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West End (Pittsburgh)

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predecessor thoroughfare to the Parkway and Fort Pitt Tunnels. This circle provided direct access to the West End via Woodville Avenue. It was removed by the late 1950s with the construction of the Penn Lincoln Parkway. However, the Woodville Avenue connector still exists, accessible via Parkway Exit 69C and Carnegie/Airport exit from the West End Bypass.
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A complete reconfiguration of the West End Circle started in October 2007, including new bridges and new improved connectors. A new underpass was dug under the Norfolk Southern Railroad for straight access to the West End Bridge northbound and West End Bypass southbound. The West End segment of the
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The West End has three designated historic landmark buildings: the German (now Jerusalem Baptist) Church, the 1899 Carnegie Branch Library (spoken for by Andrew Carnegie himself, 2nd in the Pittsburgh Carnegie system, and home of the first Library Story Hour anywhere), and the Old Stone Tavern, which
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The Pittsburgh southwest communities are essentially residential areas supported by local businesses, with ready access to the rest of the city and surrounding areas and highway systems. Over the past 30+ years the West End neighborhood (Temperanceville) has suffered the demolition of much indigenous
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The "overlook" (once one of the most-visited sites in Allegheny County) has drawn fewer visitors since 2004, when a 2.5 million dollar park improvement eliminated historically available vehicle access to the bluff-top, thereby impacting all-season visiting. Elliott and Crafton Heights also share the
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The term "West End" is often mistakenly used to refer to the area southwest of the Ohio River. Upon annexation, the City of Pittsburgh renamed the Borough of Temperanceville as West End; Temperanceville was its own entity (incorporated 1860) on the valley floor through which Saw Mill Run flows
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toward the Ohio River, between the Coal Hill end of Mt. Washington upriver, and River Hill downriver (site of the Elliott bluff lookout, a.k.a. the West End Overlook (c.1961)/West End-Elliott Overlook (c.2004) the top of which is in a neighborhood corner of the (annexed) community of Elliott.
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The West End Bypass is a 1.1 stretch of highway (designated as Saw Mill Run Blvd/U.S. 19, PA 51), running from the West End exit interchange on the Penn Lincoln Parkway (Exit 69C) to the West End Circle. When this bypass opened in 1951, its South Hills connector was the Banksville Circle, a
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residential architecture and the removal of most of its tenant units from the rental market, displacing a once substantial multicultural low-middle-fixed income population in favor of attempts to attract business.
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crosses the Ohio River and connects the neighborhood to the North Side of the city. Carson St. connects it to Station Square and the South Side to the east, and the borough of McKees Rocks to the west.
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Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad has been discontinued as the track on Steuben Street and trestle over South Main Street have been removed. The project was completed in October 2010.
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The term "West End" is also used to refer to the surrounding region, which includes the West End Valley in addition to western neighborhoods
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Obey House (1823), a prime historical example of a "road house" on the Steubenville Pike (the land route West from Pittsburgh.)
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located at 434 Greentree Road, possibly circa 1756, may be one of the oldest buildings in the region.
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and was annexed to the City of Pittsburgh in 1874. To support neighborhood businesses, the
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may pre-date the Fort Pitt Blockhouse as the oldest building west of the Alleghenies.
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and less than a mile from downtown Pittsburgh. Temperanceville was founded as a
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ran across Steuben Street, across a trestle and alongside the West End Bypass.
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added the West End Village as a Mainstreet Pittsburgh district in 2009. The
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Neighborhood of Pittsburgh in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States
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The West End Circle is the circumference of traffic south of the
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West End Branch of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
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The neighborhood lies in a small valley south of the
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West End, Pennsylvania
Neighborhood of Pittsburgh
The Old Stone Inn located at 434 Greentree Road, possibly circa 1756, may be one of the oldest buildings in the region.
Old Stone Inn

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