Preservation Nation: News From the National Trust Preservation Magazine Online
Historic Preservation Planning Alumni, Cornell University
Ithaca, New York
By Nathaniel C. Guest
June 9, 2008
"If you want to know preservation, follow Arthur Ziegler around for a few hours."
This is what a friend from the National Trust told me a little ... Read More
by Jack Miller PHLF News May 15, 2009 A two-story log cabin that may date to the early 1800's has been discovered within another structure in North Fayette Township near the Pittsburgh International Airport. While the building appears to have no architectural or historic significance, rather than demolish it, the owner is ... Read More
by Jack Miller PHLF News May 15, 2009 Landmarks has announced that it will discontinue publishing the hard copy version of its estate planning magazine, Landmark Legacies. Instead, the magazine will be posted in a pdf format at http://plannedgifts.phlf.org/newsletters.php. The move is expected to free up $2,000 annually that can ... Read More
By Jack Miller PHLF News April 20, 2009 The Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation (PHLF) has announced that Historic Harmony (HH) has donated preservation easements to PHLF that will ensure the preservation of eight historic HH properties located in Butler County. All of the protected properties are in Harmony Borough or Jackson Township in ... Read More
by Dr. Howard B. Slaughter, Jr., CEO and President, LCCC April 3, 2009 PHLF News Dr. Howard B. Slaughter, Jr., Chief Executive Officer of Landmarks Community Capital Corporation (LCCC) announced its largest loan to date through its Urban Economic Loan Fund of $1,350,000 to Three Rivers Youth for the acquisition and ... Read More
April 2, 2009 PHLF News Ohio-based Spruce Street Properties, Ltd. has donated a preservation easement to Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation on the exterior of The Carlyle, at Fourth Avenue and Wood Street that is being converted to luxury condominiums. A preservation easement is a voluntary legal agreement made between ... Read More
April 2, 2009
PHLF News
National Trust Diversity Scholarships For the National Preservation Conference to be held in Nashville, TN October 13-17.
The National Trust for Historic Preservation is offering scholarships to individuals from diverse racial, ethic, economic, and ... Read More
April 2, 2009 PHLF News Charles J. Connick: World Class Stained Glass in Pittsburgh, based on Albert Tannler’s recent book on Connick is a special series of six public lectures and tours. Eminent English historian Peter Cormack will present the keynote address on Sunday, May 24, at Calvary Episcopal Church. ... Read More
April 2, 2009 By Louise Sturgess, Executive Director PHLF News Expert guides from PHLF will lead FREE Friday walking tours in downtown Pittsburgh, May through September, and in Oakland on Fridays in October. Beginning on September 5, the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Mainstreets, and PHLF will offer a ... Read More
April 2, 2009 by Louise Sturgess, Executive Director PHLF News College-bound high school students who live in Allegheny County, have a 3.25 grade point average or above, and care deeply about the Pittsburgh region may apply to Landmarks’ Scholarship Program. The deadline is April 24. Click here to download an ... Read More
by Louise Sturgess, Executive Director April 2, 2009 PHLF News By April 30, eleven Pittsburgh Public Schools will have participated in Landmarks’ Building Pride/Building Character city tour, described by a teacher as “one of the best [field trips] ever.” The innovative educational program is sponsored through the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania’s Educational ... Read More
by Ronald C. Yochum, Chief Information Officer
April 2, 2009
PHLF News
FaceBook, a popular social networking web site, offers individuals and organizations opportunities to present news, events, and ... Read More
PHLF News
April 2, 2009
KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
Howard B. Slaughter, Jr.
D.Sc., MBA, Chief Executive Officer
Landmarks Community Capital Corporation
“Collaborative Community Development as a Means for Regional ... Read More
New role created for local nonprofit leaders April 1, 2009 PHLF News The Pittsburgh Foundation has broadened membership of its Board of Directors to include community leadership representing key nonprofit organizations serving the southwestern Pennsylvania region. Two positions have been created under the initiative, and the first directors elected to the ... Read More
PREPARED TESTIMONY OF ANNE E. NELSON, ESQ. GENERAL COUNSEL PITTSBURGH HISTORY & LANDMARKS FOUNDATION BEFORE HISTORIC REVIEW COMMISSION, CITY OF PITTSBURGH PUBLIC HEARING ON THE OLD STONE TAVERN CITY HISTORIC STRUCTURE NOMINATION April 1, 2009 Landmarks supports the nomination of the Old Stone Tavern to become a City-Designated Historic Structure. The building was surveyed in both of Landmarks’ architectural ... Read More
March 19, 2009 PHLF News Landmark Community Capital Corporation is pleased to announce that Howard Slaughter has been elected president. PHLF launched LCCC in October 2007 and under Dr. Slaughter’s leadership as CEO, it has expanded our geographic range and increased our lending to non-profit organizations substantially. Read More
by Anne E. Nelson, General Counsel PHLF News March 11, 2009 On March 11, 2009, Landmarks joined the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Landmarks Illinois, New York Landmarks Conservancy, Cleveland Restoration Society, sixty-three Illinois municipalities and other organizations in filing an amicus curiae motion before the Supreme Court of Illinois in ... Read More
