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Station Square A Golden Age Revived by James D Van Trump Stones of Pirrsburgh
Station Square A Golden Age Revived by James D Van Trump
The stones of Pittsburgh #11
Soft Cover Stapled
26 pages
Copyright 1978
CONTENTS
Prologue
The Burning Hill
The P&LE Begins
The New Station
The Decline
Enter Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation
Chuck Muer
Funding and Plans
FOREWORD
Once this 40-acre complex of buildings and railroad yards of the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad was the terminus for seventy-six passenger trains a day and many thousands of tons of freight and mail. It was, in its heyday, a primary transportation center that helped to shape the City of Pittsburgh into the great industrial center that it is today. Of those passenger trains, only one remains, a daily commuter to Beaver, and the freight facilities have since been shifted to other locations. Still standing are several major buildings that remind us of that feverish activity of the past, including the Terminal Building, The Freight House, The Shovel Warehouse and The Express House. Fortunately, these buildings did survive, for they will form the nucleus of Station Square, initially a $30 million project that will create intensive new activities for the same area.
Station Square is now taking form on this 40-acre riverside site. Enlarging the Golden Triangle by ten percent, Station Square is to be a shopping, working, entertainment complex in a uniquely inviting environment.
The Allegheny Foundation, a Scaife Family trust, has provided equity funds to Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation so that it may serve as the sponsor and prime developer. Not only will the project provide 100 shops, a 250-room motor hotel, premium office space and splendid dining facilities, but it also will generate tax revenues, several thousand jobs and net income that can be used in restoration programs of Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation throughout Allegheny County.
It is eminently fitting, therefore, that the Grand Concourse, the elegant centerpiece of this extensive complex listed on the National Register of Historic Places of the United States, should be first to open its doors. Handsomely restored, this fabulous space now houses the Grand Concourse Restaurant of the C. A. Muer Corporation and will serve as a gateway to Station Square.
In this age of the automobile and jet plane, passenger trains exist almost only in our memory. But, once again, the Grand Concourse will be the center of bustling activity, not of travelers embarking for distant places, but rather of arrival. Through the windows diners will see the tow boats, the freight trains, and the skyline of Pittsburgh.
In the words of one recent writer, at Station Square you will feel the romance of "bewitching whistles and irresistible bazaars." Here in Pittsburgh we have our own Orient Express.
We present here a history of this site and its surrounding area from the time of its first settlers through the growth of the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad, to its present handsome metamorphosis as Station Square, Pittsburgh's newest pleasure place, a golden age revived.
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