Wabash Terminal Ruins | Historic Pittsburgh

1947-11-12

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Title
Wabash Terminal Ruins
Creator
Newman-Schmidt Studios
Identifier
MSP285.B003.F02.I06
Source Identifier
MSP285.B003.F02.I06
Description
The intersection of Fourth Avenue and Ferry Street in downtown Pittsburgh. The Wabash Terminal (center) was designed by Theodore C. Link and built at a cost of $1 million in 1904. In June of that same year, this nine-story structure with its sleek columns and neo-Baroque dome opened for business. At the time it was considered one of the most magnificent railroad terminals in the United States and became one of five major railroad terminals in Pittsburgh. It was the largest Beaux-Arts building in Pittsburgh before March 1946, when a five-alarm fire partially destroyed the train shed and railroad trestle. Three weeks later, another fire engulfed the trestle and the eleven warehouses nearby. The destruction by fire of the terminal was a major factor in the decision to move ahead with plans to raze the area below Stanwix Street to make way for Gateway Center and Point State Park.
Genre
photographs
Subject
Wabash Terminal (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Fourth Avenue (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Ferry Street (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Downtown (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Railroad terminals--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
Source
Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs, 1892-1981, MSP 285, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
Contributor
Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
Collection
Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs
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