Fort Pitt Hotel | Historic Pittsburgh

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Title
Fort Pitt Hotel
Creator
Jay Bee Studios
Identifier
MSP285.B014.F03.I01
Source Identifier
MSP285.B014.F03.I01
Description
The Fort Pitt Hotel, located at Penn Avenue at Tenth Street on the eastern edge of Pittsburgh’s Golden Triangle, was once considered one of Pittsburgh’s most elegant hotels. The structure was built in two sections; the eight-story section at Tenth and Penn Avenue was designed by Alden and Harlow and constructed in 1905. The eleven-story tower addition, designed by Janssen and Abbott, was constructed in 1909. The building featured the Norse Room, which was decorated entirely of Rockwood tiles featuring large wall panels depicting Longfellow’s poem, “The Skeleton in Armor.” The room, designed by John Dee Wareham, was finished in 1909 at a cost of $85,000. Some of the guests that stayed at the hotel were William Jennings Bryan, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, Stepin Fetchit, Jack Benny and Rochester, and Gene Sarazen. The Fort Pitt Hotel was razed in 1967 to make way for the Penn Park redevelopment project.
Genre
photographs
Subject
Fort Pitt Hotel (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Hotels--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
Penn Avenue (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Downtown (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
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