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This is a list of properties listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Wilmington, Delaware: [1]. For reasons of size, the listings in New Castle County are divided into three lists: those in Wilmington, other listings in northern New Castle County (north of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal), and those in southern New Castle County (south of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal).
The Pittsburgh City-County Building is the seat of government for the City of Pittsburgh, and houses both city and Allegheny County offices. It is located in Downtown Pittsburgh at 414 Grant Street. Built from 1915 to 1917 it is the third seat of government of Pittsburgh.
Union Trust Building and Pittsburgh City-County Building open. December: The Pittsburgh City-County Building is completed. 1918 May 31: Czecho-Slovakia Agreement signed in Moose Hall. The Pittsburgh Panthers football team claims its third national championship. 1920 KDKA (AM) radio begins broadcasting.
The Firstside Historic District is a historic district in downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 28, 1988, and its boundaries were expanded on May 8, 2013.
The street's location on "Grant's Hill" strangled growth in downtown Pittsburgh, leading to several attempts in 1836 and 1849 to regrade the area to remove the hill. [2] The successful removal of the hill in 1912 cost $800,000 ($25.3 million in 2023 dollars), plus $2.5 million in reimbursement costs for property damaged by the project ($78.9 ...
Before bridges were constructed in the area, the only way to cross the river was by ferry. Currently, Pittsburgh, deemed the “City of Bridges”, has a number of historic bridges that cross the Monongahela River into South Side. The Monongahela Bridge (now known as the Smithfield Street Bridge) was designed in 1818 and built of wood and iron.
On March 17 and 18, 1936, the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, witnessed the worst flood in its history when flood levels peaked at 46 feet (14 m). This flood became known as The Great St. Patrick’s Day flood, and also affected other areas of the Mid-Atlantic on both sides of the Eastern Continental Divide .
Fort Christina, also called Fort Altena, was the first Swedish settlement in North America and the principal settlement of the New Sweden colony. Built in 1638 and named after Christina, Queen of Sweden, it was located approximately 1 mi (1.6 km) east of the present-day downtown Wilmington, Delaware, at the confluence of the Brandywine River and the Christina River, approximately 2 mi (3 km ...