
Pennsylvania Avenue
Manchester

PHLF’s story began on a city street in Pittsburgh’s historic North Side — and from that beginning, we became nationally recognized for pioneering preservation strategies that restore neighborhoods without displacing the people who call them home.
Over time, we’ve learned a fundamental truth: the only lasting guarantee of preservation is ownership. That belief drives our growing easement program, which protects properties for future generations, and our strategy of using grant and investment funds to leverage preservation commitments from others.
Advocacy and education strengthen these efforts — but ownership and collaboration are at the heart of everything we do.
Pennsylvania Avenue
Manchester
Two badly deteriorated three-story red brick townhouses in the Manchester Historic District fully restored into quality subsidized housing.

Pennsylvania Avenue
Manchester
Langenheim House
Manchester
One of Manchester's oldest surviving structures and the starting point for PHLF's founding mission, restored for apartment use.

Langenheim House
Manchester
Market-at-Fifth
Downtown
Three historic buildings dating to the 1870s rescued from demolition and restored into a LEED Gold certified mixed-use development in the heart of Downtown Pittsburgh.

Market-at-Fifth
Downtown
Station Square
Downtown
PHLF's most ambitious historic preservation project, transforming a collection of underutilized Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad buildings into a thriving riverfront destination.

Station Square
Downtown
Falconhurst Apartments
Wilkinsburg
A massive historic apartment building vacant for over 15 years, restored as part of an $11.5 million affordable housing initiative in Wilkinsburg.

Falconhurst Apartments
Wilkinsburg
Crescent Apartments
Wilkinsburg
A uniquely shaped 1904 apartment building restored from near collapse, now offering quality affordable housing in the Hamnett Place neighborhood.

Crescent Apartments
Wilkinsburg