PHLF Accepts Easement on Fort Pitt Blvd Building

The Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation is pleased to announce that they have received a preservation easement on 239 Fort Pitt Boulevard, a c. 1890 Queen Anne-style commercial building located in Downtown Pittsburgh’s Firstside National Register Historic District.
 
The façade of the building will be restored this summer through funding of a Landmarks Community Capital (LCC) loan. It is owned by KBK Enterprises, a real estate development firm with offices in Pittsburgh and Columbus. LCC is a non-profit lending subsidiary of their organization.
 
A preservation easement is a legal agreement between a property owner and our organization, which places permanent, mutually agreed to restrictions on a historic property to protect it from inappropriate alteration, development, and destruction.
 
Preservation easements protect the conservation values defined in the legal agreement and baseline documentation, and may extend to a building’s façade, a building’s entire exterior, air space above a building, interior spaces, and/or open space and landscaping.
 
Generally, the legal agreement states that no changes will be made to the historic property that are contrary to the U.S. Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Rehabilitation, without the prior written consent of our organization.
 
With this easement their organization now controls 49 preservation easements in southwestern Pennsylvania.