THE FRICK ART AND HISTORICAL CENTER

PITTSBURGH, PA

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The Frick Art & Historical Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is a remarkable museum and community center that celebrates the life and works of industrialist Henry Clay Frick. The center is comprised of the Frick Art Museum, the Frick Car and Carriage Museum, Clayton, the Frick family’s Victorian-era home, and the Frick Environmental Center.

The Frick Art Museum is home to an impressive collection of European and American art. Highlights include works by Rembrandt, Vermeer, Gainsborough, and Whistler. The Car and Carriage Museum is an incredible collection of late 19th- and early 20th-century automobiles, as well as horse-drawn carriages, sleighs, and automobiles. Clayton, the Frick family’s Victorian-era home, is open to the public and offers a unique opportunity to explore the lives of the family.

The Frick Environmental Center offers educational programs for visitors of all ages. Here, visitors can learn about local ecology, plants, and animals, as well as sustainability and environmental stewardship. The center also offers a variety of outdoor activities, including hiking, fishing, and bird watching.

The Frick Art & Historical Center is a unique place that celebrates the past and present of Pittsburgh. Through its art, history, and ecology, the center provides an important and meaningful cultural experience for visitors of all ages.

THE FRICK ART AND HISTORICAL CENTER is a Art Museum in PITTSBURGH PA. US MID #8404201206

The museum is classed as ART (Art Museums). It comes under American Alliance of Museums (AAM) region: Mid-Atlantic (District of Columbia, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania). Total revenue from most recent IRS 990 Form: $ 8,345,241 from tax period 201303 (YYYYMM).

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Partial and edited quote from Wikipedia:

&quot;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 building is the tallest educational building in the Western Hemisphere. 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 &amp; Webster. It is a Pittsburgh landmark listed in the National Register of Historic Places.&quot;

Allegheny County Soldiers' Memorial, Pittsburgh

I had not known or planned to visit the Allegheny Co. Soldiers' Memorial, so it was an accidental discovery during my Pittsburgh trip. Unfortunately I was meeting Brandon soon and so did not go in. One day perhaps I'd go back?

May 29, 2023: Veterans Memorial, Irwin, Pennsylvania Seen just before the start of the annual Memorial Day Parade in downtown Irwin, Pennsylvania is the Veterans Memorial, which stands at the corner of Main Street and Pennsylvania Avenue adjacent to the entrance to Irwin Park. It's a tall, narrow granite slab about eight feet in height, surmounted consecutively by a globe and a bronze eagle with wings outstretched in flight, and its front face is engraved with patriotic imagery (namely a dagger and shield with stars-and-stripes insignia) and dedicatory text. The monument in its original form was dedicated on November 11, 1943 by the local J. Howard Snyder Post No. 781, V.F.W. &quot;in honor of the men and women of Irwin and community who served in the Armed Forces of the United States of America in all wars&quot; but, in all likelihood, bearing in mind specifically the combatants in the then-ongoing Second World War. However, it has been expanded several times in subsequent years: newer elements of the ensemble include the bronze plaques flanking each side, as well as a semicircle of low square stones that ring the main slab on its rear side, individually representing each war fought by the U.S. military throughout its history (from the Revolution through the War on Terror and also including the Cold War) and each inscribed with a relevant quote from a famous political speech, work of literature, or combatants themselves.

If you're an architecture or design buff like me, you can read more of my ramblings at <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/198134987@N03/">Western New York Architecture Deep Cuts</a>, my other account where I go deeper into the weeds about these sorts of things.

The Cathedral of Learning, University of Pittsburgh, 5th Avenue and Bigelow Boulevard, Oakland, Pittsburgh, PA Built in 1926-1934, this Gothic Revival-style tower was designed by Charles Klauder to serve as an administration building and classroom building for the University of Pittsburgh. The building stands 42 stories and 535 feet (163 meters) tall, being the second-tallest university building in the world, only exceeded by the newer Moscow State University Main Building in Russia, and was the second-tallest building in Pittsburgh at the time of its completion, though it lost this status in 1970. The building is clad in limestone with a massing that tapers towards the top and center with multiple setbacks, a four-story podium at the base with bay windows and tall recessed gothic arched entrance bays, buttresses and tracery on the exterior facade, pinnacles and a parapet with multiple gothic arches at the top of the building, a theater to the southeast of the main building with similar exterior features but a much lower height, known as the Stephen Foster Memorial, and a series of themed classrooms with various decorative finishes inside the building. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975, and is a contributing structure in the Schenley Farms Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. The building today remains the principal structure of the University of Pittsburgh campus, dominating the surrounding Oakland neighborhood, and standing in the middle of a large lawn with trees and smaller buildings at the edges.

Heinz Memorial Chapel, University of Pittsburgh, Bellefield Avenue, Oakland, Pittsburgh, PA Built in 1933-1938, this Gothic Revival-style chapel was designed by Charles Klauder to serve as a chapel for the University of Pittsburgh, and a memorial to Anna Margaretha Heinz, with funds for the chapel’s construction being donated by John Heinz upon his death in 1919. The building features a French Gothic-inspired exterior with a metal spire, gabled and hipped slate roof, limestone cladding, buttresses, a polygonal nave and apse flanking a central gabled wing, a recessed gothic arched main entrance portal with decorative reliefs and carved wooden doors, gothic arched stained glass windows with decorative tracery, pinnacles and tracery on the parapets, and low aisles flanking the main nave. Inside, the chapel features decorative woodwork, a soaring gothic vaulted ceiling, stone staircases, stained glass windows, large pendant lights, spiral staircases, a narthex with a wooden screen wall at the entrance to the sanctuary, and an ornate wooden altar. The building is a contributing structure in the Schenley Farms Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

Alumni Hall, University of Pittsburgh, 5th Avenue, Oakland, Pittsburgh, PA Built in 1914-1915, this Classical Revival-style building was designed by Benno Janssen to serve as the Masonic Temple of Pittsburgh. The building features a limestone-clad exterior, a side-gable red terra cotta tile roof with acroterions, corinthian pilasters on the upper floors, decorative medallions, roman lattice motifs on the top floor, cornices with dentils, one-over-one windows, decorative reliefs, recessed entrance bays with decorative trim surrounds, and decorative lamppost light fixtures flanking the main entrance bays. The building is a contributing structure in the Schenley Farms Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. The building today serves as an office building and alumni center for the University of Pittsburgh, known as Alumni Hall.

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website: http://www.frickart.org

FRICK ART & HISTORICAL CENTER INC
7227 REYNOLDS ST
PITTSBURGH
PA
15208-2919

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MID #	8404201206
Name	FRICK ART & HISTORICAL CENTER INC
Alternate Name	THE FRICK ART AND HISTORICAL CENTER
Classification	Art Museums, , Mid-Atlantic
Federal Employer Identification Number (EIN)	251596285
NTEECC	A51
Tax period of the latest return filed (YYYYMM)	201303
INCOME	35,851,266
REVENUE	8,345,241
LAT/LONG	40.446354, -79.902857
CODES	FIPS State Code: 42 FIPS County Code: 003 US Census Tract: 140600 US Census Block: 2005