Poli, Morrowfield Apartment Hotel, Morrowfield Parking Garage, and Modern Curtain & Rug

1990

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Poli, Morrowfield Apartment Hotel, Morrowfield Parking Garage, and Modern Curtain & Rug
  • Title
  • Poli, Morrowfield Apartment Hotel, Morrowfield Parking Garage, and Modern Curtain & Rug
  • Creator
  • Hughes, Patricia (Member of the Squirrel Hill Historical Society)
  • Date
  • 1990
  • Identifier
  • 20230417-hpshhs-0035
  • Description
  • The Poli restaurant sign indicates that Poli restaurant was across Murray Avenue to the left of the Modern Curtain & Rug store , which was located in the corner of the five-story indoor parking garage real-estate developer Thomas A. Watkins built to house the vehicles of people staying in the Morrowfield Apartment Hotel next door. Watkins built the garage for the hotel because he wanted to attract an upscale clientele who owned cars. The buildings were built in the 1920s. The hotel boasted central heating and a central refrigeration system, novel at a time when most people still relied on iceboxes. The façade of the Morrowfield has an Italianate theme, with brick walls and white glazed terra cotta accents and decorative balusters.
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Streets
    Stores, Retail
    Restaurants
    Commercial buildings
    Buildings
    Dwellings
  • Geographic Subjects
  • Squirrel Hill (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
  • Contributor
  • Squirrel Hill Historical Society
  • Collection
  • Squirrel Hill Historical Society and Squirrel Hill Urban Coalition Photograph Collection
  • 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: Squirrel Hill Historical Society
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  • Rights Holder
  • Squirrel Hill Historical Society