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Preservation Magazine OnlinePHLF 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
August 1, 2010 PHLF News Thanks to a successful Challenge Grant Initiative, the Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation will be offering its Historic Religious Properties Grant Program again this Fall 2010. We are offering a technical assistance workshop for congregation leaders, representatives, and guardians of historic religious structures on September 20 at Calvary Episcopal ... Read More
By Jodi Weigand PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW Monday, July 26, 2010 [caption id="attachment_6745" align="alignnone" width="280" caption="Stained-glass windows at First Baptist Church of Glassport were vandalized Thursday. The church hopes to obtain help from the Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation's Historic Religious Properties Program to make repairs. Jasmine Goldband | Pittsburgh Tribune-Review"]... Read More
By Alaina Raftis , TRIBUNE-REVIEW Thursday, July 15, 2010 [caption id="attachment_6655" align="alignnone" width="150" caption="The heavily cultivated and well-maintained garden -- which sits on a third of an acre off of Fifth Avenue in Oakland -- was created by Irene Jacob, a botanist who founded the docent program at Phipps Conservatory and Botanical ... Read More
By Chris Ramirez PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW Thursday, July 15, 2010 [caption id="attachment_6596" align="alignnone" width="150" caption="Christian Michaels, 8, shoots hoops during a summer camp at Homestead United Prebyterian Church in Homestead. The camp is organized by the Methodist Union of Social Agencies, or MUSA, which wants to run after school programs for middle school children ... Read More
By Jeffrey Widmer TRIBUNE-REVIEW NEWS SERVICE Thursday, July 8, 2010 The old St. Luke's Church in Carnegie might gain new life. The Carnegie planning commission last month approved plans to renovate the red brick church at Third Street and Third Avenue. It closed after being ravaged by flooding caused by Hurricane Ivan in September ... Read More
PHLF News June 16, 2010 Six weeks ago, PHLF and two of its members pledged $37,500 for an all-or-nothing challenge grant to jump-start our Historic Religious Properties Program that provides matching grants and technical assistance to architecturally significant historic religious properties in Allegheny County who need to undertake critical building repairs. The challenge grant ... Read More
By Tony LaRussa PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW Friday, May 28, 2010 [caption id="attachment_5974" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Word of God Catholic School students sing Thursday during a ribbon-cutting ceremony on a $3 million Kopp Glass Gateway Redevelopment Project designed to tear down dilapidated buildings and renovate 14 homes on Duquesne Avenue in Swissvale. Andrew Russell | ... Read More
PHLF News May 12, 2010 We are making good progress but need your help to reach our goal of raising $37,500 by June 30 in support of our Historic Religious Properties (HRP) program. To contribute by credit card use the Targeted Donation Today option on the left hand side of this page, ... Read More
By Craig Smith PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW Saturday, May 1, 2010 When Swissvale United Methodist Church needed exterior repairs costing $12,000, church officials turned to a Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation program that has provided about $700,000 to preserve 100 religious buildings in Allegheny County since 1997. [caption id="attachment_5840" align="alignnone" width="450" caption="Swissvale United Methodist Church ... Read More
By Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Monday, May 3, 2010 Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation said it's seeking $25,000 in donations by June 30 to help restore historic religious properties in Allegheny County and meet conditions for a matching grant. Two anonymous foundation members have promised a $25,000 matching grant for the ... Read More
PHLF News April 26, 2010 Thanks to two of our members, the Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation may receive $25,000 in matching grants to get our Historic Religious Properties Program (HRPP) back up and running. The grant, however, is contingent upon PHLF’s members and friends contributing $25,000 in new HRPP support by June ... Read More
Tuesday, April 13, 2010 By Karen Kane, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Old Economy Village in Ambridge, the third and final home of the 19th Century Christian communal group the Harmony Society, will reopen Friday. Its future had been in question for several months due to the state's budget crisis in 2009. Friends of Old Economy ... Read More
By Diana Nelson Jones, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Wednesday, May 20, 2009 Helen Kusar sold her house in old Mala Jaska to PennDOT two years ago; now she lives in Reserve with her daughter. The sidewalk along Route 28 is as wide as it needed to be when ... 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 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
