Category Archive: Tours & Events
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8 Seats to Fill: Stained Glass Studio Bus Tour
Join us for a bus tour on Friday, September 4 (9:15 a.m. to 1:15 p.m.) to two major Pittsburgh studios that trace their origins to the early years of the stained glass craft in the city.Nicholas Parrendo, a recent recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award of the American Glass Guild, will lead the tour of Hunt Stained Glass Studios.
Kirk Weaver, an authority on the history of stained glass in the U.S. and a leader in stained glass restoration, will lead the tour of Stained Glass Resources.
Click here for details/reservations for this tour and for two more special events in PHLF’s series, “Charles J. Connick: World-Class Stained Glass in Pittsburgh.”
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“Walking Our Mainstreets” Free Saturday Tours: September Thru November 7th
Beginning on Saturday, September 5, PHLF will lead afternoon walking tours of 10 city mainstreets in cooperation with the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh and Mainstreets Pittsburgh.Each week features a different mainstreet. Tours are from 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.
Special bonus: Anyone who attends all ten tours will be given Life’s Riches, a PHLF publication.
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Free Walking Tours Every Friday Through October
By Louise Sturgess
PHLF News
August 4, 2009Each month at Noon our expert guides who know and love Pittsburgh lead free walking tours of specific urban areas.
Join us on a Friday in August to explore Fourth Avenue, on a Friday in September to explore Allegheny River Bridges and River Shores, and on a Friday in October to explore Oakland’s Civic Center.
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Historical Preservation Workshop: Saturday, July 25, 2009
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Tour & Lecture Series: Charles J. Connick: World Class Stained Glass in Pittsburgh
April 2, 2009
PHLF NewsCharles J. Connick: World Class Stained Glass in Pittsburgh, based on Albert Tannler’s recent book on Connick is a special series of six public lectures and tours.
Eminent English historian Peter Cormack will present the keynote address on Sunday, May 24, at Calvary Episcopal Church. During his illustrated lecture, “Stained Glass of the Arts & Crafts Movement in Britain and America,” Cormack will discuss the international significance of Connick’s work.
Organist Alan Lewis will perform from 2:30 to 3:00 p.m. as people gather for the keynote address, to begin at 3:00 p.m. Event sponsors include The Connick Foundation and Calvary Episcopal Church.
For more information, click here for Tours & Events.
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Put on your walking shoes! PHLF Announces 2009 Tour & Event Schedule
April 2, 2009
By Louise Sturgess, Executive Director
PHLF NewsExpert guides from PHLF will lead FREE Friday walking tours in downtown Pittsburgh, May through September, and in Oakland on Fridays in October.
Beginning on September 5, the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Mainstreets, and PHLF will offer a FREE series of ten Saturday afternoon tours to Mt. Washington, Friendship, Lawrenceville, the Strip, West End, Bloomfield, South Side, North Side, and East Liberty.
For complete details about PHLF’s 2009 Tours and Events, click here.
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Landmarks Creates Preservation Related Group on FaceBook
by Ronald C. Yochum, Chief Information Officer
April 2, 2009
PHLF News
FaceBook, a popular social networking web site, offers individuals and organizations opportunities to present news, events, and discussions. FaceBook is the largest social network, with over 175 million active users.In early March, staff members Anne E. Nelson, Michael Sriprasert, and David Farkas collaborated to create a presence on FaceBook that promotes Landmarks tours, events, and issues important to the Preservation Community.
Membership events that are planned will be announced though FaceBook as well as on our PHLF Tours & Events section of our web site.
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Technical Assistance Workshop for Guardians of Historic Religious Properties
PHLF News
September 5, 2008On Monday, September 15, the Historic Religious Properties Committee of Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation (PHLF) will host a technical assistance workshop at Calvary Episcopal Church, 315 Shady Avenue, from 9:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Congregation leaders, representatives, and guardians of historic religious properties in Allegheny County are invited to attend. The workshop fee of $25 includes box lunches for up to three people.
“Historic religious properties play a significant role in the spiritual, social, cultural and educational life of this region,” says George C. Dorman, Chair of PHLF’s Historic Religious Properties Committee, “and we know how difficult it is for congregations with limited budgets to preserve and maintain their architecturally-significant historic structures. Therefore, it is our goal to help these congregations by offering this workshop that will answer questions they may have and help them care for their buildings.”
This workshop will give congregation leaders an opportunity to speak with professionals in the field of building construction and maintenance.
Experts will speak on:
• Prioritizing building projects;
• Planning and organizing building projects;
• Financing a project: raising funds, seeking grants and loans;
• Working with contractors, getting bids and estimates, contracting the work;
• Stained glass window restoration, masonry work, roof and gutter replacement and repair;
• Energy conservation in large structures.Historic Religious Properties Technical Assistance Workshop
The workshop will feature assistance in prioritizing, planning, and organizing building projects; financing a project; working with contractors; specific building maintenance issues; and energy conservation in large structures. You will have the opportunity to ask questions of the presenters and network with other church leaders.
When you come, please bring a list of questions and photos of your structures demonstrating areas where maintenance is needed and where you have successfully done work.
Plenty of off-street parking is available in Calvary Episcopal Church’s parking lot.
- Time: 10:00 a.m.
to 3:00 p.m. - Meeting Location: Calvary Episcopal Church, 315 Shady Avenue. (Google Street View Map)
- Fee : $25, includes up to 3 people from your church or synagogue and box lunches.
- RSVP one day before this event. Contact Carole Malakoff, Historic Religious Properties Coordinator at hrp@phlf.org.
Program Agenda:
- 9:30: Coffee and Registration
- 10:00: Welcome
- Mark Bibro, Chairman, PHLF Board of Trustees
- George C. Dorman, Chairman, PHLF Historic Religious Properties Committee
- Arthur Ziegler, President, PHLF
- Tom Keffer, Property & Construction Manager, PHLF
- 10:30: Jack Scalo and Jacqui McMenamin, Burns and Scalo Roofing (dealing with roof problems)
- 11:00: John Kelly, Kelly Art Glass (preservation and maintenance of stained glass windows)
- 11:30: David Hounshell, member, First Methodist Church of Pittsburgh and professor, CMU Departments of History and Social & Decision Sciences (planning and organizing a church building project)
- 12:00: Sister Florence Lynch, CEO, Angels in Overalls; Jack Miller, PHLF (organizing a project and the role of volunteers)
- 12:30: Lunch
- 1:15: Greg Smith, Keystone Waterproofing; Aaron Wolk, Cathedral Stone Products (brick and masonry preservation)
- 1:45: Greg Wozniak––G. A. Wozniak & Assos., Energy Management & Consulting
(conserving energy in historic religious structures)
- 2:15: Susan Brandt, PHLF Trustee (searching for grants and loans: approaching funding sources)
Some photos of the workshop in progress.
- Time: 10:00 a.m.