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Grant Street Walk Tour 4-21:Grant Street-3/28/06 4/25/11 1:34 PM Page 1 Grant Street Walk Tour 4-21:Grant Street-3/28/06 4/25/11 1:34 PM Page 1 17 Gulf Tower There’s a simple rule about American cities. The best Downtown Pittsburgh Trowbridge & Livingston (New York), architects; 17 18 ones are those set within tight physical limits. Pittsburgh E. P. Mellon, associate architect, 1932 Seventh Avenue falls emphatically into the first category. Compact and Grant Street Walking Tour This 44-story tower, originally constructed for the Gulf Oil 16 muscular, it is one of America’s few real walking cities. Corporation, was the tallest in Pittsburgh until 1970. The 15 —Rupert Cornwell, ‘Steel Town’ shows US the art of survival architects went down 90 feet to find a proper footing for their 19 (The Independent , February 27, 2011) great tower, then raised it in a sober Modernistic manner that Strawberry Way 14 began and ended with allusions to Classical architecture: 12 13 20 a colossal doorway with a 50-ton granite entablature on FREE TOURS 11 Seventh Avenue and a limestone stepped-back pyramidal Old Allegheny County Jail Museum top that recalled the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus. Sixth Avenue Open Mondays through October ( 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.) # 2 10 1 MEETING Downtown Pittsburgh Walking Tours 18 Federal Courthouse and Post Office LOCATION Trowbridge & Livingston (New York), architects, Every Friday, May through September (Noon to 1:00 p.m.) with James A. Wetmore (Washington, D.C.), 1932 Oliver Avenue 3 There is a different walking tour each month. During a $68-million renovation in 2004-05, the exterior Oakland Civic Center Walking Tours 9 t y Every Friday in October (Noon to 1:00 p.m.) stonework was cleaned, six new courtrooms were added e a e r W t in the original building light wells, and an atrium was t n S Fifth Avenue e n e d r e constructed to allow natural light to illuminate the new l t SPECIAL EVENTS e P i S f third-floor lobby space and historic fourth-floor courtrooms. t h t m n i 8 4 a a i r August Wilson’s Hill District Walking Tour m l l i S G W Sat., June 4, 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. 19 U.S. Steel Tower Forbes Avenue Harrison & Abramovitz (New York), architects, 1971 Grant Street Walking Tour: From Firstside to Liberty At 841 feet high, U.S. Steel Tower was the tallest building 5 Sat., June 25, 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. between New York and Chicago when completed. (In 1987 Allegheny River Bridges & Point State Park Philadelphia’s One Liberty Place Building at 945 feet became Fourth Avenue Walking Tour May Fridays at Noon the first to surpass it.) U.S. Steel Tower has an exposed frame Sat., July 16, 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. of Cor-Ten weathering steel (a U.S. Steel patent). 7 6 Bus Tour to Woodville, the John Roberts House, A FREE one-hour guided walking tour, The 18 exterior columns that run the full height of the and Plantation Plenty compliments of the Pittsburgh History Third Avenue building are filled with a mixture of water, anti-freeze, and Sat., July 23, 10:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. & Landmarks Foundation an anti-corrosive. The purpose of the fluid is to maintain a N Behind-the-Scenes Tour of the column temperature below a dangerous level during a fire. Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh* There is an acre of space on each floor; approximately Wed., Sept .14, 10:30 a.m. to Noon 9,000 people work in the building; and there are 54 elevator or Sat., Sept. 17, 1:00 to 2:30 p.m. Meeting Location cars, 11,000 windows, and 64 stories. 1. Omni William Penn Hotel 12. Smithfield United Church Four Special Pittsburgh Houses* Grant Street near Sixth Avenue, at the U.S. Steel Corporation and the University of Pittsburgh Sat., Oct. 15, 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. Medical Center (UPMC) are headquartered here. UPMC 2. Mellon Green 13. Allegheny HYP Club Omni William Penn Hotel entrance * Tours for members only; please join! leases 13 floors, including the top floor, and has branded 3. BNY Mellon Center 14. Strawberry Way houses its name on the exterior. 4. Allegheny County Courthouse 15. Bell Atlantic Building FOR DETAILS OR RESERVATIONS 5. City-County Building 16. Koppers Building 20 First Lutheran Church 412-471-5808, ext. 527 or [email protected] Andrew Peebles, architect, 1888 6. Grant Building 17. Gulf Tower www.phlf.org When this church was built, Grant Street still had the air of 7. One Oxford Centre 18. Federal Courthouse a small-town main street, with Henry Hobson Richardson’s and Post Office 8. Frick Building Funding for PHLF’s tour program is provided by The Fine Foundation and new Courthouse and St. Paul’s Cathedral (now demolished) 19. U.S. Steel Tower the Alfred M. Oppenheimer Memorial Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation. by far its most imposing objects. The graceful dimensions of 9. Union Trust Building 20. First Lutheran Church First Lutheran Church complement the massive Courthouse, 10. Mellon Square and details of the church (such as the red mortar) echo Richardson’s buildings. 