File:STREETSCAPE VIEW SOUTHWEST, SHOWING NORTH (FRONT) AND EAST (SIDE) ELEVATIONS - Morse School Annex, Sarah Street between Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth Streets, Pittsburgh, HABS PA,2-PITBU,52A-1.tif

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STREETSCAPE VIEW SOUTHWEST, SHOWING NORTH (FRONT) AND EAST (SIDE) ELEVATIONS - Morse School Annex, Sarah Street between Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth Streets, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, PA
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STREETSCAPE VIEW SOUTHWEST, SHOWING NORTH (FRONT) AND EAST (SIDE) ELEVATIONS - Morse School Annex, Sarah Street between Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth Streets, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, PA
Description
Allison, Charles B; Steen, M M; DeGioivanni, A; Harrington, Mike, photographer; Apostolou, Paul Charles, historian
Depicted place Pennsylvania; Allegheny County; Pittsburgh
Date Documentation compiled after 1933
Dimensions 4 x 5 in.
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Accession number
HABS PA,2-PITBU,52A-1
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • Written data includes sketches and photocopies of maps.
  • Significance: The structure is a strange mixture of relatively new and daring structural concepts and a hopelessly outdated exterior shell. It is a "mule" without pride of ancestry nor hope of descendents. The use of ferro-concrete slabs between engaged steel beams had been used for the first time....only fiteen years before...The architect has used a system therefore which was advanced for its day.

...He was not as daring in his approach to the exterior...The architect could have followed either of those examples but chose not to. Actually, the Architect failed to integrate his new structure into that of the adjoining "Main" building . There is no physical connection between the old and new buildings with the exception of a pipe tunnel through the courtyard. Circulation between the two buildings was circuitous and open air. The building is significant because it reflects a dichotomy which would persist and still persists- the wedding of a logical structural system and a hopelessly inappropriate "shell".

  • Survey number: HABS PA-5199
  • Building/structure dates: ca. 1905 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: 1923 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1932 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1938 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1942 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1971 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1971 Subsequent Work
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/pa1519.photos.133000p
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