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The Point Before Gateway Center Development

1940/1950

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The Point Before Gateway Center Development
  • Title
  • The Point Before Gateway Center Development
  • Identifier
  • MSP285.B006.F06.I03
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP285.B006.F06.I03
  • Description
  • Some of the buildings and warehouses near the Point before the Gateway Center development. Forty buildings were razed within a six-block area bounded by Liberty Avenue, Fancourt and Stanwix Streets, and Duquesne Way to make way for the $50 million Gateway Center project that included three 20-story office buildings. Starrett Bros. and Eken, the firm that built the Empire State Building in New York, used one-third of this area for the Gateway Center buildings, and preserved the rest for parklets, fountains, and tree-lined walkways. This project was a major innovation in urban development at the time.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Point (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Downtown (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Parking lots--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Albert L. Brahm Co. (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Pittsburgh Case Sales Co. (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Manchester Bridge (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Point Bridge (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
  • 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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