Renaissance Kick-Off Ceremony

1950-05-18

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Renaissance Kick-Off Ceremony
  • Title
  • Renaissance Kick-Off Ceremony
  • Identifier
  • MSP285.B007.F02.I05
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP285.B007.F02.I05
  • Description
  • On May 18, 1950, a demolition ceremony was held at the future location of Point State Park to kickoff the beginning of the Renaissance program aimed at reviving the City of Pittsburgh. During the mid-1940s the Point was in an extreme state of deterioration. The area included freight yards, a terminal, largely unused railroad tracks, riverbanks littered with debris, and the grand Exhibition Hall that had held its last show in 1918. The Allegheny Conference on Community Development brokered pollution-control program in the 1940s explicitly influenced the decision of the Equitable Life Assurance Society to invest in planning the Gateway Center project, which led to the development of Point State Park. The park was completed in 1974.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Gateway Center (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Urban renewal--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Point State Park (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Downtown (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
  • 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
  • Rights Information
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