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Historical Performance at Point State Park
1969-09-18
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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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