A Database of James Van Trump's Publications
It was never easy to find James Van Trump's numerous
articles on Pittsburgh architecture, so in 1978 I worked with my then-student
John Richman to create the first-ever bibliography of them, which Richman and I
published as: "James D. Van Trump: Studies in the Architecture of
Pittsburgh" in the Western
Pennsylvania Historical Magazine 63 (1980):63-75. Three years later the Pittsburgh History
& Landmarks Foundation reprinted this effort when it brought out James Van
Trump, Life and Architecture in
Pittsburgh, which reprinted about 75 Van Trump articles and listed other
publications that were not reprinted but are easily accessible. The only thing remaining was a database, at a
least a digital-format listing of these publications, so one can search with a
"find" command to see if and what Van Trump had to say on a topic of
possible interest. This I am happy to
now provide.
Note: To
make the content of these articles more easily searchable I have shortened some
titles, dropped those not on Pittsburgh's art and architecture, and inserted
some explicatory terms [in brackets] to make the article topics more obvious.
--Franklin Toker
9.ii.07
Articles reprinted in Life and Architecture in Pittsburgh (with page numbers in that
book):
The Author ........ xi
An Antiphon of Stones: Some Random Native Notes in
Reply to a Visiting Architectural Critic in
[Frederick Sauer houses, Aspinwall] Castles on the
Allegheny: An Architect's Fantastic Demesne near
[William Strickland, John Haviland, Benjamin Henry
Latrobe, David Gendell, James Windrim, John Notman, Frank Furness, Maximilian
Nirdlinger, Wilson Eyre, Theophilis Chandler, Charles Klauder, Louis Kahn]
Mirror in the West: The Work of Some
[Old Allegheny] The North Side Market
House...................37
[Joseph Kerr] The
[Old Post Office,
[
[Pittsburgh Banks; Bank of Pittsburgh and Burke's
Building (Chislett); Dollar Savings Bank (Hobbs); Bickel & Brennan;
Struthers & Hannah; George Post, Alden & Harlow; Burnham]
Architecture and the
[Graham, Anderson, Probst & White; Joseph Urban;
others] Art Deco
.. 69
Autumn Wine and Preservation: Heinz Hall and the Old
Post Office at
[
[
[
The
[Benno Janssen, his clubs, houses, hotels] "Yet
Once More O Ye
Laurels".......................................................111
The Roof of the University Club in
The Cathedral of Learning from the University Club
Roof .......123
At the University Club: a View of
Henry Hornbostel (1867-1961) A Retrospect and a
Tribute
.....131
Of
Henry Hornbostel: the New Brutalism
.........................143
The Last of Webster Hall: The Passing of a Famous
Oakland Hotel
..153
H.H. Richardson's Emmanuel Episcopal
Church.................................................159
[Wiliam Halsey Wood] Church of the Ascension
................................................171
[John Henry Hopkins, Trinity Church 1824; Allegheny
Cemetery; Barr & Moser; Joseph Kerr, Evergreen Hamlet; Singer House;
Charles Bartberger, John Walsh, Old St. Paul Cathedral; John Notman, St.
Peter's Church; Goodhue, First Baptist Church; Cram, Calvary & East Liberty
Presbyterian; Klauder, Heinz Chapel & Cathedral of Learning] Gothic Revival
in
[Duquesne Depot; Union Station; B&O Station;
[Westinghouse Corp.; Vandergrift Building; Post's Bank
of Pittsburgh; Carnegie Building; Post's Park Building; Burnham's Frick &
Oliver Buildings; Atterbury's Bessemer & Fulton Buildings; Union Trust;
Hannah's Keenan Building; Gulf & Koppers] The Skyscraper as Monument
.
