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View a
map of North Shore-Chateau.
Allegheny
Center, North Shore, and Chateau sit just across the Sixth and Seventh
Street bridges north of
Downtown,
and are surrounded by Manchester, Allegheny
West,
Central
Northside,
and East
Allegheny.
Here you'll find the shops and offices of Allegheny Center Mall,
as well as the Allegheny
Branch of the Carnegie Library
and the
Children's Museum of Pittsburgh.
The residents of these communities are mostly single professionals
who choose the neighborhoods because of their convenience to shopping,
cultural, and recreational activities.
A desirable residential community in the days of the Pennsylvania
Canal, the North Shore became primarily a commercial and industrial
area with the construction of the railroad. Its position between
the railroad lines and the Allegheny River brought an influx of
factories and warehouses and promoted the conversion of many Greek
Revival-style houses to mercantile and transient use. In 1903,
Exposition Park at School Street and Shore Avenue was the site of
the first baseball World Series, when Pittsburgh lost to Boston.
Heinz
Field and PNC
Park stand on the North Shore today, a first step in the City's
continuing revitalization of the neighborhood. A mainstay
of the community's economy for many years, the east end of the North
Shore is dominated by the historic H. J. Heinz Plant. |
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