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RustBeltTakeover: The Rust Belt Coalition of Young Preservationists Comes to Pittsburgh This Weekend

This weekend, young preservationists from Buffalo, Ohio, Wheeling, and Indianapolis will descend on Pittsburgh for the Rust Belt Coalition of Young Preservationist Summit. This is a big deal for Pittsburgh and for the historic preservationists who are coming to town.  Not only is this a great opportunity to show our rust belt neighbors some of the best historic preservation Pittsburgh has to offer, but this is a chance to learn from other cities what has been successful in their historic preservation efforts. One of the most influential events that I participated in was the 2nd annual GLUE (Great Lakes Urban Exchance) conference… Read the rest

#SaveAlbright Update: Public Hearing on Wednesday 3/2

[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

2016 Wilkinsburg Vacant Home Tour Planning Meeting

One of the most popular posts here on the blog last spring was about the Wilkinsburg Vacant Home Tour. Blogger Ray Bowman wrote a recap of his visit to the tour here. I was able to stop by and check out a few of the houses featured on the tour, I was on the fence about the idea of bringing a bunch of people to see vacant homes in Wilkinsburg. I was impressed with many of the efforts behind this event and the amount of history that was shared on each of the properties. The planning meeting for the 2016… Read the rest

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

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

Young Preservationists Happy Hour at the Ace Hotel

Join the Young Preservationists Association on Thursday, January 28th at Ace Hotel for our 2016 kick off happy hour to discuss YPA’s 2016 initiatives and what YOU can do to help! We have some really exciting updates for the National Negro Opera Company House and the Allegheny Commons Pedestrian Bridge, and plans to move forward on initiatives for both Top Ten sites in 2016. We’ll be organizing a Heart Bomb campaign in February inspired by some of our friends in Buffalo. And we are hosting a Rust Belt Coalition of Young Preservationists Summit here in PGH in April that will… Read the rest

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