Greater Pittsburgh Coliseum 7310 Frankstown Avenue, Homewood South, PA. Taken in 2016. Source: Google.
Greater Pittsburgh Coliseum 7310 Frankstown Avenue, Homewood South, PA. Taken in August 2021. Just completely empty and dead interior. Source: A Dead-Rink Patron.
Greater Pittsburgh Coliseum 7310 Frankstown Avenue, Homewood South, PA. Taken in August 2021. Just completely empty and dead interior. Source: A Dead-Rink Patron.
Greater Pittsburgh Coliseum 7310 Frankstown Avenue, Homewood South, PA. Taken in August 2021. Just completely empty and dead interior. Source: Dead-Rinks Channel on YouTube. Dead-Rink patron.
Greater Pittsburgh Coliseum 7310 Frankstown Avenue, Homewood South, PA
Greater Pittsburgh Coliseum 7310 Frankstown Avenue, Homewood South, Pennsylvania was once a roller rink. This beautiful historic building even may face demolish or totaled gutted and skaters and preservationists are trying to fight to save the Coliseum in Summer 2021.
It was operational until they closed around 1989 when John and Tina Brewer took over that year. John passed away on February 13, 2018 in his sleep. This is why the redevelopment was needed to preserve or do something else. When John and his wife Tina took over in 1989, it was turned into an event center for arts and activities. Tina is a local known artist and they focused on art. They have had art gallery shows there, fund raising, things like that. The Coliseum is in Greater Pittsburgh where the likes such as the Late Modernist and Commercial Artist Andy Warhol was born.
I am not getting much about the rink and no photographs of skaters or the skating floor. I have a skater/fan of Dead-Rinks asked me if I have any photographs. I do not and I got her message today before I made this profile for her. She said she needed photographs for the something to do with memories for skaters who skated there but also for preservation effort.
This building was also a trolley barn. That makes logical sense because of its design and the way it was built on this block. It was where they stored away the trollies for repairs or put away overnight. Likely this was first operational business in the Coliseum.
The Coliseum had 1,700 to 2,000 seating for spectators for shows.
According to this Google Book search which is lately not doing too good of a job, they are using snippets, not entire pages. But you can look at it here: Pennsylvania. Commonwealth Court. I have to figure it out. There was lawsuit case in court related to the building if they should have it as a non-profit status and the taxation of the property. The case was about the Coliseum that it was then a non-profit and not need to pay taxes. A full case is mentioned here: Homewood-Brushton C.R.C. v. Pittsburgh. This was in 1970s. December 21, 1976 to be exact when the opinion was made.
The Interior.
The skating rink was remodeled into one-half of the entire floor of the facility for the skaters to skate. Other half I do not know what it was. Likely they had Maple floor. I am not sure. Anyone has photos? Please let me know!
The Exterior.
As seen for past 15 years on Google Map, it showed it appeared to be painted in a darker tone of Fire Red with a lot of vertical windows which appeared to look like 1950s-60s look on the front but the building itself appeared to be older than that.
The Stats:
Rink Size: N/A. Floor: Maple? Floor Layout: N/A.
Building Size: 27,500 SF. Built/Renovations: N/A. Demolished: Still standing.
Type of Building: Free-Span Steel Trusses Blocks-Walled Arena - like Building.
Roof: Gambrel with Flats Bonnet on sides..
Acres: N/A.
Operated: (Overall)-- N/A to 1989.
Reason for Closure: N/A.
Wanted: Information regarding exact dates of open/closed, why closed, size of rink, rink materials. Also photos/articles. Anyone knows or have photos, please let me know by emailing at [email protected]. Thank you.
Sources:
A skater in her FB Messenger. -first to ask.
Twentieth-century Pittsburgh: The post-steel era - ebook.
Pennsylvania. Commonwealth Court - 3 pages mentioned.
AP News - Roller skating evolves into dance, acrobatics, a lifestyle (listed all other local Pittsburgh rinks both dead and alive).
Washington Times - Ditto.
Pittsburgh Art Places - Greater Pittsburgh Coliseum
Obituary - John Brewer
The Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh (URA) - Current owner/developer.
Date of issue: 31 July 2021. Updated: 10 August 2021.
For office use only: 3 p, 2 v.
© Copyrighted by Dead-Rinks. All Rights Reserved. Jn 3:3 and 16.
It was operational until they closed around 1989 when John and Tina Brewer took over that year. John passed away on February 13, 2018 in his sleep. This is why the redevelopment was needed to preserve or do something else. When John and his wife Tina took over in 1989, it was turned into an event center for arts and activities. Tina is a local known artist and they focused on art. They have had art gallery shows there, fund raising, things like that. The Coliseum is in Greater Pittsburgh where the likes such as the Late Modernist and Commercial Artist Andy Warhol was born.
I am not getting much about the rink and no photographs of skaters or the skating floor. I have a skater/fan of Dead-Rinks asked me if I have any photographs. I do not and I got her message today before I made this profile for her. She said she needed photographs for the something to do with memories for skaters who skated there but also for preservation effort.
This building was also a trolley barn. That makes logical sense because of its design and the way it was built on this block. It was where they stored away the trollies for repairs or put away overnight. Likely this was first operational business in the Coliseum.
The Coliseum had 1,700 to 2,000 seating for spectators for shows.
According to this Google Book search which is lately not doing too good of a job, they are using snippets, not entire pages. But you can look at it here: Pennsylvania. Commonwealth Court. I have to figure it out. There was lawsuit case in court related to the building if they should have it as a non-profit status and the taxation of the property. The case was about the Coliseum that it was then a non-profit and not need to pay taxes. A full case is mentioned here: Homewood-Brushton C.R.C. v. Pittsburgh. This was in 1970s. December 21, 1976 to be exact when the opinion was made.
The Interior.
The skating rink was remodeled into one-half of the entire floor of the facility for the skaters to skate. Other half I do not know what it was. Likely they had Maple floor. I am not sure. Anyone has photos? Please let me know!
The Exterior.
As seen for past 15 years on Google Map, it showed it appeared to be painted in a darker tone of Fire Red with a lot of vertical windows which appeared to look like 1950s-60s look on the front but the building itself appeared to be older than that.
The Stats:
Rink Size: N/A. Floor: Maple? Floor Layout: N/A.
Building Size: 27,500 SF. Built/Renovations: N/A. Demolished: Still standing.
Type of Building: Free-Span Steel Trusses Blocks-Walled Arena - like Building.
Roof: Gambrel with Flats Bonnet on sides..
Acres: N/A.
Operated: (Overall)-- N/A to 1989.
Reason for Closure: N/A.
Wanted: Information regarding exact dates of open/closed, why closed, size of rink, rink materials. Also photos/articles. Anyone knows or have photos, please let me know by emailing at [email protected]. Thank you.
Sources:
A skater in her FB Messenger. -first to ask.
Twentieth-century Pittsburgh: The post-steel era - ebook.
Pennsylvania. Commonwealth Court - 3 pages mentioned.
AP News - Roller skating evolves into dance, acrobatics, a lifestyle (listed all other local Pittsburgh rinks both dead and alive).
Washington Times - Ditto.
Pittsburgh Art Places - Greater Pittsburgh Coliseum
Obituary - John Brewer
The Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh (URA) - Current owner/developer.
Date of issue: 31 July 2021. Updated: 10 August 2021.
For office use only: 3 p, 2 v.
© Copyrighted by Dead-Rinks. All Rights Reserved. Jn 3:3 and 16.