Official Beginning of the Renaissance

1950-05-18

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Title
Official Beginning of the Renaissance
Creator
John R. Shrader
Identifier
MSP285.B007.F02.I01
Source Identifier
MSP285.B007.F02.I01
Description
The first building at the Point being razed for the construction of Point State Park. The ceremony celebrating the official beginning of the Renaissance plan to revitalize downtown Pittsburgh took place on May 18, 1950, and was marked by the demolition of this small house, believed to be 103 years old. The Allegheny Conference on Community Development brokered pollution-control program in the 1940s explicitly influenced the decision of the Equitable Life Assurance Society to invest in planning the Gateway Center project, which led to the development of Point State Park. The park was completed in 1974. Today, the fifty-nine acre Point, bounded by Stanwix Street and the Allegheny and Monongahela riverbanks, includes twelve office and residential towers, four bridges over land and water, and one of the world’s tallest fountains.
Genre
photographs
Subject
Point State Park (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Wrecking--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
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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