Buhl Planetarium under Construction

1938-06-18

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Buhl Planetarium under Construction
  • Title
  • Buhl Planetarium under Construction
  • Identifier
  • MSP80.B008.C06.I01
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP80.B008.C06.I01
  • Description
  • Pittsburgh architects Ingham & Boyd designed the Buhl Planetarium (foreground under construction) in the stripped Classical style at a cost of $1.07 million. The Planetarium was dedicated on October 24, 1939, and was named in honor of Henry Buhl, Jr. (1869-1927), a City of Allegheny (now Pittsburgh’s North Side neighborhood) merchant who owned a department store that catered to the wealthy. The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh-Allegheny Regional Building is pictured in the background. It was originally known as the Carnegie Free Library, named after its benefactor, Andrew Carnegie, who donated over $250,000 for its construction in 1886 and another $150,000 for an expansion in 1915. Smithmeyer and Pelz, the architects who designed the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., designed this building. The 17-story, Italian Romanesque style Allegheny General Hospital (far left background) was built in 1930 and designed by New York architects York & Sawyer.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Buhl Planetarium and Institute of Popular Science (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    North Side (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Buildings--Design and construction--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh.North Side Branch.
    Allegheny General Hospital (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Steel framing (Building)--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Libraries--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
  • Source
  • Trimble Company Photographs, 1924-1951, MSP 80, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Trimble Company Records
  • Rights Information
  • In Copyright. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).. Rights Holder: Senator John Heinz History Center
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  • Rights Holder
  • Senator John Heinz History Center