Lower Hill District Demolition

1957-03-14

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Lower Hill District Demolition
  • Title
  • Lower Hill District Demolition
  • Creator
  • James McClain
  • Identifier
  • MSP285.B033.F07.I05
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP285.B033.F07.I05
  • Description
  • Looking west from the corner of Washington Street and Wylie Avenue. The Hill District, one of the oldest residential sections in Pittsburgh, began in the late 1840s when banker Thomas Mellon bought a tract of farmland on the slopes nearest the city and subdivided it into smaller lots. In subsequent years successive waves of immigrants including Jews, Italians, Syrians, Greeks, Poles and, finally, African Americans populated the Hill. After World War II, during the city’s Lower Hill redevelopment, 80 city blocks or 100 acres were cleared and 8000 residents, or one-fifth of the Hill’s population at the time, were relocated to make way for the Civic Arena development project. Pictured in the background are the Gulf Tower and Koppers Building.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Lower Hill (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Wrecking--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Washington Street (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Urban renewal--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Koppers Building (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Gulf Tower (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Wylie Avenue (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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