mrsrtz

mrsrtz t1_iuib95p wrote

Reply to comment by lvngstndm in Happy Halloween from the cemetery at 6th and Smithfield! by knawshaw

Info about the church

First German United Evangelical Protestant Church

"When John Penn, jr., and John Penn presented land to the Presbyterian and Episcopal churches of Pittsburgh they, at the same time, deeded the same amount to the already organized German Evangelical congregation; the land given to them was bounded by Smithfield street, Sixth avenue, Miltenberger and Strawberry alleys. No church was built on this grant, however, until some time between 1791-94, and it was of logs. This was … replaced in 1833 by a large brick building, which had the distinction of a cupola, in which the first church bell in Pittsburgh was hung." (Killikelly's History of Pittsburgh.)

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mrsrtz t1_iuhwosm wrote

Reply to comment by lvngstndm in Happy Halloween from the cemetery at 6th and Smithfield! by knawshaw

I think actually it is the block where Brooks Brothers, Carnegie Library, and Smithfield United Church of Christ are located, Miltenberger Alley is now Montour Way.

The Pfarrhaus was the clergy house, built 1819, torn down 1854, and the church was the second, built 1814 or 1815, torn down 1832.

But, who was Miltenberger, that there was this alley and also now the street in Uptown? The 1835 map has Miltenberger owning property between what is now Van Braam and Miltenberger, frmo Fifth to the Blvd. of the Allies.

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