Gulf Building

1975

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Gulf Building
  • Title
  • Gulf Building
  • Identifier
  • MSP285.B002.F17.I03
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP285.B002.F17.I03
  • Description
  • The Gulf Building (also known as the Gulf Tower), located at Seventh Avenue and Grant Street in downtown Pittsburgh, was designed by the architectural firm of Trowbridge & Livingston in 1930-32. The building is forty-four stories (582 feet) in height and was the tallest building in Pittsburgh until 1970. Mounted on the top of the structure were neon tubes in the Gulf Oil corporate colors of orange and blue that predicted the weather. If the neon lights were a steady blue color, then precipitation and falling temperatures were expected; flashing blue, precipitation and falling temperatures. A steady orange corresponded to clear and rising temperatures; flashing orange, clear and falling temperatures. After Gulf Oil merged with Chevron in 1985 the building was no longer associated with the oil industry. The building was sold in 1985 to New York developers who converted the structure to office rental space.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Gulf Building (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Gulf Tower (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Weather.
    Skyscrapers--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Downtown (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Koppers Building (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Allegheny River (Pa. and N.Y.)
    Buildings--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
  • Source
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs, 1892-1981, MSP 285, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs
  • Rights Information
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