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| The main corridor of the City-County Building is one of many spectacular spaces featured during PHLF's downtown walking tours on Thursdays and Fridays in July. |
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July Tours with PHLF—Please RSVP
I would like to thank our tour guide for the wonderful tour he conducted last Friday. He made me realize what an amazing city I live in and inspired me to return and take the other tours offered by your organization. It is a wonderful service you offer, and we are lucky to have this opportunity to learn more about this amazing city. Tim not only made the city come alive, but his enthusiasm was infectious, and he gave us food for thought on how to look at the world around us. ––H. Cox, June 19, 2016
"Downtown's Best" Walking Tours
Every Thursday: July 21, 28
10:00 a.m. to Noon
Advance paid reservations are required: Mary Lu Denny (412-471-5808, ext. 527)
For further details click here.
Free Grant Street & Mellon Square Walking Tours
Every Friday: July 22, 29
Noon to 1:00 p.m.
Meet on Grant Street near Sixth Avenue, near the Omni William Penn Hotel entrance
Reservations are appreciated: Mary Lu Denny (412-471-5808, ext. 527)
For further details click here.
 Aspinwall Urban Hike: From Commercial and Residential Districts to a Riverfront Park
Saturday, July 30
2:00 to 4:00 p.m.
Advance paid reservations are required: Mary Lu Denny (412-471-5808, ext. 527)
For further details click here.
Free Open Streets Walking Tour: Bridges & River Shores
Sunday, July 31
10:00 to 11:30 a.m.
Advance reservations are appreciated: Mary Lu Denny (412-471-5808, ext. 527)
For further details click here.
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| The Landmarks Preservation Resource Center is located at 744 Rebecca Avenue, Wilkinsburg, PA 15221 |
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Landmarks Preservation Resource Center Events
Join us in July for our continuing lectures, workshops and seminars on house restoration and maintenance tips, architectural history, gardening, and other topics. Events are FREE to PHLF members. Non-members: $5. RSVPs appreciated: Mar...@phlf.org or 412-471-5808 ext. 527
All events: Landmarks Preservation Resource Center
744 Rebecca Avenue, Wilkinsburg, PA 15221
Woodworking Workshop: Planes
Regis Will
Vesta Home Services
Saturday, July 23
10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
 Flattening, squaring and smoothing wood is the basis for a precisely built project. Come get introduced to the several different sizes of bench planes, their setup and use. Work from coarse to fine as you square and smooth a board to prepare it for work.
About the presenter: Regis Will is a woodworker, craftsman, and owner of Vesta Home Services, a consulting firm on house restoration and Do-it-Yourself projects. He blogs about his work at The New Yinzer Workshop.
Lecture: Before and After Fallingwater
Benno Janssen’s and Richard Neutra’s Houses for the Kaufmann’s
Scott W. Perkins
Director of Preservation, Fallingwater
Tuesday, July 26, 2016
6:00 to 7:30 p.m.
 The Kaufmann family is perhaps best known for Fallingwater, their weekend house in Bear Run designed by Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) in 1935 and completed in 1939. A color pencil rendering of Fallingwater, and its architect, appeared on the cover of Time in 1938, forever linking the house to the prospering modernist architecture movement and solidifying it among the style’s great buildings. Edgar J. Kaufmann (1885-1955), his wife Liliane (1889-1952), and their son Edgar, jr. (1910-1989) played leading roles in the dissemination of modernist design and art collecting primarily thorough the Pittsburgh department store that bore their name. There they influenced, and were influenced by, prominent designers, painters, and consumers of the era’s modern ideas. Yet perhaps even more compelling is their patronage of two additional architects, before and after Fallingwater, that were instrumental in their thinking about modernism.
About the presenter: Scott W. Perkins is the director of preservation at Fallingwater. He joined Fallingwater in 2013 and completed his MA and MPhil in Design History at the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design and Culture in New York City. A board member of the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy, he is currently writing on the life and work of Eugene Beyer Masselink, an apprentice of and secretary to Frank Lloyd Wright from 1933 to 1959. He is also a graduate of the School of the Arts Institute in Chicago.
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Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation
100 West Station Square Drive | Suite 450 | Pittsburgh, PA 15219
www.phlf.org
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