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.
Historic Houses
The rehabilitation of the 1911 Homewood Branch of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh marks the first step in a system-wide plan to update the library's image and standardize its services across the eighteen branches.
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.
Mercer County's great steel magnate, Frank H. Buhl, founded the Sharon Steel Corporation, which then became the primary source of income for the Shenango Valley. 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. By 1794, he had become a prominent figure in the "Whiskey Rebellion".
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 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.
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 built on private property around the community in the mid-nineteenth centu