Lower Hill District before Demolition

1956-10

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Lower Hill District before Demolition
  • Title
  • Lower Hill District before Demolition
  • Creator
  • John R. Shrader
  • Identifier
  • MSP285.B033.F05.I02
  • Description
  • Looking west on Epiphany Street at Fullerton Street. The Hill District, one of the oldest residential sections in Pittsburgh, began in the late 1840s when banker Thomas Mellon bought a tract of farmland on the slopes nearest the city and subdivided it into smaller lots. In subsequent years successive waves of immigrants including Jews, Italians, Syrians, Greeks, Poles and, finally, African Americans populated the Hill. After World War II, during the city’s Lower Hill redevelopment, 80 city blocks or 100 acres were cleared and 8000 residents, or one-fifth of the Hill’s population at the time, were relocated to make way for the Civic Arena development project.
  • Subject
  • Lower Hill (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Epiphany Street (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Houses--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs
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