Dan Rooney was Chairman of the Pittsburgh Steelers and former United States Ambassador to Ireland. A member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, he is the author of Dan Rooney: My 75 Years with the Pittsburgh Steelers and the NFL. Carol Peterson was an architectural historian who specialized in the buildings, homes, and communities of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
How many viewers of Monday Night Football featuring the Pittsburgh
Steelers at Heinz Field realize that the stadium--like nearby PNC
Park, the Pittsburgh Science Center, and the Warhol Museum--sits on
Pittsburgh's North Side, once a thriving Allegheny City? Lest we
forget, two North Side authors--Steelers owner Dan Rooney and
architectural historian Carol Peterson--have filled the void in a
volume that is both intimate and informative. . . . As a joyful
paean to a once-important and thriving industrial city that still
retains a prideful sense of place, the book fully succeeds in its
purpose.-- "Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography"
Takes readers on a fascinating and often surprising street-level
tour of this vibrant, colorful and proud place.-- "Pennsylvania
Heritage"
The North Side is coming back. . . . This book tells the Allegheny
City/North Side story from the days of canals and cotton mills
through the present day. Dan Rooney, who grew up in the
neighborhood, has joined with Carol Peterson, a tireless scholar of
Pittsburgh's history, to coauthor this essential story. . . . If
you have any interest in the way American cities evolved--and if
you have a particular interest in Pittsburgh--this is the book for
its largest section, the North Side.-- "Brian O'Neill, Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette, from the foreword"
Valuable for readers interested in western Pennsylvania history and
in the nature of our state's most important industrial city.--
"Pennsylvania Magazine"
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