at Fifth project. The foundation is awaiting word on whether ... Read More
Thursday, January 13, 2011 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The Denis Theatre Foundation on Wednesday named Valerie Golik, the former executive director of The Pittsburgh Philharmonic, as its new executive director. She replaces board member Jennifer Smokelin, who has served as interim director since the fall. "We are delighted that Valerie is joining the Denis Theatre Foundation," ... Read More
Tuesday, January 11, 2011 By Mark Belko, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Discount grocer Aldi appears to be headed to the East End as part of the redevelopment of a former car dealership. Michigan-based Warner Pacific Properties is expected to brief the city planning commission today about its plans to convert the Day Automotive dealership into ... Read More
Commission worries demolition will hamper future development at the historic Lawrenceville landmark Monday, January 10, 2011 By Diana Nelson Jones, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette [caption id="attachment_8410" align="alignleft" width="330" caption="The pipe shop portion of the closed Iron City Brewery is falling apart at the Lawrenceville landmark, on which the city has bestowed historic status. Bill ... Read More
Thursday, January 06, 2011 By Mark Belko, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The Civic Arena has won a bit of a lifeline. A bid to protect the 49-year-old landmark from demolition got a boost Wednesday when the city's historic review commission gave preliminary approval to its nomination as a city historic structure. The 5-1 vote clears the ... Read More
Pittsburgh City Paper For the Week of 01.05.2011 / 01.12.2011 BY ANDREW MOORE [caption id="attachment_8390" align="alignleft" width="500" caption="Jonnet Solomon-Nowlin - Steelpan Drum Instructor, owner of The National Opera House in Lincoln-Lemington - Brian Kaldorf"]... Read More
Friday, December 24, 2010 By Diana Nelson Jones, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette [caption id="attachment_8386" align="alignleft" width="500" caption="Julia Tomasic of the Carrick-Overbrook Historical Society is trying to save the last great Victorian home in Carrick, at 1425 Brownsville Road, by nominating it for historic status. Bob Donaldson/Post-Gazette"]... Read More
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Wednesday, January 05, 2011 05:00 AM *Open Letters is a place where the letters to the editor published by the Post-Gazette are offered up for broader comment and discussion. The late 19th-century Queen Anne Victorian house on Brownsville Road in Carrick ("Some in Carrick Strive to Save Victorian House," Dec. ... Read More
Tuesday, January 04, 2011 By Sally Kalson, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Downtown Pittsburgh is a more diverse and dynamic place than it was just seven years ago -- more residents, more students and workers, more people riding bikes and running. That's the conclusion of Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership President Michael Edwards, based on the group's new ... Read More
Sunday, December 26, 2010 By Mark Belko, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The city is looking to brighten up some "dark corners" Downtown. Aided by a $4 million state redevelopment assistance grant, the Urban Redevelopment Authority hopes to target rundown buildings Downtown and work with property owners to upgrade them. The project is designed to supplement a ... Read More
Ben Muessig AOL News (Dec. 2) -- Preservationists outside Pittsburgh are fighting to put an abandoned steel mill back to work -- not so it can produce metal, but so it can protect history. Since the blast furnaces fired up for the last time at the Carrie Furnace in 1978, the decaying steel ... Read More
December 16, 2010 PENNSYLVANIA AT RISK 2010 ANNOUNCED Preservation Pennsylvania announces the annual listing of the Commonwealth’s most endangered historic resources. Preservation Pennsylvania, a statewide non-profit historic preservation group, released its annual Pennsylvania At Risk list today, which highlights 11 endangered resources. Pennsylvania At Risk serves as a representative sampling of the Commonwealth’s ... Read More
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Wednesday, December 15, 2010
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The Urban Redevelopment Authority has agreed to lease--with an option to sell--the 130,000-square-foot Fruit Auction Terminal Produce Building on Smallman Street in the Strip District. The ... Read More
Pittsburgh Business Times - by Tim Schooley Date: Thursday, December 9, 2010, 10:27am EST In a bid to spark a transformational wave of development in the Strip District, Pittsburgh’s Urban Redevelopment Authority will vote on a plan to beat a path to the Allegheny riverfront this week through the red brick walls ... Read More
Thursday, December 09, 2010 By Margaret Smykla The public put its money where its mouth was during a public meeting last week about the future of the South Park Fairgrounds. Everyone in the audience was given $500 in fake money to play a kind of board game, placing the "money" on an element ... Read More
By Jeremy Boren PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW Wednesday, December 1, 2010 Pittsburgh could be deep into summer by the time an effort to save the Civic Arena is settled. The Historic Review Commission is expected Jan. 5 to review a nomination to dub the 49-year-old, silver-domed arena a historic structure, a designation that would ... Read More
By Matthew Santoni PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW Thursday, December 2, 2010 A cluster of former fairground buildings along Brownsville Road in South Park could get a green makeover, under three plans officials presented Wednesday night as part of Allegheny County's effort to revitalize the park. Titled the "modified," "campus" and "picturesque" concept plans, each ... Read More
By Matthew Santoni PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW Tuesday, November 30, 2010 Allegheny County officials will show off plans for upgrading the South Park Fairgrounds and surrounding areas Wednesday, after months of meetings and public input on what to do with the aging site of the defunct county fair. Three plans center around improving pedestrian ... Read More
PHLF News November 17, 2010 Preserve Pittsburgh, a component of PlanPGH (www.planpgh.com) is discussing cultural heritage and historic preservation, specifically the draft recommendations for the PreservePGH component of PLANPGH. PLANPGH is pittsburgh's first ever comprehensive plan--it will be the gameplan for the City's growth over the next 25 years. The goal of ... Read More
Saturday, November 13, 2010 By Kevin Kirkland, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette [caption id="attachment_7705" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="The city's Urban Redevelopment Authority has foreclosed and put on the market four buildings -- 1600, 1601, 1602 and 1619 Broadway Ave. == with hopes of enticing developers to invest in this business district and begin its turnaround. ... Read More
Wednesday, November 10, 2010 Pop City Media Wilkinsburg's main commercial district on Penn Avenue suffers from a 38% vacancy rate, but a $25,000 grant from State Representative Joseph Preston Jr. to the Wilkinsburg Community Development Corporation is the most recent achievement for the growing two year old organization hard at ... Read More
Saturday, November 06, 2010
By Marylynne Pitz, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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Friday, November 05, 2010 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The Washington County Commissioners have approved a $971,000 federal grant application to refurbish the Fredericktown Ferry, better known as Fred, which links two tiny towns separated by the Monongahela River. Fayette County officials signed off on the application last year. The Port of Pittsburgh Commission recommended repairing the ... Read More
Friday, November 05, 2010 By Len Barcousky, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Paul Orange hasn't given up hope that he will be able to buy and relocate the historic William Smith House in Mercersburg, despite a setback Thursday. The house is on land owned by the MMP&W Volunteer Fire Co., which acquired the property in 2009 ... Read More
By Tony LaRussa
PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Thursday, November 4, 2010
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