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June Fridays at NOON Downtown Pittsburgh Fourth Avenue Walking 17 Centennial Building (Carpenter’s Union Building) Downtown Pittsburgh 241 Fourth Avenue Connect with the Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation We do not know the architect of this building of 1876, but N for group, individual, and self-guided tours. ... Spend some Fourth Avenue Walking Tour the composition of the façade is rather sophisticated: wall Smithfield Street time perusing the ethnic, architectural, and cultural gems that planes advance and recede beneath a heavy, elaborate cornice. 2 Pittsburgh has to offer. 1 —Posted on Examiner.com (May 24, 2012) 18 Investment Building (Insurance Exchange) 235–239 Fourth Avenue 5 6 FREE TOURS This 1927 work of John M. Donn, a Washington, D.C. 7 architect, is between two buildings of the same approximate 10 Old Allegheny County Jail Museum 8 façade dimensions, but they were built about 25 years earlier. Open Mondays through October (11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.) Terra cotta has yielded to limestone, and a darker and more 13 12 9 15 16 (except court holidays) Wood Street textured brick is in fashion; simplicity and lightness of form Downtown Pittsburgh: Guided Walking Tours and detailing are evident. At the top, notice the corners 14 Every Friday, May through September (Noon to 1:00 p.m.) e chamfered with obelisk-like elements. e u u e n • July: Grant Street & Mellon Square n 17 u e e n v v e • A August: Market Square Area v 18 A A 19 (Machesney Building) s Benedum-Trees Building h t e • September: Bridges & River Shores d r b r i 221–225 Fourth Avenue u r h o o T F F 19 Here is a skyscraper of 1905 still evolving out of Victorian City Main Streets & More: Guided Walking Tours elaboration into a more modern simplicity. Although strong Offered in cooperation with the Urban Redevelopment 20 verticals dominate the composition for the greater part, the Authority of Pittsburgh. Reservations required (see below). ornament of the spandrels between window levels and the • September 7: South Side—From River to Rail Market Square 21 elaborate cornices are carry-overs from the recent past. The • September 21: Hill District—Centre and Wylie Avenues choice of materials—light-colored granite, white brick and • October 4: Mt. Washington—Shiloh Street Area terra cotta—is in a more modern spirit. Pittsburgh architect • October 11: Brookline—Brookline Boulevard Thomas H. Scott designed this building for H. Allen Machesney, • October 18: Brighton Heights—California Avenue June Fridays at Noon an attorney, but it was purchased in 1913 by oil prospectors • October 25: North Side—Federal Street Area Michael Benedum and Joseph Trees. See the lobby. A FREE one-hour guided walking tour, SPECIAL EVENTS Fourth Avenue Area, Downtown Pittsburgh compliments of the Pittsburgh History 20 Burke’s Building Not free. Reservations required. Space is limited. 209 Fourth Avenue & Landmarks Foundation 1. Dollar Bank 12. The Bank Tower/First National • June & July (every Friday, 10:00 a.m.): Downtown’s Best— The façade, at least, of the Burke’s Building is the oldest Bank (People’s Savings Bank Special Places and Spaces in a 90-Minute Walk work of high-style architecture in the city. Its year is 2. Standard Life Building (Pittsburgh Bank for Savings) Building) 1836 (preceding the Great Fire of 1845); its style is • June 29: Allegheny Cemetery Driving & Walking Tour 13. Point Park University Center Meeting Location Greek Revival; its architect was the English-born-and- 3. Fidelity Building • August 25: Shadyside Walking Tour—From Tower to Spire (Fidelity Trust Company) (Colonial Trust Company) trained John Chislett. The three-story landmark—the • September 28: Behind the Scenes—Places and Spaces at Fourth Avenue and Smithfield 14. Arrott Building oldest business building in the city—is privately owned and 4. Pittsburgh Engineers’ Building The Frick Art & Historical Center (Union Trust Company) 15. Wood Street Commons Street near Dollar Bank the façade is protected in perpetuity from alteration through • October 26: Bus Tour of Great Pittsburgh Houses—1909 to 1930 an easement with PHLF. 5. Industrial Bank (YMCA Building) 6. Times Building 16. Lawrence Hall 21 PPG Place (Magee Building) (Keystone Athletic Club) FOR DETAILS & RESERVATIONS Between Fourth Avenue and Third Avenue at Market Street 7. The Tech Center Bunker 17. Centennial Building 412-471-5808, ext. 527 or [email protected] Completed in 1984, PPG Place is one of three downtown (Keystone Bank) (Carpenter’s Union Building) Funding for PHLF’s tour program is also provided by The Fine Foundation and buildings made to show off the company product: the others 8. Commonwealth Building 18. Investment Building the Alfred M. Oppenheimer Memorial Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation. being the former Alcoa Building and U.S. Steel Tower. (Commonwealth Trust Company) (Insurance Exchange) Here, the general effect of the mirrored-glass Post-Modern 9. The Carlyle 19. Benedum-Trees Building buildings is Gothic, with 231 pinnacles. The 40-story tower (Union National Bank) (Machesney Building) is 680 feet high. The architects were John Burgee with Philip 10. Point Park University Center 20. Burke’s Building Johnson (New York). A fountain enlivens PPG Plaza in the (Colonial Trust Company) 21. PPG Place www.phlf.org summer (and an ice rink in the winter), thanks to a gift from 11. Point Park University Center Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation the Hillman Foundation. (Commercial National Bank) Renewing Communities; Building Pride Pittsburgh. Mighty. Beautiful. Walkable. 