Romanian Nationality Room | Historic Pittsburgh

May 16, 1943

Title
Romanian Nationality Room
Date
May 16, 1943
Identifier
ROCR01.UA
Description
The Romanian Nationality Room is modeled after a Romanian Orthodox Monastery. The Professors lectern is modified from one that an Eastern Orthodox church would have used. Church icons depicting Mary and the Child, Christ, the Apostle Mark, and the Dormination of the Virgin frame the blackboard. The chairs were designed in Romania and carved using pocket knives. The Romanian Room was dedicated May 16, 1943. This room, along with twenty five other Nationality Rooms all with different architectural styles, was conceived in the 1920s by sociologist Ruth Crawford Mitchell as a means of linking the university with the immigrant culture of the steel working families.
Type
still image
Genre
photographs
Subject
Rooms
Classrooms
Chairs
Cathedral of Learning (Pittsburgh, Pa.). Romanian Room
Geographic Subjects
Oakland (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Source
University of Pittsburgh Historic Photographs, 1884-present
Contributor
University of Pittsburgh
Collection
University of Pittsburgh Historic Photographs
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