WILMERDING — The lights were back on in the old “Westinghouse Castle” in Wilmerding Wednesday night. A few of the folks who gathered on the lawn in front of the stately Romanesque/Renaissance Revival building probably swore they saw George Westinghouse waving from his old office, our news partners at the Tribune Review reported.
The property of the General Office or “G.O.” of the Westinghouse Air Brake Co. is getting a major facelift. The people gathered there for a ceremony celebrating the beginning of a long restoration and repurposing process for the grand building that dates back to 1890.
After years of vacancy and deterioration, the building is being brought back to life as home to Turtle Creek Valley Arts and part of an expansion of the Westinghouse Arts Academy in Wilmerding. It will allow the arts-focused high school to expand its programming to include a culinary arts program.
“We could not be more pleased to be a part of the restoration of this important piece of Pittsburgh’s history and the industrial history of the nation,” said Bill Malloy, managing partner of the developer, Westinghouse Castle, LP.
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