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Abandoned Pittsburgh: Steel and Shadows

Abandoned Pittsburgh: Steel and Shadows

Paperback

Series: Abandoned Union

Business GeneralGeneral PhotographyRegional: Middle Atlantic

Publisher Price: $26.99

ISBN10: 1635001110
ISBN13: 9781635001112
Publisher: America Through Time
Published: Aug 31 2026
Pages: 128
Language: English
Pittsburgh reveals haunting beauty in forgotten industrial relics, where past steel echoes linger.

Pittsburghers are slow to give up their ghosts. Rusted skeletons of industrial mills and rail depots line the rivers, corroded reminders of a city's past forged in steel; churches built in the nineteenth century by devout East European immigrants now stand desanctified and decayed; structures that once epitomized the pinnacles of science, commerce, transportation, and manufacturing are empty reminders of how Pittsburgh earned its name as The Steel City.

Often named the most livable city in the U.S., with a stunning skyline framed by soaring bridges (more than any other city in the world) and its magnificent three rivers, Pittsburgh retains reminders of its historic past that live on beside the gleaming new skyscrapers. From the steel-plated inferno of Carrie Furnace and Duquesne Steel Works to the holy shadows that inhabit St. Nicholas Croatian Catholic Church, Abandoned Pittsburgh: Steel and Shadows points a lens into these darkened, forgotten places where a haunting beauty still exists.

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