Charles Klauder
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Charles Zeller Klauder (1872 - 1938) was an American architect best known for his work on university buildings and campus designs, especially his Cathedral of Learning, the first educational skyscraper.
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Born on February 9, 1872, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, his commissions include the University of Pittsburgh, Penn State University, Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee, the University of Colorado at Boulder, and Cornell University. Several of his landmark Neo-Gothic buildings at Pitt are the Cathedral of Learning, Heinz Memorial Chapel, and Stephen Foster Memorial. The Cathedral of Learning, upon its completion, was the tallest educational building in the world, and today it ranks behind only a tower at Moscow University. It is also listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The Marks Scout Resource Center at 22nd and Winter Streets in Philadelphia was built in 1929. Klauder designed the building in the Beaux Arts style.[1]
He died, aged 66, on October 30, 1938.
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 Cathedral of Learning |
 Heinz Memorial Chapel |
 Bruce S. Marks Scout Resource Center |
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- Alberts, Robert C. (1987). Pitt: The Story of the University of Pittsburgh 1787-1987. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. ISBN 0-8229-1150-7.
- Klauder, Charles Zeller and Herbert C. Wise (1929). College Architecture in America and Its Part in the Development of the Campus. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
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