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Children's Zoo at Highland Park

1953

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Children's Zoo at Highland Park
  • Title
  • Children's Zoo at Highland Park
  • Identifier
  • MSP285.B018.F21.I02
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP285.B018.F21.I02
  • Description
  • In 1889 Edward Manning Bigelow, Pittsburgh’s first parks director, decided to create Pittsburgh’s first major park around one of the city’s original reservoirs. He assembled the 403-acre Highland Park by acquiring land from 120 different owners using about $900,000 of City funds. In 1898 Christopher Lyman Magee and an associate offered $125,000 for construction of buildings for zoological gardens if the City of Pittsburgh would provide the land. The 700-foot long, Victorian-style, main zoo building, located at the top of a long, rolling hill, was said to be one of America’s more elaborately detailed structures at the time. The Sarah Mellon Scaife Foundation donated $44,000 for the Children’s Zoo, which opened in 1949. In 1994 the zoo was privatized due to the high maintenance costs.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Highland Park Zoo (Pittsburgh, Pa.).Children's Zoo.
    Zoos--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Parks--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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