Bessemer Fountain
In 1879 Pittsburgh’s Station Square made up of fifty-two acres of land at the meeting point of the Monongahela, Allegheny and Ohio rivers was a hub for the Pittsburgh-Lake Erie Railroad. Its opulent and gracious terminal was continuously filled with thousands of people traveling on the line. Warehouses were stocked to capacity with goods waiting to be shipped all over the country.
Fast forward a hundred years and planes, cars and trucks have taken over for the
railroads. By 1976 the buildings of the Pittsburgh-Lake Erie line were lying empty and decrepit until they were rescued by the Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation and Forest City Enterprises who restored them into ultra chic hotels, restaurants and shops.
At the heart of all this, overlooking the Monongahela River, is the Bessemer Fountain in the middle of which stands a giant steel object shaped like R2-D2, a Bessemer converter that dates to 1856.
Today this relic of one of Pittsburgh’s steel mining mills – where it was used to convert molten pig iron into steel – is the backdrop for a state-of-the-art fountain shooting jets of colored water forty feet into the air. Daily, at twenty-minute intervals, the fountain performs dozens of different shows choreographed to the music of Frank Sinatra, Celine Dion, ABBA, the Beach Boys and Pittsburgh’s own Christina Aquilera.
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