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Architect: Andrew Peebles Begun while the Allegheny County Courthouse was being completed, the Romanesque style First Lutheran Church reflects the design of the Courthouse with its rusticated stonework and vermillion-tinted mortar. It is the successor of the first church built by this congregation in 1840 at Seventh Avenue and Montour Way. Plans were drawn up in 1874 for a church building at Penn Avenue and Ninth Street, but were later abandoned when the lot on Grant Street was purchased. The exterior of the present building is dominated by tall gabled roofs and a spire that rises 170 feet. The plan of the church is in the form of a Greek cross, which gives it a centralized character. The white plaster walls are broken with three tall windows; the window in the north transept ("The Good Shepherd") was designed by Frederick Wilson and fabricated by the Tiffany Studios in 1898. The altar, which was installed after 1892, was designed in the Italian Renaissance style, with mosaics.
