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75001609 [2] Added to NRHP. March 4, 1975. The Duquesne Incline (/ djuːˈkeɪn / dew-KAYN) is a funicular scaling Mount Washington near the South Side neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Designed by Hungarian-American engineer Samuel Diescher, the incline was completed in 1877. The lower station is in the Second Empire style.
Mount Washington. Highest point. Coordinates. 40°25′38″N 80°00′40″W / 40.4271°N 80.0112°W / 40.4271; -80.0112. Geography. Location. Pittsburgh. Mount Washington is a hill in Pittsburgh, on the southern banks of the Monongahela River and Ohio River.
Camera location. 40° 25′ 53.95″ N, 80° 00′ 23.36″ W. View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap. 40.431653; -80.006489. NOTE: This image is a panorama of Pittsburgh consisting of 9 frames that were merged or stitched in Hugin. As a result, this image necessarily underwent some form of digital manipulation.
The Rachel Carson Bridge, also known as the Ninth Street Bridge, spans the Allegheny River in Downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the United States.. Named for the naturalist and author Rachel Carson, a Pittsburgh native, it is one of three parallel bridges called the Three Sisters, the others being the Roberto Clemente Bridge and the Andy Warhol Bridge.
Chatham Village is a community within the larger Mount Washington neighborhood of the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and an internationally acclaimed model of community design. It is roughly bounded by Virginia Avenue, Bigham Street, Woodruff Street, Saw Mill Run Boulevard, and Olympia Road, and was declared a National Historic Landmark in ...
1970 [3] The Monongahela Incline is a funicular on the South Side in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, near the Smithfield Street Bridge. Designed and built by Prussian-born engineer John Endres in 1870, it is the oldest continuously operating funicular in the U.S. It is one of two surviving inclines in Pittsburgh (the other is the ...
The Allegheny Observatory is an American astronomical research institution, a part of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Pittsburgh.The facility is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (ref. # 79002157, added June 22, 1979) [3] and is designated as a Pennsylvania state [4] and Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation [5] historic landmark.
Panorama of Pittsburgh from the Duquesne Incline, showing the confluence of the Allegheny (left) and the Monongahela (right) Rivers, which merge to form the Ohio River (lower left) in November 2019 Pittsburgh seen from Mount Washington at night with the Monongahela River in the foreground in November 2015 Skyline from Mt. Washington in June 2014