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An Update on the Three Rivers Postcard Club

January 19, 2017 Lindsay Leave a Comment

Embed from Getty Images When I first started blogging, I set up a google calendar to keep track of and share Pittsburgh events. In 2008 we wrote a post about the Three Rivers Postcard Club and I added a recurring event for their monthly meetings to the calendar. While the IheartPGH Google calendar has not been updated in years, each month I still get a reminder for the monthly meeting of the Three Rivers Postcard Club. And each month I’ve wondered if the club still exists. As much as I love social media and I love looking at and sharing… Read the rest

Filed Under: Clubs & Groups, History Tagged With: diana nelson-jones, Fort Pitt Hotel, historic pittsburgh, post cards, Post-Gazette, s, three rivers postcard club

Frank Lloyd Wright Inspired House for Sale in Stanton Heights $115,000

August 30, 2016 Lindsay 1 Comment

I spent most of this morning trying to find out more about the history of the homes that were recently demolished at the corner of Centre & Craig in Oakland to make may for a new development. It turns  out they may have had some historic significance.  I know we can’t save every historic building, but if we can’t I would certainly like to document these properties before they are gone. (If you know anything about the Centre & Craig houses please leave a comment!) After a morning of google searches, I had moved on to another topic and clicked… Read the rest

Filed Under: Historic Preservation, History Tagged With: architecture, Frank Lloyd Wright, houses of Pittsburgh, stanton hieghts

Pittsburgh Holiday History Project

December 24, 2015 Lindsay 1 Comment

Pittsburgh Holiday History ProjectAs Macy’s was preparing to close its doors at the end of the summer, I was thinking about how shopping at a downtown department store was a thing that the next generations of Pittsburghers would not get to do this holiday season. There are still lots of traditions to be had downtown and all around this city, but there downtown department stores are now gone. In my lifetime, there was Horne’s, Gimbels, Kaufmann’s, Saks, Lazarus and briefly Lord & Taylor. But there are future generations of Pittsburgheres who will only associate the name Kaufmann with the family who built the… Read the rest

Filed Under: History Tagged With: Christmas, Christmas Eve, Department store, Kaufmans, Macys

Will you come to church with me on Sunday?

August 14, 2015 Lindsay Leave a Comment

“Will you come to church with me on Sunday” is most certainly not a blog post title I thought I would be writing this summer, or ever.  Last Sunday, I attended the service that Albright United Methodist Church held on the lawn in front of their church on Centre Ave.  I don’t often go to church, I am not Methodist and I had not attended a church service at Albright before. If I go to church it is to look at the architecture or I will on the rare occasion sneak in the back of East Liberty Presbyterian Church in… Read the rest

Filed Under: History Tagged With: #savealbright, albright, albrightpgh, Historic Preservation, United Methodist Church

A Visit to Rachel Carson’s Other House

June 30, 2015 Ryan Morden Leave a Comment

Pittsburghers celebrate Rachel Carson, famed scientist who changed lives and how we look at the environment, as one of our own. Honors don’t get much bigger than having a prime bridge downtown named after you: Carson, along with Clemente and Warhol, make up our iconic Three Sisters bridges. There’s also a 35.7 mile Rachel Carson nature trail, and the Pennsylvania even named a state office building after her to house environmental protection and conservation departments. Carson was born on a small farm in nearby Springdale. She was raised in the area and graduated from Chatham University with a degree in… Read the rest

Filed Under: History Tagged With: Chatham University, Colesville, Maryland, Rachel Carson

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