PITTSBURGH HISTORY

Fort Pitt The French began building Fort Duquesne in April 1754[1] Fort Prince George[2] Braddock expedition, a 1755 attempt to take Fort Duquesne, met with defeat at the Battle of the Monongahela at present-day Braddock, Pennsylvania. The French garrison defeated an attacking British regiment in September 1758 at the Battle of Fort Duquesne. French Colonel […]

Paramount Pictures Paramount Film Exchange is a building at 1727 Boulevard of the Allies in the Uptown or Bluff neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, designed in 1926 by R. E. Hall Co. architects from New York City. In 2010, the building was bought by arts-oriented local entrepreneurs who founded the Paramount Film Exchange (PFEX), Inc., to

Pittsburgh War Steel As the United States was gearing up its industrial might to prepare the nation for war, Pennsylvania Governor Arthur James, paraphrasing one of president Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s better-known quips, proudly boasted that the Keystone State would become the “Arsenal of America.” And indeed, the Commonwealth’s industries helped ensure Allied victory in World

Historic Crawford Grill Music lovers flocked to the Crawford Grill to hear Billy Eckstine, Sarah Vaughan, Erroll Garner, Dizzy Gillespie, and other legends of jazz. White musicians who played downtown venues would go uptown to “The Grill” after their gigs to jam into the night with black musicians. The Crawford Grill was a meeting spot for people of all

Freedom Corner For 40 years it has served as a starting point for endeavors meant to defy and rectify the urban renewal, redlining, drug criminalization, and racial injustice that has harmed but not defeated the historically rich Hill District; Pittsburgh’s very own Harlem. Both elaborate and subtle, Freedom Corner also serves as a monument to

Heinz History Center The Senator John Heinz History Center, an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution, is the largest history museum in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Named after the late U.S. Senator H. John Heinz III (1938–1991), it is located in the Strip District of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The Heinz History Center is a 275,000-square-foot

Hill House Association The Hill House traces its heritage to the early 1900s, when two of its predecessor agencies—the Anna B. Heldman (formerly the Irene Kaufmann) and Soho Settlement Houses—helped European immigrants, and later Jewish settlers, adapt to their new lives in Pittsburgh. Then as now, the job of building a community required a complex

A Pittsburgh Tradition Henry John Heinz: A Man of Uncommon Vision: Henry John Heinz was very much the product of his parents, and the lessons he learned from them echo down into the character of the H.J. Heinz Company today. Henry’s parents taught him thrift rather than greed. He knew nothing of “get rich quick”

Model Railroad Museum The Western Pennsylvania Model Railroad Museum is a railroad museum in Gibsonia, Pennsylvania.It is dedicated to the exhibition of model trains and historical railroad paraphernalia. The museum’s main exhibit is a 40′ by 100′ scale model of the railroad lines connecting Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Cumberland, Maryland, accompanied by information on the history

Forbes Field Forbes Field was a baseball park in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from 1909 to 1971. It was the third home of the Pittsburgh Pirates Major League Baseball (MLB) team, and the first home of the Pittsburgh Steelers, the city’s National Football League (NFL) franchise. The stadium also served as the home