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Preservation Magazine OnlineMonday, December 14, 2009 4:00 p.m., Carnegie Library Lecture Hall, Oakland Two-minute remarks presented by Louise Sturgess, Executive Director Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation During the Great Depression, the hours of all Carnegie branch libraries were extended and no branch libraries were closed. That fact can inspire all of us in our efforts to keep ... Read More
Jack Miller PHLF News November 12, 2009 KDKA Radio and Television personality Larry Richert and more than 300 guests were on hand at the Sheraton at Station Square on November 11 to honor the Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation as the region’s 2009 Outstanding Philanthropic Organization. Landmarks President Arthur P. Ziegler, Jr. accepted the ... Read More
PHLF News November 5, 2009 Of the seven apartments at Market at Fifth, four are leased, a studio with a study is currently available, and two of two-story penthouse apartments with expansive roof decks overlooking our green and growing roof with wonderful views of the architecture of downtown Pittsburgh are still available. ... Read More
PHLF News
November 3, 2009
The National Housing & Rehabilitation Association (NH&RA) recently presented its 2009 J. Timothy Anderson Awards for Excellence in Historic Rehabilitation to ten outstanding historic rehabilitation ... Read More
PHLF News October 30, 2009 About 135 middle and high school students from 17 Westmoreland County schools are participating in the 14th Annual Architectural Design Challenge, sponsored by the Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation (PHLF) and offered in 2009-10 in cooperation with the Greater Monessen Historical Society (GMHS). During orientation sessions in Monessen ... Read More
PHLF News October 29, 2009 On October 28th, Landmarks received $152,000 from the sale of Heathside Cottage in Fineview. The building and its preservation easement were donated to us in 2000 and a life interest in the property was donated in 2008. Proceeds from the sale will be used to endow that easement and ... Read More
PHLF News October 28, 2009 Landmarks Community Capital Corporation ("LCCC"), at the request of Robert Morris University ("RMU") led a group of European professionals on study fellowships through the German Marshall Fund ("GMP"), on a visit to East Liberty. The Washington-based GMP was created with German funding in recognition of the US ... Read More
PHLF News October 27, 2009 The Mexican War Streets Society reported receipt of the Community Greening Award from the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society for Mechanics Retreat Park in that neighborhood. The Park was originally created with gifts from our late Chairman Charles Arensberg, John Craig, and PHLF and the Mexican War Streets Society. Congratulations ... Read More
PHLF News October 23, 2009 Heinz Healey’s men’s store and Nettleton Shoes now occupy the retail space at Market at Fifth. Their handsome stores opened in time for the G-20 and sales have been brisk. We are receiving many compliments both on the appearance of the restoration of the buildings and on the quality ... Read More
PHLF News October 23, 2009 Construction is now moving forward with our Housing Resource Center to be located in an area of the Packard Building in Wilkinsburg that we acquired with a grant from the Hillman Foundation several years ago. The Center is being developed with grant funds from the Allegheny Foundation, a ... Read More
PHLF News October 23, 2009 Property owners in Freeport, Leechburg, and Apollo will have a new incentive to make capital improvements to their buildings now that a tax abatement program has been approved in the three boroughs. The Freeport Leechburg Apollo Group worked with Freeport, Leechburg, and Apollo boroughs, Freeport Area school board, ... Read More
by Jack Miller PHLF News October 21, 2009 Reduced-price tickets are still available through Landmarks for the Western PA Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals' National Philanthropy Day Celebration on Wednesday, November 11, from 5:30 – 8:30 p.m. at the Sheraton Hotel in Station Square. Landmarks has been named AFP' s 2009 Outstanding Philanthropic ... Read More
PHLF News October 19, 2009 This popular guided tour will feature restored Victorian homes plus the historic Calvary United Methodist Church, famous for its beautiful Louis Tiffany stained glass windows. Also, visit one of the world’s largest toy train museums—a private collection of hundreds of colorful train sets from the early 20th ... Read More
PHLF News October 12, 2009 The historic Mann’s Hotel in McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, located at 23 Singer Avenue was demolished in the early hours of October 10, 2009. The hotel was built in the early 1800s and functioned as a hostelry for many years. The Mann family Ted and Karen Suslovic-Mann ... Read More
PHLF News October 6, 2009- It’s hard to miss Ray Voyten’s newly restored building in downtown Leechburg; during the day, passersby can take in a variety of improvements to the building; new awnings, new doors and windows, freshly cleaned bricks, and more. At night, the building’s façade is cast in a warm ... Read More
by Louise Sturgess PHLF News September 12, 2009 Dollar Bank Lions: Photos and Story From about 8:15 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, September 12, 2009, PHLF Executive Director Louise Sturgess photographed the process of removing the 139-year-old Dollar Bank lions from their pedestals in front of the venerable Fourth Avenue and Smithfield ... Read More
by Jack Miller PHLF News August 13, 2009 Landmarks’ 2009 Heritage Society reception and cruise will take place on the Gateway Clipper Fleet’s Princess on Tuesday, September 15 from 6:15 – 8:15 p.m. The event will honor 2008/09 donors of at least $1,000 and individuals who have included Landmarks in their estate plan or ... Read More
by Louise Sturgess
PHLF News
August 12, 2009
Elisa Beck, who is related by marriage to the the family who owns the building where Schwartz Market is located at 1317 E. Carson Street, always made a point of serving as ... Read More
PHLF News Al Tannler August 12, 2009 The Historic Pittsburgh website (digital.library.pitt.edu/pittsburgh) has added another resource to its inventory of historical ... Read More
By Michael Sriprasert
PHLF News
August 5, 2009
Landmarks recently completed a comprehensive list of GIS (geographic information system) maps depicting a number of important data sets in Wilkinsburg.
