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66 Years Before the Igloo, the Schenley Park Casino Hosted the First Hockey Game in Pittsburgh

May 15, 2017 Lindsay Leave a Comment

first hockey game in PittsburghYesterday, when I was writing about the Catahecassa Springs in Schenley Park I was looking for the date that the Schenley Park ice rink was constructed. While I still don’t know when the Schenley Park ice rink was built, I learned about a building that I had never heard of before, the Schenley Park Casino. Since it is a hockey night in Pittsburgh, it seems fitting that our next post on historic preservation is about the building that hosted the very first hockey game in the City of Pittsburgh. In 1893 construction began on an elaborate recreation building that was… Read the rest

Filed Under: Architechture, Historic Preservation, History, Sports Tagged With: 1895, hockey, hockey history, igloo, Pittsburgh hockey history, Pittsburgh Penguins, Schenley Park, Schenley Park Casino

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