place

Allegheny High School

1904 establishments in PennsylvaniaCity of Pittsburgh historic designationsDefunct schools in PennsylvaniaMiddle schools in PittsburghNational Register of Historic Places in Pittsburgh
Neoclassical architecture in PennsylvaniaPittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation Historic LandmarksSchool buildings completed in 1904School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania
Allegheny High School
Allegheny High School

The Allegheny High School in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is a building from 1904. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. Notable graduates include William N. Robson, award-winning writer, director, and producer from the old-time radio era and Dorothy Mae Richardson, an African American community activist whose work was essential to the founding of the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation. American novelist Willa Cather taught English and Latin at Allegheny High School, where she came to head the English department. The building is now the Pittsburgh Allegheny 6-8, a magnet school located in the North Side.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Allegheny High School (License: CC BY-SA 3.0, Authors, Images).

Allegheny High School
Arch Street, Pittsburgh

Geographical coordinates (GPS) Address Nearby Places
placeShow on map

Wikipedia: Allegheny High SchoolContinue reading on Wikipedia

Geographical coordinates (GPS)

Latitude Longitude
N 40.453055555556 ° E -80.008888888889 °
placeShow on map

Address

Arch Street 810
15290 Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania, United States
mapOpen on Google Maps

Allegheny High School
Allegheny High School
Share experience

Nearby Places

Carnegie Free Library of Allegheny
Carnegie Free Library of Allegheny

The Carnegie Free Library of Allegheny is situated in the Allegheny Center neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was commissioned in 1886, the first Carnegie library to be commissioned in the United States. Donated to the public by entrepreneur Andrew Carnegie, it was built from 1886 to 1890 on a design by John L. Smithmeyer and Paul J. Pelz. The library and musical conservatory was built of red and grey granite from Maine. The contractor was Vinalhaven, Maine's Bodwell Granite Company, which had furnished granite for major public works including the State, War and Navy Department building in Washington, DC., now called the Eisenhower Executive Office Building.It did not open until 1890 thus making it the second Carnegie library to open. The first one to open being the Carnegie Free Library of Braddock, built for steel-workers in Braddock, 9 miles up the Monongahela River from Pittsburgh. The building also features the first Carnegie Music Hall in the United States. The Music Hall at the Braddock Library would not open until an 1893 expansion of that structure. The running costs were met from local taxes – unlike the Carnegie Library in Braddock, which received an endowment from Carnegie. After a mid-2000s lightning strike, the library was moved to a new building a few blocks north on Federal Street. Following the move, the New Hazlett Theater was the primary tenant. In April 2019, the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh opened Museum Lab, a makerspace for youth aged 10+.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.