Frick Fine Arts Building | Historic Pittsburgh

1965-11-24

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Title
Frick Fine Arts Building
Creator
James McClain
Identifier
MSP285.B004.F13.I17
Source Identifier
MSP285.B004.F13.I17
Description
The Henry Clay Frick Fine Arts Building, located in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, was designed by the architectural firm of B. Kenneth Johnson Associates in 1965. This structure is one of three Frick art buildings in the City of Pittsburgh that included the Clayton Frick’s mansion and the Frick Art Museum. The building, a prototype of Vignola’s Villa Giulia on the outskirts of sixteenth-century Rome, was constructed in the Italian Renaissance style and contains a cloistered garden, public art gallery, recital hall, classrooms, a forty-five foot high octagon capped by a pyramidal roof, and a fine arts library. Henry Clay Frick donated an unknown but yet substantial amount of money to the University of Pittsburgh. His daughter, Helen Frick, was the founder of the Department of Fine Arts at the University of Pittsburgh in 1928.
Genre
photographs
Subject
University of Pittsburgh.Henry Clay Frick Fine Arts Building.
Sculpture--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
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