Demolition of the Post Gazette Building

1935/1980

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Title
Demolition of the Post Gazette Building
Creator
Jay Bee Studios
Identifier
MSP285.B029.F08.I01
Source Identifier
MSP285.B029.F08.I01
Description
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette was originally published by John Scull and Joseph Hall as the Pittsburgh Gazette on July 29, 1786, becoming the first newspaper published west of the Allegheny Mountains. In the 1820s the newspaper’s name was changed to the Pittsburgh Gazette and Manufacturing and Mercantile Advertiser under the leadership of Morgan Neville, however, the name was changed back to the Pittsburgh Gazette when David McClean took the helm. During the McClean years the newspaper became one of the chief spokesmen for anti-slavery in the Northern United States. The Post-Gazette finally acquired its current name in the late 1920s, when owner Paul Block bought the Pittsburgh Press and the Gazette-Times and merged the two papers together, forming the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. It was also under his leadership that the Post-Gazette moved its advertising, business, circulation, and printing operations from the Gazette Square Building to the Pittsburgh Press facility. The Gazette Square building was constructed in 1915 by George T. Oliver who owned by the Gazette-Times and the Chronicle-Telegraph. The building was originally known as the Chronicle-Telegraph building. Both papers were published in this building until 1927 when Block created the Post-Gazette. Block later bought the property from then owner, William Randolph Hearst in April, 1960. The building was demolished in the late 1960s.
Genre
photographs
Subject
Pittsburgh Post Gazette Building (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Downtown (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Wrecking--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
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