Tuesday, February 15, 2011 By Diana Nelson Jones, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Water to Blame for Wall Collapse [caption id="attachment_8822" align="alignright" width="500" caption="Pittsburgh building inspectors examine the partial collapse of a brick wall at S&S Candy and Cigar Co. at South 21st and East Carson streets on the South Side Monday morning. ... Read More
By Margaret Harding PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW Tuesday, February 15, 2011 Historic District Building's Wall Collapses in South Side Francine Mykich was preparing S&S Candy and Cigar Co. for its busiest day of the week when she thought she heard a truck hit the South Side store. "We came in just like a ... Read More
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
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
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
Monday, December 20, 2010 By Len Barcousky, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette A Washington County farm that has been operated by the same family for more than 200 years has been included on a list of 10 historic sites most at risk across Pennsylvania. Longwall coal mining could harm several historic buildings at Plantation Plenty in ... 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
Saturday, November 20, 2010
By Patricia Lowry, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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Cambria County's Benjamin Franklin Jones cottage may have found ... Read More
Saturday, November 20, 2010 By Gretchen McKay, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette [caption id="attachment_7859" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Heavenly Vision Ministries and parsonage, formerly known as the Our Lady Help of Christians in the Larimer section of Pittsburgh, has a 6,000-square-foot rectory and a banquet hall in the lower level. It's on the market for $169,900. ... Read More
By Craig Smith, PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW Wednesday, November 17, 2010 Pittsburgh's South Side was a different neighborhood in 1936 when Stanley J. Tumas scraped together $800 to open his T&T Hardware store on East Carson Street. "It was an old ethnic neighborhood. People took pride in that neighborhood," said his son, Mike Tumas, ... 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 Adam Brandolph PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW Tuesday, November 2, 2010 An Allegheny County judge put a temporary halt on the city's plan to demolish a condemned property in Larimer after a Sharpsburg man said he wants to restore it. John Cobb plans to rehabilitate a 110-year-old building at 16 Shetland St. to use ... Read More
Tuesday, November 02, 2010 By Len Barcousky, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette [caption id="attachment_7509" align="alignnone" width="506" caption="The Smith House is located next to the MMP&W Volunteer Fire Co. The board that oversees the fire company says it needs the land to expand its aging facilities. Len Barcousky/Post-Gazette"]... Read More
Thursday, October 28, 2010 By Norm Vargo Will the Lamp shine again? The once-popular movie theater in downtown Irwin closed in 2005. Its marquee still boldly predicts "the Lamp will shine again." But $500,000 is needed for that to happen. Westmoreland Cultural Trust acquired ownership from Irwin-based KCS Real Estate Services in 2007. KCS purchased ... Read More
Thursday, October 21, 2010 By Karen Kane, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette As the community prepares to shine a headlight on the historic pairing of the jeep and Butler, efforts have been ongoing to promote the preservation of the site where the jeep was manufactured: the Bantam building off Hansen Avenue in Pullman Center Business ... Read More
PHLF News October 20, 2010 As you may know, the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission's Bureau for Historic Preservation acts as the Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office (PASHPO). As such, PHMC receives an annual appropriation from the National Park Service to help administer both state and federal historic preservation programs throughout the Commonwealth. Part of ... Read More
Wednesday, September 15, 2010 By Mark Belko, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The future of the Civic Arena, the iconic silver-domed structure that has graced Pittsburgh's skyline for nearly half a century, could be decided Thursday. City-Allegheny County Sports & Exhibition Authority members are scheduled to vote that day on whether to demolish the 49-year-old landmark ... Read More
Renovated on one side; condemned on the other
Monday, October 11, 2010
By Diana Nelson Jones, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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Among Pittsburgh's many stories, one plays out in every neighborhood and is ... Read More
By Margaret Harding, Michael Hasch and Bill Vidonic PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW Thursday, September 23, 2010 Thousands of Western Pennsylvanians remain without power today and might not have service restored until Sunday morning. Wednesday's brief but powerful thunderstorm has left a lasting impression. Duquesne Light reported 13,000 customers — many in Allegheny County's South Hills neighborhoods — ... Read More
By Liz Hayes VALLEY NEWS DISPATCH Thursday, September 16, 2010 Congregants who oppose the demolition of a historic Poke Run Presbyterian Church building believe a county judge has granted them access to the tools they need to save the structure. Nine members of the Washington Township church last week filed a lawsuit in ... Read More
By Craig Smith
PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Monday, September 27, 2010
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Grace Rothmeyer worries about her home of 23 years in Etna, even though one ... Read More
Thursday, September 16, 2010
By Karen Kane, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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There's a saying in farm circles: Get big or get out. But some ... Read More
Thursday, September 16, 2010 By Moriah Balingit, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette It took just a handful of minutes for a fast-moving blaze to destroy nearly a century and a half of history as it tore through a Edgeworth home Wednesday afternoon Owners Roger Wiegand and his wife Kay and three or four others were at ... Read More
By Chuck Biedka, VALLEY NEWS DISPATCH Friday, September 10, 2010 Last updated: 7:11 am [caption id="attachment_7147" align="alignnone" width="150" caption="From left, Emma and Jim Dunmire, of Washington Township; Jack and Eleanor Zerbini, of Salem Township; Maynard Miller, of Kiski Township; and Kathy Moneymaker, of Washington Township, all gather together in front of the ... Read More
The house on the southwest corner of 38th St. and Charlotte Street in Lawrenceville is up for sale. It was bult a decade after Lawrenceville became a town in 1814. We know this because house historian Carol Peterson, a denizen of Larryville, researched the records. The house you see now -- ... Read More
Wednesday, September 08, 2010 The Richard King Mellon Foundation recently awarded a $1 million grant to the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy to create a management plan for Panther Hollow watershed. Panther Hollow, located in Schenley Park, has long been plagued by pollution and invasive species, and the grant will be a huge ... Read More
By Al Lowe FOR THE TRIBUNE-REVIEW Thursday, September 9, 2010 History buffs got some good news at the Dormont Council meeting. Although Dormont's South Hills Theater along West Liberty Avenue has been razed and will be replaced by a CVS store, its memories will live on because of plans to reassemble the theater's ... Read More
By Adam Brandolph PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW Thursday, September 9, 2010 Last updated: 10:22 am [caption id="attachment_7097" align="alignnone" width="150" caption="A former firehouse and Pittsburgh police training center at the corner of Penn and North Lang avenues was opened up this morning for potential buyers to get a look in Point Breeze. James Knox/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review"]... Read More
By Jewels Phraner
LIGONIER ECHO
Thursday, September 2, 2010
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Saving Sleepy Hollow hasn't gone exactly the way owner Fred Haeflein expected.
He's had a ... Read More
PHLF News Wednesday, August 04, 2010 Thanks to $25,000 in challenge grants from two anonymous donors, The Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation is reviving its recently troubled Historic Religious Properties Program, which provides matching grants to help congregations perform exterior maintenance on their facilities. "Since 1997, we've been giving an average of ... Read More
