Churchill Midcentury Modern Home Tour 2025

Planning Committee

Michael O’Brien, Churchill Recreation Board
Joe Kotelnicki, Churchill Recreation Board
Lisa Edwards, Churchill Resident, Research Lead
Janet Paull, Churchill Recreation Board
Brittany Reilly, Pittsburgh Modern Committee of Preservation Pittsburgh

Home Selection Committee

Brittany Reilly Brittany founded the Pittsburgh Modern Committee to focus on celebrating modern architecture & design and is on the Board of Directors of Preservation Pittsburgh, fighting to keep Pittsburgh's historic architecture intact. She is the Executive Director and curator of the Aaronel deRoy Gruber Foundation - Aaronel was a modernist artist who previously lived on Marbury Road, Churchill and had a studio nearby.

David Lagnese David serves on the Board of Pittsburgh Center for Arts & Media and as an Advisor to the Board of the Nakashima Foundation for Peace. He is a former board member of Construction Junction and lives in Highland Park. An avid collector of Japanese woodblock prints, his home and collections have been prominently featured.

Lisa Edwards Lisa has an architectural degree from City University of New York - City College and worked for decades in the design/construction/management field in New York City. Retiring to Pittsburgh before the pandemic, she has been restoring her Churchill midcentury modern home ever since and is currently researching all of Churchill's midcentury modern homes, particularly the Marbury/Elmhill/Brushcliff cluster with Eric Lidji, Director of Rauh Jewish History Program & Archives, Heinz History Center.