11. Regional Enterprise Tower Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation See why Pittsburgh Pops this summer! For more information on local buildings and architects, purchase one of our books. Call 412-471-5808, ext. 525 for 100 West Station Square Drive, Suite 450 a listing of titles and prices, or visit: www.phlf.org . Click on “Store.” Pittsburgh, PA 15219-1134 © 2011 Grant Street Walk Tour 4-21:Grant Street-3/28/06 4/25/11 1:34 PM Page 2 Omni William Penn Hotel Grant Building GRANT STREET WALK 1 6 11 Regional Enterprise Tower Janssen & Abbott, architects, 1916; Janssen & Cocken, Henry Hornbostel and Eric Fisher Wood, architects, 1930 Harrison & Abramovitz (New York), architects, 1953 architects, 1929; Urban Room, Joseph Urban, 1929 This building has lost some exterior detailing and Originally constructed for Alcoa, this corporate headquarters Pittsburgh especially is a city of monuments to its great This classic big-city hotel is distinguished by the Art Deco inner space, but its neon beacon continues to flash building was intended to show off as many applications of industrialists who left behind them not only steel mills, Urban Room on the 17th floor. Deep light courts (easily P-I-T-T-S-B-U-R-G-H in Morse code, as it did in 1930. aluminum as possible. Here, aluminum siding made its debut factories and banks, but also a number of huge buildings noticed from Mellon Square) allow the maximum number in high-style construction. In 1998, Alcoa constructed a which perpetuate their names. Frick, Carnegie, Oliver and of guest rooms to have natural ventilation and outdoor 7 One Oxford Centre new building on the North Shore along the Allegheny River views. During a $22 million renovation in 2004, many of Phipps resound in the city’s architectural as well as its Hellmuth, Obata, Kassabaum (New York), architects, 1983 and donated this building to serve as the headquarters for the building’s original elements were restored. financial annals. Like the princes of the Renaissance, the This 46-story skyscraper was built as a cluster of octagons to various nonprofit organizations serving the region. masters of these great fortunes loved to build. In steel, Mellon Green maximize the number of corner offices. 2 12 Smithfield United Church marble and granite is memorialized much of the history Burt Hill Kosar Rittelmann, architects, and Henry Hornbostel, architect, 1925 of Pittsburgh’s Age of the Moguls. MTR Landscape Architects, 2002 8 Frick Building D. H. Burnham & Co. (Chicago), architects, 1902 Hornbostel finished off an eclectic Gothic composition with –– James D. Van Trump, “The Skyscraper as Monument” This public park gives a campus feel to the BNY Mellon (The Charette; 43:4, April 1963) Financial Center complex and provides an amenity for Henry Clay Frick made a number of major real-estate an openwork spire that represents a very early architectural Pittsburgh’s central business district. The fountain was investments that resulted in construction of a close-set group use of aluminum. With its concentration of major historic buildings and modern designed by Geoffrey L. Rausch. The granite monoliths of buildings in the Grant Street area: the Frick Building, the symbolize the strength and stability of Pittsburgh. A tree- Frick Annex (now the Allegheny Building), Union Arcade, and 13 Allegheny HYP Club skyscrapers, Grant Street is downtown Pittsburgh’s showcase lined promenade of rustic terrazzo and granite paving leads the first part of the William Penn Hotel. In the Frick Building, Edward B. Lee, architect, 1930 thoroughfare. A section of Grant Street, between Forbes and to one of four downtown “T” (transit) stations. the earliest of these, he created a personal monument and the 1890-period workers’ houses were remodeled to provide a Seventh avenues, is part of the Pittsburgh Central Downtown location of his own office. The tall new building that was gracious courtyard and cozy interiors for what was originally National Register Historic District, which also includes significant 3 BNY Mellon Center finished in 1902 put an end to the 14-year dominance of the the Harvard-Yale-Princeton Club. The club membership is buildings west of Grant Street. This tour will visit some of these Welton Becket Associates Pittsburgh skyline by the Courthouse directly across the street. now open to graduates from any college or university. The (Los Angeles, later New York), architects, 1983 Look inside for a marble bust of Frick by Malvina rose window of the Smithfield United Church makes an buildings and a unique urban garden located in the Historic District.
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