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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 1

• HISTORY
• former branch house for International Harvester
• Harry Guckert Company printing operations
• McCormick Harvesting Machine Company
• International Harvester Company.
• regional branch house for sales
• REDEVELOPMENT
• Q Development
• Allegheny Branch House Lofts
• The North Side-based developer, which has been involved in several historic projects in the neighborhood, including the old Garden Theater, * will go before the Pittsburgh Zoning Board of Adjustment on March 10 to seek a special exception and variance related to parking and a * variance related to residential accessory uses.
• 2015, Q Development paid $1 million
• The two-story duplexes will occupy the first floor
• reconstruct the loading dock outside the units to double as terraces.
• In addition to the Willock House and companion three-story Carriage House, it rehabbed the Katsafanas Coffee Company building at 828 West
• Develop multiple properties in the neighborhood
• ARCHITECTURE
• listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
• Classical Revival style of architecture
• equipment showroom was on the second floor
• line that runs behind the building was perfect for deliveries.

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 2

• ARCHITECTURE
• triangular-shaped building
• four-story brick building at 810 W. North Ave.
• tin ceiling and four management offices part of a second-floor showroom
• REDEVELOPMENT
• 36 apartments
• National Register of Historic Places. Q Development paid $1 million to buy the triangular-shaped building near the Brighton Road intersection.
• five two-story duplexes that will occupy the first floor and the lower level of the building
• The tin ceiling will be integrated into the apartmentsr
• offices will be used for either dens or bedrooms. The goal of the design is to accentuate the building’s architecture, Mr. Belloli said.
• Allegheny Branch House Lofts
• $15 million
• Mistick Construction general contractor
• Perfido Weiskopf Wagstaff + Goettel architect.
• constructed by the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company before a merger

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NRHP Nomination

• HISTORY
• 1901 McCormick Harvesting Machine Company
• 1902 for their successor, the International Harvester Company
• LOCATION
• West North Avenue on the south, Galveston Avenue on the west, Jabok Way on the north, and the Norfolk Southern Railroad corridor on the east
• What was then the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railway
• 1901 independent city of Allegheny
• 1908, the City of Pittsburgh annexed Allegheny City
• ARCHITECTURE
• The four-story, nine-bay wide, brick
• Classical Revival
• Originally three stories tall and six bays wide
• “flatiron” configuration
• HISTORY
• 1912 to 1913 addition enlarged the building, three-bay wide, four story addition on the west side and adding a fourth story atop the existing building
• branch house in the building until 1959
• Branch houses direct agent of manufacturere with ful lline
• 1962 to July 2020, headquarters of the Harry Guckert Company, Inc., a printing supply
• 2015, sold to 810 West North Avenue LP, though the Guckert rented for 5 years
• original grade of the street and sidewalk required three steps to reach the entrance with tall transom above the doors
• street grade elevated c. 1929 and again in the 1940s, changing the front entrance
• two-story brick building western facade, 1902 as the R.L. McCready Warp and Weavers Supply Factory, Became the North Avenue Carpet Cleaning Company by the 1912 expansion. 1925, became the Katsafanas Coffee Company, current Art-Deco facade constructed

• Allegheny Branch House of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company
• August 1902, while under construction, merged
• 1911, when it officially became the Pittsburgh Branch House of the International
• brick bearing walls
• coursed rubble foundation in 1902 section of the building
• poured concrete in the 1913 addition
• front (south) and east facades are clad in mottled brown brick laid in Flemish bond
• rear (north) and west facades are clad in red brick laid in a common bond
• walls extend above roofline, forming low parapets, concealing EPDM roof
• two-story elevator penthouse of painted concrete block in center of roof
• FRONT FACADE
• front facade nine bays wide along West North Avenue
• facade comprises three-story wall of the original building, the bays of the 1913 addition, and the fourth floor addition
• projecting basement course of ashlar limestone comprised of a plinth course, scotia with fillet, and a beveled dado
• eastern half of the facade, the base changes to accommodate changes to the bridge over the railroad tracks
• here beveleddado rises in two steps, following the street grade
• Counting from west to east, bays four and five show evidence of original basement windows that have been infilled with ashlar limestone
• between bays three and four, a narrow, vertical brick joint between the original 1902 building and the 1913 addition.
• Ghost signs “Harry Guckert Co.” sign is fading and revealing parts of the older “International Harvester Company” sign.
• limestone base, substantial banded brick end piers, and a projecting brick and limestone entablature
• first floor, bays one through five contain large rectangular window openings, with steel lintels and limestone lug sills
• openings were infilled in the early 1960s with square concrete block and glass block covered with metal mesh
• Bay six contains the main entrance. Bays seven through nine contain similar windows, except that bays eight and nine contain slip sills, which are at a higher elevation, a result of the changes in street grade.
• The main entrance is recessed within a frame of projecting limestone and brick, double wood

doors with translucent glass with a four-light transom

• ghost of a wall sign reading INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER COMPANY
• across the entire front facade, stringcourse of brick dentil molding and a simple limestone projection that separates the first floor from the floors above
• separating the third and fourth floors is the brick and limestone entablature, which served as the cornice and parapet wall on the original three-story building
• the very top of the facade, the wall terminates in a simple limestone stringcourse, a sign band, and a parapet capped by a limestone coping with a later sheet-metal cap
• outer ends of the parapet are topped by shallow pediments
• front and east facades are joined by a clipped corner wall that is one bay wide and features the
• steel lintels and terra-cotta sills

