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Frick Building

Pittsburgh, Italy

Frick Building

The Frick Building is one of the major distinctive and recognizable features of Downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The tower was built in 1902 by Henry Clay Frick, an industrialist coke producer who created a portfolio of commercial buildings in Pittsburgh. The building is listed on t

he National Register of Historic Places. Frick built the tower next to a building owned by his business partner-turned-rival Andrew Carnegie, on the site of Saint Peter Episcopal Church. Frick, who feuded with Carnegie after they split as business associates, had his tower designed to overshadow Carnegie's. At 330 feet (101 m), the Frick Building was the city's tallest when it opened on March 15, 1902. It originally had 20 floors, but a leveling of the surrounding landscape caused the basement to become the entrance in 1912, so some sources credit the building with 21 stories. Its address is 437 Grant Street, and is also accessible from Forbes and Fifth Avenues. The building's architect was Daniel H. Burnham of D.H. Burnham & Company, Chicago. Of the eleven executed designs for Pittsburgh by D.H. Burnham & Company, the Frick Building is one of only seven survivors. The top floor, which was...

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