A large Gothic church can be prickly with towers. In addition to the great front towers whose spires can be seen for miles, St. Paul’s has a pair of smaller towers on each transept front.
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Transept Tower, St. Paul’s Cathedral
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St. Simon the Zealot
A statue of St. Simon the Zealot on the east transept façade of St. Paul’s Cathedral. He is identified by the instrument of his martyrdom, the saw, which (according to one common tradition) was also how the prophet Isaiah was killed.
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Merry Christmas
Transept entrance to St. Paul’s Cathedral, with Christmas wreaths flanking it.
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St. Paul’s in Winter Sunlight
A winter view from the Mellon Institute. This is a high-dynamic-range picture made from three separate photographs, which helps preserve the detail in the shadows as well as the sunlight.
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Institute Calls to Institute
The titanic columns of the Mellon Institute reflected in the Software Engineering Institute.
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Stephen Foster Memorial
One of the cluster of Gothic buildings by Charles Z. Klauder at the heart of the University of Pittsburgh, this looks like the baptistery for the Cathedral of Learning. It houses a museum of Stephen Foster, two theaters, and the Ethelbert Nevin Collection. There was a time when Ethelbert Nevin might have got a museum of his own, but he missed his chance, and now he is an appendix to Stephen Foster.
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Elevator in the Grand Staircase, Carnegie Institute
One of the exceptionally elegant elevators in the Grand Staircase of the Carnegie Museums in Oakland.
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Cathedral of Learning from Across Schenley Plaza
One of the most remarkable things about the Cathedral of Learning is that it is an isolated skyscraper. There are very few places in the world where a skyscraper can be examined by itself, and few skyscrapers so much worth examining as this, which Father Pitt has often declared the only convincing application of Gothic style to the skyscraper form.
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Free to the People for 125 Years
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Heinz Chapel
A neatly framed view from Forbes Avenue.