By Jim Ritchie TRIBUNE-REVIEW Friday, December 19, 2008 A new group has taken up the battle to spare St. Nicholas Church, after PennDOT once again expressed interest in demolishing the vacant building to accommodate a Route 28 improvement project. Preservation Pittsburgh, with support from the Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation, ... Read More
By Jim Ritchie TRIBUNE-REVIEW Friday, October 3, 2008 The battle to preserve the historic St. Nicholas church was all for naught. The Croatian group that hoped to spare the 107-year-old building from a PennDOT wrecking ball and turn it into an ethnic museum has failed to reach an agreement with ... 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 Craig Smith TRIBUNE-REVIEW Monday, September 22, 2008 When thieves stripped a former Roman Catholic church in Larimer several years ago, they left behind a stained-glass window, which a historian calls one of the most important religious artwork of its day. "This is a major window -- and it's still ... 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
WTAE August 26, 2008 A wrecking ball demolished a 157-year-old church in Elizabeth on Monday after decades of debate over the building's future. St. Michael the Archangel Church, built in 1851, closed its doors in 1987 after the Pittsburgh Diocese deemed the structure unsafe. Long-time ... Read More
Thursday, August 07, 2008 By Mary Niederberger, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Though chipped and decaying, a statue of St. Michael the Archangel holding his shield still stands guard over the front door of the closed St. Michael Church in Elizabeth Borough. But it's unlikely that the angel, considered the guardian and protector of the ... Read More
By Celanie Polanick VALLEY NEWS DISPATCH Thursday, July 3, 2008 A former Roman Catholic church in West Tarentum was one of two in the Greater Pittsburgh area bought by Raffaello Follieri, an Italian real estate mogul recently accused of fraud for pretending to work for the Vatican.A century ago, ... 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 ST. MARY’S ACADEMY BUILDING CITY HISTORIC STRUCTURE NOMINATION JULY 2, 2008 Pittsburgh History & Landmarks ... Read More
The Pittsburgh Festival Orchestra's Bach Lunch Concerts Summer Series will be conducted at two historic downtown Pittsburgh churches. Featured June 17 will be the Pittsburgh Festival Orchestra Strings at Smithfield United Church of Christ. On July 22, Gretchen van Hoesen (harp) and Jim Gorton (oboe) will perform at ... Read More
By Craig Smith TRIBUNE-REVIEW Monday, June 2, 2008 Katie Everette Johnson's pastor asked her to accompany him to a meeting with then-Pittsburgh Mayor David L. Lawrence because she took meticulous notes.It was a difficult assignment, recalled Johnson, now 85, of Schenley Heights. To make way for the Civic Arena, Lawrence ... Read More
By Alice T. Carter TRIBUNE-REVIEW THEATER CRITIC Tuesday, May 6, 2008 Diane Novosel has plans to shed light on a local art treasure in ways both literal and metaphoric.As the chairwoman of The Society to Preserve the Millvale Murals of Maxo Vanka, Novosel is producing "Gift to America," a ... Read More
PHLF News March 7, 2008 St Nicholas Church on East Ohio Street was closed several years ago by the Roman Catholic Diocese and merged with St. Nicholas Millvale. A group envisioned saving the church and using it as a Croatian Heritage Museum, a goal that we were glad to see set forth. ... Read More
PHLF News March 6, 2008 By Carole Malakoff On February 7, George C. Dorman, trustee of the Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation (Landmarks) and Chair of its Historic Religious Properties Committee, announced the 2008 Historic Religious Properties Grants and Technical Assistance Awards at the Annual Awards Ceremony in the Landmarks Building ... Read More
By Jeremy Boren TRIBUNE-REVIEW Saturday, December 29, 2007 A growing number of historic churches in Allegheny County rotted by leaky roofs or even ransacked by thieves are seeking cash from the Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation to jump-start expensive renovation efforts. Since 1997, the foundation has given more than $600,000 to 94 congregations ... Read More
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
By Patricia Lowry,
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Rodef Shalom Congregation will mark the 100th anniversary of its building and the 150th birthday of the congregation with an afternoon of lectures and discussions open to the community.
At the free event, titled "Historical ... Read More
Thursday, October 04, 2007
By Mary Niederberger,
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
For the past 20 years, Isabel Lauterbach has volunteered her time to help clean St. Paulinus Church in Clairton, but she took extra care with last week's cleaning.
That's because it would be the last ... Read More
September 25, 2007 Historians and architectural experts will discuss Rodef Shalom Congregation’s landmark sanctuary listed on the National Register of Historic Places and its founders during “Historical Symposium: Honoring Our Builders and Building” on Sunday, November 4, 2007 as part of the sanctuary’s centennial celebration and the Congregation’s sesquicentennial observances. ... Read More
By Erin Gibson Allen
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Enter Southminster Presbyterian Church, in Mt. Lebanon, and you'll see two stained glass windows on either side of the main door that welcome visitors "... into the house of the Lord."
In the ... Read More