EAST FACADE

• 1902 portion of the building measures five bays wide and mirror to front.
• concrete loading dock that serviced a now-abandoned railroad siding
• REAR FACADE
• Also visible when viewing this side of the building is the one-baywide east facade of the 1913 addition (the addition being deeper

than the original 1902 building).zig zag of 1913 addition.

• INTERIOR
• PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION—INTERIOR
• 1902 triangular eastern portion of the building is seperated from rectanguarl 1913 western addition by a brick firewall based on the original plan except for fourth floor
• Basement: open, with heavy timber structural framingfoundation walls are coursed rubble Along the east wall,western section of the poured concrete
• 1st Floor: main entrance, which has been in the sixth bay (counting from west to east)leads to the second floor, office for Guckert employees until July 2020, loading dock door
• 2nd Floor: The eastern section 1913 remodeling, large central hall, two former showrooms with tin ceilings and classical wood column ix inter-connected offices with, windowed partitions, storeroom originally built, to house advertising materials, and a large walk-in vault, walls are painted plaster; ceilings are painted tin.
• 2nd floor western section less finished
• 3rd Floor: firewall, restrooms,
• 4th Floor: no interior partitions aside from those of the firewall, freeight elevator, mechanical room
• Wilmanns, August C.—architect for the 1913 expansion
• Price, William Douglas—Superintendent of Construction and designer of building program for 1913 expansion
• Rose & Fisher Company—builder for the 1913 expansion
• R. & S. Sollitt & Company 1902 section construction company
• IHC sold in 1944 to Percy W. Hatfield and then rented it back.
• 1962 sold to Guckert
• 1913 addition $91,127.49
• 810 West North Avenue LLP in 2015
• each branch house handles sales, advertising, and repairs
• 1913 addition $91,127.49
• 1925 5200 Penn Avenue truck sales but still under the branch house manager
• Commercial fleet sales of International Trucks
• 1933, consumer truck sales moved to building at Centre and South Millvale Avenues in “Automobile Row,” Advertising distinguished between “motor truck branch” vs "farm equipment branch"
• location sold home refrigerators in the 1950s
• 1959 closed after fifty-seven years

Opened showroom showroom at 100 Ferry Streetin Leetsdale

• vacant from 1959 - 1962
• July 1962, Regis and Mark Guckert of the Guckert Land Company purchased the property
• in house architect August C. Wilmanns
• Superintendent of Construction William D. Price.
• Classical Revival Style & August C. Wilmanns

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Union Progress

• RAILROAD UPGRADE
• Norfolk Southern Railway again redoing adjacent bridge for Double-stack rail transport
• building owner negotiated with the railroad on the design
• West North Avenue Bridge
• Raise 2 feet 6 inches
• Scheduled in 2026

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• CONTRIBUTING PROPERTY
• listed as a Contributing property to the Allegheny Second Ward Industrial Historic District in 2025
• next door is Katsafanas Coffee Company Building. built in 1901 but later renovated in art deco style. (Resource #36)

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Historic Preservation, us for renovation details

• construction of new parking area and ADA ramp,
• Fire suppression
• $500,000 for PA Historic Preservation Tax Credit from DCED for FY 2022-2023.

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Next Pittsburgh

• Q Development
• Perfido Weiskopf Wagstaff + Goettel
• 1905, with an addition in 1912 and a fourth floor added in 1913
• industrial elevator shaft converted to loppby with skylight and translucent floors in between.
• Mindhunter (TV series), American Rust, Rustin
• extra window glazing to muffle the sound of train tracks

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• REDEVELOPMENT AWARD

AIA’s Design Pittsburgh program Honor Awards: Allegheny Branch House Lofts by PWWG Architects 1905, with notable additions in 1912 and 1913 brick, trapezoidal warehouse\ National Register of Historic Places in 2018 36 apartments ^{[9] [9]}

History

Market-rate, $13.5 Million , 36, April 2024 Builder Mistick Construction Client: Q Development Architect: Perfido Weiskopf Wagstaff + Goettel

Architecture

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

References

External links

• Allegheny Branch House Lofts

Category:International Harvester buildings and structures Category:National Register of Historic Places in Pittsburgh Category:Commercial buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Category:Commercial buildings completed in 1905 Category:1905 establishments in Pennsylvania Category:Apartment buildings in Pennsylvania Category:Triangular buildings Category:Neoclassical architecture in Pennsylvania Category:Individually listed contributing properties to historic districts on the National Register in Pennsylvania