Greetings to Westinghouse Park’s new residents

We are pleased to welcome this pair of proud relics from the recent fall of a trio of the park’s historic red oaks. They will attract admiring park visitors, both young and old, for many years. Let’s call them Marguerite and George.   BTW – much of the lumber being sawn from the fallen trees

Fallen giants in the park

As park visitors know Westinghouse Park suffered a major loss early on the morning of May 1, as three of the giant, Solitude-era red oaks in its center came down. Here is a drone video of the devastation and several still shots below. Estimated to be nearly 150 years old, the oaks were probably planted in the

The renewed Westinghouse Memorial

  On October 6, 2016, the 170th anniversary of George Westinghouse’s birth, Pittsburgh’s tribute to the scientist, inventor, and industrial giant – the Westinghouse Memorial at the bottom of  Schenley Park Drive between Phipps Conservatory and Carnegie Mellon University  – was rededicated. Led by the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy, the project’s $2.7 million cost was been raised through a $500k

Westinghouse Park – where it’s at

Pittsburgh’s East End

Fallen pioneer of the atomic age

                                                                                             Photo by Karla Boos The Westinghouse Atom Smasher was

New Visions for Westinghouse Park

ARCH DESIGN STUDIO [48:640] INTEGRATION II Spring 2020 David Bear of the Westinghouse Park 2nd Century Coalition orients eleven post-graduate students at CMU’s School of Architecture about the park’s history.  They are participants in a design studio conducted by faculty members Jeff Davis and Matt Huber that will focus on the design of a public building

George Westinghouse: The Mystery

Interested in the remarkable man after whom Westinghouse Park is named?  Here is an excellent overview: George Westinghouse: The Mystery Our history pages are thick with Mellons, but it was Westinghouse who changed the course of the country by WILLIAM S. DIETRICH II Pittsburgh Quarterly PROFILES 2006 SPRING/​SUMMER It was a dreary fall day when,

Big things are happening in Westinghouse Park.

From Pittsburgh Quarterly. Fall 2019

Finding Solitude in Westinghouse Park by David Bear Click on photo for article For all of Solitude’s splendor, it rested in a part of Pittsburgh where it was tough to one-​up neighbors like H.J. Heinz and Henry Clay Frick

Welcome to the Pittsburgh home of George Westinghouse

A contingent from China attending the recent CAST -P (Chinese Association of Science and Technology) 2019 Global Innovation Summit made a special visit to the park and pay honor to George Westinghouse.  David Bear of the Westinghouse Park 2nd Century Coalition toured the group through the history of the park (with the help of a