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Liberty Avenue and Ferry Street

1951-07

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Liberty Avenue and Ferry Street
  • Title
  • Liberty Avenue and Ferry Street
  • Creator
  • Clyde Hare
  • Identifier
  • MSP285.B022.F14.I03
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP285.B022.F14.I03
  • Description
  • A view of downtown Pittsburgh including the Diamond Market House (left background), McCann’s (center right) and the Wabash Terminal (foreground). The Diamond Market House opened in 1915 and was for years home to many small shops selling fish, meat, produce, and other food products. Upstairs was a popular roller skating rink. The Market House was demolished in 1961 leaving space to build the new Market Square. McCann's was renovated in 1968 by Paul Kossman, representing the Town Development Corp., and is now known as the Kossman Building. The Wabash Terminal, the largest example of Beaux-Arts architecture in Pittsburgh, was once one of the grandest railroad terminals in the United States before it was destroyed by fire in 1946. The Wabash Terminal was razed in the mid-1950s to make way for the Gateway Center development project.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Liberty Avenue (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Ferry Street (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Diamond Market House (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    McCann’s (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Wabash Terminal (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Kossman Building (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Downtown (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Electric railroads--Cars--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Buildings--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
  • 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.
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