Frick Building
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The Frick Building is one of the major distinctive and recognizable features of the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania skyline. The tower is named after Henry Clay Frick, an industrialist coke producer who created a portfolio of commercial buildings in Pittsburgh.
The tower was built directly adjacent to a building owned by Andrew Carnegie. Local legend states that Frick had the building designed to be taller than Carnegie's to encompass it in constant shadow.
The Frick Building was completed in 1902 and originally had twenty floors. A leveling of the surrounding landscape that was completed in 1912 caused the basement to become the entrance, so some sources credit the building with twenty-one stories. It rises 330 feet (101 meters) above Downtown Pittsburgh. Its address is 437 Grant Street, accessible from Forbes Avenue or Fifth Avenue.
The building's architect was D.H. Burnham & Company.
[edit] References
- Les Standiford (2005) Meet You in Hell.
- Glenn A. Walsh (2001) History of Industrialist, Art Patron, and Philanthropist Henry Clay Frick Retrieved 2005-09-20.
- John Simkin Henry Frick at Spartacus Educational Retrieved 2005-09-20.
- Mellon Square Map Retrieved 2005-09-20.
- Chris Potter (2005) You Had To Ask Archives Retrieved 2005-09-20.
