Arsenal Shop | Historic Pittsburgh

1918-03-25

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Title
Arsenal Shop
Identifier
MSP117.B022.F02.I04
Source Identifier
MSP117.B022.F02.I04
Description
In 1814 the United States War Department purchased a section of land bounded by Penn Avenue, the Allegheny River, and 39th and 40th Streets for $12,000 to use for the construction of an Arsenal to supply arms and ammunition to the United States armed forces. Benjamin Henry Latrobe, who helped design the Capitol in Washington, D. C., was the original resident architect. At the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861, over 800 people were employed at the Allegheny Arsenal. Following the Civil War, the Allegheny Arsenal continued to play a role in the lives of local residents. It became a storage and supply depot for the United States government until 1924 when the government decided the building had outlived its usefulness. Arsenal High School was constructed on the grounds of the Allegheny Arsenal between 1931 and 1940 in the art deco style. For a time the school became a girls’ vocational high school, but in 1971 it was reopened as Arsenal Middle School.
Genre
photographs
Subject
Allegheny Arsenal (Pittsburgh, Pa.).Shop.
Lawrenceville (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Butler Street (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Thirty-Ninth Street (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Source
Pittsburgh Public Schools Photographs, 1880-1982, MSP 117, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
Contributor
Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
Collection
Pittsburgh Public Schools Photographs
Rights Information
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Rights Holder
Senator John Heinz History Center