Campaigns
The trustees, staff and members of PHLF have successfully campaigned to save such landmarks as the North Side Post Office (which later became the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh), the Union Station rotunda in downtown Pittsburgh, the Neill Log House in Schenley Park, the Burtner Stone House in Harrison Township, the Rachel Carson Homestead in Springdale and the Neville House in Collier Township.
With the help of a grant from the Allegheny Foundation in 1976, PHLF adapted five historic Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad buildings in Station Square for new use and built a hotel, a dock for the Gateway Clipper Fleet, and parking areas. Station Square is now one of Pittsburgh's premiere attractions. It reflects a $100 million investment from all sources, with the lowest public cost and highest taxpayer return of any major renewal project in the Pittsburgh region since the 1950s.
The foundation's historic plaque program was begun in 1968, and since that time it has awarded over 500 plaques to designate significant historical structures within Allegheny County.
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