Future site of Mellon Square

1952-02-22

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Future site of Mellon Square
  • Title
  • Future site of Mellon Square
  • Creator
  • Clyde Hare
  • Identifier
  • MSP285.B033.F15.I01
  • Description
  • Buildings on the north half block along 6th Avenue between Smithfield Street and William Penn Way in downtown Pittsburgh before they were razed to make way for Mellon Square. The demolished buildings included a number of small shops and restaurants such as the Maison Felix School of Beauty Culture (right center), and Walt’s Model Hobbies (left center), as well as better known buildings such as the People’s Natural Gas Company Building and the old Davis Theater. Enough material was removed from the construction site to fill the equivalent of 540 boxcars and enough concrete was poured into the hole to pack 90 boxcars solid. The 1.37-acre, $7.9 million park opened in 1955.
  • Subject
  • Cleanthru Dry Cleaners (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Ahlers &
    Bergman (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Mellon Square (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Walt's Model Hobbies (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Downtown (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Maison Felix School of Beauty Culture (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Sixth Avenue (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Thrift Drugs (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Commercial buildings--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs
  • Rights Information
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