243
[Adam Wilson] Isaac Meason House at
[Croghan-Schenley "Picnic House" The Greek
Revival Revived ...............................255
Medieval
[A.H. English House = Henry Oliver House] Disseminated
Mansion
.263
[
[Alden & Harlow] "Rowanlea," Alexander
Peacock House........................................273
[Alden & Harlow] "Edgehill," Francis
Lovejoy House...............................................277
Frederick G. Scheibler, Prophet of Modern Architecture
..........................................283
[Hornbostel]
[Ralph Griswold; Phipps Conservatory] An
From
Chronicles of
Light over
Downtown Restaurants: McCreery's Department Store and
Kaufmann's
319
The World of [painter] David Gilmour Blythe
.........................................................337
Luke Swank: Master Photographer
...........................................................................341
["Fair Acres," B.F. Jones estate; "Farm
Hill," Edith Oliver Rea estate] Memoirs of Old Sewickley
...................................................................................................................................345
[Bedford Springs Hotel] President [James] Buchanan
..............349
Index to Life
and Architecture in
Below follows a selected listing of Van Trump's
articles on
In The
"A
In Antiques
"National Stone: the
"History in Houses: Hope Lodge,
[
In Carnegie
Alumnus [Carnegie Mellon]
(With Barry B. Hannegan) "Henry Hornbostel and
His Campus," 45:3 (December 1959):4-7.
(With Barry B. Hannegan) "Technology's
In Carnegie Magazine
[
"The Triumphant Stone: a Study of the Foyer of
"Dramatic Prelude: the Rotunda of the
"An
"The Tomb, the
[
[Phipps House] "A
"A Congress of Muses: the Allegorical Bronze
Figures at Carnegie Institute," 33:4 (April 1959):135-7, 139.
"The Urn and the Tree: a Commentary on the Early
Days of
"Art in
"A
"Lions in the Streets: a Sculptural Hunting Party
in
"A
"Frederick G. Scheibler: A Pittsburgh Prophet of
Modern Architecture," 36:8 (October 1962):267-70.
"Our
"A Wreath for Charles Bulfinch, Architect &
Planner," 37:6 (June 1963):209-11, 213.
"The Tenth Muse: Alexander Murals at Carnegie
Institute," 42:2 (February 1965):63-67.
(With Arthur P. Ziegler. Jr.) "A Museum for
[North Side] "Picking up the Pieces in
Dutchtown," 44:6 (June 1970):226-28.
"The Crossing in the Valley: Point Breeze,"
45:5 (May 1971):209-13.
[Old Allegheny Post Office] "The New
"
"The Gothic Revived in
"Revived Romanesque in
"
"The Past as Prelude: a Consideration of the
Early Building History of the Carnegie Institute Complex," 48:8-9
(October-November 1974):346-60.
"The Angelic Eye: Bellefield from the Air,"
49:7 (September 1975):313-22.
"History at the Point and in the Golden
Triangle," 49:10 (December 1975)--a map.
"Henry Phipps and the Phipps Conservatory,"
50:1 (January 1976):26-35. "And Always the Play: Historic Theaters of
"Art Deco," 51:5 (May 1977):198-219
[Daniel Chester French, Henry Bacon] "The Fate of
the
[North Side?] "Memories of the Park," 54:6
(June 1980):16-17.
"The Bells of
"Peter Berndtson,
"Stations East," 56:6 (November-December
1982):20-25.
In The Cathedral
Age
"The Unsubmerged Cathedral: Trinity,
In [The]
Charette
[William Halsey Wood] "
"The Gothic Revival in
"
"The Church Beyond Fashion: a Discussion of H.H.
Richardson's Emmanuel Episcopal Church,
[Henry Hornbostel] "The Stones of Carnegie
Tech," (September & November 1958).
[Benno Janssen] "The Stones of
"An Architectural Tour of
"From Log Cabin to Cathedral: the
[Civic Arena] "
[Hunt Library, Carnegie Mellon] "Aluminum, Glass,
and Books," (October 1961):24-25.
"The Mansions of Science:
"Towers de Luxe: Two New Apartment Houses in
"Requiescat in Pace: Modern Style," (January
1962):19-20.
"Henry Hornbostel," (February 1962):16-17.
"The Lamp of Demos: Some Pittsburgh Public
Schools of the Past," (March 1962):17-20.
"Project H.H. Richardson: the
"Concrete Ship in Shadyside: the Kentucky-Negley
Apartments," (July 1962):18-19.
[
"Frederick G. Sheibler,"
(October1962):10-15.
