Banquet in honor of the Lion Club

1915-09-28

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Title
Banquet in honor of the Lion Club
Creator
Frederick Theodore Wagner
Identifier
MSP388.B011.I04
Source Identifier
MSP388.B011.I04
Description
This banquet took place at the Fort Pitt Hotel, located at Penn Avenue at Tenth Street on the eastern edge of Pittsburgh’s Golden Triangle. The hotel was once considered one of Pittsburgh’s most elegant hotels. The structure was built in two sections; the eight-story section at Tenth Street 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. The Fort Pitt Hotel was razed in 1967 to make way for the Penn Park redevelopment project.
Genre
photographs
Subject
Lion Club (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Fort Pitt Hotel (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Source
F. Theodore Wagner, Photographs, ca. 1903-1947, MSP 388, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
Contributor
Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
Collection
F. Theodore Wagner Papers
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