People Assembling for Point State Park Ground Breaking

1953-01-15

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People Assembling for Point State Park Ground Breaking
  • Title
  • People Assembling for Point State Park Ground Breaking
  • Identifier
  • MSP285.B007.F11.I03
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP285.B007.F11.I03
  • Description
  • On May 18, 1950, a ceremony was held to celebrate the official beginning of the Renaissance plan to revitalize downtown Pittsburgh. 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 and today the fifty-nine acre Point, bounded by Stanwix Street and the Allegheny and Monongahela riverbanks, includes twelve office and residential towers, four bridges over land and water, and one of the world’s tallest fountains. The fire damaged Wabash Railroad Terminal (upper right background) located at the corner of Ferry Street (today Stanwix Street) and Liberty Avenue was demolished shortly after this photograph was taken.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Point State Park (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Wabash Terminal (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Downtown (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Urban renewal--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Parking lots--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
  • Rights Information
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