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Preservation Magazine OnlineBy Rick Wills PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW Thursday, September 2, 2010 A group working to renovate and reopen the Denis Theatre in Mt. Lebanon signed a sales agreement Wednesday to buy the building. The Denis Theatre Foundation agreed to pay $668,750 for the theater on Washington Road. The theater, which opened 72 years ago, closed ... 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
By Adam Brandolph PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW Thursday, September 2, 2010 [caption id="attachment_7056" align="alignnone" width="150" caption="Linda Nelson, chairwoman of the Manchester Citizens Corporation, inspects one of the properties being restored on Columbus Avenue in Manchester. The home was purchased as part of the Great House Sale. Jasmine Goldband | Tribune-Review"]... Read More
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
By Patricia Lowry, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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Sad news from Cambria County: Cresson Township supervisors plan to demolish the Benjamin Franklin Jones Cottage sometime after ... Read More
A Richard King Mellon Foundation grant aims to begin the process of restoring Panther Hollow and its lake Tuesday, August 31, 2010 By Diana Nelson Jones, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette [caption id="attachment_7003" align="alignnone" width="160" caption="An overall view of the Lake in Panther Hollow Lake in Schenley Park. Darrell Sapp / Post-Gazette "]... Read More
By Jeremy Boren PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW Tuesday, August 24, 2010 [caption id="attachment_6977" align="alignnone" width="150" caption="Lisa Haabestad (left) of Shadyside and Diana Ames of Friendship show their support for reuse of the Civic Arena during the Sports and Exhibition Authority board meeting in the David L. Lawrence Convention Center. Jasmine Goldband | Pittsburgh Tribune-Review"]... Read More
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
By Diana Nelson Jones, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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Panel challenged over sudden switch to allow demolition
The future of a ... Read More
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 By Diana Nelson Jones and Joe Smydo, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette [caption id="attachment_6912" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Architects Jerry Morosco, left, and Bob Russ, who serves on the South Side's East Carson Committee, stand in front of 2628 E. Carson St., the building that could be demolished to make way for a ... Read More
By Michael Aubele, Tribune-Review News Service Tuesday, August 10, 2010 Pier No. 5 won an eleventh-hour stay of execution late Monday. "We are going to leave it in the river," Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission CEO Joseph G. Brimmeier said about the old Allegheny River Bridge pier standing between Harmar and 14-Mile Island. Tom Fox, ... Read More
Burning coal is a dirty job, one that Andrew Carnegie’s smokestack did for 102 years. It is now being disassembled.
The Allegheny County Health Department ordered a switch from coal to gas at the Bellefield Boiler Plant last year, and at the same time, the 1907 ... Read More
By Michael Aubele, TRIBUNE-REVIEW NEWS SERVICE/VALLEY NEWS DISPATCH Sunday, August 8, 2010 If a pedestrian bridge is built to connect Harmar and 14-Mile Island, it won't use an old Pennsylvania Turnpike bridge pier as a support, turnpike and construction officials said. "The pier is coming down," turnpike spokesman Tom Fox said about ... Read More
By Paul Paterra
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Monday, August 9, 2010
Saltsburg Mule Barn
Two Kiski School graduates are making sure Saltsburg's old "mule barn" is around and kicking for years to come.
Actor David Conrad and businessman Craig Spitzer plan to buy the two-story, 19th-century timber frame structure from the ... Read More
Thursday, August 05, 2010 By Diana Nelson Jones, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The Aldi supermarket chain has been given the go-ahead to demolish a historic building on East Carson Street despite opposition from local preservationists, who walked out in protest during a meeting Wednesday. The approval from the city Historic Review Commission was ... 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
Saturday, July 31, 2010
By Patricia Lowry, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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CRESSON, Cambria County
In the late 1880s, when ... Read More
By Richard Robbins, Pittsburgh TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Sunday, July 25, 2010
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Just two years ago, Soldiers & Sailors ... Read More
Thursday, July 15, 2010 By Mark Belko, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette A group seeking to save Mellon Arena today urged its owner to delay a proposed demolition for one year. Rob Pfaffmann, a Downtown architect who leads Reuse the Igloo, asked the city-Allegheny County Sports & Exhibition Authority board to give the group ... Read More
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
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This Saturday night, the Nine Mile Run Watershed Association (NMRWA) will celebrate another year of progress at their annual fundraiser.
