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#SaveAlbright Update: Public Hearing on Wednesday 3/2

February 29, 2016 Lindsay

[TL;DR – Wednesday 3/2 is the public hearing for historic designation for Albright, this could be the last best chance for the public to support saving this 109-year-old historic church in Bloomfield, please sign the petition & attend the public hearing.] If you had told me a year ago, that I would be a regular attendee of the Historic Review Commission meetings for the City of Pittsburgh, I probably would have laughed out loud. In high school, I had an English teacher tell me I would never write an A paper. So I stopped writing and reading and spent all… Read the rest

Filed Under: Historic Preservation Tagged With: #savealbright, albright, Albright United Methodist Church, Historic Preservation, Petitions, Public Hearings

Lecture this Sunday on the History of 109-year-old Bloomfield Church

January 27, 2016 Lindsay

Last fall, the East Liberty Valley Historical Society put together a monthly lecture series on historic buildings around the East End. I had the opportunity to attend two of these lectures, both were filled with fascinating facts about buildings I see every day and building that are no longer in the neighborhood. The Albright United Methodist Church building, which sits on the corner of Centre and S. Graham Streets, is one of the many buildings that is at risk of vanishing from the Bloomfield neighborhood. I submitted a nomination for the Albright Church building to the City of Pittsburgh Historic… Read the rest

Filed Under: Events Tagged With: #savealbright, albright, Churches, Historic Preservation, this place matters, United Methodist Church

Will you come to church with me on Sunday?

August 14, 2015 Lindsay

“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

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