bridges tour 8-20-2012 gp:Grant Street-3/28/06 8/21/12 2:36 PM Page 1 1. Renaissance Pittsburgh Downtown Pittsburgh Bridges Hotel I think the architecture of this city makes it a very beautiful city on a very impressive scale. The vibrancy and positive feeling 2. Byham Theater 13 & River Shores Walking Tour 11 that you get when you come here is incredibly impressive. 3. Roberto Clemente, 13 —Christopher Nolan, Director, “The Dark Knight Rises,” as quoted in Andy Warhol, and 10 3 Pittsburgh City Paper 08.03/08.10.2011 Rachel Carson Bridges N 4. Allegheny River 12 15 14 FREETOURS 5. Fort Duquesne Bridge 15 9 3 Old Allegheny County Jail Museum 8 6. Heinz Field Open Mondays through October (11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.) 7. PNC Park 8 (except court holidays) 7 3 8. Roberto Clemente and City Main Streets Willie Stargell Statues Every Friday in October (Noon to 1:00 p.m.) 2 Offered in cooperation with the Urban Redevelopment 9. Allegheny Landing 1 4 Authority of Pittsburgh 10. Alcoa Corporate Center • October 5: Bloomfield 11. Andy Warhol Museum • October 12: Lawrenceville 12. Downtown Pittsburgh • October 19: West End Skyscrapers (view) • October 26: Strip District 6 5 13. David L. Lawrence Convention Center SPECIALEVENTS 14. Pittsburgh CAPA Not free. Reservations required. Space is limited. (Creative and Performing Sept. 8: Dormont Walking Tour Arts) 6–12 Sept. 15: Behind-the-Scenes Heinz History Center Tour 15. Allegheny Riverfront September Fridays at Noon Park Oct. 14: Shadyside Walking Tour (the same tour as June 24)—Filled Oct. 20: Brierly/Berndtson House Tour (Bus)—Filled Nov. 29: Lecture by Holly Brubach––”Forever Young: How A FREE one-hour guided walking tour, David L. Lawrence (1889–1966) was the Democratic 15 Allegheny Riverfront Park Endless Possibility as an American Birthright Shapes Mayor of Pittsburgh who joined forces with Republican Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates (New York), Our Cities and Our Minds,” co-sponsored by Carnegie compliments of the Pittsburgh History financier Richard King Mellon (1899–1970) between landscape architects, with artists Ann Hamilton and Museum of Art, The Heinz Architectural Center & Landmarks Foundation 1946 and 1959 to engineer Pittsburgh’s first Renaissance. Michael Mercil; 1998 and 2001 During that time, smoke-control and water purification The park consists of two separate strips of land, on FOR DETAILS OR RESERVATIONS laws were enforced, and massive clearances eventually two different levels, connected by ramps and steps: resulted in the creation of Point State Park and in the one pathway is close to the water’s edge and the other 412-471-5808, ext. 527 or [email protected] Meeting Location redevelopment (unsuccessfully) of portions of the Hill borders Fort Duquesne Boulevard. When the Pittsburgh www.phlf.org 107 Sixth Street, in front of the District, North Side, and East Liberty. Cultural Trust commissioned Allegheny Riverfront Park, the nonprofit organization helped realize a riverfront Funding for PHLF’s tour program is provided by the Alfred M. Oppenheimer Renaissance Pittsburgh Hotel Memorial Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation. 14 Pittsburgh CAPA (Creative and park system originally conceived for Pittsburgh in 1911 Performing Arts) 6–12 by Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. MacLachlan, Cornelius & Filoni, architects; 2003/2009 Part of the Pittsburgh Public School system, CAPA is a state-of-the-art facility built largely through the generosity We welcome your comments or questions: of The Bitz Foundation. The design of the new building Call 412-471-5808, ext. 527. plays off the design of the adjoining historic structure of 1915 by Pittsburgh architect Charles Bickel. The two buildings are connected, with classrooms flowing from For more information on local buildings, bridges, one building to the other. A four-story exterior Jumbotron and architects, purchase one of our books. on the Fort Duquesne Boulevard façade showcases Call 412-471-5808, ext. 525 for a listing of titles Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation Pittsburgh: Rated among National Geographic student artwork. and prices, or visit: www.phlf.org Renewing Communities; Building Pride Traveler’s Best of the World in 2012 100 West Station Square Drive, Suite 450 Pittsburgh, PA 15219-1134 © 2012 bridges tour 8-20-2012 gp:Grant Street-3/28/06 8/21/12 2:36 PM Page 2 Bridges & River Shores 1 Renaissance Pittsburgh Hotel 4 Allegheny River Stargell’s quote inscribed in the base: “Last night, coming in Grosvenor Atterbury (New York), architect; 1906 from the airport, we came through the tunnel and the city Formed in its present course more than 12,000 years ago as Remodeled, 2001 opened up its arms and I felt at home.” Walking Tour a result of glacial action, the Allegheny River begins near Sage Hospitality Resources of Denver used federal Historic Coudersport, Potter County, in northwestern Pennsylvania, A bridge is said to represent the drama in