Grandview Ave. at Wyoming Ave., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. County/parish: Allegheny.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places June 25, 1974. NRIS 74001742.
1 contributing building. 1 contributing structure.
The Monongahela Incline is a funicular on the South Side in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, near the Smithfield Street Bridge. Designed and built by Prussian-born engineer John Endres in 1870, it is the oldest continuously operating funicular in the U.S.
It is one of two surviving inclines in Pittsburgh (the other is the nearby Duquesne Incline) from the original 17 passenger-carrying inclines built there starting in the late 19th century. Its lower station is across the street from what is now the Station Square shopping complex. It is easily accessible from the light rail system at the Station Square station.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. In 1977 both inclines were designated as Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmarks by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71997824