Pittsburgh Renaissance Historic District

The Pittsburgh Renaissance Historic District is a historic district in the Central Business District of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 2, 2013.

History

Bounded by Stanwix Street and the Allegheny, Monongahela and Ohio Rivers, the Pittsburgh Renaissance Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 2, 2013. It includes within its boundary the Forks of the Ohio, as well as Gateway Center, the Bell Telephone Company Building, and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Building which was constructed in 1927.

Contributing properties

The historic district contains fifteen contributing resources including the following:

Nine of the ten Gateway Center buildings:
*One and Two Gateway Center
*Three Gateway Center
*Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania Western Headquarters Building
*Hilton Pittsburgh
*Four Gateway Center
*Gateway Towers
*IBM Building
*Westinghouse Electric Corporation Headquarters
Point State Park, including the following structures:
*Fort Pitt Block House
*Fort Pitt Museum
Two buildings within the district boundaries which were not part of the Gateway Center or Point State Park projects, but within the period of significance:
*Pittsburgh Press Building
*Allegheny Towers

The only non-contributing properties within the district boundaries are the former State Office Building, which was considered to have lost its architectural integrity due to a 1980s remodeling, and the Gateway light rail station, which was built in 2012.