Your tour of Pittsburgh should start here. The Fort Pitt Blockhouse. It is the oldest building in Pittsburgh and west of the Appalachian Mountains. Point State Park was the home to two pre-Revolutionary War forts. Fort Duquesne and Fort Pitt, The Blockhouse dates back to 1764. Look around, and you will see modern bridges connecting the old. How technology has changed.
History of the Blockhouse
Some times called Bouquet’s Blockhouse[ or Bouquet’s Redoubt. TheBlock House was constructed in 1764 as a defensive military redoubt. Henry Bouquet initiated the construction of a small number of redoubts around the outer walls of the fort as a way to reinforce its defense,of which only the Fort Pitt Block House survives.When Fort Pitt was demolished in 1792, the Block House was left untouched because it was already in use as a residence. The structure had been converted into a private house in 1785 by Isaac Craig. In 1894, philanthropist Mary Schenley presented the deed to the Block House to the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR). She did this specifically so that the structure might be preserved for future generations.
