Category Archive: PHLF In The News

1. Making Pittsburgh New by Keeping it Old

   October 25, 2011 11:44 am

   Roberta Brandes Gratz,  an award-winning journalist and urban critic, lecturer and author, whose newest book is  The Battle For Gotham: New York in the Shadow of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs, profiles PHLF’s work in Downtown Pittsburgh, in the current issue of The Atlantic. Click here to see the story.

2. Event to Highlight Wilkinsburg Preservation

   June 22, 2011 9:51 am

   
   Event to Highlight Wilkinsburg Preservation

   Wednesday, June 22, 2011

   By Patricia Lowry, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

   
   
   Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation will hold an open house at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Landmarks Housing Resource Center in Wilkinsburg, where staffers will talk about the preservation nonprofit’s ongoing projects in the borough.

   Landmarks restored and sold four single-family houses in and around the Hamnett Place neighborhood in 2008. Now it’s restoring three more, on Holland Avenue and Jeanette Street, as well as two early 20th-century apartment houses, the Crescent (23 units) and Wilson (four units) buildings.

   Last fall, Landmarks converted a one-story former Packard dealership at 744 Rebecca Ave. into its Housing Resource Center, creating meeting rooms for workshops. Landmarks will hold a workshop on exterior and interior home maintenance at 2 p.m. July 16 and one on backyard composting at 2 p.m July 30.

   For Saturday’s free event, reserve by Friday by contacting Marylu Denny at 412-471-5808, ext. 527, or marylu@phlf.org.