![“William Penn Hotel” on the marquee](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Marquee%2C_William_Penn_Hotel%2C_2024-02-06%2C_02.jpg/800px-Marquee%2C_William_Penn_Hotel%2C_2024-02-06%2C_02.jpg)
The architect Benno Janssen, one of the titans of Pittsburgh architecture, was very fond of terra cotta, as he showed early in his career in the exuberant Wedgwood patterns of the Buhl Building. The William Penn is more restrained, but it is still a feast for lovers of ornament.
![Terra-cotta head](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/Ornament%2C_William_Penn_Hotel%2C_2024-02-06%2C_02.jpg/400px-Ornament%2C_William_Penn_Hotel%2C_2024-02-06%2C_02.jpg)
![A similar head from the front](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Ornament%2C_William_Penn_Hotel%2C_2024-02-06%2C_01.jpg/400px-Ornament%2C_William_Penn_Hotel%2C_2024-02-06%2C_01.jpg)
![Lunette](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Lunette%2C_William_Penn_Hotel%2C_2024-02-06%2C_01.jpg/788px-Lunette%2C_William_Penn_Hotel%2C_2024-02-06%2C_01.jpg)
![Windows](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Windows%2C_William_Penn_Hotel%2C_2024-02-06%2C_01.jpg/800px-Windows%2C_William_Penn_Hotel%2C_2024-02-06%2C_01.jpg)
![Window with false balcony](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Window%2C_William_Penn_Hotel%2C_2024-02-06%2C_01.jpg/368px-Window%2C_William_Penn_Hotel%2C_2024-02-06%2C_01.jpg)
![William Penn between griffins](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Ornament%2C_William_Penn_Hotel%2C_2024-02-06%2C_03.jpg/800px-Ornament%2C_William_Penn_Hotel%2C_2024-02-06%2C_03.jpg)
![Lantern](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Lantern%2C_William_Penn_Hotel%2C_2024-02-06%2C_02.jpg/450px-Lantern%2C_William_Penn_Hotel%2C_2024-02-06%2C_02.jpg)
![Egg and dart with foliage](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Ornament%2C_William_Penn_Hotel%2C_2024-02-06%2C_04.jpg/450px-Ornament%2C_William_Penn_Hotel%2C_2024-02-06%2C_04.jpg)
![Lantern](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Lantern%2C_William_Penn_Hotel%2C_2024-02-06%2C_01.jpg/450px-Lantern%2C_William_Penn_Hotel%2C_2024-02-06%2C_01.jpg)
![William Penn between griffins](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Marquee%2C_William_Penn_Hotel%2C_2024-02-06%2C_03.jpg/800px-Marquee%2C_William_Penn_Hotel%2C_2024-02-06%2C_03.jpg)
![Marquee](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Marquee%2C_William_Penn_Hotel%2C_2024-02-06%2C_01.jpg/800px-Marquee%2C_William_Penn_Hotel%2C_2024-02-06%2C_01.jpg)
![Stylized head](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Marquee%2C_William_Penn_Hotel%2C_2024-02-06%2C_04.jpg/800px-Marquee%2C_William_Penn_Hotel%2C_2024-02-06%2C_04.jpg)
The head of William Penn in ceremonial Quaker headdress.