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"Devastation and Renewal: An Environmental History of Pittsburgh and Its Region". U. of Pittsburgh Press. p. 312; Trotter, Joe W., and Jared N. Day. Race and Renaissance: African Americans in Pittsburgh Since World War II (University of Pittsburgh Press; 2010) 328 pages. Draws on journalism, oral histories, and other sources to study the city's ...
The Pittsburgh Renaissance Historic District is a historic district in the Central Business District of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 2, 2013. [1] [2] [3]
The Fulton Building is an historic structure in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Named after inventor Robert Fulton , the building was designed by architect Grosvenor Atterbury and completed in 1906. Construction was funded by industrialist Henry Phipps .
Pittsburgh is the location of 182 of these properties and districts, including 5 National Historic Landmarks, which are listed here. The properties and districts elsewhere in the county, including 5 National Historic Landmarks, are listed separately .
The Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation (PHLF) Historic Landmark plaque program was begun in 1968 in order to identify architecturally significant structures and significant pieces of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States's local heritage throughout Allegheny County. Nominations are reviewed by the private non-profit foundation's ...
The Pittsburgh Renaissance Festival is a Renaissance fair located in West Newton, Pennsylvania. The fair will enter season 32 next year. In 2005, the fair had 55,000 attendees. [1] The faire covers 20 acres (81,000 m 2) and, as of 2008, has six stages. [2] The setting for the fair is a village called Morelandshire, sometime between 1533 and ...
Renaissance Revival, Châteauesque: NRHP reference ... 1974, [1] and the List of Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation Historic Landmarks in 1989. ...
The History Center includes the Library & Archives, which preserves hundreds of thousands of books, manuscripts, photographs, maps, atlases, newspapers, films and recordings documenting over 250 years of life in the region; and the Western Pennsylvania Sports Museum, a museum-within-a-museum documenting Pittsburgh's extensive sports legacy.