In 1888, Pittsburgh businessman Russell H. Boggs commissioned a new home facing Pittsburgh's West Park, designed in a style known as Richardsonian Romanesque. Now, it is known as "Boggs Mansion" and serves as a small hotel.
Historic Houses
The Heinz Memorial Chapel began as a gift. Henry John Heinz, the founder of the Heinz Company established the building as a gift to his mother, Anna Margaretta Heinz. After Heinz’s death, his three surviving children added to his bequest to memorialize their grandmother and honor their father.
The Howe-Childs Gateway House, once known as Willow Cottage, is one of Pittsburgh’s earliest frame cottage-style Gothic Revival houses. Built just before the Civil War, it was once part of a larger estate.
The original cabin, built by the Cooper family in 1810, was used as a county homestead. It was enlarged after the Civil War, and family descendants remained in it until 1963. In 1976, Cooper Cabin was deeded to the Butler County Historical Society.
The rehabilitation of the 1911 Homewood Branch of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh is the first of a system-wide plan to update the library’s image and promote and standardize its services across the eighteen branches.
The Vicary Mansion is named after its owner and builder, Philadelphia sea captain William Vicary, who began construction of his mansion in 1826 and finally completed it three years later in 1829.
Mercer County's great steel magnate, Frank H. Buhl, founded Sharon Steel Corporation, which then became Shenango Valley's primary source of income. After graduating from the university, Frank came to Sharon and fell in love with Julia Forker.
David Bradford was a successful lawyer, businessman, and Deputy Attorney General of Washington County Pennsylvania when his house was completed in 1788.David Bradford and his family lived in this house from 1788 to 1794.
The Fayette County Historical Society is a non-profit organization established in 1971. Its mission and purpose are to find, collect, and preserve materials that portray the history of the county and the society.
The Jefferson County Area Agency on Aging has provided services to senior citizens since 1979. Looking for new office space, the Agency investigated a 14,000 square foot vacant 1875 building known as the Parker P.
The Compass Inn is a place to receive an informative and entertaining tour by costumed docents that tells the story of transportation and everyday life in the early 1800's. The tour delivers "history with a smile" by incorporating a generous sprinkling of etymology (word and phrase origins).
Decker's Chapel played its role as a locally important facet of the religious and ethnic heritage of this European Roman Catholic derived community and for its position as the last remaining of the several wayside chapels which were built on private property around the community in the mid-ninete
Meadowcroft Rockshelter and Museum of Rural Life, preserves the history of life on the land in Western Pennsylvania over the past 16,000 years. Meadowcroft is one of Western Pennsylvania's wonderful, off-the-beaten-path destinations.
The O. B. Grant House is described in a 1896 local publication as one of the finest homes in the town. The residence, dating from the last third of the nineteenth century, also reflects remodelings from the late nineteenth or early twentieth century.
The Kane Depot was built in 1873. An extension was made to the original building in 1890. The first railroad to operate through the depot was the Philadelphia/Erie Railroad.
Brush Creek Salem Church possesses distinctive architecture among churches constructed in western Pennsylvania before 1850. It is the only known example of a brick church with Georgian ornamentation built in western Pennsylvania before the mid-nineteenth century.
Anoatok was built in 1896-97 for Dr. Elizabeth Dennistoun Wood Kane as a residence for her and two of her three sons, Dr. Evan O'Neill Kane and Dr. Thomas L. Kane, and their families.
Jonas J. Pierce House is a large, stylish Second Empire residence that is a full-blown and early example of the architectural style. This house retains most of its original interior and exterior architectural detail.
The New Thomson House, situated at the intersection of the two principal thoroughfares in Kane and directly opposite the Pennsylvania Railroad Station, is the most prominent building in the community.
The early nineteenth century was a time of settlement and commercial development in Western Pennsylvania. Kingston House played a significant role in that activity. Built along a heavily traveled east-west highway, the house served as a stop for numerous settlers, traders, and travelers.
The Anthony Wayne Cook Mansion is set in a large landscaped yard approached by three stone gates. Anthony Wayne Cook's heirs are restoring the Queen Anne-style, hipped-roof, frame Mansion.
Mount St. Peter Roman Catholic Church is rectangular in shape and is constructed of concrete block faced with red Michigan sandstone. The narthex is a series of small blocks, increasingly larger in size as one enters into the nave. The Mount St.
The Sutton-Ditz House was erected in 1850 by Thomas Sutton, a young attorney who settled in Clarion County when it was established on 11 March 1839. He was accepted into the Bar Association in 1841 and quickly became a respected and admired attorney in the Clarion area.
