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Whirlwind Walk: Architecture and Urban Spaces in Downtown Pittsburgh
 (SOLD OUT; to be updated and reprinted in 2010) Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation, 2008 Whirlwind Walk is the first fully-illustrated comprehensive walking tour guidebook to many of the principal buildings and public spaces in downtown Pittsburgh. The tour begins at H. H. Richardson’s Allegheny County Courthouse and Jail and ends at Point State Park—the confluence of the Allegheny, Monongahela, and Ohio rivers and the 18th-century Gateway to the West. The clearly marked tour route highlights 45 sites and introduces another 35 sites adjacent to the main route. The book also includes brief essays on the architectural significance and character of the region, a list of major downtown historical/cultural attractions, and a bibliography. Published in conjunction with Pittsburgh’s 250th Anniversary, Whirlwind Walk originated in tours prepared for the National Trust for Historic Preservation in 2006 and for the Society of Architectural Historians in 2007. It is the second in a series of self-guided tour booklets that began with the Allegheny County Courthouse and Jail Walking Tour (2007).
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Charles J. Connick: His Education and His Windows in and near Pittsburgh
 Albert M. Tannler When Charles Connick (1875-1945) died, The New York Times reported that he was “considered the world’s greatest contemporary craftsman in stained glass.” Connick spent 22 of his first 32 years living in Pittsburgh, and it was here that he learned and first practiced the art and craft of stained glass window design and fabrication. In 1909 he settled permanently in the Boston area, living and working there until his death. Drawing upon archival and published materials in Pittsburgh, Boston, New York, and Washington, D.C., the book explores in depth Connick’s years of apprenticeship, and documents windows Connick designed and made between 1911 and 1941 in ten landmark buildings in southwestern Pennsylvania. Previously unpublished photographs of Connick and his early work, as well as new information concerning his career and craft, are included.
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 Allegheny County Courthouse and Jail Walking Tour Albert M. Tannler Here is a compact, illustrated architectural history of H. H. Richardson’s Allegheny County Courthouse and Jail, the most significant of Pittsburgh’s great buildings. The book is organized as a walking tour around the exterior and within the public areas of both the Courthouse and the former jail. A map, three diagrams, and a bibliography facilitate the journey, which can be either pedestrian or virtual.
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| Pittsburgh’s Landmark Architecture: The Historic Buildings of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County
Walter C. Kidney  This is the most comprehensive account of the historic architecture of Pittsburgh and its county published to date. Pittsburgh’s Landmark Architecture has two main sections: a handsomely illustrated essay on the architectural history of Allegheny County and a guide to 645 pre-1950 landmarks worthy of preservation. A bibliography and maps are included.
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| Pittsburgh’s Bridges: Architecture and Engineering
Walter C. Kidney  This authoritative book on Pittsburgh’s most historic and architecturally impressive bridges reveals much about bridge construction and design. The essay and guide to 50 landmark bridges are handsomely illustrated. Archival photos show construction in progress, and in some cases, demolition. An album of memorable images by noted photographer Clyde Hare documents Pittsburgh bridges from 1950 to the present.
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| Henry Hornbostel: An Architect’s Master Touch
Walter C. Kidney  “Hornbostel’s mind,” a critic wrote, “is at once daring and inventive, and he never hesitates about executing work because it has no precedent. He leads the way where others follow…” This 1909 critique celebrated Henry Hornbostel’s use of iron, steel, and tile on buildings in Pittsburgh and on bridges in New York City. Henry Hornbostel: An Architect’s Master Touch is the first book about this 20th-century American architectural master. Hornbostel designed more than 225 buildings, bridges, and monuments nationwide, in cities such as Albany and New York, New York; Hartford, Connecticut; Atlanta, Georgia; Evanston, Illinois; Cedar Rapids, Iowa; and Oakland and Santa Barbara, California. His brilliance, however, is especially evident in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A lavishly illustrated overview of Hornbostel’s work throughout the United States is followed by a detailed exploration of some 50 projects in Pittsburgh. A “List of Works,” a map of Pittsburgh sites, and a bibliography are included.
