Allegheny County Courthouse and Jail

no earlier than 1888

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Title
Allegheny County Courthouse and Jail
Creator
American
Date
no earlier than 1888
Identifier
83.6.10
Source Identifier
Carnegie Museum of Art 83.6.10
Description
One of the most distinguished buildings of the nineteenth century, the Allegheny County Courthouse and Jail, built between 1884 and 1888, was designed by Henry Hobson Richardson. The building combines several functions - public offices on the first floor, main courtrooms on the second floor, and administrative offices on the top floor, with two mezzanines added later. There is a spacious courtyard at the center of the building and the jail complex is at the back, connected to the County Courthouse by the Bridge of Sighs. The Grant Street tower extends 300 feet into the air and functioned as the fresh air intake for Richardson's ventilation system. The fireproof building was one of the first American buildings to use electricity.
Type
still image
Genre
photographs
Subject
Court-houses--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh--Pennsylvania.
Architecture--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
Downtown (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Allegheny County Courthouse (Pa.)
Buildings--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
Source
Carnegie Museum of Art Collection of Photographs, 1894-1958
Contributor
Carnegie Museum of Art
Collection
Carnegie Museum of Art Collection of Photographs
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