Lower Hill District Demolition

1956

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Lower Hill District Demolition
  • Title
  • Lower Hill District Demolition
  • Identifier
  • MSP285.B030.F10.I01
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP285.B030.F10.I01
  • Description
  • The reconstruction of Pittsburgh's Lower Hill District neighborhood began in 1955 with $17 million in federal grants. This project encompassed 100 acres, 1300 buildings, 413 businesses, and 8000 residents (a majority of them African-Americans) that were displaced in an attempt to extend the revitalization of the adjacent Golden Triangle. Early in the nineteenth century the Hill contained country estates, working farms, coal mines, and a village of black freedmen. Eventually the Hill District became a place of diverse cultures and many levels of prosperity. During the twentieth century, the older ethnic and Jewish population moved away and the Hill became known as the Harlem of Pittsburgh, a place where the best jazz could be heard. Urban renewal in the 1950s removed virtually all of the Lower Hill District.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Slums--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Wrecking--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Urban renewal--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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