About

Go Fourth: Pittsburgh's Wall Street

We hope you enjoyed this trip back in time. Stay tuned — the Go Fourth project is planning more ways to highlight what was once the city's most important street with additional stories, historic images, and art.

Mark Houser

Creator and co-host

Mark Houser is a speaker and author who specializes in America's landmark skyscrapers and the entrepreneurs and visionaries who built them. He is the author of MultiStories: 55 Antique Skyscrapers & the Business Tycoons Who Built Them and Highrises Art Deco: 100 Spectacular Skyscrapers from the Roaring '20s to the Great Depression.

Megan Harris

Co-host and audio producer

Megan Harris is a local editor, writer, audio producer, and history buff who leads the news team for City Cast Pittsburgh. Subscribe to her daily podcast and newsletter to learn a little bit more about what built the Steel City and how it's evolving.

Chris Hytha

Artist and web designer

Chris Hytha is a designer and visual artist with a passion for photography and a degree in architecture from Drexel University. His unique, drone-assisted photo compositions of 200 historic American skyscrapers from cities across America — including Pittsburgh — can be seen at the online art and history project, the Highrises Collection.

App and web developer:

Andrew Gallagher

Fourth Avenue illustration:

Paul Ostergaard

Go Fourth project concept:

Pfaffmann + Associates

Public mural:

Karen Krieger & David Montgomery

Map:

1914 Hopkins scan,

University of Pittsburgh

Special thanks to Detre Library & Archives at Heinz History Center