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
by Renatta Signorini Leader Times Thursday, September 9, 2010 KITTANNING A local group is on a quest to find a bell that once stood high above Market Street in Kittanning's former town hall. Joie Pryde has driven plenty of back roads in search of the bell without luck. "We are on a quest to acquire ... 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 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
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
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
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
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PREPARED TESTIMONY OF ANNE E. NELSON, ESQ. GENERAL COUNSEL PITTSBURGH HISTORY & LANDMARKS FOUNDATION BEFORE HISTORIC REVIEW COMMISSION, CITY OF PITTSBURGH PUBLIC HEARING ON THE OLD STONE TAVERN CITY HISTORIC STRUCTURE NOMINATION April 1, 2009 Landmarks supports the nomination of the Old Stone Tavern to become a City-Designated Historic Structure. The building was surveyed in both of Landmarks’ architectural ... Read More
by Anne E. Nelson, General Counsel PHLF News March 11, 2009 On March 11, 2009, Landmarks joined the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Landmarks Illinois, New York Landmarks Conservancy, Cleveland Restoration Society, sixty-three Illinois municipalities and other organizations in filing an amicus curiae motion before the Supreme Court of Illinois in ... 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 CITY DEMOLITIONS JANUARY 7, 2008 Landmarks opposes the demolitions of 1403 and 1414 Nixon Street and 1109 Bingham Street because the City ... 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
By Jeremy Boren TRIBUNE-REVIEW Wednesday, July 30, 2008 In a preliminary vote today, Pittsburgh City Council dubbed the 81-year-old Malta Temple building on the North Side a historic structure.The historic status prevents the Salvation Army, the owner, from demolishing the building without the Historic Review Commission's consent. The nonprofit ... Read More
By The Tribune-Review Thursday, July 17, 2008 Pittsburgh City Council delayed a vote Wednesday on whether to give historic protection to a North Side building that serves as a Salvation Army homeless shelter and chapel. The Salvation Army wants to demolish the 81-year-old building, which once served as the headquarters of the ... Read More
By Jeremy Boren TRIBUNE-REVIEW Tuesday, July 15, 2008 Forcing the Salvation Army to preserve an 81-year-old North Side religious and social services center would violate a city rule that says a church's owner -- not interlopers -- must willingly seek historic protection, a Pittsburgh councilman said Monday."Churches have an ... Read More
By Jeremy Boren TRIBUNE-REVIEW Thursday, July 3, 2008 The Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation, a major investor in Market Square's revitalization, might nix a new seven-unit apartment complex if the Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership sticks to a plan to close some of the square to vehicles.The foundation is spending $3.5 million ... 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
Thursday, July 03, 2008 By Rich Lord, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Work on pedestrian-friendly project might begin next spring The proposed $5 million revamp of Market Square got a boost yesterday when Pittsburgh's Historic Review Commission gushed over the reduced traffic, piazza-type design and nicer trees. "This will be a miniature ... Read More
Wednesday, July 02, 2008 By Rich Lord, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The city of Pittsburgh's Historic Review Commission today approved a dramatic redesign of Downtown's Market Square, clearing the way for construction planning but urging that the architects meet with Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation officials about their concerns. The redesign would ... Read More
Monday, June 30, 2008 By Diana Nelson Jones, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Market Square's transition is in full swing. Dunkin Donuts opens there at 6 a.m. today. Moe's Southwest Grill will open Thursday. A dark, romantic bar is to follow later this summer. In addition, a veteran restaurant, Buon Giorno, is dressing up ... Read More
