Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #2 in Pittsburgh, United States

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Tour Facts

Number of sights 14 sights
Distance 6.4 km
Ascend 405 m
Descend 417 m

Explore Pittsburgh in United States with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.

Individual Sights in Pittsburgh

Sight 1: The Andy Warhol Museum

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The Andy Warhol Museum is located on the North Shore of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is the largest museum in North America dedicated to a single artist. The museum holds an extensive permanent collection of art and archives from the Pittsburgh-born pop art icon Andy Warhol.

Wikipedia: The Andy Warhol Museum (EN), Website

660 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 2: Benedum Center

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Benedum Center

The Benedum Center for the Performing Arts is a theater and concert hall located at 237 7th Street in the Cultural District of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Designed by the Philadelphia architectural firm Hoffman-Henon, it was built in 1928 as the Stanley Theatre. The former movie palace was renovated and reopened as the Benedum Center for the Performing Arts in 1987.

Wikipedia: Benedum Center (EN)

326 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 3: Ewart Building

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Ewart Building

The Ewart Building is a historic commercial skyscraper located at 921-925 Liberty Avenue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Wikipedia: Ewart Building (EN)

482 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 4: Byrnes & Kiefer Building

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Byrnes & Kiefer Building

The Byrnes & Kiefer Building in the Strip District neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is a building from 1892. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

Wikipedia: Byrnes & Kiefer Building (EN)

700 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 5: Mellon Green

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Mellon Greendaveynin from United States / CC BY 2.0

Mellon Green is an urban park in Downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Wikipedia: Mellon Green (EN)

495 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 6: Mellon Square

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Mellon Square is an urban park in Downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is the first Modernist park built above a parking garage. With its distinctive black, white and green geometric pavement, it is a prominent urban oasis and gathering spot in Downtown Pittsburgh.

Wikipedia: Mellon Square (EN), Website

393 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 7: Wood Street Galleries

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Wood Street Galleries

The Wood Street Galleries, a visual arts project of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, is a art gallery that is located in Downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The gallery occupies the upper floors of the Max Azen company building, above the Wood Street light rail stop.

Wikipedia: Wood Street Galleries (EN), Website

239 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 8: Heinz Hall

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Heinz Hall is a performing arts center and concert hall located at 600 Penn Avenue in the Cultural District of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Home to the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (PSO) and the Pittsburgh Youth Symphony Orchestra, the 2,676 seat hall presents about 200 performances each year. Originally built in 1927 as Loew's Penn Theatre, the former movie palace was renovated and reopened as Heinz Hall in 1971.

Wikipedia: Heinz Hall for the Performing Arts (EN)

618 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 9: Hartje Bros. Paper Manufacturing Co.

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Hartje Bros. Paper Manufacturing Co.

109–115 Wood Street are two buildings located in Downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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959 meters / 12 minutes

Sight 10: Fort Pitt Museum

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Fort Pitt Museum

Fort Pitt Museum is an indoor/outdoor museum that is administered by the Senator John Heinz History Center in downtown Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania in the United States. It is at the confluence of the Monongahela and Allegheny Rivers, where the Ohio River is formed. Fort Pitt Museum is surrounded by Point State Park, a Pennsylvania state park named for the geographically and historically significant point that is between the rivers. This piece of land was key to controlling the upper reaches of the Ohio River Valley and western Pennsylvania, before, during and after the French and Indian War as well as the American Revolution.

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155 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 11: Fort Pitt Block House

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The Fort Pitt Block House is a historic building in Point State Park in the city of Pittsburgh. It was constructed in 1764 as a redoubt of Fort Pitt, making it the oldest extant structure in Western Pennsylvania, as well as the "oldest authenticated structure west of the Allegheny Mountains".

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27 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 12: Point State Park

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Point State Park is a Pennsylvania state park which is located on 36 acres (150,000 m2) in Downtown Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA, at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers, forming the Ohio River.

Wikipedia: Point State Park (EN), Website

790 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 13: North Shore Riverfront Park

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595 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 14: USS Requin

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USS Requin (SS/SSR/AGSS/IXSS-481), a Tench-class submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named after the requin, French for shark. Since 1990 it has been a museum ship at the Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Wikipedia: USS Requin (SS-481) (EN)

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