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Monongahela House
1889
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Title
Monongahela House
Creator
James Benney III
Identifier
PSS20.B001.F32.I01
Source Identifier
PSS20.B001.F32.I01
Description
The Monongahela House was located on Smithfield Street between First Avenue and Water Streets (now Fort Pitt Boulevard) in downtown Pittsburgh. The Monongahela House was built between 1839 and 1840 as Pittsburgh's premier hotel. It was destroyed in the 1845 Great Fire and subsequently rebuilt. It was five stories high and had over 200 rooms, and a banquet hall that could accommodate 1500 persons. Among its famous guests were President Jackson, President Lincoln, President Teddy Roosevelt, Charles Dickens, and King Edward VII. The Monongahela House was razed in the early 1920s.
Genre
photographs
Subject
Monongahela House (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Hotels--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
Golden Triangle (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Coal Exchange (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Downtown (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Source
James Benney (III) Photographs, 1888-1889, PSS 20, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
Contributor
Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
Collection
James Benney Photographs
Rights Information
No Copyright - United States. The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information.
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