These data sets include: the level of tax delinquency of ... Read More
by Michael Sriprasert PHLF News August 5, 2009 Starting this Fall, students from the Heinz School will be working with PHLF to refine its strategy for housing developments in Hamnett Place. Their analysis will include determining the target market segment and their value drivers for both fully restored homes and shell/rehab properties, a new ... Read More
by Michael Sriprasert
PHLF News
August 5, 2009
With loan funds provided by Landmarks Community Capital Corporation through the State’s Neighborhood Partnership Program, and in partnership with TriState Capital Bank, Jean of Jean’s Southern Cuisine will be improving her ... Read More
by Michael Sriprasert
PHLF News
August 5, 2009
The Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency recently awarded PHLF tax credits for the Crescent Apartments project, a 27-unit restoration development of two historic structures in the Hamnett Place neighborhood ... Read More
by David Farkas
PHLF News
August 5, 2009
The Vandergrift Farmers Market is enjoying its biggest season in its four-year history.
The Farmers Market has doubled the number of vendors from last season, adding products such as eggs and ... Read More
PHLF received a record number of applications this year from college-bound high-school students in Allegheny County, and awarded a record number of scholarships. Six winners were selected out of 68 applications, bringing the total number of Landmarks Scholarship recipients to 35 people since the program's inception in 1999. PHLF trustee and ... Read More
Thanks to a grant from The Fine Foundation, PHLF offered a 3-credit summer workshop for teachers designed to give them the knowledge and resources they need to adapt a curriculum unit to their school or community in a way that builds student pride, achievement, and character. Click here to see ... Read More
Join us for a bus tour on Friday, September 4 (9:15 a.m. to 1:15 p.m.) to two major Pittsburgh studios that trace their origins to the early years of the stained glass craft in the city.
Nicholas Parrendo, a recent recipient of ... Read More
Beginning on Saturday, September 5, PHLF will lead afternoon walking tours of 10 city mainstreets in cooperation with the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh and Mainstreets Pittsburgh.
Each week features a different mainstreet. Tours are from 2:00 to ... Read More
By Louise Sturgess
PHLF News
August 4, 2009
Each month at Noon our expert guides who know and love Pittsburgh lead free walking tours of specific urban areas.
Join us on a Friday in August to explore Fourth ... Read More
By Jack Miller
PHLF News
August 4, 2009
Charles Evans Hunnell has donated a preservation and conservation easement to Landmarks that will protect his 136-acre farm located just west of Waynesburg, PA.
The easement ... Read More
PHLF welcomes college and graduate students as volunteer interns throughout the year––and we are fortunate to have each one of them helping with educational programs, preservation activities, photography, and research. Recently, we have been especially fortunate to have Evan Regan-Levine (Georgetown University), Kelley Folts (Virginia Tech), Erin Shilling (Oakbridge Academy of ... Read More
PHLF News
August 3, 2009
The City of Pittsburgh, in an effort to reduce the number of vacant or abandoned properties, has created sources that offers a menu of properties for sale. Many of these properties are in Pittsburgh's most historic neighborhoods.
The Real ... Read More
Any individual who donates a preservation easement to a qualified charity, such as Landmarks, is allowed to deduct the value of the easement as a charitable contribution, provided the donation meets certain requirements specified in ... Read More
The Western PA Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals has named Landmarks its 2009 Outstanding Philanthropic Organization for its exemplary record of civic responsibility in support of philanthropic causes; its demonstrated generosity to substantially ... Read More
PHLF News July 24, 2009 On Saturday, July 18th, PHLF was informed that Stanley Lowe, long the Director of the Manchester Citizens Corporation as well as a former employee of PHLF, was abducted from his Manchester home, severely beaten, repeatedly stabbed, and forced to an ATM machine to withdraw ... Read More