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The Portals of Learning – Cathedral of Learning, University of Pittsburgh, Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

nobody@ipernity.com (Jonathan Cohen) — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 04:16:09 +0000

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The Font of Learning – Cathedral of Learning, University of Pittsburgh, Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

nobody@ipernity.com (Jonathan Cohen) — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 01:59:13 +0000

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The Vaults of Learning – Cathedral of Learning, University of Pittsburgh, Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

nobody@ipernity.com (Jonathan Cohen) — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 04:48:04 +0000

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The main part of the Cathedral’s first floor is the Commons Room, called one of the "great architectural fantasies of the twentieth century", is a fifteenth-century English perpendicular Gothic-style hall that covers half an acre (2,000 m²) and extends upwards four stories, reaching 52 ft (16 m) tall. The room was a gift of Andrew Mellon. It is a piece of true Gothic architecture; no steel supports were used in the construction of its arches. Each arch is a true arch, and they support their own weight. Each base for the arches weighs five tons, and it is said that they are so firmly placed that each could hold a large truck. The large central piers act only as screens for the structural steel that holds up the upper floors of the building. Despite its heavy use, the Commons Room is kept quiet by the use of Guastavino acoustical tiles as the stones between the ribs of vaulting.

Astrolabe in the Polish Room – Cathedral of Learning, University of Pittsburgh, Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

nobody@ipernity.com (Jonathan Cohen) — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 18:27:31 +0000

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Un-Common Room Heights – Cathedral of Learning, University of Pittsburgh, Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

nobody@ipernity.com (Jonathan Cohen) — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 04:12:15 +0000

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Schenley Quadrangle Viewed from the Forbes Avenue Side – University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

nobody@ipernity.com (Jonathan Cohen) — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 05:23:52 +0000

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Schenley Quadrangle is a cluster of University of Pittsburgh residence halls. The five residence halls are the former historic Schenley Apartments, designed by Henry Hornbostel, with collaboration from Rutan & Russell and Eric Fisher Wood, for developer Franklin Nicola and were built between 1922 and 1924 at a cost of more than $4.5 million ($60.6 million in 2013 dollars). Originally, the Schenley Apartments were home of Pittsburgh’s well-to-do, and consisted of 1,113 rooms in 238 apartments throughout the five buildings.

Golden Arches – Cathedral of Learning, University of Pittsburgh, Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

nobody@ipernity.com (Jonathan Cohen) — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 20:32:50 +0000

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Ceiling of the Swedish Room – Cathedral of Learning, University of Pittsburgh, Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

nobody@ipernity.com (Jonathan Cohen) — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 14:34:47 +0000

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Desks in the Yugoslav Room – Cathedral of Learning, University of Pittsburgh, Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

nobody@ipernity.com (Jonathan Cohen) — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 03:57:39 +0000

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Yugoslavia as a country is gone; one of the few reminders of the multinational country that once was is this classroom in the Cathedral of Learning.

Saint Finnian of Clonard Window in the Irish Room – Cathedral of Learning, University of Pittsburgh, Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

nobody@ipernity.com (Jonathan Cohen) — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 02:14:51 +0000

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Tracery – Cathedral of Learning, University of Pittsburgh, Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

nobody@ipernity.com (Jonathan Cohen) — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 01:21:56 +0000

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Ballroom – William Pitt Union, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

nobody@ipernity.com (Jonathan Cohen) — Thu, 02 May 2013 01:36:02 +0000

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In 1956, the then Schenley Park Hotel was sold to the University of Pittsburgh. The hotel underwent a $1 million ($8.44 million in 2013 dollars) renovations to convert it to university use. The top four floors first served as a men’s dormitory called Schenley House while the rest of the building was purposed as a student union, which was named Schenley Hall. Shortly after this, during the height of the cold war in September 1959, the Schenley Hall ballroom in the Union was the site of a luncheon for Nikita Khrushchev, chairman of the Soviet Union, and various Soviet and U.S. officials, including Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. Pittsburgh was Khrushchev's last stop in his eleven-day transcontinental tour prior to a three-day conference with President Dwight D. Eisenhower. The New York Times proclaimed: "Pittsburgh Stop Warmest of Tour."

The William Pitt Union – University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

nobody@ipernity.com (Jonathan Cohen) — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 02:01:41 +0000

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The William Pitt Union, built in 1898 as the Schenley Hotel, is the student union building of the University of Pittsburgh main campus and is a Pennsylvania and Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation Historic Landmark.

The Pity of it All – The Yugoslav Room, Cathedral of Learning, University of Pittsburgh, Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

nobody@ipernity.com (Jonathan Cohen) — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 13:20:40 +0000

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Yugoslavia as a country is gone; one of the few reminders of the multinational country that once was is this classroom in the Cathedral of Learning.

The walls and ceiling of the Yugoslav room are of Slavonian oak handcarved with Slavonic hearts and other traditional motifs. The young oak tree must force its way through dense volcanic soil and develops a fine grain, especially good for notch carving. All of this work was done in Yugoslavia using small pocket knives.

On the wall opposite the windows is a panel depicting the coat of arms of pre-war Yugoslavia: a double-headed eagle symbolizing the Western Empire of Rome and the Eastern Byzantine Empire which influence this country. The state universities of Belgrade, Llubljana and Zagreb with their founding dates are carved beneath it.

The Cathedral of Learning Viewed from the Schenley Quadrangle – University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

nobody@ipernity.com (Jonathan Cohen) — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:53:38 +0000

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Sowing the Fields – Heinz Memorial Chapel, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

nobody@ipernity.com (Jonathan Cohen) — Sat, 11 May 2013 03:38:04 +0000

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Neon Panther – William Pitt Union, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

nobody@ipernity.com (Jonathan Cohen) — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 17:26:35 +0000

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Heniz Memorial Chapel – University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

nobody@ipernity.com (Jonathan Cohen) — Fri, 03 May 2013 02:15:01 +0000

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The Heinz Memorial Chapel began as a gift: Henry John Heinz, the founder of the H.J. Heinz Company, had it built in honour of his mother. Ground was broken for the chapel in 1933, the cornerstone was laid in 1934, and the building was dedicated in 1938.

Charles Zeller Klauder of Philadelphia designed the building in a neo-Gothic style. The chapel’s modified cruciform plan, stone vaults, high ceilings, repeated arches, and extensive use of glass are typical of American academic and religious architecture from about 1900 until after World War II.

Various religious services are held in the chapel, but it does not belong to any denomination. From its beginnings, the chapel was intended to be interdenominational. The chapel is open daily throughout the year except for University holidays, and hosts approximately 1,000 events annually. More than 100,000 people participate in religious services, weddings, concerts, classes, memorial services, and guided tours. Many simply seek its peace and beauty as a refuge.

And Planting Vineyards – Heinz Memorial Chapel, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

nobody@ipernity.com (Jonathan Cohen) — Sun, 05 May 2013 17:01:50 +0000

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The stained-glass windows are the work of Charles J. Connick’s Boston studio. Connick, a native of western Pennsylvania, received his early training in Pittsburgh. He was in the forefront of the movement that rediscovered 13th-century stained glass in Europe and established neo-Gothic as the American stained glass of choice in the first half of the 20th century.

This panel is part of a window illustrating Psalm 107.

WPTS Panther – William Pitt Union, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

nobody@ipernity.com (Jonathan Cohen) — Wed, 01 May 2013 16:12:32 +0000

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