There’s nothing like walking to get you in touch Downtown Pittsburgh Walking Tour Gateway Center, Downtown Pittsburgh with a place. You see, hear, notice, explore, Gateway Center and discover. 1. Gateway Station ––Laurence A. Glasco, author, historian, and PHLF Trustee 2. One, Two, Three Gateway Center 4 3. Gateway Plaza Meeting 3 Location FREE TOURS & EVENTS 4. 625 Stanwix Tower 5 2 Apartments 1 H Old Allegheny County Jail Museum Open Mondays through October ( 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.) 5. Gateway Towers 6 14 (except for court holidays) 6. Wyndham Grand Downtown Pittsburgh and Oakland: Guided Walking Tours Pittsburgh Downtown 10 7 Every Friday, May through October 7. Point State Park 8 13 • Two different free walking tours are offered each month: 8. River Vue Apartments one from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. and another from Noon to 9. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 9 12 1 p.m. Join us for one, or both. Building 11 • Advance reservations are appreciated (see below) . 10. Plaza at Gateway Center 11. Eleven Stanwix Street DOWNTOWN’S BEST 12. United Steelworkers Special Places and Spaces in a 2 1/2-Hour Walk 13. 201 Stanwix Street Place Not free. Advance paid reservations are required (see below) . 14. Four Gateway Center June through August: every Thursday, 9:45 a.m. to Noon. Other dates by appointment for groups of 10 people. The Pittsburgh Renaissance Historic District (indicated by the dotted line) includes Gateway Center. It is one of five National Register SPECIAL TOURS & MEMBERSHIP Historic Districts in Downtown Pittsburgh. This prestigious federal designation does not place any restrictions or obligations on a property Visit www.phlf.org and click on Tours & Events A self-guided walking tour, compliments owner. It does provide opportunities for federal preservation tax incentives, and requires government agencies (if there is a federal to find out about neighborhood walking tours in the of the Pittsburgh History & undertaking) to evaluate alternatives to mitigate adverse impacts on historic properties. Pittsburgh region, April through October. Landmarks Foundation © 2017 Members of PHLF receive discounts on tours and free 12 United Steelworkers panels. It now houses 158 luxury apartments, and City admission to workshops and presentations at the Landmarks Curtis & Davis (New Orleans), architects, 1961-63 High Charter School occupies the first four floors. Within Preservation Resource Center (see below), among other STARTING LOCATION the colonnade is the Bell Telephone map, with reliefs of state Originally the IBM Building (or Five Gateway Center), the benefits. To join, visit www.phlf.org and click on Gateway “T” Station , on Stanwix Street landmarks, and a clock and globe denoting Bell’s worldwide 13-story structure is constructed like a bridge and rests on Take Action/Membership . near Liberty Avenue coverage. You can still read the words: “Anywhere, any time eight concrete piers, which is quite a balancing act. There by telephone.” are no exterior columns, no corner columns, and no interior WORKSHOPS & PRESENTATIONS columns. Three different steels were used in the trusses to Landmarks Preservation Resource Center resist the increasing loads from the top down. The trusses 14 Four Gateway Center 744 Rebecca Avenue, Wilkinsburg, PA 15221 Harrison & Abramovitz (New York), architects, 1958-60 were then clad with uniform stainless-steel covers, and Visit www.phlf.org and click on Tours & Events diamond-shaped windows were set into the openings. Go A curtain wall of glass supported by stainless-steel mullions for programs on selected Tuesdays and Thursdays. inside the lobby to find the metal radiator grates punctured hangs from the 22-story steel frame. The interior floor plan with patterns derived from IBM computer punch cards. is open and columnless, since the elevators and mechanical FOR DETAILS & RESERVATIONS equipment are contained in a separate, windowless, ribbed- 412-471-5808, ext. 527 or [email protected] 13 201 Stanwix Street Place stainless-steel tower. Albert Tannler writes in Pittsburgh Dowler & Dowler, architects, 1955-58 Architecture in the Twentieth Century : “Gateway Four is Originally the Western Pennsylvania Headquarters of Bell the most elegant of Harrison & Abramovitz’s Pittsburgh Telephone, this 12-story aluminum-faced building is framed buildings, and with U.S. Steel Tower, it represents the firm’s in Minnesota granite and has distinctive, embossed aluminum best work here.” www.phlf.org Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation For more information, purchase Pittsburgh Architecture in the Twentieth Century: Notable Modern Buildings and Their Architects , Renewing Communities; Building Pride by Albert M. Tannler (PHLF, 2013). Visit www.phlf.org and click on “Store” or call 412-471-5808, ext. 525. 