PHOTOS COURTESY WESTINGHOUSE ARTS ACADEMY
Lights, camera, action! After a major facelift, the curtain is opening on the new home of the Westinghouse Arts Academy Charter School at the old “Westinghouse Castle” in Wilmerding.
Designed by famed architect Frederick Osterling, the massive, stone Romanesque/Renaissance Revival building looming over Wilmerding will become home to the nonprofit Turtle Creek Valley Arts, which in turn will sublet most of the property to the Westinghouse Arts Academy, a public charter high school that provides comprehensive arts programing.
Turtle Creek Valley Arts will retain use of the building during non-school hours and offer arts-based educational services to the community; it will also operate the building as an event facility for weddings and other gatherings.
Built in 1890, the Westinghouse Air Brake General Office was once…
