Historical Performance at Point State Park

1969-09-18

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Historical Performance at Point State Park
  • Title
  • Historical Performance at Point State Park
  • Creator
  • A. Church Photographers
  • Identifier
  • MSP285.B007.F11.I04
  • Description
  • Crowds gather near the Fort Pitt Blockhouse to watch a historical reenactment. For years the Fort Pitt Blockhouse, built by Colonel Henry Bouquet in 1764, stood on its original site surrounded by industrial buildings and urban blight. It is now part of an historical site and museum visited each year by thousands of tourists and school groups. In 1949 it was announced that the State of Pennsylvania would create a 36-acre park at the juncture of the three rivers, and Equitable Life Assurance Society, after 2 1/2 years of negotiations, agreed to an initial investment of $50 million to develop 23 remaining acres. Forty buildings were demolished within a six-block area bounded by Liberty Avenue, Fancourt and Stanwix Streets, and Duquesne Way to make way for the Gateway Center Project, that included three 20-story office buildings. This marked the beginning of Pittsburgh’s Renaissance I. The Gateway Center project was a chance for architects to develop a large urban area from the ground up, and it became the first real use of the noted Swiss architect Charles Edouard Jeanneret’s 1922 design. Directly behind the blockhouse is the Westinghouse Building.
  • Subject
  • Point State Park (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Blockhouse (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Gateway Center (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Downtown (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Westinghouse Building (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs
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