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Aspinwall, Pennsylvania. The Sauer Buildings Historic District located between 607–717 Center Avenue in Aspinwall. Aspinwall is a borough on the Allegheny River in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is part of the Pittsburgh metropolitan area. The population was 2,916 at the 2020 census.
September 11, 1985. Sauer Buildings Historic District, located between 607 and 717 Center Avenue in Aspinwall, Pennsylvania, consists of a group of buildings designed and built by Frederick C. Sauer from 1898 until his death in 1942. This historic district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 11, 1985.
William Henry Aspinwall (December 16, 1807 – January 18, 1875) [1] was a prominent American businessman who was a partner in the merchant firm of Howland & Aspinwall and was a co-founder of both the Pacific Mail Steamship Company and Panama Canal Railway companies which revolutionized the migration of goods and people to the Western coast of the United States.
For a number of years early in its history, the sizable United States émigré community called the town Aspinwall after Panama Railroad promoter William Henry Aspinwall, while the city's Hispanic community called it Colón in honor of Christopher Columbus. The city was founded on the western end of a treacherously marshy islet known as ...
Frederick C. Sauer (1860, [1] Heidelberg, Grand Duchy of Baden [2] – 1942 Aspinwall, Pennsylvania, United States [3]) was a German-American architect, particularly in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, region of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Sauer, a German -born immigrant to the United States, was a stonemason, bricklayer and carpenter ...
Longest span. 396 feet (121 m) Clearance below. 56.5 feet (17.2 m) History. Opened. 1904. Location. The Brilliant Branch Railroad Bridge is a truss bridge that carries Allegheny Valley Railroad 's Brilliant Branch across the Allegheny River between the Pittsburgh neighborhood of Highland Park and the borough of Aspinwall, Pennsylvania.
Cristóbal was of vital importance to the American plan to build the Panama Canal. Much like the city of Colón (formerly Aspinwall) had been during the American construction of the Panama Railroad, Cristobal was the port of entry for construction equipment and materials, most canal workers, and supplies and provisions for them and their dependents.
Laying Telford paving in Aspinwall, Pennsylvania in 1908. Thomas Telford, born in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, [3] was a surveyor and engineer who applied Tresaguet's road building theories. In 1801 Telford worked for the Commission of Highland Roads and Bridges. He became director of the Holyhead Road Commission between 1815 and 1830. Telford ...