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Penn-Lincoln Parkway Bates Street Construction

1950-07

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Penn-Lincoln Parkway Bates Street Construction
  • Title
  • Penn-Lincoln Parkway Bates Street Construction
  • Creator
  • Nestler
  • Identifier
  • MSP285.B010.F30.I02
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP285.B010.F30.I02
  • Description
  • The first contract for preparing the plans for the new Penn-Lincoln Parkway was given to Michael Baker, Jr. of Pittsburgh in November 1943. The estimated cost of the project at the time was $20 million. Cutting into hillsides to avoid Second Avenue (road at right) and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad tracks (right), the new Parkway would eventually connect with the new Fort Pitt Boulevard (a multi-level street to relieve downtown Pittsburgh congestion after replacing Water Street along the Monongahela River).
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Penn-Lincoln Parkway.
    Parkway East.
    Second Avenue (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Bates Street (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Jones &
    Laughlin Steel Corporation.Soho Works
    Highway construction--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
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