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ALLEGHENY COUNTY,
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Frederick Law
Olmsted
report to the
Pittsburgh Civic Commission
"Pittsburgh:
Main Thoroughfares and The
Down Town District"
1910
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04 Parks and
Recreation
Facilities
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PART I: The Down Town District Pittsburgh: Main Thoroughfares and The Down Town District Frederick Law Olmsted report to The Pittsburgh Civic Commission, 1910
County Buildings -- the northwest side of the proposed Civic Center All these advantages are embraced to a high degree in a locality now so unpromising and unattractive that it is hard not to feel all unfair prejudice against it. The locality in question lies to the east and southeast of the present county buildings. It embraces a bit of low ground occupied by the little Panhandle station and local freight yard, surrounded, except for the county buildings, by vacant lands and cheap buildings at various higher levels, mounting on the east to the commanding ridge that dominates all this part of the city. Through this locality the Forbes and Diamond Street thoroughfare and the South Hills and Sixth Avenue thoroughfare
Present appearance of the Civic Center site from the rear of the County Buildings
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