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Market Square is a public space located in Downtown Pittsburgh at the intersection of Forbes Avenue (originally named Diamond Way in colonial times) and Market Street. The square was home to the first courthouse, first jail (both in 1795) and the first newspaper (1786) west of the Atlantic Plain, the Pittsburgh Gazette.
The $107 million, LEED CS Silver-certified tower [2] consists of 18 floors [3] and is located the Market Square and Point Park University sections of Downtown Pittsburgh. The tower includes a 197-room Hilton Garden Inn Hotel [ 4 ] and Market Square Garage, 321-car parking complex [ 5 ] managed by Alco Parking.
Downtown Pittsburgh, colloquially referred to as the Golden Triangle, and officially the Central Business District, [2] is the urban downtown center of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. It is located at the confluence of the Allegheny River and the Monongahela River whose joining forms the Ohio River .
The South Side Market Building, also known as the South Side Market House, is a historic, American market house that is located at 12th and Bingham Streets in the South Side Flats neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Built in 1915, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
Pittsburgh's original courthouse, first occupied in 1794, was a wooden structure located on one side of Market Square. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court and from December 7, 1818, until 1841 the Western District of Pennsylvania also held court sessions at Market Square. [9] Land for a new courthouse was purchased in April 1834.
It is roughly bounded by Smithfield Street, Third Avenue, Market Square Place, and Fifth Avenue. The period of significance for the District is from 1871, when the initial phase of the Dollar Bank building construction was finished, to 1934, 50 years before preparation of the nomination to the NRHP. [3] Some of its structures are:
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Market Square at the intersection of Forbes Avenue and Market Street in Downtown Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh City-County Building , built in 1915 to 1917, at Grant Street and Forbes Avenue. Allegheny County Office Building , built from 1929 to 1931, at Ross Street at Forbes Avenue.