100 West Station Square Drive, Suite 450 For more information on local buildings and architects, purchase one of our books: 412-471-5808, ext. 525; www.phlf.org Pittsburgh, PA 15219-1134 © 2013 2 Standard Life Building (Pittsburgh Bank for Savings) 7 The Tech Center Bunker (Keystone Bank) 12 The Bank Tower/First National Bank FOURTH AVENUE Smithfield Street and Fourth Avenue 322 Fourth Avenue (People’s Savings Bank Building) WALKING TOUR Many of the early skyscrapers in American cities were inspired Boston-trained architects MacClure and Spahr established 307 Fourth Avenue by Italian Renaissance palazzos with dark stonework and their Pittsburgh firm in 1901. Remodelings have compromised This tall building of 1901 by Alden & Harlow starts off with exuberant Classical detailing. So is the case here, in a work of MacClure & Spahr’s original design of 1903: the center light Fourth Avenue was part of the city’s original street very emphatic rustication in pink granite, then continues in 1903 by Alden & Harlow, the city’s leading local architectural court has been partially filled in and some windows have been deep red brick with terra-cotta detailing that has deteriorated grid defined in 1784 by George Woods and firm between 1896 and 1908. The lower part was first refaced totally bricked up. Fortunately, the lions still roar above the badly. As with the Pittsburgh Bank for Savings 2 , these Thomas Vickroy. The narrow 25-foot-wide street in 1921. The upper stories of the building have been converted entrances and an eagle stands guard atop an immense keystone. architects multiplied detailing as a response to the skyscraper became Pittsburgh’s “Wall Street” in the late into apartments. J. J. Vandergrift (1827–99), the famous Pittsburgh riverboat challenge. The Fourth Avenue entrance lobby and 16-story 19th and early 20th centuries. captain and oil magnate, was president of Keystone Bank and stair are delicate in contrast, and to be seen. At the corner It was the discovery of oil by Colonel Drake in 3 Fidelity Building (Fidelity Trust Company) a founder of the Pittsburgh Stock Exchange. of Fourth and Wood, look up to see the entrance arches with 341 Fourth Avenue 1859 near Titusville that sparked Fourth Avenue’s sculptures by John Massey Rhind, who sculpted the bronze Pittsburgh architect James T. Steen designed this building of 8 Commonwealth Building (Commonwealth Trust Co.) statues for the Carnegie Institute in Oakland in 1907. development. The Pittsburgh Petroleum Exchange 1889 in the Richardsonian Romanesque style: note the rough- 316 Fourth Avenue moved into a small bank building on Fourth Avenue faced granite, ornamental carving, and rounded arches. The This 20-story skyscraper with colossal Ionic columns dates 13 Point Park University Center (Colonial Trust Co.) in 1884. In 1886, it became the Pittsburgh Petroleum, bronze grillework is of a later time. The upper stories of the from 1906 and is by Osterling. (Ionic columns have a scroll- 414 Wood Street Stock and Metal Exchange. Soon a continuous trade building have been converted into apartments. like ornament on the capital.) The former bank building is The Grecian Ionic front of the T-plan Colonial Trust in nearly 1,200 Pittsburgh companies took place. being renovated, but no firm plans have been announced. Company is a 1926 work by Osterling, with a textbook 4 Pittsburgh Engineers’ Building (Union Trust Co.) correctness not found in his 1902 façades 10 . The spacious A survey of 1908, Pittsburgh’s Sesquicentennial 337 Fourth Avenue year, showed 102 chartered banks and trust 9 The Carlyle (Union National Bank) skylit interior is framed in columns of Pavonazzo marble. This building of 1898 was the first Pittsburgh work of the Fourth Avenue and Wood Street The handsomely renovated University Center includes the companies here: 35 national banks, 33 state banks, Chicago architects D. H. Burnham & Co.; the firm went on MacClure & Spahr introduced a new simplicity to the tall- library, television studio, classrooms, and GRW Theater. and 34 trust companies—a doubling of those that to design 10 more buildings in the city including Union Station, building architecture of Fourth Avenue in the Union National the Frick Building, and the Oliver Building. The combination had existed 20 years before. Bank of 1906. The building materials are appreciably lighter 14 Arrott Building One of 17 National Register Districts in the city, of a cool and correct Grecian Doric temple front—notice than those used at the time, as well.
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