Near the boardwalk siding the Korean War memorial
Just next to the metal sculpture on the north side riverfront park
Near a granite sculpture "For Man, Beast & Bird", north of the Children's Museum
In the depressed basin near the Children's Museum
In Allegheny Commons Park, more familiarly West Park on the North Side, Christina Schmidlapp has been coordinating a restoration plan that calls for the return of one of the sweetest pieces of public art to its original spot on Federal and Montgomery streets.
"For Man Beast and Bird, 1901" is an 8-foot-tall-by-6-foot-wide sculpture in Barrie granite commissioned by socialite Annie Hartzell of a Chicago architect for $18,000. It provides basins for people, birds, horses, squirrels and any other frequenter of the park to drink from.
"It's in a bad setting now," where people can't see it, at Federal Street and Allegheny Commons North, on Allegheny Circle, said Ms. Schmidlapp. "It spent a few decades in Market Square" before then-city Councilman Baldy Reagan returned it to the North Side, she said. "It will go back in its own spot on the promenade" once the commons are restored.
The commons are home to at least a dozen pieces of art, monuments and statues, "probably more than people realize," said Ms. Schmidlapp. "Everyone brings a different experience to [viewing] it, but what it says is that someone cared about the place."
A walking tour of Allegheny Center.
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