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Cathedral of Learning
4200 5th Avenue
Pittsburgh PA United States
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| Status: | built | | Construction Dates | | Began | 1926 | | Finished | 1936 | | Floor Count | 42 |
|  | | Building Uses | | - education | | - university | | Structural Types | | - highrise | | Architectural Style | | - neo-gothic | | Materials | | - limestone |
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| | Heights | | Value | | Source / Comments | | | | Roof | | 535 ft | | | | | | | |
Description
Architect: Charles Z Klauder
• This is the second tallest educational building in the world after the Lomonosov University in Moscow.
• This is the second tallest gothic-styled building in the world after New York's Woolworth Building.
• It has 2,529 windows.
• Work began September 27, 1926.
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