Lower Hill District before Demolition

1956-10

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Lower Hill District before Demolition
  • Title
  • Lower Hill District before Demolition
  • Creator
  • John R. Shrader
  • Identifier
  • MSP285.B033.F05.I11
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP285.B033.F05.I11
  • Description
  • Logan Street at Colwell Street, looking northwest on Logan Street. The reconstruction of Pittsburgh's Lower Hill District neighborhood began in 1955 with $17 million in federal grants. This project encompassed 100 acres, 1300 buildings, 413 businesses, and 8000 residents (a majority of them African-Americans) that were displaced in an attempt to extend the revitalization of the adjacent Golden Triangle. Urban renewal during this period removed virtually all of the Lower Hill District.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Lower Hill (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Logan Street (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Haimovitz Poultry Market (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Cohen's Poultry Market (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
  • Source
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs, 1892-1981, MSP 285, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs
  • Rights Information
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