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Originally posted by breathesgelatin
Robert E. Lee is buried on campus
Kappa Alpha Order was founded here
We are the 9th oldest college in the nation, founded in 1749
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I absolutely LOVE your campus!! Traveller's grave is so cool!
Until the early 1970's, Pitt's Cathedral of Learning was the tallest educational building in the world. It's NOT truly gothic architecture, as some will say, as there are steel girder reinforcing the stone. Also, it was NOT built from the top down. Chancellor Bowman did have the steel superstructure built for all 42 floors (535 feet tall), so the Board of Trustees couldn't halt the project. One of the ways they cut down on the costs was by having various ethnic groups in Pittsburgh design and pay for a Nationality Classroom, as at the time, there were more diverse nationalities in Pittsburgh than any other American cities other than New York. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. You can see the Official site of the
Nationality Classrooms here.
(Yes, I was a tour hostess!)
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