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Allegheny Post Office

Field	Value
name	Allegheny Post Office
image	Allegheny Post Office front.jpg
location	Allegheny Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
coordinates
locmapin	Pittsburgh#Pennsylvania#USA
built	1897
architecture	Late 19th And 20th Century Revivals
added	July 27, 1971
refnum	71000683
<ref name	"nris"
designated_other1_name	City of Pittsburgh Historic Structure
designated_other1_date	December 26, 1972
designated_other1_abbr	CPHS
designated_other1_link	List of City of Pittsburgh historic designations
designated_other1_color	black
designated_other1_textcolor	gold
designated_other2	PHLF
designated_other2_date	1971

The Allegheny Post Office is a historic building in the Allegheny Center neighborhood on the North Side of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1897 as the main post office for what was then the independent city of Allegheny and later became part of Pittsburgh. After the post office closed in 1967, the building was slated for demolition as part of the Allegheny Center urban renewal project. However, the Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation (PHLF) mounted a successful campaign to save the building, raising about $835,000 to purchase and restore it for their own use. In 1972, the building reopened as the Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Museum, exhibiting items from PHLF's collections of historic artifacts.

In 1983, the lower level of the building became the first home of the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh. The Children's Museum eventually expanded to occupy the entire post office building as well as the neighboring Buhl Planetarium building and a new addition.

The building was listed on the listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. It was the first building in Allegheny County to be added to the register.

References

{{NRISref. 2008a
"Local Historic Designations". Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation.
(2010). "Historic Landmark Plaques 1968-2009". Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation.
(January 11, 1972). "Landmarks Museum a Dream Come True". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Pennsylvania Register of Historic Sites and Landmarks. (April 1971). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Pennsylvania SP Allegheny Post Office". National Archives and Records Administration.
(June 4, 1983). "A museum to make learning fun". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
(September 30, 1971). "Northside Post Office Becoming Museum". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

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