"The Palace, the Loft, and the Tower. Some Notes
on the Development of the Urban Hotel in
"Homage to Paul Schweikher: the Man and His
Buildings as Seen in a Recent Exhibition in
[Mitchel & Ritchey,
[Frederick Sauer] "Castles on the Allegheny: an
Architect's Fantastic Demesne near
"The Skyscraper as Monument: a Field of
Commemorative Buildings in
"Redeveloped Warehouse:
"An Antiphon of Stones: Some Random Native Notes
in Reply to a Visiting Architectural Critic in
[Max Abramovitz] "The Found City: the Panther
Hollow Project of the Oakland Corporation in
[important architectural theorist at Carnegie Mellon]
Obituary, Hans Vetter, (October 1963):12.
"Mirror in the West: the Work of Some
[Frank Lloyd Wright] "Caught in a Hawk's Eye: the
House of I.N. Hagan at Kentuck Knob," (April 1964):20-21.
"
"Yet Once More 0 Ye Laurels: Benno Janssen,"
(February 1965):8-13.
[Ernest Flag, St. Margaret Memorial Hospital?]
"This
[Important city planner] Obituary.
"Henry Hornbostel: the New Brutalism," (May
1966):8-11.
[Franklin West and house restoration] "Shadyside
Redivivus: Sutton and Westmoration in
"A Document of the New Order: the Commercial Area
of
"This Great from Baroque to Modern,"
(December 1966):6-11.
Review. The
Architectural Heritage of
"The North Side Market House," (March-April
1967):25-26. 29.
"The Book and the Land: the Hillman Library of
the
[William Lescaze] "Welcome to a Good Guy: Number
One,
[
Review. Tasso
Katselas, Architect, Planner. (January-February 1970):8.
[Frick Art & Historical Center]
"Quattrocentisteria: the Frick Art Museu,
"Autumn Wine and Preservation: the Heinz Hall and
the Old Post Office at
In Classical
"Renaissance at
In "Focus," Tribune-Review,
"Time "Erasing' Remains of Fayette's Grand
Meason House," (July 5, 1981).
"
"St. Philomena's: This Migratory Church Was
Dedicated to a Disallowed Saint," (
"Whither the
"A Century of Worker Housing in Natrona," (
"Vandergrift...[
In Journal of
the Society of Architectural Historians
"St. Peter's,
"The Romanesque Revival in
In Landscape
Architecture
"Figures in a Landscape: Simonds and Simonds of
In The
Pittsburgher
[Bulletin-Index,
important social weekly] "Remembering the Bulletin," November 1980):19-20.
"The Estate of R.B. Mellon," (January
1981):15-18.
In Renaissance
"Art Deco City: in
[William Pitt Student Union] "Remembering the
Schenley Hotel," 5:9 (October 1974):37-40.
In University
Club News [may be difficult to locate]
"An Architectural History of the University
Club," (September 1966):11-19.
In The
[Baywood, the King House] With Barry Hannegan.
"King's Folly," 41:1 (Spring 1958):11-16.
"The Centennial Celebration of 1858 in
[Westinghouse mansion] "'Solitude'and the Nether
Depths: the
"The Mountain and the City: the History of
Presbyterian Church,
"The Church of the Ascension,
[Soldiers and Sailors] "Halicarnass,
[Thornburg suburb] Review. Here's to Thornburg by Alice Crist Christner. 50:4 (October
1967):330-333.
"A Heritage of Dreams: Some Aspects of the
History of the Architecture and Planning of the
[Edward Lee, architect] Review, A Pencil in Penn by Edward Brown Lee. 54:1 (January 1971):80-82.
[John Roebling] "A Trinity of Bridges: the
Following are selected books and pamphlets by Van
Trump [PHLF signifies Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation as
publisher]
An
With Arthur P. Ziegler, Jr.
Evergreen Hamlet. PHLF, 1967.
A History of
the Bridges at the Point of
With Arthur P. Ziegler, Jr. Landmark Architecture of
Legend in
Modern Gothic: the
[Daniel Burnham]
[Clinton Furnace, P&LE station] Station Square: a Golden Age Revived. PHLF,
1978.
With Arthur P. Ziegler, Jr. 1300-1355
Selected radio scripts kept at PHLF
[Daniel Burnham? for proposed
"The