Allegheny City: A History of Pittsburgh’s North Side

Index

235 index index A. M. Byers & Company, 109 Abbott, Annie, 90 Academy Theate , 186 Adley, John, 169 African Americans, 15; chur ches of, 160, 161, 185–86; in constr uction of forts, 46–47; homeownership by, 36, 78–79; in Manchester, 216, 221; ser ving in Civil War, 49–50 agriculture, 31, 58, 205; “ out lots” for, 3, 5 Ailing & Cory, 173, 195 Albrecht, Marcus, 152–53 ALCOA, and Allegheny Center, 208 Alden & Harlow architects, 111, 129 Alexander, Alexander C., 47 Alexander, Madelaine Laughlin, 121–22 Alexander, Maitland, 121–22, 193 Alexander Beggs & Son, 91 Alexander house, 121–22, 221 Allegheny Academy, 18–19 Allegheny Arsenal, 41, 45, 53 Allegheny Athletic Association, 164 Allegheny Borough, becoming Allegheny City, 21–22 Allegheny Bridge, 5–6 Allegheny Centennial Committee, 180, 199–200 Allegheny Center, 207 ; buildings surviving demolitions for, 210, 213; demolitions for , 21, 58; effects of constuction of, 208–10; upgrades needed in, 227 Allegheny City: Allegheny Borough becoming , 22; incorporation of, 8, 199–200; 1851 map of, 23; original plan for, 2–3; seal of, 23 Allegheny City Epworth League, 114 Allegheny City Society, 213 Allegheny Commandery of the Knights of Malta, 187 Allegheny Country Club, 128 Allegheny County, 3–4 Allegheny County Civic Club, 178 Allegheny County Courthouse and Jail, 64, 91, 97 Allegheny County Emergency Association (ACEA), 191–93 Allegheny Directors of the Poor, 81 Allegheny Dwellings, 200 Allegheny General Hospital, 99, 140, 183, 191–92, 195, 227; ne w building for, 198–99, 199 Allegheny High School, 210 Allegheny National Bank, 72 Allegheny Observatory, 34,95,96; designed by Billquist, 118, 161; Langley at, 105 Allegheny Preparatory School, 127, 179 Allegheny Public Defense Committee: appealing special election results, 142; opposing annexation, 133, 137, 139 Allegheny River, 187; bridges acr oss, 5–6, 175; lumber industry on, 30, 60 Allegheny Savings Bank, 79 Allegheny Savings Fund Company, 30 Allegheny Transfer Company, 162–63 Allegheny Valley Railroad, 26 Allegheny West Civic Council, 220 Allegheny West neighborhood, 63; middleclass migration into, 76; on National Register of Historic Places, 223; pr operty values in, 86–87, 145; r esidential zoning of, 178; w ealthy families building in, 33–35, 64–74, 107; w ealthy families leaving, 179. See also Millionaires’ Row Allegheny Widows Home, 19 Allen, George, 35–36 Allen Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church (originally Chartiers Street A.M.E.), 161 Allied Slavonic Singing Society, 187 American Iron Works, 60, 68 American Radiator and Standard Manufacturing Company, 200–201 235 Note: Page numbers in italic type indicate illustrations index 236 American Revolution, veterans of, 2–3 Ammon, Robert A., 82 anarchists, 151–53 Anchor Cotton Mill, 11, 59, 84 Anderson, James: Juniata Rolling Mill of, 8; library of, 25; mansion of , 19–21, 74 Andriessen, Frederick, 104 Andy Warhol Museum, 173,219,226 annexation, of Allegheny by Pittsburgh, 129–30; arguments for , 135–37, 141 ; breakdown of votes on, 140–42; changes required by, 143–44; cour ts upholding legality of, 142–43; special election on, 132–35; wor king-class opposing, 137, 153 annexations, 30; by Philadelphia, 130–31; b y Pittsburgh, 130; state legislatur e promoting , 130–32 annexations, by Allegheny City, 18, 31, 62, 130 Annunciation Roman Catholic School, 185 Anshutz, Henry, 47–49 Arcadia Theate , 186 architects, 16–17; for chur ches, 64, 115; designing for home rehabilitations, 224; documenting older buildings, 194; scant documentation of, 64; working in the 1920s, 184–85. See also specific a chitects Army and Navy Club, 187 Arrott, James W., 83 art collection, Byers’s, 111 Ascension Roman Catholic parish, 150 Asher Guckenheimer & Brothers, 74 athletic associations, 164, 187 Atlas Theate , 186 Aurora Club, 187 Austin Givens, Inc., 180 automobiles: effects o , 181,203 ; elite purchasing , 126–27; str eets inefficient f , 129, 206 Avery, Charles, 11,17, 36–37 Avery College, 36–37 Babcock, Edward Vose, 174–75 Bader, James, 205 Bakewell, James, 93 Bakewell, Thomas H., 12 Bakewell, William, 52 Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, 39, 81–82 Bank of Secured Savings, 191 banks, 225; during D epression, 190–91; in Panic of 1873, 79–81; r obberies of, 195–96 Bard, Robert Washington, 45 Barlow, Thomas, 1 Barr, Joe, 221 Barr & Moser architects, 46 Bartberger, Charles, 91, 184 Bauer, Henry, 152 Bechtel, Peter K., 140 Beckert, Oscar, 194 Beech Avenue, 145,203 ; Millionaires’ Row on, 116–18; r ejuvenation effo ts on, 218–19 Beelen and Denny’s glass works, 5 Beggs, William D. and Emma, 91 Beggs and Lindsay marble and granite works, 62 Behannan, Kenneth, 195–96 Bell, John...