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
Thursday, September 09, 2010
By Candy Woodall, freelance
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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Summer may be winding down but Ray Dougherty already is preparing for next season at McKees Point Marina ... Read More
By Bill Zlatos PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW Monday, July 12, 2010 [caption id="attachment_6459" align="alignnone" width="150" caption="Underpass Artwork: The Norfolk & Southern Railroad underpass at Federal Street on the North Side has been proposed to be a public space gallery featuring murals and other artwork. Philip G. Pavely | Tribune-Review"]... Read More
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By F.A. Krift TRIBUNE-REVIEW Friday, June 13, 2008 For Mark Bibro, the Hot Metal Bridge is more than a way to get to opposite shores of the Monongahela River.The Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation chairman says it's a symbol of Pittsburgh's industrial past, and a connection point for the city's ... Read More
Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation, Governor Edward G. Rendell, and Mayor Luke Ravenstahl invite you to join us in lighting the portals of the historic Hot Metal Bridge, which spans the Monongahela river at the South Side Works. Time: 8:15 p.m. Meeting Location: Meet at the South Side Works at Hot Metal ... Read More
BILL LIEPINIS CalTimes May 1, 2008 For many at California University of Pennsylvania, it may seem like the changes of every semester include a new construction project on campus. Whether it’s been the demolition of Binns Hall, Longanecker or Duda Hall, the construction of Carter Hall, Booker Towers and the new Duda ... Read More
By Ron DaParma TRIBUNE-REVIEW Monday, April 28, 2008 The Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation is tackling another building rescue project in Market Square, with the aim to further a transformation already under way in the historic Downtown public square.The South Side preservationist organization announced today it will take on ... Read More
By Diana Nelson Jones, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Monday, April 28, 2008 The Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation has joined forces with N&P Properties to control the development of almost a block of buildings on Market Street, between Fifth Avenue and Market Square, Downtown. Two five-story buildings in that block are ... Read More
By Ron DaParma
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
The Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation is forming a new nonprofit corporation to expand its activities in neighborhood and urban revitalization.
Mark Bibro, chairman of the South Side-based preservationist organization, announced Monday the ... Read More
By Mary Pickels
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Friday, July 20, 2007
Four area schools of higher education will share in a $200,000 Getty Foundation grant aimed at preserving the individual campuses' historic buildings and landscapes.
Each of the four schools -- Seton Hill University, ... Read More
Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation announced today it has received a Campus Heritage grant from the Getty Foundation. It will enable Landmarks to undertake conservation planning studies of buildings and landscapes of four major Western Pennsylvania colleges and universities: Seton Hill, Washington and Jefferson, Indiana U. of PA, and California ... Read More
PHLF News October 31, 2006 "Preservation In Pittsburgh" Keynote address of Arthur P. Ziegler, Jr. at the 2006 National Preservation Conference held in Pittsburgh, PA, October 31, 2006 Read More
Pilot project illuminates buildings' facades on East Carson Street Sunday, September 04, 2005 By Mark Belko, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette For the South Side, Light-Up Night will come Thursday. That's when the facade of Maul Building, a prominent East Carson Street structure, will be illuminated for the first time under a pilot project to highlight significant ... Read More
March 3, 2005 Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation’s $2,000 grant to South Side Local Development Company (SSLDC) launched the inaugural East Carson Street Architectural Lighting Program. The two buildings to be lighted this year are the historic Maul Building at 1700 East Carson Street and the handsome Bridge Cafe at 2302-2304 ... Read More
By Dave Copeland TRIBUNE-REVIEW Monday, October 6, 2003 It was an honest mistake: In one of the first dozen or so articles I wrote for the Trib, I inadvertently called the Roberto Clemente Bridge the "Sixth Street Bridge." Twenty or so phone calls and several e-mail messages later, I had learned a valuable lesson ... Read More
By Tom Barnes, Post-Gazette Staff Writer Friday, November 22, 2002 Charlie Magnus, a 28-year lineman with Duquesne Light Co., flipped a switch last night that lit up a big blue company logo on the northern end of the Roberto Clemente Bridge That triggered a 10-minute fireworks extravaganza featuring colored rockets exploding into the ... Read More
Pittsburgh- Duquesne Light Provided a luminous new addition to Pittsburgh's Dynamic nighttime skyline this evening when the company officially turned on an architectural lighting system for the Roberto Clemente Bridge. "This project serves as a shining symbol of our commitment to the region and is an important addition to the ongoing ... Read More
By Tom Barnes, Post-Gazette Staff Writer Friday, August 23, 2002 Work will begin Monday on an elaborate $500,000 plan to illuminate the Roberto Clemente Bridge, one of three "sister bridges" that span the Allegheny River between Downtown and the North Shore. Duquesne Light Co. is providing funding to devise and install the wiring ... Read More
December 10, 2001 Pittsburgh, Pa. . . . . Duquesne Light, the Electric Distribution Company for Pittsburgh, PA, USA, announced in November 2001 a major grant to INTA member Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation (Landmarks) to design and install a lighting system for the first of 13 downtown bridges, the Roberto ... Read More
Tuesday, December 04, 2001 Pittsburgh Post Gazette Shedding light -- literally -- on Pittsburgh's bridges is not a new idea. In 1929, on the 50th anniversary of the light bulb, Duquesne Light Co. illuminated bridges here. In 1990, the old Greater Pittsburgh Office of Promotion conducted a bridge lighting demonstration project on parts ... Read More
Wednesday, November 28, 2001 By Mike Bucsko, Post-Gazette Staff Writer Duquesne Light Co. yesterday agreed to pay for decorative lighting on the Roberto Clemente Bridge. It's the first of what the city hopes will be a long line of benefactors paying to light more than a dozen bridges that line Pittsburgh's three rivers ... Read More
11/27/2001 Tribune Review Preservationists, planners and business leaders will gather at the center of the Roberto Clemente Bridge at 11 a.m. today to discuss a joint effort to illuminate the city's bridges. "I think it's just sort of a grand, picturesque scenario," said Rod Frantz, acting manager of the new Bridge Lighting Initiative. ... Read More
11/23/2001 Tribune Review City of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County officials say they'll shed a little light next week on their plan to shine some light on the Roberto Clemente Bridge. The bridge is one of three bright yellow ``sister'' bridges linking Downtown to the North Side, and the closest of the three to ... Read More
Friday, June 15, 2001 By Diana Nelson Jones, Post-Gazette Staff Writer Arthur Ziegler and his staff have been discussing colorful bridges for a couple of years. Now, may the public debate begin. The president of the Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation has suggested that bridges be painted a variety of vibrant colors when ... Read More
By Tom Barnes, Post-Gazette Staff Writer Wednesday, November 20, 2002 Downtown Pittsburgh is about to get significantly brighter, as new lighting bursts onto the scene tomorrow and Friday nights. For 10 minutes starting at 6:45 p.m. tomorrow, fireworks will explode from the Roberto Clemente Bridge, marking the debut of the long-anticipated lighting of ... Read More
