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Gulf Building
707 Grant Street
Pittsburgh PA United States
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| Status: | built | | Construction Dates | | Began | 1930 | | Finished | 1932 | | Floor Count | 44 |
|  | | Building Uses | | - office | | Structural Types | | - highrise | | Architectural Style | | - art deco | | Materials | | - masonry | | - glass | | - steel | | - limestone | | - concrete, reinforced |
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| | Heights | | Value | | Source / Comments | | | | Spire | | 582 ft | | | | | | | |
Description
• Architect: E.P. Mellon , Trowbridge & Livingston.
• Constructors: Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation.
• Others: 110 Gulf Associates, Central Parking Corporation.
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• Pittsburgh's tallest building from 1932 till 1970, surpassed by the US Steel Tower.
• Illumination at the pyramidal top shows by different colors, the weather forecast.
• Built on the site of the first oil refinery in the country, where is the birthplace of the petroleum industry.
• The first two stories are faced in New England granite, with the upper stories of Indiana limestone.
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