Children watching demolition work for Gateway Center

1950-09

View this item

Children watching demolition work for Gateway Center
  • Title
  • Children watching demolition work for Gateway Center
  • Creator
  • Arnold Eagle
  • Identifier
  • MSP285.B008.F10.I01
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP285.B008.F10.I01
  • Description
  • Forty buildings were razed within a six-block area bounded by Liberty Avenue, Fancourt and Stanwix Streets, and Duquesne Way to make way 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.)
    Urban renewal--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Wrecking--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Children--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
  • Rights Information
  • Copyright Not Evaluated. The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use.
    http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/