Beginning of demolition of the Lower Hill

1955

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Beginning of demolition of the Lower Hill
  • Title
  • Beginning of demolition of the Lower Hill
  • Creator
  • unknown
  • Identifier
  • MSP285.B001.F17.I02
  • Description
  • The reconstruction of Pittsburgh's Lower Hill District neighborhood began in 1955 with $17 million in federal grants. The project encompassed 100 acres, 1300 buildings and 413 businesses. Approximately, 8000 residents (a majority of them African-American) were displaced in an attempt to extend the revitalization of the adjacent Golden Triangle. Early in the nineteenth century the Hill contained country estates, working farms, coal mines, and a village of black freedmen. Eventually the Hill became a place of diverse cultures and many levels of prosperity. During the twentieth century, the older ethnic and Jewish population moved away and the Hill became known as the Harlem of Pittsburgh, a place where the best jazz could be heard. Urban renewal in the 1950s removed virtually all of the Lower Hill.
  • Subject
  • Hill District (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Lower Hill (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Urban renewal--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Wrecking--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs
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