Gateway Center Construction | Historic Pittsburgh

1951-04

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Title
Gateway Center Construction
Creator
Clyde Hare
Identifier
MSP285.B006.F20.I02
Source Identifier
MSP285.B006.F20.I02
Description
The Point Redevelopment Project looking toward Penn Avenue through the steel frame of the new Gateway Center building in downtown Pittsburgh. In the late 1940s, one of Pittsburgh’s greatest fires destroyed the sprawling elevated yards and warehouses of the Wabash Railroad located in present day Gateway Center. This disaster was an opportunity for the State of Pennsylvania, under the leadership of the Allegheny Conference on Community Development (ACCD), to take over almost half of the area below present Stanwix Street. The Equitable Life Assurance Society entered into a redevelopment plan with the ACCD to purchase the entire remaining area up to Stanwix Street. After the complex of buildings in the area was cleared, the company began construction of Gateway Center in the early 1950s. This marked the beginning of Pittsburgh’s Renaissance.
Genre
photographs
Subject
Gateway Center (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Steel framing (Building)--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
Buildings--Design and construction--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
Downtown (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Urban renewal--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
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