Future Hazelwood Parklet Site | Historic Pittsburgh

1948/1949

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Title
Future Hazelwood Parklet Site
Creator
Newman-Schmidt Studios
Identifier
MSP285.B019.F12.I01
Source Identifier
MSP285.B019.F12.I01
Description
The site of Pittsburgh’s first parklet at Elizabeth and Gloster Streets, which opened in July 1949. In 1869 the City of Pittsburgh annexed Hazelwood as the 23rd Ward. Various industries including iron and steel, railroading, boatbuilding, and river trade provided numerous jobs in this area. In the 1870s Braddock’s Field, which connected Hazelwood to the Point in Pittsburgh, was paved and renamed Second Avenue. At its peak in the 1880s the first street car line came through the area. Because of its easy access into the City of Pittsburgh, Second Avenue soon became the main street of Hazelwood. Some of the first buildings still stand, such as the Nixon Building at the corner of Second and Flowers Avenues. Harness shops and blacksmith shops lined the busy thoroughfare. Stephen Foster would visit friends in Hazelwood and even, so it is said, compose some of his songs there.
Genre
photographs
Subject
Hazelwood (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Hazelwood Parklet (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Playgrounds--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
Elizabeth Street (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Gloster Street (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
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