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| Life’s Riches: Excerpts on the Pittsburgh Region and Historic Preservation from the Writings of Walter C. Kidney
Walter C. Kidney  The excerpts that compose Life’s Riches come from ten books by Walter C. Kidney, architectural historian of the Pittsburgh History Landmarks Foundation from the 1980s until December 2005. They were compiled for a reading of the late author’s works on January 24, 2006, at the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ National Military Museum and Memorial in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Walter C. Kidney was an architectural historian with a keen eye for the details and design nuances that make building-watching so enjoyable. He was also a writer of rare skill, an articulate raconteur who could blend fact with philosophy and turn prose into poetry. Those gifts are spotlighted in this jewel-like book, comprising excerpts from ten of the author’s works. While he writes specifically about Pittsburgh, a city that he knew intimately and loved deeply, Kidney’s words have a near-universal applicability.
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| Beyond the Surface: Architecture and Being Alive
Walter C. Kidney
For just over a decade Walter C. Kidney, architectural historian and author for the Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation from the early 1980s until his death on December 1, 2005, thought about, composed, re-worked, refined, and simplified the words that now form Beyond the Surface: Architecture and Being Alive. Walter describes the book as “a little autobiography, with some relevance: how a young Pittsburgher discovered his world, stayed in a very different city, and dealt in time with a crisis of cultural conscience.” Eighteen choice photographs are reproduced as duo-tones; most were taken by the author in the 1940s with his Argus camera. A select bibliography of the author’s publications is also included, compiled by architect David J. Vater.
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| Allegheny Cemetery: A Romantic Landscape in Pittsburgh
Walter C. Kidney
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| Majesty of the Law: The Court Houses of Allegheny County
James D. Van Trump
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| Architecture after Richardson: Regionalism before Modernism; Longfellow, Alden, and Harlow in Boston and Pittsburgh
Margaret Henderson Floyd Published by The University of Chicago Press in association with the Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation, 1994
Recipient of a 1995 A.I.A. International Book Award
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| Pittsburgh Legends and Visions: An Illustrated History
Eliza Smith Brown
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| Keep Tryst: The Walkers of Pittsburgh & The Sewickley Valley: An Intimate Portrait of a Prominent Pittsburgh Family Stephen Neal Dennis
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| Clyde Hare’s Pittsburgh: Four Decades of Pittsburgh, Frozen in Light
Photographs by Clyde Hare, Text by Alan Van Dine
Recipient of a 1995 Certificate of Design Excellence from “Print,” America’s graphic design magazine.
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| Life’s Riches: Excerpts on the Pittsburgh Region and Historic Preservation from the Writings of Walter C. Kidney
Walter C. Kidney The excerpts that compose Life’s Riches come from ten books by Walter C. Kidney, architectural historian of the Pittsburgh History Landmarks Foundation from the 1980s until December 2005. They were compiled for a reading of the late author’s works on January 24, 2006, at the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ National Military Museum and Memorial in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Walter C. Kidney was an architectural historian with a keen eye for the details and design nuances that make building-watching so enjoyable. He was also a writer of rare skill, an articulate raconteur who could blend fact with philosophy and turn prose into poetry. Those gifts are spotlighted in this jewel-like book, comprising excerpts from ten of the author’s works. While he writes specifically about Pittsburgh, a city that he knew intimately and loved deeply, Kidney’s words have a near-universal applicability.
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| A Patrician of Ideas: A Biography of A. W. Schmidt
Clarke M. Thomas
Published with support from the Laurel Foundation, with a foreword by Landmarks president Arthur Ziegler.
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| Chronicle of a Pittsburgh Family
Evelyn Bitner Pearson
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| A Legacy in Bricks and Mortar: African-American Landmarks in Allegheny County
Text by Frank E. Bolden, Lawrence A. Glasco, and Eliza Smith Brown
Recipient of a “Best of Category” award, presented at the 30th Annual Exhibition of Western Pennsylvania Printing.
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| Landmark Architecture of Palm Beach
Barbara D. Hoffstot
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Posters |
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| Landmark Survivors Poster Series
Made possible with funding by Columbia Gas of Pennsylvania.
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Soft-Bound Booklets |
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| Excerpts Regarding Preservation in Pittsburgh from Changing Places: Rebuilding Community in the Age of Sprawl Richard Moe and Carter Wilkie Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation, 1999 Landmarks has reprinted, with permission, a portion of Chapter 4, “New Tools for Older Neighborhoods.” The chapter focuses on Pittsburgh and the urban renewal policies of the 1960s that led to the formation of the Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation. This is an excellent summary of Landmarks’ work and includes mention of the Revolving Loan Fund, inner-city revitalization (particularly in Manchester), Pittsburgh Community Reinvestment Group, and Station Square.
