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Thank you for visiting the Shadyside Action Coalition Online Store. Here you can join the organization, purchase house tour tickets (when available), make a donation, and also purchase the book “Pittsburgh’s Shadyside”.
2011 Shadyside House Tour Tickets
The Annual Shadyside House Tour, sponsored by the Shadyside Action Coalition, was held on September 25, 2011. Please visit the Shadyside House Tour page for more information.
The Shadyside Action Coalition extends a sincere thank you to our House Tour volunteers, homeowners and advertisers who help make this event a success! Also, we’d like to thank the following corporations who sponsored this event:
UPMC SHADYSIDE
Platinum Sponsor
BIG BURRITO CORPORATION
Gold Sponsor
FIFTH THIRD BANK
Silver Sponsor
Shadyside Action Coalition Membership
The Shadyside Action Coalition is an all volunteer neighborhood group that was formed over 35 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. We are able to do these things in part because of your membership. Let your voice be heard! Join the Shadyside Action Coalition today and make a commitment to your neighborhood and our community.
Shadyside Action Coalition Donation
Help support the Shadyside Action Coalition with a charitable donation. Thank you for your support!
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.
