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Children's Hospital Pittsburgh Wall of history: Looking at the former children's hospital . - YouTube shows the 1926 building, also, even if the narration is painfully awkward.

Seen in it's younger days, the Children's building wasn't ugly at all. That long "I-beam" format was used for most hospitals of that era, and I presume that fresh-air ventilation played some role in that. The problem with Pittsburgh region is that the majority of people don't seem to value historic buildings, and they want to gut and remodel and half-azz everything that's historic. Then they raze it after they've richarded around with it and let it decay for years so that it's not practical to try to restore it. And then replace it with some new POS that can't come anywhere close to the charm or the quality of building materials of the old buildings that they replaced.

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Great old postcards of the neighborhood. The first one really shows how the hospital district was once an upper middle class residential neighborhood of substantial homes. All those streets that run up the hill from Fifth Ave were grand old blocks. By the 1920's, as the postcards show, the blocks were taken over one by one for institutional uses and the homes came down. It must've been a great neighborhood - big fine homes within walking distance to shops on Fifth Ave and the streetcars running to Downtown or east to Shadyside.