Demolition Ceremony for the Lower Hill District

1956-05-31

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Demolition Ceremony for the Lower Hill District
  • Title
  • Demolition Ceremony for the Lower Hill District
  • Creator
  • John R. Shrader
  • Identifier
  • MSP285.B033.F07.I06
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP285.B033.F07.I06
  • Description
  • A ceremony to mark the beginning of demolition for the redevelopment of Pittsburgh’s Lower Hill District neighborhood includes Mayor David L. Lawrence symbolically commencing the project. The Hill District, one of the oldest residential sections in Pittsburgh, began in the late 1840s when banker Thomas Mellon bought a tract of farmland on the slopes nearest the city and subdivided it into smaller lots. In subsequent years successive waves of immigrants including Jews, Italians, Syrians, Greeks, Poles and, finally, African Americans populated the Hill. After World War II, during the city’s Lower Hill redevelopment, 80 city blocks or 100 acres were cleared and 8000 residents, or one-fifth of the Hill’s population at the time, were relocated to make way for the Civic Arena development project.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Urban renewal--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Lower Hill (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Lawrence, David Leo, 1889-1966.
  • 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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