Spirit of Pittsburgh: 'Ghost Whisperer' star's loft filled with local art
Saturday, November 8, 2008 at 01:00PMPittsburgh Post-Gazette - November 08, 2008
Gretchen McKay
No one could have blamed Swissvale native David Conrad if, once he started making a name for himself as an actor, he slammed the door on his Steel City past and never looked back. Truth be told, the co-star of the CBS series "Ghost Whisperer" is a pretty regular guy, if not exactly a yinzer. When a photographer arrives to take pictures of his funky, 3,300-square-foot loft on Smallman Street in the Strip District, the house keys fall from the sky, wrapped in an old Ricola bag.
"You gotta use the key with the sharper teeth," the actor hollers from his fourth-floor balcony.
He never figured out how to program the entry door's buzzer, he admits later with a sheepish grin.
Conrad has a place in L.A., of course. His Venice Beach bungalow is so tiny it could fit into his loft's bathroom, he jokes.Yet when it comes to the space he considers home, his heart is still firmly planted in Pittsburgh.
His home in the Strip Lofts, now on the market for $835,000, was created over the course of several years by combining two adjoining units and then filling it, chockfull, with the work of local artists and craftspeople.
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