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Machinery Hall

1935/1980

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Machinery Hall
  • Title
  • Machinery Hall
  • Identifier
  • MSP285.B004.F02.I02
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP285.B004.F02.I02
  • Description
  • Machinery Hall as seen from the “mall” at the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) located in Pittsburgh’s Oakland neighborhood. When Andrew Carnegie selected architect Henry Hornbostel to design a technical school in the late 1890s, the plan was for the layout of the buildings to form an “explorer’s ship” in search of knowledge. This ship would point towards the Carnegie Institute (now the Carnegie Museum and Library), another one of Carnegie’s projects. The helm of the ship was Machinery Hall, built in 1912, accentuated by its distinctive smokestack. In 1964, the building was renamed Hamerschlag Hall after Arthur A. Hamerschlag, the first president of the Carnegie Institute of Technology.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Carnegie-Mellon University.Hamerschlag Hall.
    Universities and colleges--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Oakland (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    University 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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