Category: Art Deco

The Warner Theatre with its new marquee and lighting.

Dramatic Finish for Warner Theatre Project

August 10, 2022 / Guest Contributor / 1 Comment

Few buildings are more iconic to downtown Erie than the historic Warner Theatre. At 91-years-old, the luxury movie palace still offers an environment “twice as rich, three times more fanciful than life.”

Bishop Boyle High School, Homestead, Allegheny County. Photograph by Sarah Medwig.

Pennsylvania’s Historic Preservation Tax Credit At Work: SFY2021-2022 Update

August 3, 2022 / smassey / 2 Comments

The Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development (PA DCED) recently announced that it has awarded $5 million in Pennsylvania Historic Preservation Tax Credits (PA HPTC) to 25 projects across the commonwealth through the FY 2021-2022 PA HPTC Allocation. The next round will open on October 1.

A New Life for Homestead’s Masonic Hall

December 2, 2020 / smassey / 0 Comments

Homestead’s Masonic Hall is an imposing – and impressive – stone building at the corner of E. 9th Avenue and McClure Street in Homestead, Allegheny County. This early 20th century property anchors the National Register-listed Homestead Historic District and is a local landmark.

With the help of state and federal historic tax credits, the formerly vacant and deteriorating Masonic Hall now provides unique housing and is once again contributes to the vibrant Homestead community.

One-story metal building with sign that reads "Scotty's Diner" — Scotty's Diner in Wilkinsburg, Allegheny County, 1989. Image from the John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive at the Library of Congress (https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017702223/)

Buildings on the move: Diners in Pennsylvania

September 16, 2020 / Jenna Solomon / 3 Comments

If historic preservationists could choose a superpower, it just might be the ability to move buildings to a new location when they are threatened with a proposed demolition.

Undated file photo of the pool at Bendigo State Park in Elk County.

Dip into History: Five Historic Pools and Swimming Holes in Pennsylvania

June 10, 2020 / Elizabeth Shultz / 4 Comments

Summer is definitely here in Pennsylvania! And when the weather turns hot and humid, my mind turns to swimming and lazy days by the water.

Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board building, side entrance.

Let’s Raise a Glass to the 100th Anniversary of Prohibition! (Preferably at a historic brewery)

November 6, 2019 / Pamela Reilly / 3 Comments

The year 2019 marks the 100^th anniversary of the passage of the 18^th Amendment to the US Constitution. In Pennsylvania, a state with a large number of breweries, courtesy of our English and German ancestry, as well as an excellent climate for the growing of hops and malt, the impact was dramatic.