Abandoned Pittsburgh: Gears and Ghosts

by Chuck Beard

Overview

Does a building have a soul? And once it is empty of people, does it still have a story to tell? Abandoned Pittsburgh: Gears and Ghosts continues the series that seeks to explore the Steel City's industrial past. Locations in this second volume include Connelley Trade School, Engine House No. 16 (believed to be the oldest firehouse in the city), the Garden Theater (and its sordid past), the crumbling Layton Bridge, Homestead Municipal Building (believed to be one of the most haunted buildings in the city), and the foreboding Western Penitentiary.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781634990462
Publisher:	Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date:	05/28/2018
Pages:	112
Sales rank:	1,068,367
Product dimensions:	6.60(w) x 9.60(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

CHUCK BEARD is founder of the Abandoned Pittsburgh Gallery, which opened November 2016 in Pittsburgh's historic Homestead Municipal Building. He is art director at Pittsburgh Magazine and a prolific photographer in artistic and journalistic media. His ongoing Abandoned Pittsburgh project has led to research into and exploration of twenty-plus historic locations in the Pittsburgh area, including Carrie Furnace, Westinghouse Atom Smasher, Duquesne Steel Works, Overholt Distillery, and the Western Pennsylvania Penitentiary. The project documents the Steel City's forgotten industrial and community sites where "beauty in decay" still exists. He lives in the North Hills of Pittsburgh.

Table of Contents

Introduction 7

Foreword 9

Connelley Trade School 11

Engine House No. 16 24

Garden Theater 34

LaSalle Electric Supply Co. 41

Layton Bridge 50

Mathies Coal Co. 58

Homestead Municipal Building 66

Wilkinsburg Train Station 72

Carnegie Library Theater 82

Western Penitentiary 90