About Western Pennsylvania Conservancy

WPC - The Early Years
by Dr. M. Graham Netting
"The year was 1931, hardly an auspicious time, it would seem in retrospect, to found a nonprofit organization that would be dependent upon gifts. Economic conditions were bleak in this second year of the Depression; unemployed workers had marched to Harrisburg, and 5,000 hunger marchers had paraded in Pittsburgh." More...

A WPC Timeline (1932 to 2005)
A chronological listing of some significant Western Pennsylvania Conservancy projects in its 73 year history. More...

WPC Offices in the Burke Building
WPC bought the building in February 1995 and spent a year renovating the 161-year-old structure, known most commonly to long-time Pittsburgh residents as Arthur’s Restaurant. More...

The Fallingwater Restoration
By Lynda Waggoner
"The story is well known by now: a young University of Virginia engineering student, John Paul Huguley, asked if he could create a computer model of Fallingwater's master terrace structural system. Though many scholars had studied the building, no one had ever attempted such an analysis before and we were happy to assist by providing access to our archives and to the building."
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