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The Multrup Steel Mansion is still for sale. Open house on Sat 1/20. Now $49,000 or less!

Sooo…. who is up for a little road trip to Beaver Falls this weekend! I’ve been noticing that the two previous posts on the Moltrup Steel Mansion have been getting a lot of visits recently. So I thought I would check back and see if this house was still for sale. The Multrup Steel Mansion located at 914 8th Ave is still for sale and the price has been reduced to $49,000.  There is a new listing agent for the property, Carol Tomayko, her team has been very responsive to questions. You can read a history of the Moltrup Steel… Read the rest

Price Drop. The Moltrup Steel Mansion in Beaver Falls Reduced to $62,500

Update 1/18/2018 – Open house on Saturday, January 20, 2018. This Beaver Falls mansion was built by the family who owned the Moltrup Steel manufacturing plant in 1914.  When I first profiled this building for historic preservation month in May, 2017. The house was listed for $80,500. (You can see all of the posts that I wrote for historic preservation month here.) The post on the Moltrup Steel Mansion that is for sale in Beaver Falls has continued to be popular and I went to see if the house had sold.  The 5 bedroom, 4 bath house is still available… Read the rest

The Ladies’ GAR Home in Swissvale: How would you repurpose this building with a Civil War history?

This spring the Post-Gazette published an article about the Ladies’ GAR Home in Swissvale. (“Diana Nelson Jones’ Walkabout: Swissvale home has history on its side, but little else” Post-Gazette, March 13, 2017). The online version of the article doesn’t have a photo, but I knew that if this building was visible from the train, it was worth learning more about. It is so oddly ob­scure that a very ob­ser­vant and his­tory-lov­ing Barry Al­fonso, a writer who lives in Swiss­vale, saw it for the first time on an Am­trak train. The tracks pass along what used to be the front gate.… Read the rest

National Negro Opera Company House: The Most Historic House in Pittsburgh You Probably Have Never Heard Of

If there is one house you learn about from our month long series for historic preservation month, the The National Negro Opera Company House in Homewood is the house to remember. This house needs some love and unlike the other properties that I have posted about this month, I don’t know what the future holds for this place. I believe there is a huge opportunity for this building, but it is also a huge challenge. The house, located at 7101 Apple Street in the Homewood Neighborhood, was built in 1908. Three Reasons the National Negro Opera Company House is Important… Read the rest

The Gardener-Bailey House in Edgewood

I learned about the Gardener-Bailey house from this photo from Cam Miller (@CatLadyCam) on Instagram. Built in 1864, this building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. Does anyone know the history of this grand old Victorian home? The Gardener-Bailey house, built in 1864, is hidden away on W. Swissvale Ave in Edgewood section of Pittsburgh. It was placed on the National Register in 1974. #housesofpgh #housestalker #archilovers #architecture #detailsmatter #historicpgh A post shared by Cam Miller (@catladycam) on Jan 11, 2017 at 1:07am PST… Read the rest

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