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Looking Back: Monongahela’s Facades

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This image from sometime between 1950 and 1960 primarily shows the 300 block of West Main Street in Monongahela. Necciai says that almost every building in this photo is now gone.

Another image from sometime between 1950 and 1960, this depicts the south side of the 200 block of West Main Street in Monongahela, beginning at Third Street. These buildings are still standing. “They are very interesting buildings, though most are now in poor condition,” Necciai says. “I hope to see most of them rehabilitated/restored before long (we are already most of the way done on the two on the right).”

Back on page 14, Monongahela historian and executive director of the Monongahela Main Street program Terry Necciai talked about the need to preserve the town’s buildings and architectural history. Now 61 years old, he noted that when he was in college at Carnegie Mellon University, he would come home on weekends only to find that entire blocks of historic buildings were gone. He shared these two images with us, saying that he does not know who originally took them. But they show us two things – what Monongahela used to look like, and what it can look like again – with restoration and fundraising efforts, of course.

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