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Burke Building

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Burke Building
  • Title
  • Burke Building
  • Identifier
  • MSP285.B002.F24.I06
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP285.B002.F24.I06
  • Description
  • The Burke (Meyer) Building, located on Fourth Avenue in downtown Pittsburgh, is the City’s first office building and the last monumental building in the Greek Revival style surviving in Allegheny County. The building, built in 1836 by the Burke brothers (Robert and Andrew) on a site purchased from the Irwin family, survived the great fire of 1845. The structure was designed by John Chislett, Pittsburgh’s first important architect who had been born in England and trained in Bath, and who also designed the second Allegheny County Court House. Today, this building is the headquarters of the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Burke Building (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Downtown (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Fourth Avenue (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    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
  • 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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