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| A List of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County Buildings and Architects 1950-2005
Albert M. Tannler
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| William Willet in Pittsburgh 1897-1913
Albert M. Tannler A compendium of designs, projects, sites, and publications documenting the Pittsburgh career of stained glass artist William Willet and his wife Anne Lee Willet. One of two appendices contains correspondence and memoranda between and about Ralph Adams Cram and William Willet and the Seven Liberal Arts window at Procter Hall, Princeton University.
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| The Stones of Pittsburgh No. 1: An Architectural Tour of Pittsburgh
James D. Van Trump
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| The Stones of Pittsburgh No. 3: Legend in Modern Gothic: The Union Trust Building in Pittsburgh Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation, 1967
Recipient of Art Director’s Society Award of Merit
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| The Stones of Pittsburgh No. 4: Evergreen Hamlet
James D. Van Trump
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| The Stones of Pittsburgh No. 7: Birmingham: Pittsburgh’s South Side
Arthur P. Ziegler, Jr.
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| The Stones of Pittsburgh No. 8: By Any Other Name: The Controversial Spelling of “Pittsburgh” or Why the “H”?
James D. Van Trump
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| The Stones of Pittsburgh No. 9: A City’s Living Memory
Robert Cairns
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| The Stones of Pittsburgh No. 10: The Gothic Revived in Pittsburgh: A Medievalistic Excursion
James D. Van Trump
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| The Stones of Pittsburgh No. 12: “Our Eastern Domes, Fantastic, Bright…”
James D. Van Trump
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| The Bells of Pittsburgh
James D. Van Trump
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| An Ethnic Church Sampler
Arcadi Nebolsine
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| The Walker-Ewing Log House, Built c. 1790: A Short History
James D. Van Trump
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| Streetcars in Literature
Edited by Harold M. Englund Early in this century, characters in realistic fiction were apt to ride the trolley. Here are 16 streetcar episodes from diverse authors such as Sinclair Lewis, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, and Ellery Queen.
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| The Papercraft Story: A Biographical Saga of a Pittsburgh-based Enterprise
Frances C. Hardie An oral history of a Pittsburgh paper products firm, established during the Depression.
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| Pittsburgh Treasure Hunt
Text and Illustrations by Patricia Wiley
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“Here is the essence of Kidney’s thinking about place and about architecture,” writes fine arts consultant Thomas H. Garver in his introduction. Walter reminds “us that ‘place,’ no matter where that might be, is a visceral, sensory experience first, long before it may change in our minds to one of memory or intellect.” 
This publication is a tribute to Allegheny Cemetery, one of the most picturesque places in Pittsburgh, where Pittsburgh history curiously comes alive. Founded in 1844, Allegheny Cemetery is an unexpectedly romantic place. The Cemetery was laid out by John Chislett, Pittsburgh’s first professional architect and subsequently directed by prominent American landscape architect William Falconer. Many famous Pittsburghers are buried there: those who had local wealth and power and those nationally known, such as Stephen Collins Foster and Lillian Russell. The book includes an essay describing the Cemetery’s history, architecture, and landscape, and a guide to 195 significant burial places and buildings.
This account places the three successive court houses of Pittsburgh in their historical context. The greater part of the text relates the history of H. H. Richardson’s Court House of 1888 and its adjoining Jail, two of the United States’ most illustrious buildings. Their conception, construction, and later history are related in detail, and their composition and place in architectural history are analyzed, with the help of historic and modern illustrations.
The first critical study of the work of Longfellow, Alden & Harlow (1886-1896) and the successor offices Alden & Harlow (1896-1929) and A. W. Longfellow, Jr. (1896-1923) explores the work of three architects, educated at MIT and apprenticed to H. H. Richardson (Alden/Longfellow) and McKim, Mead & White (Harlow). Together they designed major public, commercial, ecclesiastical, and residential buildings in the Boston and Pittsburgh areas and significantly shaped the visual characters of both cities.
Pittsburgh Legends and Visions is an overview of Pittsburgh’s history from its 18th-century founding as a military outpost and “Gateway to the West,” through its transformation into “The Forge of the Universe,” and on to its maturity as an industrial and then post-industrial metropolis. The city’s legends speak to human ingenuity. Throughout each epoch of its development, Pittsburgh has attracted many of the nation’s most talented and ambitious individuals who saw, and seized, opportunity at the Point. These visionaries tamed and exploited the land and its resources, crafted civic improvements, created a rich cultural life and fueled a flexible and robust economy. The book is enhanced by the addition of profiles of Pittsburgh businesses and institutions.
