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 The Koppers Building - Pittsburgh, PA Posted by:  YONEYAMA
N 40° 26.539 W 079° 59.729
17T E 585189 N 4477335
Once the tallest building in Pittsburgh, the Koppers Building has 35 floors and rises 475 feet above Downtown Pittsburgh.
Waymark Code: WM18PF2
Location: Pennsylvania, United States
Date Posted: 09/05/2023
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4. The KOPPERS BUILDING, SW. corner 7th Ave and Grant St., is a 34-story office building of Indiana limestone, with a base of polished granite. Its high-ceilinged, richly decorated lobby of marble is one of the most impressive in the city. The dark copper roof, when illuminated by flood-lights, appears as white as the limestone of the walls below it. The building was designed by Graham Anderson, Probst and White of Chicago, with E.P.Mellon of New York as associate.
---Pennsylvania, A Guide to the Keystone State, 1940
From the Historic Pittsburgh web site:
The Koppers Building, located at Seventh Avenue and Grant Street in downtown Pittsburgh, was designed by the architectural firm of Graham, Anderson, Probst & White in 1927-29. The 35-story (475 foot) limestone building, with its external chateau roof (made of copper), its interior decorative bronze work, and colorful veined marbles was designed in the Art Deco-style. One particular item that drew attention was the mailbox located in the main lobby. It was a miniaturized Koppers Building, with stylized pineapples and an exaggerated roof, while the pilaster strips take on elements of Greek, Egyptian, Aztec, and Mayan designs. The structure was a carefully controlled Mellon project, with E.P. Mellon helping in the design and the Mellon-Stuart firm building it. Groundbreaking took place in November 1927, and the building was ready for occupancy in the spring of 1929.
Book: Pennsylvania
Page Number(s) of Excerpt: 303
Year Originally Published: 1940
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