The Bank Tower, as it is now called, has a brand-new painted sign on the back side. The building, finished in 1902, was designed by the prolific firm of Alden & Harlow, Andrew Carnegie’s favorite architects.
[A correction: An earlier version of this article identified Alden & Harlow as a Boston firm, but they had moved to Pittsburgh by this time, leaving their former partner Longfellow behind.]
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The tower behind it is most appealing. I remember, when I first came to the city, spending at least a good twenty minutes checking it out while awaiting my bus. What can you tell us about it, please?
The building directly behind is the Union National Bank Building, designed by the firm of MacClure & Spahr (Benno Janssen, who later became one of our most prolific architects, was working at MacClure & Spahr, and supposedly had a lot to do with this design). Father Pitt loves the Union National building and has published several pictures: the entrance, a reflection of the top, another picture of the entrance, a 1907 picture of the newly built tower.