Lawrenceville event will feature ‘Snapshots Through Time’ (Tribune-Review)
The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reported on the Lawrenceville Historic House Tour - a Community Connections Grassroots grant recipient.
Melissa and Jason Julius reside in the Victorian house in Lawrenceville that state Sen. Max Leslie lived in for 40 years.
This weekend, their restored home will be featured on the “Lawrenceville Historic House Tour: Snapshots Through Time.” The Lawrenceville Historic Society and the Lawrenceville Stakeholders were awarded a Community Connections grassroots grant from Pittsburgh 250 to expand its house tour, according to Kate Bayer of the house-tour committee. So, in addition to the seven houses on today’s tour, and nine houses on Sunday’s tour, there will be re-enactments and living-history characterizations.
“This year’s tour is not an ordinary house tour,” Bayer says. “We have laid the tour out to give our visitors a snapshot through time from 1750 to 2008 and beyond. None of the other house tours is a Pittsburgh 250 Community Connections grassroots event like this one.
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