Frick Building
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| Frick Building | |
| Basic data | |
| Place: | 437 Grant Street, Pittsburgh |
| Construction time : | 1901-1902 |
| Status : | completed |
| Architects : | DH Burnham & Company |
| Use / legal | |
| Usage : | office building |
| Client : | Henry Clay Frick |
| Technical specifications | |
| Height to the roof: | 101 m |
| Floors : | 20th |
| Elevators : | 10 |
| Usable area : | 33,210 m² m² |
| Building-costs: | $ 2 million |
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| City: | Pittsburgh |
| Country: | United States |
The Frick Building is one of the most striking buildings in downtown Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania , United States . The skyscraper bears the name of Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919), an industrialist and coking plant owner who bought a number of commercial buildings in Pittsburgh. The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places .
The building was directly adjacent to a building owned by Andrew Carnegie on the property of St. Peter's Episcopal Church, built in 1851, which was demolished after Frick bought the property and rebuilt elsewhere on Forbes Avenue in 1901. Local legend says that Frick, who fell out with his former business partner Carnegie, had the building built higher than neighboring Carnegies because of this dispute so that it was constantly in his shadow.
The Frick Building was designed by DH Burnham & Company and completed in 1902 and was originally twenty stories. As a result of the leveling of the surrounding area, the basement became the entrance level in 1912, so that in some sources 21 floors are also given. It has a height of 101 m. The address is 437 Grant Street and the building is also accessed from Forbes and Fifth Avenue.
The top floor has a surrounding balcony. The high ceilings on the floor are handcrafted, the door fittings are heavy and laboriously worked. Originally this floor was used to house Frick's personal office space and as a meeting place for wealthy industrialists. Frick had private rooms on the 19th floor. At the time, his shower was considered to be the highest built-in shower because the technology available could not pump water that high up. The shower is still there, but it doesn't work. Both floors now house Carnegie Learning offices .
supporting documents
- Toker, Franklin: Buildings of Pittsburgh . Chicago: Society of Architectural Historians; Santa Fe: Center for American Places; Charlottesville: In association with the University of Virginia Press, Pittsburgh 2007, ISBN 0-8139-2650-5 .
- Glenn A. Walsh (2001) History of Industrialist, Art Patron, and Philanthropist Henry Clay Frick
- John Simkin Henry Frick at Spartacus Educational
- Mellon Square Map
- Chris Potter (2005) You Had To Ask Archives
See also
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Coordinates: 40 ° 26 ′ 21 ″ N , 79 ° 59 ′ 51 ″ W.