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Pretty, Vacant: Recapping the Vacant Home Tour

June 6, 2015 Ray Bowman

The Vacant Home Tour through Wilkinsburg took place on a hot Saturday, May 9th. 88 degrees was too hot to bike from Millvale comfortably, but I didn’t know that until I was standing (uncomfortably) at the registration desk. The walking tour was a little over two miles round trip and, while technically not in the City of Pittsburgh, included a hill or two. Each tour goer picked up a booklet that had descriptions of each home and a map then were sent up the hill to Singer place to the first home. 1329 Singer Place is a shy home, trying… Read the rest

Filed Under: Arts & Culture, History, Tours Tagged With: blight, community development, Dee Briggs, Frank Conrad, Historic Preservation, house of gold, John F. Singer, Marita Garrett, phlf, Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation, Singer Mansion, urban design, Vacant Home Tour, Vernon Royce Covell, wcdc, wilkinsburg

#tbd: Paint a mural during the Three Rivers Arts Festival

June 6, 2015 Ray Bowman

The Three Rivers Arts Festival opened yesterday. Lots of people are planning on coming down to see the art, but come between 11am and 2pm from today through June 14th and you can help create it. Muralist Kim Beck has begun stenciling an 850-foot mural underneath the Fort Duquesne Bridge and is ready for volunteers to help fill in the “paint by number” with black, white and gray paint. Looking at her Tumblr, you can see that Kim Beck (previously featured on I Heart PGH) has a fascination with the mundane and ephemeral aspects of the urban landscape, like billboards,… Read the rest

Filed Under: Annual Events, Arts & Culture, Events Tagged With: aia, american institute of architects, Arts & Culture, arts festival, kim beck, murals, riverlife, Three Rivers Arts Fest, three rivers arts festival, yasc, young architects studio competition

Saturday, May 9: Wilkinsburg Vacant Home Tour

May 7, 2015 Ray Bowman

This Saturday, May 9th, is the Vacant Home Tour of Wilkinsburg. Tour takers will spend 45 minutes walking through Wilkinsburg, be shown five vacant historic homes by knowledgeable tour guides, then be able to sit in on a workshop to learn what goes into buying one. If you’re thinking “that sounds unique”, you’re right: it may be the first tour of its kind. And if you’re thinking “I should go”, then you’re not alone: nearly 500 people have RSVP’d on their Facebook page. Best of all, the tour is free for you to take because of a Small & Simple… Read the rest

Filed Under: History, Uncategorized Tagged With: Carnegie Mellon University, Historic Preservation, Vacant Home Tour, wilkinsburg

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