Civic Arena
The Civic Arena, formerly the Civic Auditorium and later Mellon Arena, was an arena located in Downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Civic Arena primarily served as the home to the Pittsburgh Penguins, the city's National Hockey League franchise, from 1967 to 2010.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Building
- Description: arena in Pittsburgh
- Also known as: “Civic Auditorium”, “Mellon Arena”, “Pittsburgh Civic Arena”, and “The Igloo”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include PPG Paints Arena and Union Station.
PPG Paints Arena
Stadium
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PPG Paints Arena is a multi-purpose indoor arena in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, that serves as the home of the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League. PPG Paints Arena is situated 780 feet south of Civic Arena.
Union Station
Railway station
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Union Station, also known as Pennsylvania Station and commonly called Penn Station, is a historic train station in Downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was one of several passenger rail stations that served Pittsburgh during the 20th century; others included… Union Station is situated 1,200 feet northwest of Civic Arena.
Joseph F. Weis, Jr. U.S. Courthouse
Courthouse
Photo: Jim.henderson, CC0.
The Joseph F. Weis, Jr. U.S. Courthouse is a Beaux Arts-style building in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US. It is a courthouse for the Western District of Pennsylvania, a United States district court. Joseph F. Weis, Jr. U.S. Courthouse is situated 1,200 feet west of Civic Arena.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Uptown Pittsburgh and Downtown Pittsburgh.
Uptown Pittsburgh
Neighborhood
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Uptown or The Bluff is a neighborhood in the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to the southeast of the city's Central Business District. It is bordered in the north by the Hill District and located across the Monongahela River from South Side.
Downtown Pittsburgh
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Downtown Pittsburgh is the main business district and urban center of life in the city. Constrained by the Allegheny River on the north and the Monongahela River on the south, which join to form the Ohio River at what is known as the "Point", Downtown has been forced to grow upwards.
Hill District
Neighborhood
The Hill District is a grouping of historically African American neighborhoods in the City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Beginning in the years leading up to World War I, "the Hill" was the cultural center of black life in the city and a major center of jazz.
Civic Arena
- Category: stadium
- Location: Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pittsburgh Region, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Ukrainian—“Civic Arena” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Mellon Arena”
- Chinese: “市政體育館”
- Chinese: “梅隆体育馆”
- Chinese: “梅隆體育館”
- Croatian: “Mellon Arena”
- Czech: “Civic Arena”
- Danish: “Mellon Arena”
- Dutch: “Civic Arena”
- Finnish: “Civic Arena”
- French: “Civic Arena”
- German: “Civic Arena”
- German: “Mellon Arena”
- Italian: “Civic Arena”
- Japanese: “シビック・アリーナ”
- Japanese: “メロン・アリーナ”
- Korean: “시빅 아레나”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Civic Arena”
- Norwegian: “Civic Arena”
- Polish: “Civic Arena”
- Polish: “Mellon Arena”
- Portuguese: “Civic Arena”
- Russian: “Сивик-арена”
- Slovak: “Civic Arena”
- Slovak: “Mellon Arena”
- Spanish: “Pittsburgh Civic Arena”
- Swedish: “Mellon Arena”
- Ukrainian: “Мелон-арена”
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