Gulf Tower – Father Pitt

Gulf and Koppers Buildings

Two of our most prominent Art Deco buildings, as seen from Spring Hill (so the lines will be a little wavy if you enlarge the picture, owing to the mile and a half of intervening atmosphere).

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November 3, 2026

Looking Up

…at the Koppers Building (left) and the Gulf Building (right).

January 1, 2024

Koppers and Gulf Buildings, with the Federal Reserve Bank

Koppers and Gulf Bldgs., with the Federal Reserve Bank at the Right

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

Downtown from the Strip

From the corner of Penn Avenue and 17th Street.

February 16, 2021

The Gulf Building

The Gulf Building, an Art Deco tower with a top modeled after the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, is rendered here in old-postcard colors through the marvel of modern digital technology.

December 8, 2007

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Gulf and Koppers Buildings

Looking Up

Koppers and Gulf Buildings, with the Federal Reserve Bank

Downtown from the Strip

The Gulf Building