Boaz Frankel

For years after Mister Rogers Neighborhood ended filmed, the piano played by the show’s musical director sat unplayed in the WQED studios.

Contemporary Craft got its start in 1971 when founder Betty Rockwell Raphael opened "The Store" in Verona, Pa.

The structure has been a grocery store, barber shop, betting parlor, dance studio, punk music venue and lithography studio.

When the Roxian Theatre opened in 1929, it was a 1,500 seat vaudeville theater. They soon added a bowling alley in the basement.

Frick was an early adopter of electricity – his house Clayton had electricity even before the White House did.

David Rogers has built hundreds of huge wooden critters over the last few decades – 10 of them are now in Pittsburgh.

The Pittsburgh City Archives contain every piece of legislation passed in the city from 1816 through this week. What else is there?

Saint Vincent Basilica at Saint Vincent College is made of over a million bricks that were all made on-site by the early Benedictine monks.

Alan Scaife and his wife built Penguin Court, a 50-room mansion in Laughlintown, as their country estate in the late 1930s.

Joy Cone started as the George & Thomas Cone Co. in 1918. Today the Hermitage factory produces 10 million cones a day.