Father Pitt

Tag: Graham Anderson Probst & White

Entrance to the Koppers Building

This is the lushest Art Deco of all our Art Deco skyscrapers. Graham, Anderson, Probst & White were the architects. The firm was one of the successors to Daniel Burnham’s practice, although Burnham would hardly have recognized the world of skyscraper design by 1929, when this building opened.

Fujifilm FinePix HS10.

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April 7, 2025
Koppers and Gulf Buildings, with the Federal Reserve Bank

An old postcard from Father Pitt’s accumulation of Pittsburgh miscellanea; we do not know the date, but it must be before 1952, since the back of the card specifies “PLACE ONE CENT STAMP HERE.”

March 20, 2023