Interior of the Cathedral of Learning

1950/1965

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Interior of the Cathedral of Learning
  • Title
  • Interior of the Cathedral of Learning
  • Identifier
  • MSP285.B004.F13.I07
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP285.B004.F13.I07
  • Description
  • The Commons Room inside the Cathedral of Learning Building, located on the University of Pittsburgh campus in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh. This 100-foot wide and 200-foot long room was designed in the fifteenth-century English Perpendicular style. The room is kept quiet despite its use by thousands of students every day because the stones between the ribs are actually Guastavino acoustical tiles. Completed in 1927, the Cathedral of Learning is the second tallest educational structure in the world. Architect Charles Zeller Klauder combined several architectural styles to create a 42-story structure of Indiana limestone heavily influenced by Renaissance Gothic cathedrals.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • University of Pittsburgh.Cathedral of Learning.Commons Room.
    Universities and colleges--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
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