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
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 Bill Zlatos
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Friday, October 13, 2006
The Follieri Group, a Manhattan-based developer, bid on 10 church properties in the Pittsburgh Catholic Diocese, in what could be its biggest sale in decades, diocesan officials announced Thursday.
"We have received sales ... Read More
By Ron DaParma TRIBUNE-REVIEW Friday, May 26, 2006 A Pittsburgh developer said Thursday it plans to build a nine-story office building designed to house medical offices and other institutional tenants at Bigelow Boulevard and Ruskin Avenue in Oakland. The Elmhurst Group, Downtown, said the 143,000-square-foot Schenley Place complex is targeted for a parking lot ... Read More
PHLF News February 16, 2006 In addition to awarding 16 grants totaling $80,300 in 2005, the Historic Religious Properties Committee took advantage of a generous opportunity of a matched grant from Saxer Foundation to hire an energy management and consulting service to analyze the energy consumption and costs of two ... Read More
By Andrew Conte TRIBUNE-REVIEW Friday, December 23, 2005 Sitting at center ice of the Penguins' proposed new arena, Downtown's only synagogue shouldn't have to move for hockey again, Rabbi Stanley Savage says. Beth Hamedrash Hagodol-Beth Jacob congregation has worshipped at the aqua-green building on Colwell Street since 1963, after the city's Urban Redevelopment ... Read More
By Violet Law TRIBUNE-REVIEW Friday, November 25, 2005 Rain no longer trickles down through the roof during worship services at the Pittsburgh New Church in Point Breeze. New equipment at Zion Christian Church in Carrick allows Spanish-speaking members to understand and take part in worship services. The stained-glass windows that filter light into the ... Read More
By Tony LaRussa TRIBUNE-REVIEW Monday, October 3, 2005 When the Pittsburgh Catholic Diocese agrees to close church buildings, the decision helps keep parishes from being saddled with buildings they can no longer afford to maintain. But the closing of a church often raises a red flag for people who want to save historically ... Read More
By Patricia Lowry, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Saturday, October 01, 2005 When the Church Brew Works opened in the former St. John the Baptist Church in Lawrenceville, Pittsburgh Catholic Diocese officials were not happy to see gleaming steel and copper brew tanks on the site of the former altar and patrons sipping beers under ... Read More
By Ron DaParma TRIBUNE-REVIEW REAL ESTATE WRITER Saturday, September 10, 2005 On the threshold of its 100th birthday, St. Paul's Cathedral in Oakland is due for a major restoration. The landmark church building, located along Fifth Avenue on a block bordered by North Craig and North Dithridge streets, is to undergo a multimillion-dollar ... Read More
By Jim Ritchie TRIBUNE-REVIEW Wednesday, April 27, 2005 Norfolk Southern Railway Co. is negotiating with PennDOT to provide land for widening Route 28 in Pittsburgh, which could speed commute times and possibly spare the vacant St. Nicholas Roman Catholic Church. Only a sidewalk separates St. Nicholas -- the nation's first Croatian Catholic church ... Read More
By Johnna A. Pro, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Thursday, April 14, 2005 The historic Cleaves Temple on the South Side had been left to deteriorate in recent years, its stained glass windows covered in grime, its majestic columns and dome towers marred by the hands of vandals and Mother Nature.It was little more than ... Read More
Trustee George Dorman chairs Landmarks’ Historic Religious Properties Committee that oversees a program of financial and technical assistance to churches and synagogues in Allegheny County that have viable congregations and provide social services in their communities. By the end of 2004, we announced grants totaling $70,000 to eleven historic churches: Bellefield ... Read More
By Megan McCloskey TRIBUNE REVIEW Tuesday, December 7, 2004 The statue of the Virgin Mary still sits atop the hill where generations of Croatians have prayed in the grotto beneath her, but it has been almost a month since worshipers last attended Mass in their historic church. Despite parishioners' fight to save the ... Read More
By Jim Ritchie TRIBUNE-REVIEW Sunday, March 14, 2004 The Ebenezer Baptist Church in the Hill District has been a cornerstone of Pittsburgh's black community since shortly after the Civil War. Ebenezer Baptist, the first black Baptist congregation in Western Pennsylvania to own a church building, has been a driving force in the nation's ... Read More
Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation has recently launched a new program in association with its existing Historic Religious Properties Program. New Dollars/New Partners, is a training program created by Partners for Sacred Places, a Philadelphia-based national nonprofit and non-sectarian center devoted to the stewardship of historic religious properties. Funding support ... Read More
By Tawnya Panizzi Staff writer Thursday, January 8, 2004 ETNA: A mammoth red door installed Monday at Calvert Memorial Church is a symbol of continued outreach for Pastor Cynthia Jackson. The steel door, erected at the church basement, leads into the Bread of Life Food Bank -- a volunteer organization that has grown ... Read More
By Ron DaParma TRIBUNE-REVIEW REAL ESTATE WRITER Sunday, November 16, 2003 Sixteen churches and a synagogue in Pittsburgh and in suburban communities and have received 2003 Historic Religious Properties Grants and Technical Assistance Awards from the Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation. The program, now in its eighth year, is designed to help architecturally significant ... Read More
By Kellie B. Gormly TRIBUNE-REVIEW Tuesday, October 28, 2003 When the Rev. Ron Fleming strolls through his sanctuary at Mifflin Avenue Methodist Church, his 1924 stained-glass display of Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane sparkles like a brilliant kaleidoscope in the afternoon sun. "When the afternoon sun comes through, it is just spectacular. ... Read More
By Joe Grata, Post-Gazette Staff Writer Thursday, July 17, 2003 Alternative designs initiated by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation only six months ago appear to be gaining support for the eventual reconstruction of a two-mile stretch of Route 28 between the North Side and Millvale. Both options would save St. Nicholas Church, the ... Read More