Clapp Hall
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| George Hubbard Clapp Hall | |
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| (U.S. Registered Historic District Contributing Property) |
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| Area: | Schenley Farms Historic District |
| Built/Founded: | 1956 |
| Architectural style(s): | Late Gothic Revival |
| Added to NRHP: | July 22, 1983[1] |
| NRHP Reference#: | 83002213 |
| Governing body: | University of Pittsburgh |
George Hubbard Clapp Hall is a contributing property to the Schenley Farms National Historic District[1][2] at 4249 Fifth Avenue. The structure originally housed Pitt's Departments of Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Metallurgy, and Chemical Engineering. Today the Department of Biological Sciences occupies the building. [3]
Clapp Hall is conjoined with Langley and Crawford Halls as a three-building Clapp/Langley/Crawford Complex. Orgininal plans slated Clapp Hall to be built adjacent to the Cathedral of Learning facing the Masonic Temple, on the south side of Fifth Avenue, between the Cathedral and Heinz Memorial Chapel. Concerns over the adding additional buildings to the Cathedral of Learning lawn and impinging on the lawn's rare open-space prompted a change to its current site across the Fifth Avenue and effective ended above-ground development of the Cathedral Lawn space.[4] The three-acre plot of land that Clapp Hall was constructed on was purchased for $675,000 as a gift for the University by the A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust.[5] Clapp Hall was completed in 1956.
It is named for George Hubbard Clapp (1858-1949), an alumnus (class of 1877) and president of Pitt's Board of Trustees for more than 40 years. Clapp was one of five who were responsible for the first commercial production of aluminum and was a founder of the Aluminum Company of America.[6]
[edit] References
- Alberts, Robert C. (1987). Pitt: The Story of the University of Pittsburgh 1787-1987. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. ISBN 0-8229-1150-7.
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| Preceded by Scaife Hall |
University of Pittsburgh Buildings Clapp Hall Constructed: 1956 |
Succeeded by Parran Hall |
