Looking Back: Monongahela’s Facades
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.