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Two Oliver Plaza

1935/1980

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Two Oliver Plaza
  • Title
  • Two Oliver Plaza
  • Creator
  • Walter E. Eiseman
  • Identifier
  • MSP285.B002.F11.I01
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP285.B002.F11.I01
  • Description
  • This uniquely shaped building was built as Two Oliver Plaza and is now known as the PNC Bank Building. Oliver Plaza covers the area between Wood Street, Liberty Avenue, and Fifth Avenue. This building was designed by architects Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill. The building has as two interlocking octagons of mirror glass to accommodate a cramped space between two earlier structures. A city block of buildings (mostly small businesses) including the Grogan Building, were razed in the late 1960s and early 1970s to make way for what became Oliver Plaza.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Two Oliver Plaza (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    PNC Bank Building (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Downtown (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Skyscrapers--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Commercial buildings--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
  • 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
  • Copyright Not Evaluated. The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use.
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