Bell Telephone Building

1924/1957

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Bell Telephone Building
  • Title
  • Bell Telephone Building
  • Creator
  • Bremer & Judge Associates
  • Identifier
  • MSP80.B001.F04.I17
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP80.B001.F04.I17
  • Description
  • The Bell Telephone Building, also known as the Bell Telephone South Building, is located at 416 Seventh Avenue (foreground) in downtown Pittsburgh. There are two distinct parts to this building; the redbrick Romanesque side designed by architect Frederick F. Osterling in the early 1890s, and the multi-phase annex addition (with columns on the top) designed by Philadelphia architect James T. Windrim and completed in 1931. According to Walter C. Kidney, architectural writer and historian, “The crowning feature of the post-Osterling construction is a limestone Ionic colonnade with a frieze of stirgil ornament into which octagonal panels of grillework are set: little noticed, but one of the handsomest classical compositions in Pittsburgh.”
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Bell Telephone Company Building (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Downtown (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Seventh Avenue (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
  • Source
  • Trimble Company Photographs, 1924-1951, MSP 80, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Trimble Company Records
  • Rights Information
  • In Copyright. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. 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. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).. Rights Holder: Senator John Heinz History Center
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  • Rights Holder
  • Senator John Heinz History Center