A compact, illustrated architectural history of H. H. Richardson's Allegheny County Courthouse and Jail. The book is organized as a walking tour around the exterior and within the public areas of both buildings. A map, three diagrams, and a bibliography facilitate the journey, which can be either pedestrian or virtual.

When Charles Connick (1875-1945) died, The New York Times reported that he was “considered the world’s greatest contemporary craftsman in stained glass.” Connick spent 22 of his first 32 years living in Pittsburgh, and it was there that he learned and first practiced the art and craft of stained glass window design and fabrication.

Published in conjunction with Pittsburgh's 250th Anniversary, Whirlwind Walk originated in tours prepared for the National Trust for Historic Preservation in 2006 and for the Society of Architectural Historians in 2007.

As scholars continue to delve into the history of Pittsburgh, there will be an increasing realization of the role Adolph Schmidt played in the Renaissance of the 1950s and, through his management of the A. W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, of the development of numerous institutions, most notably the Graduate School of Public Health at the University of Pittsburgh .... But in a curious way, his most lasting legacy may be in the realm of ideas. For Schmidt was more than an old-fashioned country-club 'patrician' He was a man of ideas who worked assiduously with others to attempt to bring them to fruition.

The excerpts that compose Life's Riches come from ten books by Walter C. Kidney, architectural historian of the Pittsburgh History Landmarks Foundation from the 1980s until December 2005. They were compiled for a reading of the late author's works on January 24, 2006, at the Soldiers' and Sailors' National Military Museum and Memorial in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Here, in Beyond the Surface, Walter C. Kidney describes the epiphany he experienced in 1948, when he suddenly became aware of the magnificence of Victorian architecture which was then so thoroughly despised. The effect must have been electric, because by the time we made our walking tours of the city in the mid 1950s, he seemed to know every building we passed, no matter how modest it might be. He took his buildings, as he took people he knew as they came. Although he lived his life as a solitary man, never marrying or taking a partner, he fully enjoyed the company of others and the sociability that might flow between them.

Walter C. Kidney's Henry Hornbostel: An Architect's Master Touch is the first book about this 20th-century American architectural master. Hornbostel designed more than 225 buildings, bridges, and monuments nationwide., in cities such as Albany and New York, New York; Hartford, Connecticut; Atlanta, Georgia; Evanston, Illinois; Cedar Rapids, Iowa; and Oakland and Santa Barbara, California. His brilliance, however, is especially evident in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Pittsburgh’s history from its 18th-century founding as a military outpost and “Gateway to the West,” through its transformation into “The Forge of the Universe,” on to its maturity as an industrial and then post-industrial metropolis. This Publication did retail at $54.95, new retail $18.95.