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Greek Nationality Room

November 7, 1941

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Greek Nationality Room
  • Title
  • Greek Nationality Room
  • Date
  • November 7, 1941
  • Identifier
  • GRCR01.UA
  • Description
  • The classical architecture in the Greek Room resembles the Greek Golden Age during the fifth century. The columns are patterned after the Acropolis and made from marble. The professors chairs are marked with the names Plato, Aristotle, and Socrates. The student chairs are marked with Greek towns and islands. The ceiling and doorway are ornately designed by Greek painters who took seven months to complete their work. The Greek Room was dedicated on November 7, 1941. This room, along with twenty five other Nationality Rooms all with different architectural styles, was conceived in the 1920s by sociologist Ruth Crawford Mitchell as a means of linking the university with the immigrant culture of the steel working families.
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Rooms
    Classrooms
    Tables
    Cathedral of Learning (Pittsburgh, Pa.). Greek Room
  • Geographic Subjects
  • Oakland (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
  • Source
  • University of Pittsburgh Historic Photographs, 1884-present
  • Contributor
  • University of Pittsburgh
  • Collection
  • University of Pittsburgh Historic Photographs
  • Rights Information
  • Copyright Not Evaluated. The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use.
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