Preservation Nation: News From the National Trust Preservation Magazine Onlineby 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
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
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By Bob Karlovits
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Saturday, July 19, 2008
It sits atop Fineview, peering over Downtown like one of the gargoyles that lurk through the house.
Jack Miller from the Pittsburgh History & ... Read More
Landmarks recently revised its Easement Policy in accordance with the Land Trust Alliance’s Standards and Practices, as recommended by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The Standards and Practices are “ethical and technical guidelines for the responsible operation of a land trust.” Landmarks holds easements on a variety ... Read More
By Jack Miller To commemorate the 1960 world series and honor its special members, Landmarks is hosting a major gala at the Pirates Yankees baseball game at PNC Park on Wednesday, June 25th where former Pirate great Bill Virdon will be honored for his defense of the Forbes Field ... Read More
Landmarks is sending this notice because we recently received word that those rates will decrease July 1, which means that the payment to you on any annuity after that date will be lower than on an annuity taken out now. Charitable gift annuities are a wonderful way to ... Read More
Landmarks has obtained a charitable bargain sale gift of the Natrona Heights Bank Building for the Natrona Comes Together Association (NCTA) from North Carolina resident Terry Wien. The century-old building is the focal point of a restoration project being underwritten through the efforts of State Senator Jim Ferlo ... Read More
by Jack Miller PHLF News April 3, 2008 The last time the New York Yankees visited Pittsburgh was on October 13, 1960 when they were defeated by the Pirates in the seventh game of the most exciting World Series ever. That day, Pirate centerfielder ... Read More
Allegheny County Executive Dan Onorato announced at a press conference in Swissvale yesterday the initiation of a large-scale Allegheny County Main Streets program. Four pilot communities will be involved: Swissvale, Elizabeth, Tarentum, and Stowe. Landmarks has been designated to operate the program in conjunction with the ... Read More
Built in 1889–90 as the German National Bank and now a contributing structure in the Pittsburgh Central Downtown National Register Historic District, The Granite Building provided German immigrants to the Pittsburgh area with a place where they could transact their banking in their native language. Designed by Bickel & Brennan, ... Read More
Anne Nelson has joined the staff of the Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation as Program Associate where her responsibilities include assisting with general preservation programs as well as providing assistance on projects where a legal background is required, such as planned giving. For the past two years, Anne interned at Landmarks ... Read More
by Jack Miller Director of Gift Planning September 1, 2007 When Ethel Belcher learned about Landmarks in 1977 she immediately became a member. While she didn’t attend any events or volunteer her services, she appreciated Landmarks’ efforts to preserve western Pennsylvania, especially her beloved North Side. Ethel lived most of her life in ... Read More
by Jack Miller Director of Gift Planning September 1, 2007 Landmarks Heritage Society members will be acknowledged for their significant financial support in 2006/07 at two special events on September 26th at two historic downtown buildings. All who made planned gift commitments or gifts of $1,000 or more during that period have been invited ... Read More
In 2004, a group of concerned citizens came together to form the Vandergrift Improvement Program (VIP) with the goal of revitalizing the town's business district. Last June, the VIP asked Landmarks Development Corporation, a wholly owned Landmarks subsidiary, to manage Vandergrift's Main Street Program. Preservationists learned in the 1960s that ... Read More
The Harry C. Goldby Pittsburgh Preservation Fund recently made its first distribution to underwrite a keynote address on April 19th commemorating the 75th anniversary of Chatham Village. The 46-acre planned community, designated a National Historic Landmark in 2005, was begun in the 1930s. It is one of the most celebrated and ... Read More
Jackie and Jay Johnson recently sold Landmarks the former Packard Building in Wilkinsburg for 40% of their asking price. Landmarks got a building it needed to proceed with its Crescent Building Development Project, and the Johnsons were entitled to a charitable contribution deduction on their federal income tax return for ... Read More
By Jack Miller Director of Gift Planning Elizabeth Bruck Carroll rarely ventured out of her apartment. She was a private woman who spent much of her time supporting her community from her living room at St. Barnabas Retirement Village. Her fiancé was killed in action during World War II. The man she ... 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
