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Oakland, located two miles east of downtown Pittsburgh, is a place where people have gone to enjoy rustic tranquility, culture, socialization, entertainment, and education. Through more than 150 years, much has changed in this neighborhood. Where children once caught crayfish, a fantastic skyscraper rose, a Greek Revival villa yielded to a hospital, a trolley barn turned into a sports arena, a fountain was created on a buried bridge, and a hillside cow pasture became a university campus. Bit by bit, this municipal showplace came into being through an attempt to improve the Smoky City by establishing a sprawling museum complex, a vast park, universities, clubhouses, auditoriums, a glamourous hotel, apartments, and a model neighborhood of houses.

Book details

• Full title: Oakland
• Author: Walter C. Kidney, Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundatio, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128
• EAN: 9780738538679
• ISBN: 0738538671
• ID: 11467152
• Publisher: ARCADIA PUB (SC)
• Weight: 322 g
• Dimensions: 235 × 165 × 9 mm
• Date of publishing: August 2005

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