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Allegheny Commons
Bounded by West North Avenue, Brighton Road, and West Ohio Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15212

Online

The Allegheny Commons Master Plan
Pressley Associates, Inc., August 2002.

Designer Bio

John O. Simonds (1913-2005)

Print

Birnbaum, Charles A. with Jane Brown Gillette and Nancy Slade, editors. Preserving Modern Landscape Architecture II: Making Postwar Landscapes Visible. Massachusetts: Spacemaker, 2004.

Simonds, John Ormsbee. Landscape Architecture. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1961.

Simonds and Simonds Landscape Architects, Planners. “Proposed Long Range Development Plan - Allegheny Commons.” 1966.

Archives

John Ormsbee Simonds Collection
George A. Smathers Library
University of Florida

Photo © Heather F. Wetzel

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education partners Additional Sponsors American Society of Landscape Architects’ Indiana, Pennsylvania/Delaware, Minnesota, Northern California, Texas, Upstate New York, and Washington Chapters • Astorino • Charles Butt • Design Within Reach • Topher Delaney • Sandy Donnell & Justin Faggioli • Fathom • Tom Fox • Hillman Foundation • Indianapolis Museum of Art • Lorraine Osmundson • Richard T. Murphy • National Trust for Historic Preservation’s Northeast, Southwest, and Western Offices- with funds from the Charles Evans Hughes Memorial Foundation of New York, Dodge Jones Foundation Intervention Fund, and Eastern Massachusetts Preservation Fund • James Richards • Seibert & Rice • Diana & Bruce Shuman • Ann Stack • SWA Group • TBG Partners • Michal and Jeffrey William Tincup • Unilock Inc. • The Woltz Charitable Trust