by Arthur P. Ziegler, Jr., President March 4th, 2009 PHLF News Friends of the Dormont Pool, which formed to save this huge swimming pool when the Borough was going to close it because of the expense of repairing it, has continued to raise funds to keep the pool open and on ... Read More
March 4th, 2009 PHLF News The Alan I.W. Frank Foundation has been launched as a 501(c)(3) to raise funds to secure the house designed by Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer for Alan and Cecelia Frank on Woodland Road near Chatham College. It has been faithfully preserved by their son Alan ... Read More
March 4th, 2009 PHLF News At the request of Senator Jim Ferlo and the Natrona Comes Together Association in the Natrona Flats, Landmarks helped the organization secure the vacant Sweeney Hotel and Saloon built in 1900 at 36 Chestnut Street. Over the years the hotel had become a bank, an ... Read More
by Jack Miller, CFRE , Director of Planned Giving March 1, 2009 PHLF News A Landmarks funded land-use study conducted by LaQuatra Bonci in 2003 has played a key role is preserving 161 acres of farmland at the Boys Home complex in South Fayette Township. The Boys Home, located on Battle ... Read More
by Louise Sturgess, Executive Director March 1, 2009 PHLF News The Alfred M. Oppenheimer (AMO) Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation is committing $15,000 per year for three years to support general education programs at Landmarks. “The AMO was established in 1963 to support interfaith and interracial understanding,” said Chuck Half, ... Read More
by Anne E. Nelson, General Counsel PHLF News February 26, 2009 On February 26, 2009, the Allegheny County Economic Development, Community Infrastructure and Tourism Board awarded Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation a $91,000 grant for the New Granada Theater stabilization project. Thanks to this grant, the $1.1 million project is now ... Read More
The Metropolitan Loan Fund of Pittsburgh (MLFP) is a new loan fund with an emphasis to increase minority entrepreneurship. It is a public/private partnership collaborative designed to provide flexible financing and technical assistance to new and existing businesses which are located in or serve the Pittsburgh Metropolitan Statistical Area. The ... Read More
January 22, 2009 By Shaun Yurcaba Vandergrift, PA: The Vandergrift Improvement Program, Inc. (VIP) today announced receipt of a $100,000 grant award from the Allegheny Foundation to augment the VIP's Real Estate Revolving Fund. To date, the VIP has raised $475,000 for this Fund, including a seed grant from ... Read More
January 14, 2009 PHLF News Today, the Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation’s Historic Religious Properties Committee awarded $31,000 in grants to 8 congregations, plus 3 Technical Assistance Grants and 1 Energy Study. The committee reviewed 22 applications from historic religious properties in Allegheny County. Requests amounted to over $170,000. Grant ... Read More
PREPARED TESTIMONY OF ANNE E. NELSON, ESQ., GENERAL COUNSEL PITTSBURGH HISTORY & LANDMARKS FOUNDATION BEFORE HISTORIC REVIEW COMMISSION, CITY OF PITTSBURGH PUBLIC HEARING ON CITY DEMOLITIONS JANUARY 7, 2008 Landmarks opposes the demolitions of 1403 and 1414 Nixon Street and 1109 Bingham Street because the City ... Read More
January 1, 2009 PHLF News Karen B. Cahall, Ed.M., joined Landmarks’ staff on January 1, after serving as a docent for seven years. She assumed Mary Ann Eubanks' responsibilities as education coordinator, since Mary Ann retired on December 31, 2008. For details about school tours or teacher ... Read More
By Shaun Yurcaba PHLF News December 10, 2008 Westmoreland County – Vandergrift welcomes 3 new businesses to its downtown central business district. As part of the Main Street revitalization efforts, the Vandergrift Improvement Program (VIP) is busy working to recruit and assist new and ... Read More
PHLF News November 14, 2008 by Michael Sriprasert In light of the recent efforts to bring a grocery store to the Hill District, Landmarks Community Capital Corporation, in partnership with the Heinz College, engaged 25 students in the Heinz Colleges' first ever non-profit case challenge. Titled the "Landmarks Economic Development Case ... Read More
PREPARED TESTIMONY OF ANNE E. NELSON, ESQ. GENERAL COUNSEL PITTSBURGH HISTORY & LANDMARKS FOUNDATION BEFORE HISTORIC REVIEW COMMISSION, CITY OF PITTSBURGH PUBLIC HEARING ON 200-210 FIFTH AVENUE; 438 & 440 MARKET STREET NOVEMER 5, 2008 As the future holder of a ... Read More
PREPARED TESTIMONY OF ANNE E. NELSON, ESQ. GENERAL COUNSEL PITTSBURGH HISTORY & LANDMARKS FOUNDATION BEFORE HISTORIC REVIEW COMMISSION, CITY OF PITTSBURGH PUBLIC HEARING ON 200-210 FIFTH AVENUE; 438 & 440 MARKET STREET NOVEMER 5, 2008 As the future holder ... Read More
PREPARED TESTIMONY OF ANNE E. NELSON, ESQ. GENERAL COUNSEL PITTSBURGH HISTORY & LANDMARKS FOUNDATION BEFORE HISTORIC REVIEW COMMISSION, CITY OF PITTSBURGH PUBLIC HEARING ON 4420 BAYARD STREET, THE ELMHURST GROUP OCTOBER 1, 2008 Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation has reviewed the ... Read More
by Shaun Yurcaba Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation September 8, 2008 Sen. Jim Ferlo announced today a $35,000 grant to assist the Vandergrift Main Street program. This grant will be added to the Restoration Revolving Fund, which was created in 2006 to bring new life to downtown Vandergrift and to restore ... Read More
PHLF News September 5, 2008 On Monday, September 15, the Historic Religious Properties Committee of Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation (PHLF) will host a technical assistance workshop at Calvary Episcopal Church, 315 Shady Avenue, from 9:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Congregation leaders, representatives, and guardians of historic religious properties in Allegheny ... Read More