Demolition for Gateway Center | Historic Pittsburgh

1950-09

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Title
Demolition for Gateway Center
Creator
Arnold Eagle
Identifier
MSP285.B007.F02.I09
Source Identifier
MSP285.B007.F02.I09
Description
The fire damaged Wabash Station, the Mayfair Hotel (left center on Penn Avenue), railroad yards, and lesser-known landmarks like Matt Cavanaugh’s Liberty Avenue Saloon, and Eppy’s parking lots, succumbed to the wrecking ball in the early 1950s during Pittsburgh’s first Renaissance. Forty buildings were razed within a six-block area bounded by Liberty Avenue, Fancourt and Stanwix Streets, and Duquesne Way, in preparation 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 was a major innovation in urban development at the time. The Gateway Center buildings were completed around 1952.
Genre
photographs
Subject
Gateway Center (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Mayfair Hotel (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Urban renewal--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
Penn Avenue (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Wrecking--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
Downtown (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
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