100 West Station Square Drive, Suite 450 Pittsburgh, PA 15219-1134 © 2017 GATEWAY CENTER WALKING TOUR experience. Buildings made of steel, glass, and aluminum–– “Fountain of the Three Rivers,” dedicated on June 6, 1956. the Fort Pitt Bridge (south over the Monongahela River), and materials Pittsburgh was world-famous for producing––are set It celebrates the significance of the three rivers to Pittsburgh’s provides pedestrian and vehicular access to Point State Park. within mature landscapes of trees, walkways, and fountains. founding in 1758, development, and culture. The Pittsburgh Renaissance was an extraordinary episode 8 River Vue Apartments During major city events, such as the Three Rivers Arts Festival in American urban development. It had no precedent Altenhof & Bown, architects, 1957 and Three Rivers Regatta, the area is filled with people, 4 625 Stanwix Tower Apartments in terms of mobilization of civic resources at the elite Renovations: Jim Smith/Design4Studio, 2010-12 exhibitors, art, music, food carts, and activity. Tasso Katselas, architect, 1967 level and wholesale environmental intervention. The Originally constructed as the State Office Building serving Walter C. Kidney summarized the need for the Renaissance Originally Allegheny Towers Penthouse Apartments, this achievement, however, was administrative and political Western Pennsylvania, River Vue now contains 218 luxury 24-story concrete-frame building houses commercial services, and for the Counter-Renaissance in Pittsburgh’s Landmark apartments. The original curtain wall of blue-anodized in character … . Architecture and design were always a parking garage, and 12 stories of apartments. It was created Architecture: The Historic Buildings of Pittsburgh and aluminum has been replaced, thus diminishing the architectural secondary considerations … . Pittsburgh’s natural to house those who worked in the Renaissance buildings and Allegheny County (PHLF, 1997): integrity of the building. Therefore, this building is a endowments were not exploited fully … . has maintained its purpose over time. noncontributing resource in the Pittsburgh Renaissance –– Roy Lubove , Twentieth-Century Pittsburgh, Historic preservation has been a sort of Counter-Renaissance, Historic District. Government, Business, and Environmental Change … because the progressives of the Renaissance too often 5 Gateway Towers (University of Pittsburgh, 1969) ignored what was good about the city’s past. They failed Emery Roth & Sons (New York), architects, 1964 9 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Building to see, certainly, that to break the continuity of a neighbor - This 27-story residential highrise is the tallest building in the Howell & Thomas (Cleveland), architects, 1927 Pittsburgh’s Renaissance (194 6–1974) was born from hood’s visible history, to sponge away whole streets of Pittsburgh Renaissance Historic District. It originally housed Renovations: Hunting, Larsen & Dunnells, 1962 a partnership between Republican financier Richard King buildings, risks diminishing the inhabitants’ sense of––their 314 luxury apartments and now houses 270 condominiums. Originally constructed for The Pittsburgh Press, this landmark Mellon and Democratic Mayor David L. Lawrence. It right, even, of sensing––who they are and what they are On the sides of the building, notice how pre-cast striated con - newspaper building survived the St. Patrick’s Day Flood involved the nonprofit Allegheny Conference on Community part of. … Renaissance brought order, and a prosperity crete vertical bands with recessed steel spandrels are grouped (March 17, 1936) and a remodeling in 1962: the near the center to allow the windows to wrap around corners. Development (founded in 1944), the Urban Redevelopment demonstrated in a way that attracted more prosperity, but it Romanesque Revival brick building was entirely refaced with aluminum panels to be in harmony with its modern Authority of Pittsburgh (incorporated in 1946), the was not the most sensitive way of reshaping a city. It had to Wyndham Grand Pittsburgh Downtown neighbors. It became the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Building New York- based Equitable Life Assurance Society of the work fast, and there were penalties inherent in such speed. 6 William B. Tabler (New York), architect, 1957-59 in 1993 after the Post-Gazette bought The Pittsburgh Press. United States, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Addition on front façade: Stephen Berry/Architectural In August 2015, the Post-Gazette moved to new facilities The Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation (PHLF) Design, Inc. (Youngstown, OH), 2007-14 1 Gateway Station on Pittsburgh’s North Shore. Block Communications, Inc., was formed in 1964 as a “Counter-Renaissance,” by a group A collaboration between Pfaffmann + Associates Opened by Hilton