Pennsylvania Avenue
Two badly deteriorated three-story red brick townhouses in the Manchester Historic District fully restored into…
Wilkinsburg
Crescent Apartments
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- 23 renovated units, Built 1904, Listed on National Register of Historic Places
The Crescent Apartments at 738 Rebecca Avenue is one of the most distinctive buildings in the Hamnett Place neighborhood of Wilkinsburg. Built in 1904, the building had nearly collapsed due to years of weather deterioration and abandonment before PHLF undertook its full historic restoration. Completed in 2011, the restored building now contains 23 renovated units funded in part by the Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency, Allegheny County, Federal Home Loan Bank of Pittsburgh, and PNC Bank.
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