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Lower Hill District Demolition
1957-03-14
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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
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