Squirrel Hill Tunnel Construction

1950

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Title
Squirrel Hill Tunnel Construction
Identifier
MSP285.B011.F09.I02
Source Identifier
MSP285.B011.F09.I02
Description
The Department of Highways on August 5, 1948, announced that construction of the Squirrel Hill Tunnel would begin on September 1 of that same year. The contract, totaling $13,767,843, was awarded to Perini & Sons, Inc. of Framingham, Massachusetts. This did not include construction of the tunnel lining and highway surface inside the tunnel, nor the ventilating building or pavement of the approaches. At a total cost of $18 million, it was the most costly single project built by the State Highways Department and completed the last link in the first eight-mile section of the Penn-Lincoln Parkway. The total length of the tunnel is 4,225 feet with a posted vertical clearance of 13 feet, 6 inches. The width of the tunnel is approximately 28 feet.
Genre
photographs
Subject
Squirrel Hill Tunnel (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Penn-Lincoln Parkway.
Parkway East.
Highway construction--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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