In lower Frick Park, near the confluence of the Fern Hollow and Nine ... Read More
By Alyssa Karas
PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
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The clusters of ... Read More
Thursday, July 08, 2010 By Candy Woodall Marilyn Albitz barely passed high school history -- a close call she attributes to a teacher who she said wanted her students only to memorize dates. "I was an A student, but [historical] dates always turned me off. Rather, I've always liked to hear ... Read More
Thursday, July 01, 2010 By Dante Anthony Fuoco, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Historical musings about the bloodiest Civil War battle and concerns over a continuing gambling debate intersected yesterday in a poetically timed proclamation. On the eve of the Battle of Gettysburg's 147th anniversary, a group of prominent American historians sent a letter ... Read More
Wednesday, June 23, 2010 By Patricia Lowry, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette When I asked for ideas for reusing Mellon Arena on June 13, I hoped to get at least a handful of responses. But almost 60 of you e-mailed or called with suggestions or simply encouragement to find a way to save the arena. [caption ... Read More
By Marie Wilson PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW Friday, June 4, 2010 More than 40 pieces of Pennsylvania's railroad history are deteriorating from sun, rain, snow and wind as they sit outside the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania in Lancaster County. But $5 million from Gov. Ed Rendell's office will help build an indoor facility to house ... Read More
By Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Tuesday, June 15, 2010 Last updated: 1:33 pm Pittsburgh City Council today approved setting up a trust fund to bankroll maintenance to monuments and war memorials in the North Side. Establishing the account was part of several bills introduced last week by Council President Darlene Harris after people and veterans groups ... Read More
By Rossilynne Skena VALLEY NEWS DISPATCH Monday, June 14, 2010 [caption id="attachment_6172" align="alignnone" width="150" caption="Litter covers the hillside below Garvers Ferry Road in Parks Township, which will be targeted Saturday during the River Sweep for the Ohio River and its tributaries. Volunteers will clean up near Carnahan Run, a tributary of the ... Read More
By Rossilynne Skena VALLEY NEWS DISPATCH Thursday, May 27, 2010 [caption id="attachment_5979" align="alignnone" width="450" caption="The Hulton Bridge, which connects Oakmont and Harmar, is targeted for replacement by 2014. The new bridge to be built just upstream has a price tag between $60 million and $90 million, including demolition of the current span, according ... Read More
Monday, December 14, 2009 4:00 p.m., Carnegie Library Lecture Hall, Oakland Two-minute remarks presented by Louise Sturgess, Executive Director Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation During the Great Depression, the hours of all Carnegie branch libraries were extended and no branch libraries were closed. That fact can inspire all of us in our efforts to keep ... Read More
By Kim Leonard TRIBUNE-REVIEW Friday, October 16, 2009 Visitors to the seven homes featured ... Read More
By Bill Zlatos TRIBUNE-REVIEW Sunday, October 11, 2009 As he fights a plan to close ... Read More
Wednesday, October 07, 2009 By Bob Hoover and Amy Schaarsmith, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Residents and politicians alike decried the announced cuts yesterday by the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, which will close five branches, move others and trim hours in the face of a spiraling deficit. Mayor Luke Ravenstahl called for an independent audit of the ... Read More
Monday, October 05, 2009 By Diana Nelson Jones, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Manchester will bring back an old model, hoping it still works, when it tries to sell 40 houses in two days with the Great House Sale and Tour on Oct. 17 and 18. Manchester Citizens Corp. and Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation have come ... Read More
PHLF News
August 3, 2009
The City of Pittsburgh, in an effort to reduce the number of vacant or abandoned properties, has created sources that offers a menu of properties for sale. Many of these properties are in Pittsburgh's most historic neighborhoods.
The Real ... Read More
By Matthew Santoni TRIBUNE-REVIEW Sunday, July 12, 2009 To most residents of Western Pennsylvania, the region's many bridges are ever-present but utilitarian things: A way to get from A to B across obstacle C, except when congestion or construction makes them into obstacles themselves. But through the eyes of a dozen enthusiasts from around ... Read More
Monday, June 01, 2009
By Diana Nelson Jones,
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
A year ago, Duane Hill went Downtown from his home on Sheffield Street to ask the ... 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
