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The City-County Building was one of Pittsburgh's first attempts at incorporating the City Beautiful Movement into its urban design. [ 20 ] Some of the most significant design elements of the building include the Grand Lobby, which is a naturally lit atrium with a 47-foot high barrel-vaulted ceiling.
Location of Pittsburgh in Allegheny County. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on National Register of Historic Places in the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be ...
Below is a list of the Deans of Wadham college in chronological order, together with their time in office. John Pitt 1613, 1616–17 [ 2 ] John Goodridge 1613, 1618 [ 2 ]
The college was founded by Dorothy Wadham (née Petre) in 1610, [7] according to the wishes set out in the will of her husband Nicholas Wadham.Over four years, she gained royal and ecclesiastical support for the new college, negotiated the purchase of a site, appointed the West Country architect William Arnold, drew up the college statutes, and appointed the first warden, fellows, scholars ...
In the United States, vital records are typically maintained at both the county [1] and state levels. [2] In the United Kingdom and numerous other countries vital records are recorded in the civil registry. In the United States, vital records are public and in most cases can be viewed by anyone in person at the governmental authority. [3]
The street's location on "Grant's Hill" strangled growth in downtown Pittsburgh, leading to several attempts in 1836 and 1849 to regrade the area to remove the hill. [2] The successful removal of the hill in 1912 cost $800,000 ($25.3 million in 2023 dollars), plus $2.5 million in reimbursement costs for property damaged by the project ($78.9 ...
Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation announces Historic Building and Landscape Designations, June 27, 2007, accessdate=2008-08-05 Pages in category "Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation Historic Landmarks"
McGowan Institute Laboratory Building 1999–2002 1999–2002 IKM, Inc. South Side: Research gold LEED award from the U.S. Green Building Council Melwood Maintenance Building 1986 [36] Oakland: Maintenance Mervis Hall: 1983 1983 IKM/SGE Oakland: Business: Music Building: 1884 1953 [37] Longfellow, Alden & Harlow: Richardsonian Romanesque ...