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Guide to the Records of Gateway Center (Pittsburgh, Pa.), 1950-1951
1950-1951
Metadata Details
- Title
- Gateway Center records 1950-1951
- Creator
- Subject
- Gateway Center (Pittsburgh, Pa.), Architecture--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh, Buildings--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh, Eminent domain--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh, Interior decoration--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh, Urban renewal--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh (Pa.)--Buildings
- Description
- Records include architectural blueprints, construction and mechanical notes, personal profile reports, and photographs documenting buildings, the living and working conditions in downtown Pittsburgh where Gateway Center was constructed in the 1950s. Of note are photographs that document the interiors and exteriors of the building at Pittsburgh's Point in 1950. A list of buildings included in these records may be found in the inventory., Gateway Center was a cornerstone of Pittsburgh's sweeping urban renewal program after World War II. Located on 23 acres adjacent to Point State Park in downtown Pittsburgh, these buildings were financed by Equitable Life Assurance Society and built in the mid 1950s., Gift of Ralph Demmler in 1993., Processed MSS# 130 9/16/96 R. Colker, Inventory available.
- Publisher
- Contributor
- Gateway Center (Pittsburgh, Pa.), American Oil Company (Pittsburgh, Pa.), Congress of Women's Clubs (Pittsburgh, Pa.), Elks Club (Pittsburgh, Pa.), Golden Triangle (Pittsburgh, Pa.), Ludgate, Lear and Co. (Pittsburgh, Pa.), Mayfair Hotel (Pittsburgh, Pa.), Point State Park (Pittsburgh, Pa.), Urban Redevelopment Authority (Pittsburgh, Pa.), Women's Industrial Exchange (Pittsburgh, Pa.), Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center (depositor)
- Date
- 1950-1951
- Type
- Collection, Text
- Format
- Identifier
- pitt: US-QQS-MSS130
- Source
- Language
- eng
- Relation
- http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=hswpead;cc=hswpead;rgn=main;view=text;didno=US-QQS-MSS130, pdcp_noharvest
- Coverage
- Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh (Pa.)
- Rights
- 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., http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/