Try Street Terminal

The story

Written by AI from this property's National Register nomination and the record above; every sentence is checked against its sources before it appears here. Corrections: privacy@treealive.com

The Try Street Terminal is a commercial building at 600-620 2nd Ave. in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, built in 1921 in the Commercial Style and designed by architect Bernard H. Prack.

Why it's listed

It was listed under criterion C, with local-level significance in architecture, and a criteria consideration under G. The nomination gives its period of significance as 1921, the year the building was completed.

Physical character

Its concrete frame includes mushroom columns and a flat slab system, expressed on the facade through brick piers, yellow brick panels, a wide concrete band and a concrete water table, with steel-sash windows divided by steel mullions below a parapet. The foundation is concrete and stone, the walls are brick and concrete, and the roof is asphalt. Pediments that originally topped the building were removed in the 1960s and brick infill was added in the 1970s; a rehabilitation between 2005 and 2007 updated the building.

Historical context

It served as a warehouse before going into receivership in 1931. It was renamed the Try Street Terminal in 1934, and Pittsburgh's Urban Redevelopment Authority acquired the property in 1990. A rehabilitation from 2005 to 2007 converted it to housing.