Loft Developers Do It Old School
By Cory Meiser At the far end of Smallman Street, hiding beside the 31st Street Bridge and set against smokestacks...
Churches Helped Immigrants Take Leap of Faith in America
By Alex Mell The Saint Patrick’s and Saint Stanislaus-Kotska parishes were two places where immigrants in the Strip District could...
How George Westinghouse Gave The Railroads a Brake
By Alexa Veselic A booming in the 1800s, crashes and work accidents associated with train travel were often fatal. Using...
History on the Rocks
By Duncan McCay The Heinz History Center that anchors the east end of Smallman Street in the Strip is housed...
Old Photos Expose Long-gone Shantytown
By Maggie Pavlick Dust and smoke-filled air hangs wearily over wooden shacks and soup kitchens. A man shaves his sunken...
St. Patrick’s: A Cornucopia of Spiritual and Secular History
By Victor Essel If you are getting off of Liberty Avenue at 17th street, perhaps to visit Wholey’s fish market,...
A Lexical History of the Strip Starring the ‘Bayardstown Rats’
By Zach Brendza The Strip was not always what it is today – not in form, not in function, not...