Congratulations on
a fine article about Manchester in the current issue of Carnegie Magazine.
Our family copy arrived today and I turned to that article first.
You and the Heinz Architectural Center are doing a service to the region
by highlighting Manchester, and I hope you will continue to do so for other
communities.
I presently live in Belgrade, Serbia, and when I return home to Pittsburgh
I’m stunned at what a gem we have here, especially in communities such
as Manchester that still have many homes and buildings that need attention.
I’m pleased that the structures are still in place, which even while empty
speak of character and a sense of place, and I hope that renovators arrive
before wrecking balls. Our descendents will thank us for stewarding these
areas through hard times, more significantly as clues to the character
of the people who have passed this way than for architectural value.
I wander the neighborhoods of the East End, from the Hill through Bloomfield,
Lawrenceville, East Liberty, Morningside, Highland Park, Larimer, Squirrel
Hill and Homewood. My favorite houses were there a decade or more before
the restmany old wooden-frame homes, sitting sometimes higher and farther
from the street than their urban neighbors, sometimes in vinyl and weedy
disguise.
I’m looking forward to the Heinz Center continuing to explore Pittsburgh’s
communities, and to reading about it in Carnegie Magazine.
Michale Staresinic, Highland Park
Reply from Curator Dennis McFadden of The Heinz Architectural Center
We were delighted to read Mr. Staresinic’s response to the story about
Manchester: A Neighborhood Sketchbook. He and other readers might
be interested to learn that our Manchester exhibition, which remains on
view through October 25, initiates the “Pittsburgh Neighborhoods Project.”
In the coming years this initiative of the Heinz Center will look at a
number of the city’s neighborhoods through exhibitions, forums, lectures
and symposia.
Additions and Corrections
Sponsors for Summer Sounds concerts presented by the Performing Arts Department
were incorrectly listed in the July/August issue. WDUQ-FM is the jazz radio
sponsor, not WQED-FM. We regret the error.
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