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Go Fourth! Discover Pittsburgh's Wall Street

Oct 11, 2025 - Oct 11, 2025 | 11:00 am - 3:00 pm
Dollar Bank
340 Fourth Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA 15222

Take a guided tour of Fourth Avenue, the former Wall Street of Pittsburgh, and learn about the people who commissioned the first skyscrapers here and fueled the city's original stock exchange.

Along with the industrial tycoons, financial giants, oil wildcatters, and entrepreneurs of old Fourth Avenue, hear inspirational tales of:

  • Powerful women who shaped the city with their vision
  • Champions of racial equality who fought to end slavery and segregation
  • Master painters whose art was snapped up by Carnegie and Frick
  • A stock exchange reborn in the '80s as a popular gay bar and drag show cabaret

Tours at 11:00, 12:30, and 2:00

Leading your walking tour is speaker and author Mark Houser, who has taken more than 2,000 people on his Antique Skyscrapers Rooftop Views tours, andĀ Megan Harris, the producer and host of City Cast Pittsburgh.

The tour also includes a rare Saturday open house at historicĀ Dollar Bank, the oldest on Fourth Avenue.

ALL PROCEEDS FROM TICKET SALES WILL BE DONATED TO MISSION OF MERCY PITTSBURGH.
Every year, the local charity offers two days of free health, dental, vision, and hearing care for needy Pittsburghers at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center. Help this worthy charity while exploring the city we all love!

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