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Gateway Center Construction

1935/1980

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Gateway Center Construction
  • Title
  • Gateway Center Construction
  • Identifier
  • MSP285.B002.F02.I01
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP285.B002.F02.I01
  • Description
  • Construction of the Gateway Center buildings as seen from Point State Park. The Fort Pitt Blockhouse is visible in the right background. In 1949 it was announced that the State of Pennsylvania would create a 36-acre park at the juncture of the three rivers, and Equitable Life Assurance Society, after 2 1/2 years of negotiations, agreed to an initial investment of $50 million to develop 23 remaining acres. Forty buildings were demolished within a six-block area bounded by Liberty Avenue, Fancourt and Stanwix Streets, and Duquesne Way to make way for the Gateway Center project that included three 20-story office buildings (center). This marked the beginning of Pittsburgh’s Renaissance I. The Gateway Center project was a chance for architects to develop a large urban area from the ground up, and it became the first real use of the noted Swiss architect Charles Edouard Jeanneret’s 1922 design. The Gateway Center buildings were completed around 1952.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Gateway Center (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Point State Park (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Downtown (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Fort Pitt Blockhouse (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Urban renewal--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Buildings--Design and 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
  • Rights Information
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