The Duquesne Club is the premier private club in Pittsburgh, founded in 1873. The club's present home, a Romanesque structure designed by Longfellow, Alden & Harlow on Sixth Avenue in downtown Pittsburgh, was opened in 1890; an addition designed by Janssen & Cocken that included a garden patio, barbershop, and new kitchens was constructed in 1931. The building achieved landmark status from the Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation in 1976, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. The Club voted to admit women for the first time in its history in 1980. A health-and-fitness center was added in 1994. The club also has 43 hotel rooms and suites. The club has greeted many notable guests including: Presidents Ulysses S. Grant, Herbert Hoover, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton as well as Colin Powell, Polish leader Edward Gierek, Gene Simmons, Charles, Prince of Wales and former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. Oil businessman and millionaire Philip M. Shannon owned an apartment in the club and died there in 1915. (Source: Wikipedia)
The Concordia Club was an elite Jewish social club. It was founded in 1874 by a group of Jewish men, of predominately German origin, who were mostly living in Allegheny City. The club initially rented a house at 45 Stockton Street before purchasing the property and erecting larger facilities on the site. The clubhouse hosted elaborate social events, smaller private functions and events of communal importance. At a meeting held at the Concordia Club in 1885, the Central Conference of American Rabbis adopted the Pittsburgh Platform, which remained a guiding document for Reform Judaism for nearly 50 years. As the membership of the Concordia Club moved to the eastern neighborhoods of the city in the early 20th century, the clubhouse also relocated, dedicating new facilities on O’Hara Street, in the Schenley Farms district of Oakland, in late 1913. The Concordia Club disbanded in 2009 and sold its clubhouse to the University of Pittsburgh. (Source: Senator John Heinz History Center)
The Cathedral of Learning is a 42-story skyscraper that serves as the centerpiece of the University of Pittsburgh's (Pitt) main campus in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Standing at 535 feet (163 m), the 42-story Late Gothic Revival Cathedral is the tallest educational building in the Western Hemisphere and the second-tallest university building (fifth-tallest educationally-purposed building) in the world, after the main building of Moscow State University. It is also the second-tallest gothic-styled building in the world, after the Woolworth Building in Manhattan. The Cathedral of Learning was commissioned in 1921 and ground was broken in 1926 under general contractor Stone & Webster. The first class was held in the building in 1931 and its exterior finished in October 1934, prior to its formal dedication in June 1937. It is a Pittsburgh landmark listed in the National Register of Historic Places. (Source: Wikipedia)
