[PRCo] Latest slide shows from John Polyak

[Fred Schneider]

First … rebuilding of the PTM car shop from three tracks to two so there is room to work.

     https://picasaweb.google.com/jrpolyak/July82014PTMMaintenanceShopReconstruction?feat=email

Penn Avenue reconstruction in the 5000 block … the 'hood is called Garfield (between East Liberty and Lawrenceville).   Nearest cross streets are Millvale Ave. and Winebiddle St.    Also includes the Civil War graves in Allegheny Cemetery.

     ttps://picasaweb.google.com/jrpolyak/July72014PennAvenueReconstructionGarfield?feat=email

Another Sunday trip to the Norside (hard to say North Side).

     https://picasaweb.google.com/jrpolyak/July6And72014SundayPhotoSafariNorthSide?feat=email

St. Paul's Cathedral, Oakland.   Here are the basics from Wikipedia:

Saint Paul Cathedral is the motherchurch of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. St. Paul's parish was established in 1834.[2] When the diocese was established in 1843 St. Paul's Church was chosen as the cathedral. As the downtown area was claimed by industries the residential areas shifted to other areas of the city. St. Paul's property was sold to the industrialist Henry Clay Frick. The present Gothic Revival structure was designed by Egan and Prindeville of Chicago and completed in 1906. Philadelphia contractor Thomas Reilly built the new cathedral in the Oakland neighborhood. The cathedral serves the spiritual needs of approximately 3000 worshipers.[3] It became a contributing property in the Schenley Farms Historic District on July 22, 1983 on the National Register of Historic Places.[1]

     https://picasaweb.google.com/jrpolyak/July52014SaintPaulCathedralOakland?feat=email

Rebuilding West Carson St. down in McKees Rocks:

     https://picasaweb.google.com/jrpolyak/July42014WestCarsonStreetReconstructionUpdate?feat=email

      https://picasaweb.google.com/jrpolyak/June222014WestCarsonStreetReconstructionUpdate?feat=email

Fantastic coverage of historic old houses of Crafton

     https://picasaweb.google.com/jrpolyak/June222014HistoricHousesInCraftonPA?feat=email

     


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