Mellon Park Looking Toward the Fountain

1956-06

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Title
Mellon Park Looking Toward the Fountain
Creator
Pittsburgh Photo Lab
Identifier
MSP285.B019.F01.I07
Source Identifier
MSP285.B019.F01.I07
Description
Mellon Park, located at Fifth and Shady Avenues in Pittsburgh’s Shadyside neighborhood, was once the property of Richard Beatty Mellon. In 1911 the architectural firm of Alden and Harlow designed the property, including a terraced garden. The garden featured decorative hedges in arabesque patterns, sculptures, and three pools. Mellon Park is the most intact of the Mellon estate landscapes in Western Pennsylvania known to have been designed in the 1920s by Olmsted Associates, the firm founded by Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., son of the designer of Central Park in New York City. Most of the Olmsted features, including the pond garden, are now gone. In 1943 the Mellon estate became Mellon Park, which now also includes a playground and sports fields across Fifth Avenue. In 2004 the park was home to the Pittsburgh Civic Garden Center, American Youth Hostels, and the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts.
Genre
photographs
Subject
Mellon Park (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Parks--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
Shadyside (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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