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The Finkelhors' small secretarial school became "Point Park Junior College", named for the city's historic Point State Park. The junior college added two-year programs in engineering technology, education and journalism. It also acquired performing arts space at The Pittsburgh Playhouse in the Oakland neighborhood. Five years later, the college ...
Point State Park (locally known as The Point) is a Pennsylvania state park which is located on 36 acres (150,000 m 2) in Downtown Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, US, at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers, forming the Ohio River.
Boat pulls a water skier from the confluence of the Monongahela, Allegheny, and Ohio Rivers at Point State Park in Pittsburgh toward Three Rivers Stadium on the northern shore of the Ohio River, circa 1977. Ground was broken in 1968 on April 25, [15] [21] [22] and due to the Steelers' suggestions, the design was changed to enclose center field ...
Nov. 16—For years, it was an iconic holiday fixture in Pittsburgh. The Point State Park Christmas tree dotted the city's confluence as an annual beacon of the season. Until last year. Sponsored ...
College/university Students Founded University of Phoenix: Pittsburgh: 113: Vet Tech Institute: 316: ITT Technical Institute: Pittsburgh: 350: Triangle Tech: 265 ...
Hahnemann Medical College (1849–1994) – merged with The Medical College of Pennsylvania; now a part of Drexel University College of Medicine; Hershey Junior College (1938–1965) – associate's college in Derry Township (Dauphin County) Mary Immaculate Seminary (1939–1990) – Roman Catholic seminary in Lehigh Township (Northampton County)
Its format is a newspaper written by the students of Point Park University. [5] The paper's frequency of publication is once per week. [ 4 ] In 1979, The Pittsburgh Press relied upon reporting by The Globe , and cited the work of journalists Bonnie Swain and Sam Cordes in "a series of articles" where they documented incidents where foreign ...
The Fort Pitt Block House (sometimes called Bouquet's Blockhouse [6] or Bouquet's Redoubt [7]) 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, [8] as well as the "oldest authenticated structure west of the Allegheny Mountains".