Architectural Inventory for the City of Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; Planning Sector 1: Spring Garden; Spring Hill-City View; Report of Findings and Recommendations; February 2016

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From introduction: "This architectural inventory for the City of Pittsburgh (Planning Sector 1: Spring Garden; Spring Hill-City View) is in partial fulfillment of Preserve Policy 1.2, to Identify and Designate Additional Historic Structures, Districts, Sites, and Objects (City of Pittsburgh Cultural Heritage Plan, 2012). This project is the second phase of a larger undertaking which aims to ultimately complete the architectural survey for all of Pittsburgh’s Planning Sectors. The scope of this project provided for the partial completion of Planning Sector 1, including the entirety of the Spring Garden neighborhood and portions of the Spring Hill-City View neighborhoods. The part of East Allegheny located east of Interstate 279 (in Planning Sector 3) was also surveyed. This Report of Findings and Recommendations presents survey results and recommendations. Recommendations pertain to 1) the eligibility of various resources for National Register listing; 2) the use of survey data by the City of Pittsburgh; 3) resources prioritized for intensive level survey; and 4) a review of this survey effort’s methodology, with emphasis on lessons learned and recommended modifications for future surveys. All previously surveyed resources within Sector 1 were field checked in the first phase of the Pittsburgh Architectural Inventory (October 2014). Thus, phase two of the architectural inventory focused on the identification of as many previously unsurveyed historic resources within Sector 1 as possible. Previously surveyed resources within the East Allegheny neighborhood (Planning Sector 3) located east of Interstate 279 were field checked; this area, known as East Deutschtown, was previously surveyed in 1984 and determined eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places (CRGIS Key No. 77385). In 2008 the Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office reversed this eligibility determination because of loss of integrity from numerous demolitions. Because of City of Pittsburgh concerns about ongoing and further demolitions, including some tied to planned new development, East Deutschtown was prioritized for re-survey in the present effort." Funding was provided in part by a 2014 Historic Preservation Fund grant to the City of Pittsburgh (project number PA-14-018) administered by the Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office (grant number P14AF00167) and the State, Tribal, and Local Plans and Grants Division, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is a Certified Local Government.

Architectural Inventory for the City of Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; Planning Sector 1: Spring Garden; Spring Hill-City View; Report of Findings and Recommendations; February 2016

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