| rdfs:comment | - Edward Muller, a professor at the University of Pittsburgh and the co-author of the forthcoming book "Before Renaissance: Planning in Pittsburgh, 1889-1943," says the Point quickly filled with warehouses, railroad yards, bars, brothels and dilapidated housing. Floodwaters regularly washed over the neighborhood's streets and alleys. By the close of the 19th century, "the Point was falling into deep disrepair," Muller says.
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| abstract | - Edward Muller, a professor at the University of Pittsburgh and the co-author of the forthcoming book "Before Renaissance: Planning in Pittsburgh, 1889-1943," says the Point quickly filled with warehouses, railroad yards, bars, brothels and dilapidated housing. Floodwaters regularly washed over the neighborhood's streets and alleys. By the close of the 19th century, "the Point was falling into deep disrepair," Muller says. Because of the buildings, the steeply banked wharfs and the slightly elevated highways that converged at the forks, Muller says, it was possible for a person to stand in the midst of the Point and not even realize he was bounded on three sides by water. Looking up, he might catch a glimpse of the superstructures of the two bridges at the Point. Otherwise, it was as thoughf the three rivers didn't exist.
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