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YPA Nominates Uptown Building to be Historic Landmark
YPA has nominated the Paramount Pictures Film Exchange Building, at 1727 Boulevard of the Allies in Pittsburgh’s Uptown neighborhood, to be a city of Pittsburgh Historic Landmark. Only one other city landmark exists in the neighborhood, the former Fifth Avenue High School. On June 3, 2009, the City of Pittsburgh Historic Review Commission [...]
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Discover Pittsburgh’s African American History on a New Website!
After nearly three years of work, YPA is pleased to present the first-ever interactive website of African American historic sites in the southwestern Pennsylvania region.
Called “Discover the Legacy: The African American Experience in Southwestern Pennsylvania,” and developed in collaboration with VisitPittsburgh, the website features 100 sites important to the development of southwestern Pennsylvania’s African [...]
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