By Patricia Lowry, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette When he died in December at age 73, architectural historian Walter Kidney left everything he owned to his longtime employer, Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation. Which comprised what, exactly? "Not much, generally," said Jack Miller, Mr. Kidney's executor and Landmarks' director of gift planning. "Walter's estate comprised Walter's ... Read More
While Landmarks has gained national attention using planned gifts like easements to enable historic buildings to be adapted and reborn, our greatest satisfaction comes from helping people of all demographics support our mission and their families. Consider Clare and Duncan Horner. Nearly three decades ago, the couple purchased a run-down ... Read More
By Jerry Vondas TRIBUNE-REVIEW Saturday, December 3, 2005 While Walter C. Kidney was renowned as one of the foremost architectural historians in the country, in his adoptive city of Pittsburgh he was known for his philanthropy and humility. "Walter knew the breadth and range of the history of architecture worldwide," said Arthur Ziegler, president ... Read More
Barbara Drew Hoffstot cofounded Landmarks in 1964. Until her death 30 years later, her pioneering preservation work in Pittsburgh laid the foundation for the Historic Preservation Act of 1966 and brought about the creation of the National Register of Historic Places. She conceived the ideas of a Historic Plaques Program and ... Read More
by Jack Miller Director of Gift Planning The first rule of being a fundraiser is to stay behind the scenes. The second rule is to ignore the first rule when your boss "requests" it. Anyone who knows Landmarks’ president Arthur Ziegler knows that he is mission driven, yet a reserved person. So when I ... Read More
By Ron DaParma TRIBUNE-REVIEW REAL ESTATE WRITER Sunday, December 12, 2004 Jack Miller remembers well the day in 2000 when he met Lucille Tooke on her family farm in Pine. Tooke stopped the tractor she was riding and in the subsequent conversation she eventually told Miller, "I think God sent you to me." "Talk ... Read More
Preservation Easement Program Land Trust Alliance, Exchange Article - Volume 23, No. 1, Winter 2004 The Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation ("Landmarks") in Pennsylvania merged preservation and planned giving in one innovative transaction that began in 2001 with the creation of a charitable remainder unitrust (CRUT) that named Landmarks as its sole, ... Read More
By Gretchen McKay, Post-Gazette Staff Writer Saturday, July 12, 2003 Anyone who's ever fixed up a neglected old house knows it takes more than time and money. It takes some of your soul. Judith Harvey in the "urban garden" at her Fineview home. She restored the dilapidated Gothic Revival cottage then bought the ... Read More
Journal of Gift Planning - 3rd Quarter 2002 The cover image depicts Heathside Cottage, listed on the National Register of Historic Places and constructed circa 1855 in what is now Pittsburgh, PA. The building's Greek revival style is rare to find with its vergeboard and other sawn-out wooden trim still present and ... Read More
Landmarks recently accepted an 11-volume collection of dated Pittsburgh cutouts and postcards, donated by member Harry C. Goldby, formerly of Pittsburgh, now residing in Carlisle, PA. Mr. Goldby’s act of kindness emphasizes that significant gifts don’t have to be cash or securities. When such gifts are related to a charity’s mission, ... Read More
In 1992, Judith Harvey fell in love with a dilapidated historic landmark that would eventually become her home. After years of restoration, she turned Heathside Cottage into a showplace with the intention of preserving the 1855 Gothic Revival Cottage for the enjoyment of future generations. To accomplish that goal, in 2000, she ... Read More
Tony and Mary Ann Kopczynski never had a lot of money, but for more than a decade they were rolling in dough. That’s because in 1985 the couple purchased and ran Pizza Plus, a small pizza manufacturing business in McKees Rocks. “For 25 years, I was district sales manager at General ... Read More
What motivates a brother and sister to give their childhood home in Lawrenceville to Landmarks? In the case of John Hudak and Katherine Hudak Golobic, it was a way to pay tribute to two loving parents. John Sr. and Mary Hudak worked hard all of their lives. John was the first ... Read More
George and Eileen Dorman support a number of community causes, but preservation is at the top of their list. During the past 20 years, they’ve watched farmland disappear as a population wave moved toward property they own on the tip of Long Island in New York; and they’ve followed the efforts ... Read More
Pittsburgh, Pa. . . . . On December 11th, 40 farmers attended a meeting at Hidden Valley Farm arranged by the Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation to discuss new and creative tools now available to help preserve Allegheny County farms. One of those tools included Landmarks’ Historic Rural Preservation Program, which offers ... Read More