Preservation Nation: News From the National Trust Preservation Magazine OnlineBy 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
It's not possible for Landmark's Historic Religious Properties Grant Program (HRPGP) to meet the needs of every qualifying property in Allegheny County, but there are ways to reduce the costs associated with such projects. For instance, when a friend told Sister Florence Lynch that the cost to replace the access ramp ... 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
Carole Malakoff Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation August 8, 2007 Since January, $43,899 has been paid out in matching grant funds to help eight congregations maintain and restore their historic religious structures. Five of these grants were from last year’s grant cycle. The organizations were: 2006: - Calvary United Methodist, North Side - Hawthorn Avenue Presbyterian, ... Read More
By Mary Pickels
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Friday, July 20, 2007
Four area schools of higher education will share in a $200,000 Getty Foundation grant aimed at preserving the individual campuses' historic buildings and landscapes.
Each of the four schools -- Seton Hill University, ... Read More
By Patricia Lowry,
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Saturday, July 7, 2007
With its rugged presence, the former Fourth United Presbyterian Church holds a prominent corner in Friendship, at the intersection of Friendship and South Pacific avenues. But for how long? It's a good building fallen ... Read More
Pittsburgh, PA – The Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation’s Historic Landmarks Plaque Committee recently awarded historic designation to some 38 buildings, 3 districts, and 2 designed landscapes. Residential architecture ranged from an 1832 log house in Gibsonia, Victorian houses in Leetsdale and Oakdale, Colonial Revival houses in Shadyside and ... Read More
Monday, June 25, 2007
By Sara McCune,
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
One of Pittsburgh's oldest cathedrals is getting a complete makeover.
Cleaning crews will wash away 120 years worth of grime from Trinity Cathedral in Downtown, interns from the University of Pennsylvania will clean headstones and ... Read More
By Angela Hayes
Saturday, April 7, 2007
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Josie Santapietro always had a habit of looking up while praying in church, but during tonight's Easter vigil she and other parishioners may find new inspiration to worship.
During the Mass, which begins in total ... Read More
By Patricia Lowry,
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Elsie Yuratovich was a pest, and I mean that in the most admiring and respectful way. She pestered me, she pestered the bishop, she pestered PennDOT, she pestered anyone she thought could play a ... Read More
By Ann Rodgers,
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
A crew has removed religious objects from the interior of St. Nicholas Church, North Side, a landmark building on Route 28 caught in 15 years of wrangling between the parish that no longer uses it, former parishioners ... Read More
By Candy Williams
FOR THE TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Sunday, March 4, 2007
The colorful stained-glass windows bordering the sanctuary are obscured by intricate pillars of scaffolding, on which members of a restoration crew hover overhead. The pews are concealed by black plastic ... Read More
Pittsburgh, PA: George C. Dorman, chair of the Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation’s Historic Religious Properties Committee, presented 15 grants, 7 technical assistance awards, and 2 energy conservation study awards to 22 historic religious properties in Allegheny County during an Awards Presentation on February 7. New members of Landmarks also ... Read More
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
A 125-year-old Butler County church is a total loss after a fire Sunday morning.
The blaze broke out inside McKee Chapel United Methodist Church around 8 a.m. It was discovered by a congregation member who had ... Read More
By Andrew Johnson
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Friday, February 16, 2007
Two shuttered churches in Tarentum and McKeesport have been sold to the Manhattan real estate firm, The Follieri Group LLC, according to the Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh.
The properties are the St. Clement ... Read More