Gimbel's Warehouse Site

1947-04-10

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Gimbel's Warehouse Site
  • Title
  • Gimbel's Warehouse Site
  • Creator
  • Rembrandt Studios
  • Identifier
  • MSP80.B001.F10.I01
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP80.B001.F10.I01
  • Description
  • The future site of Gimbel Brothers new two-story, $1.25 million warehouse between 24th and 25th Streets in Pittsburgh’s South Side neighborhood looking north. The fireproof structure was 386 feet long and 310 feet deep, and had facilities to load 80 trucks at one time. The structure was designed by Pittsburgh architect William York Cocken and the general contractor on the project was the Trimble Company. In the background is the South Twenty-Second Street Bridge or Brady Street Bridge, erected in 1896, and demolished on May 29, 1978.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Gimbel's (Department store: Pittsburgh, Pa.).Warehouse.
    Warehouses--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    South Side (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    South Twenty-Second Street Bridge (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Brady Street Bridge (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Buildings--Design and construction--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
  • Source
  • Trimble Company Photographs, 1924-1951, MSP 80, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Trimble Company Records
  • Rights Information
  • In Copyright. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. 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. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).. Rights Holder: Senator John Heinz History Center
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  • Rights Holder
  • Senator John Heinz History Center