Autumn’s Antique Skyscrapers

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 transformed in the '80s into a gay bar and host of the Miss Gay Pennsylvania drag pageant

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, and Megan Harris, host of City Cast Pittsburgh.

Your tour also includes a rare Saturday open house at historic Dollar Bank, and a visit to the Benedum-Trees Gallery to see digital artist Chris Hytha's huge drone-scan images of the antique skyscrapers of 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!