The Monongahela Incline is a funicular on the South Side in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, near the Smithfield Street Bridge. Designed and built by Prussian-born engineer John Endres in 1870, it is the oldest continuously operating funicular in the U.S.
Owner: Pittsburgh Regional Transit
Opened: May 28, 1870
Location: Grandview Avenue at Wyoming Avenue · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Built: 1869
Architect: John Endres and Caroline Endres
Locale: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Architectural style: Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals, Second Renaissance Revival
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