Looking Back
From Images of America: Mt. Lebanon, Photo courtesy Marian Wilson (www.arcadiapublishing.com)
St. Bernard Church held its first mass in the Haller family’s Washington Road carriage house on Aug. 31, 1919. Later that year, the diocese purchased land on Washington Road and hired architect William Perry to design a church, school and rectory. Construction took decades to complete, so temporary buildings, such as this one that was later replaced by the school, were erected and razed between 1920 and 1962, when the project was finally completed.