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$50.00 for 1 year

If you wish to make a donation in addition to your membership, you may do so on your cart page after adding your membership.

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Schools receive a 50% discount on all student walking tours and have access to PHLF’s award-winning educational programs that connect lessons you are teaching in the classroom to real places in the Pittsburgh region. Place-based education strengthens academic skills by making learning relevant and builds citizenship skills and hometown pride.

JOIN US and support our efforts to:

  • Stand guard over the major architectural landmarks of Allegheny County.
  • Revitalize historic neighborhoods and properties, and assist inner-city neighborhood efforts in restoration, new construction, and affordable home-ownership programs through the Preservation Loan Fund.
  • Provide technical assistance and advice to dozens of communities and neighborhood groups.
  • Identify and survey the historical, architectural, and industrial resources in Allegheny County and complete nominations to the National Register of Historic Places.
  • Preserve Pittsburgh’s historic parks and public sculpture.
  • Create student/teacher workshops, tours, lectures, publications, and other educational programs featuring the history and architecture of the Pittsburgh region.
  • Formulate reuse plans for abandoned industrial sites in Allegheny County.
  • Contribute to the economy of Greater Pittsburgh by developing tourist attractions based on our architectural and industrial heritage and the good use of our rivers.
  • Evaluate future development proposals as an advocate for the preservation of the Pittsburgh region’s special character.
  • Continue a well-managed, responsive, and creative membership organization with the ability to implement these goals on a long-range basis.

In addition to the Individual Membership Benefits, Schools and School Districts Receive:

  • 50% discount on the Downtown Dragons walking tour
  • 50% discount on the Portable Pittsburgh Artifact Kit
  • 50% discount on the Strip District walking tour and all other student walking tours
  • free copies (while supplies last) of Pittsburgh posters, postcards, and bookmarks
  • free use of more than a dozen slide shows from our slide-lending collection about Pittsburgh’s history, architecture, parks, and sculpture
  • free access to PHLF’s reference libraries of architectural and historic books, magazines, photographs, slides, and rail transportation archives
    Call 412-471-5808 and speak to Mary Lu Denny to join.

You may select a membership for one student, once school (including all students within the school), or the entire school district.

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Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation

100 West Station Square Drive, Suite 450

Pittsburgh, PA 15219

Phone: 412-471-5808  |  Fax: 412-471-1633