building Rehabilitation Tax Credits to transform the Fulton Building, Allegheny Landing then flows north into New York and then south to Pittsburgh, 9 originally commissioned by Pittsburgh entrepreneur Henry City of Pittsburgh, 1984 construction. There is something intensely dramatic where it meets the Monongahela River at the Point to form the Phipps, into the four-diamond Renaissance Pittsburgh Hotel. Ohio River, which flows into the Mississippi. The 325-mile- This sculpture park includes “The Builders,” by George and fanciful in the appeal of the bridge to all classes Some quick facts: The exterior light well, a nine-story arched long Allegheny River dumps two billion gallons of water into Danhires; “The Forks,” by Isaac Witkin; “Piazza Lavoro” opening, was designed to allow the cool air from the Allegheny of people, under all conditions of nature. All traffic the Ohio every day, versus the Monongahela’s 775 million. and “Mythic Source,” by Ned Smyth; and “Pittsburgh River to cool the building by pushing the hot air up. Forty converges and concentrates on the bridges. They Variations,” by George Sugarman. Allegheny Landing takes thousand pounds of baking soda were used to clean the copper Fort Duquesne Bridge its name from the place where a ferry once operated by 1800 become a daily necessity and a familiar benefactor, cladding on the light well, making it the largest copper restora- 5 Richardson Gordon & Associates, architects; 1963 between Allegheny Town and Pittsburgh. Allegheny Landing giving convenient passage over some natural obstruction. tion project on the East Coast since the Statue of Liberty (Completed in 1969) is part of Three Rivers Park and a riverfront trail that extends restoration in 1986. Three hundred pounds of coal dust were For six years this was the “Bridge to Nowhere,” because it was from the West End Bridge to the Thirty-first Street Bridge. When the highway leaves its natural bed and soars removed from the exterior surface of the skylight, making the left unfinished. When the main span was completed in 1963, through the air on thin and film-like construction, to lobby space within one of Pittsburgh’s most spectacular. one end of the bridge was left hanging in midair until a site for 10 Alcoa Corporate Center convey the people, the trains, the street cars and all the the north-shore connecting ramp was selected. The tied-arch The Design Alliance with Agus Rusli, architects; 1998 2 Byham Theater bridge was named for the French fort which occupied the traffic in safety across a wide river or deep valley and Dodge & Morrison (New York), architects; 1904 Behind this wave-like form of aluminum and glass is an Point from 1754 to 1758. The Fort Pitt Bridge, crossing the open-office environment, with no work station more than when we look over the railing of the bridge into the dark Following its Halloween-night opening in 1904, the Gayety Monongahela, recalls the name of the British fort that was built 45 feet from the 11-foot-high windows. Although Alcoa Theater, as it was originally called, was one of the country’s flowing water or the ground many hundreds of feet below, at the Point between 1759 and 1761. The British occupied has moved its headquarters to New York City, about 2,000 foremost stage and vaudeville houses. Ethel Barrymore, Fort Pitt until 1772. people work here and in the adjacent Alcoa Business Services we are all deeply stirred in our emotions. Gertrude Lawrence, and Helen Hayes performed there. The Center, designed by Pfaffmann + Associates and completed This accomplishment of man’s handiwork is one of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust purchased the theater in 1990, 6 Heinz Field in 2002. most dramatic things in modern life. The bridges are a restored it, and renamed it in 1995. On the Allegheny-River HOK Sport (Kansas City, MO), architects; 2001 side of the building is Richard Haas’ trompe-l’oeil mural This football stadium is the home field of both the Pittsburgh very vital part of the life of the community. It would be showing the Bessemer steelmaking process. 11 Andy Warhol Museum Steelers and the Pittsburgh Panthers (University of Pittsburgh). impossible to get along without them. William G. Wilkins Co. (?), architect; c. 1913 3 Roberto Clemente Bridge (Sixth Street) PNC Park The Andy Warhol Museum is one of the four Carnegie 7 Museums of Pittsburgh. Originally used as a warehouse —”The City of Bridges: Pittsburgh,” Stanley L. Roush Andy Warhol Bridge (Seventh Street) HOK Sport (Kansas City, MO), with L. D. Astorino, for the Frick & Lindsay machinery company, the historic and Edward B. Lee, The Charette (March 1925); Rachel Carson Bridge (Ninth Street) architects; 2001 reprinted in Walter C. Kidney’s Pittsburgh’s Bridges: landmark now houses an extensive permanent collection Architecture and Engineering (PHLF, 1999) Allegheny County Department of Public Works, engineers; PNC Park is a classic-style baseball stadium, designed to of art and archives from Pittsburgh native Andy Warhol, Stanley L.