Virtual Tour: Grant Street: Sixth to Liberty Avenues

Thursday, August 25
6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

$7.50

This tour will be conducted via Zoom Conference.  Purchase a ticket to RSVP.  Tickets will not be available after 9 am on August 25.

*** Because this is a virtual event, please disregard the QR code information in the ticket emailed to you.

You will receive an e-mail with a link to the Zoom event on August 25. Please log in at 5:45 p.m. to allow us enough time to let you into the tour.

This tour covers the northern half of a street that the American Planning Association designated one of America’s Ten Great Streets in 2012. From the First English Evangelical Lutheran Church to The Pennsylvanian apartment building (formerly Union Station), and with fine examples of modern buildings in between, this part of Grant Street is populated by outstanding architecture.

Examples of adaptive re-use of historic buildings in this corridor demonstrate the economic value of historic preservation. Tour participants also will learn of the wide influence—sometimes explicit, other times less so—of businessman, philanthropist, politician, art collector, and Pittsburgh native Andrew W. Mellon on this important street.