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Wabash Terminal

1870/1954

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Wabash Terminal
  • Title
  • Wabash Terminal
  • Identifier
  • MSP33.B013.F08.I04
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP33.B013.F08.I04
  • Description
  • Description of the photograph reads, “The ‘new’ Wabash Terminal Ferry, corner Liberty Street. This commodious structure, also two great bridges and two tunnels each several thousand feet long, are now in the course of construction for the great Wabash Lines, covering 15,000 miles of territory. Estimated cost $20,000,000.” Until its destruction by fire in 1946, the terminal was the largest Beaux-Arts building in Pittsburgh. When constructed in 1904, it was considered one of the most magnificent railroad terminals in the United States. It was razed in the mid-1950s to make way for the Gateway Center project.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Wabash Terminal (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Buildings--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Downtown (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Railroad terminals--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
  • Source
  • Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation Collection Photographs, 1864-1953, MSP 33, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation Photographs
  • Rights Information
  • Copyright Not Evaluated. The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use.
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