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Oakland is the academic and healthcare center of Pittsburgh and one of the city's major cultural centers. Home to three universities, museums, hospitals, shopping venues, restaurants, and recreational activities, this section of the city also includes two city-designated historic districts: the mostly residential Schenley Farms Historic District and the predominantly institutional Oakland ...
This is a list of 90 neighborhoods in the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Generally neighborhood development followed ward boundaries, although the City Planning Commission has defined some neighborhood areas. [1] The map of neighborhoods presented here is based on the official designations from the City of Pittsburgh. [2]
The Carnegie Museum of Natural History (abbreviated as CMNH) is a natural history museum in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was founded by Pittsburgh-based industrialist Andrew Carnegie in 1896. Housing some 22 million specimens, the museum features one of the finest paleontological and entomological collections in the ...
Oakland Square Historic District. / 40.437231; -79.952219. Oakland Square Historic District in the Central Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, contains 99 properties. The core of the district surrounds Oakland Square, with the remaining properties along Parkview Avenue and Dawson Street. The neighborhood was conceived in the 1890s ...
The Schenley Farms Historic District, also referred to as the Schenley Farms–Oakland Civic District, is a historic district listed on the National Register of Historic Places that is located in the Oakland section of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States . It comprises two separately designated City of Pittsburgh historic districts: the ...
2007 Award for Design, Boston Society of Architects. 2006 Honor Award, AIA/Pittsburgh. Brackenridge Hall. 1924. 1955. Henry Hornbostel, with collaboration from Rutan & Russell and Eric Fisher Wood. Oakland. Residence hall. Contributing Property to the Schenley Farms National Historic District.
40.438673°N 79.996396°W. / 40.438673; -79.996396 ( Allegheny County) City. Business & Industry, Government & Politics, Government & Politics 18th Century, Iron, Steel. Allegheny Observatory. November 2, 1979. Riverview Avenue in Riverview Park (off US 19) near Observatory, Observatory Hill, Pittsburgh. 40°28′58″N 80°01′06″W
Eighteen of Pittsburgh's large bridges are visible in this aerial photo The bridges of Pittsburgh play an important role in the city's transportation system. Without bridges, the Pittsburgh region would be a series of fragmented valleys, hillsides, river plains, and isolated communities. A 2006 study determined that, at the time, Pittsburgh had 446 bridges, though that number has been disputed ...