Boggs & Buhl Building

1940/1958

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Boggs & Buhl Building
  • Title
  • Boggs & Buhl Building
  • Identifier
  • MSP285.B001.F11.I01
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP285.B001.F11.I01
  • Description
  • The Boggs & Buhl Department Store, located in Pittsburgh’s North Side neighborhood, was built in 1869 and was closed in 1958. The store catered to the carriage trade, particularly to the residents of Allegheny City’s “millionaires row” just a few blocks away on Ridge Avenue. The six-story building was one of the six major Pittsburgh department stores during the twentieth century. It has been speculated that the last owner of Boggs & Buhl closed the store because he did not consider it economically feasible to update the building with air conditioning and other improvements. In the right foreground of the photograph is Ober Park, a green area that stood between the Boggs & Buhl Department Store and the Buhl Planetarium that was transformed from the old Haymarket Square by the Ober Foundation. Ober Park was named in honor of John Ober, philanthropist and part owner of the Eberhardt & Ober Brewery located at the foot of Troy Hill.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Boggs &
    Buhl (Department store: Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Federal Street (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Department stores--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    North Side (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Parks--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
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