Shadyside Action Coalition

Shadyside Action Coalition Store

Thanks for visiting the Shadyside Action Coalition Online Store. Here you can join our group, purchase house tour tickets, and also purchase our book.

Shadyside Action Coalition Membership

SAC is an all volunteer neighborhood group that was formed over 30 years ago with a commitment to keeping a pulse on public safety issues, development proposals and public policy changes that could affect our great neighborhood. This grass roots, all volunteer group of individuals:

Hold monthly board meetings that are open to the public, in which our Councilman and Police Commander speak with residents about issues that may concern them,
Sponsor a spring educational forum on a pertinent topic concerning the neighborhood,
Attend zoning and planning commission hearings to keep abreast of proposed developments,
Facilitate the coordination of neighborhood Block watch Programs via our Public Safety Committee,
Monitor planned activity within Shadyside’s older structures via our Historic Preservation Committee,
Email informative crime statistics, newsletters and other important goings on in the neighborhood among many other things…

This is just a sampling of the work of our organization. We are able to do these things in part because of your membership. Your membership helps ensure The Shadyside Action Coalition will be the voice of the neighborhood

Shadyside Action Coalition Donation

Help support the Shadyside Action Coalition with a charitable donation. Thank you for your support!

Purchase House Tour Tickets!

Each year in October the Shadyside Action Coalition sponsors the Annual Shadyside House Tour. It is the primary fundraiser for the Shadyside Action Coalition (SAC), allowing the organization to continue working towards maintaining and preserving the quality of life in Shadyside.

Each year our tour consists of homes of all shapes and sizes. Contemporary, traditional and the classic Victorian that is so prominent in this wonderful neighborhood of ours.

You will also have the opportunity to meet many of the homeowners who support the efforts of SAC by opening up their homes to you on this very special day and sharing their renovation stories and ideas with you.

Please check back for this year’s date

Images of America Pittsburgh's Shadyside

The suburb of Shadyside was established in the middle of farmland during the late 1860s when the Shadyside train station opened. As Pittsburgh grew into the world's preeminent industrial city, Shadyside became the home of many influential men of the industrial age. Rapid change struck Shadyside early in the 20th century when commerce sprouted up around the perimeter of the neighborhood to cater to the residents' demand for luxury goods and services. Within another decade industry moved in, especially close to the train tracks, and in 1915, the Ford Motor Company assembly plant opened in Shadyside.

Through more than 200 vintage photographs, Pittsburgh's Shadyside chronicles the personalities, places, institutions, and events that transformed a farming community into an affluent industrial-age suburb and diverse city neighborhood.

About the Author

Donald Doherty is the founding chair of the Historic Shadyside Committee of the Shadyside Action Coalition. These historic images have been selected from the Senator John Heinz History Center Library and Archives, the Archives Service Center and Digital Research Library at the University of Pittsburgh, and private collections.