Fortaleza
Fort Pitt Blockhouse
🇺🇸 Estados Unidos · siglo XVIII
The Fort Pitt Block House (sometimes called Bouquet's Blockhouse or Bouquet's Redoubt) is a historic building in Point State Park in the city of Pittsburgh. It was constructed in 1764 as a redoubt of Fort Pitt, making it the oldest extant structure in Western Pennsylvania, as well as the "oldest authenticated structure west of the Allegheny Mountains".
The structure has never been torn down, completely rebuilt, or moved during its centuries of existence. Much of its timbers, brick, and stone remain original to its 1764 construction.
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Fort Pitt Blockhouse ranks #3784 of 5793 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #96 of the 98 mapped in Estados Unidos. Fundado en 1764, más antiguo que el 18% de los monumentos datados del atlas — uno de los 360 monumentos del atlas fundados en el siglo XVIII. Compara el dato en las estadísticas de castillos.
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