As their fortunes grew, Pittsburgh’s prominent Walker family maintained an existing family partnership which manufactured soaps and toilet products, and expanded by investing into a widening circle of new business ventures. Eventually, they dominated the US market for fire bricks used for lining blast furnaces through Harbison-Walker Refractories Company. Other major investments were in banking, an iron foundry, wireless and radio technology, oleomargarine and fertilizer manufacturing, stove and water heater manufacturing, and distilling. The Walkers also played a major role in developing conservation strategies for the important historic landscape of the Sewickley Valley.
Twentieth century Pittsburgh–from the 1950’s to 1994–comes to life in this collection of compelling images by master photographer Clyde Hare. 165 color and b/w photos reveal Pittsburgh’s revitalization during Renaissance I, the heroics of steel-making, the beauty and grandeur of the landscape, and the variety and richness of everyday life through a period of dramatic change. Alan Van Dine’s introduction elucidates Clyde Hare’s career and his important role in the development of documentary photography. Concise information on each photograph is contained in a “Photographic Notes” section prepared by Walter C. Kidney.
Meticulously researched and fascinating to read, A Patrician of Ideas chronicles the remarkable life of McKeesport native Adolph W. Schmidt (1904-2000). A notable American who lived during a time of great American world influence, Schmidt was a U.S. Ambassador to Canada and a vital part of Pittsburgh’s urban renewal history through his management of the A. W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust.
In a “charming, insightful memoir,” Evelyn Bitner Pearson turns “family history into magic.” Born in 1910 and the daughter of a newspaper editor and publisher, Evelyn recalls the details of a now-disappearing past through the experiences of her family, living in Pittsburgh and elsewhere. Hers is a “bittersweet memoir…that transcends the ordinary.”
A Legacy in Bricks and Mortar tells the story of African-Americans in Allegheny County from the mid 1700s to the present day and shows 62 surviving buildings and places where black citizens have lived, studied, played, worked, and worshiped.
This is the third revised edition of a fully–illustrated guide to the richness and diversity of the Palm Beach Historic District, Palm Beach, Florida. The volume is a compendium of photographs and descriptive text about more than 150 buildings written and photographed by a resident and historic preservation activist.
Discover more about the historic buildings, parks, bridges, and memorable places that give Pittsburgh its special character. Handsomely designed and printed, the posters are wonderful gifts for family, friends, or clients.
This the third edition of an annotated directory of over 100 selected buildings/structures designed by over 40 architectural firms and erected in Pittsburgh and Allegheny County since 1950. Principal late-20th-century buildings in neighboring counties are also listed. There is a bibliography and indices to buildings and to architects.
A brief guide to the most significant buildings of Pittsburgh and its suburbs.
The Union Arcade, later the Union Trust Building, is spectacular inside and out. This is its history.
A description of four Picturesque “cottages” in one of America’s first suburbs.
A history of the South Side neighborhood and a description of Landmarks’ community restoration program in the area. Photographs illustrate the dramatic topography, architecture, religious institutions, and ethnic makeup of the neighborhood.
Sometimes, “Pittsburgh” has been spelled with the final “h,” sometimes without. This essay explains which was correct, and when.
A review of Landmarks’ work, originally published in the Gulf Oil Corporation publication, The Orange Disc.
For a hundred years the pointed arch was a favorite motif in Pittsburgh churches, schools, and homes. The author touches on the prominent examples of Gothic in the city, illustrating his essay with drawings by Stephen A. Wohleber and photographs. Reprinted essay from Carnegie Magazine.
A brief review of some Orthodox and Byzantine Rite churches in Allegheny County, with drawings by Stephen A. Wohleber. Reprinted essay from Carnegie Magazine.
Sacred and secular bells in Pittsburgh-area history are cited in this personal essay.
Fourteen historic religious properties in the Pittsburgh region are featured in this booklet, including Immaculate Heart of Mary (Polish Hill); St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church (South Side); St. Nicholas Croatian Catholic Church (Millvale); Rodef Shalom Temple (Shadyside); St. Anthony’s Chapel (Troy Hill); and Sri Venkateswara Temple (Penn Hills).
A history of one of the few remaining log houses in Allegheny County
This book is designed for children, but is also useful for anyone interested in learning about architectural styles. Easy to read and clearly illustrated with charming line drawings, Pittsburgh Treasure Hunt helps children notice and identify details and figure out the architectural style of their house.
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