Corner of Forward and Murray Avenues

2016

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Title
Corner of Forward and Murray Avenues
Creator
Wilson, Helen (Member of the Squirrel Hill Historical Society)
Date
2016
Identifier
20230417-hpshhs-0049
Description
The buildings at the corner of Forward and Murray Avenues were demolished after a fire in 2015, leaving an empty lot until construction began on new buildings. The Poli restaurant building that had been to the right of them was also demolished. The red brick building in the center of the picture is the Squirrel Hill Theater, which opened in 1937 and closed in 2010. Although its façade was modernized when the theater opened, the red brick sides of the building show it was one of the original buildings of Thomas A. Watkins’ development, which included the apartments above the theater on Maeburn Road and the five-story parking garage of the Morrowfield Apartment Hotel on the far right. The structure of the theater building, with its stepped roof, suggest the original purpose of the second floor as a bowling alley. The light-colored building to the right of the theater is the power plant under Maeburn Road that provided central heating and refrigeration to all the buildings in the Thomas A. Watkins development around Forward and Murray Avenues in the 1920s.
Type
still image
Genre
photographs
Subject
Building sites
Construction and demolition debris
Dwellings
Geographic Subjects
Squirrel Hill (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Contributor
Squirrel Hill Historical Society
Collection
Squirrel Hill Historical Society and Squirrel Hill Urban Coalition Photograph Collection
Rights Information
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Squirrel Hill Historical Society