Nationality Rooms
The Nationality Rooms are a collection of 30 classrooms in the University of Pittsburgh's Cathedral of Learning depicting and donated by the national and ethnic groups that helped build the city of Pittsburgh. The rooms are designated as a Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation historical landmark and are located on the 1st and 3rd floors of the Cathedral of Learning, itself a national historic landmark, on the University of Pittsburgh's main campus in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Although of museum caliber, 28 of the 30 rooms are regularly used as functional classrooms that are utilized daily by University of Pittsburgh faculty and students, while the other two (the Early American and Syrian-Lebanon) are mostly used as display rooms viewed thro
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Nationality Rooms
The Nationality Rooms are a collection of 30 classrooms in the University of Pittsburgh's Cathedral of Learning depicting and donated by the national and ethnic groups that helped build the city of Pittsburgh. The rooms are designated as a Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation historical landmark and are located on the 1st and 3rd floors of the Cathedral of Learning, itself a national historic landmark, on the University of Pittsburgh's main campus in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Although of museum caliber, 28 of the 30 rooms are regularly used as functional classrooms that are utilized daily by University of Pittsburgh faculty and students, while the other two (the Early American and Syrian-Lebanon) are mostly used as display rooms viewed thro
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The Nationality Rooms are a co ...... or other university function.
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1975-11-03
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15,337,227
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743,634,358
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Carl Milles, Stockholm
architect
A. Szyszko-Bohusz, Kraków
Albert A. Klimcheck
Antanas Gudaitis, Kaunas
Deepak Wadhwani, A.I.A.
Dr. Bohumil Sláma, Prague
Dénes Györgyi, Budapest
Ezio Cerpi, Florence
Frank A. Linder, Germany/U.S.
Franz Gerhardt Schnögass, Vienna
Georg Eliassen, Oslo
architecture
various, 18th century or earlier
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Rooms ring the three-story Got ...... , in the Cathedral of Learning
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Alexander Kaufman
Dr. Laurence Glasco
dedicated
1938-07-08
1939-03-07
1939-03-31
1939-09-29
1939-10-06
1940-02-16
1940-10-04
1941-06-28
1941-11-07
1943-01-23
design
Hirokazu Nagase, Kyoto
Justin Rüssli, Lucerne
Lubomyr E. Kalynych
Teng Kwei, Beijing
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List of City of Pittsburgh historic designations
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City of Pittsburgh Historic Structure
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African Heritage Classroom
Armenian Classroom
Austrian Classroom
Chinese Classroom
Czechoslovak Classroom
Early American Room
English Classroom
French Classroom
German Classroom
Greek Classroom
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Cathedral of Learning as part of the Schenley Farms Historic District
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83,002,213
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The Nationality Rooms are a co ...... d as display rooms viewed thro
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Nationality Rooms
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