Thomas Hannah

West Hall in Pittsburgh was completed in 1912
St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Cathedral, Pittsburgh, built in 1904

Thomas Hannah was an architect in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia in the United States. He is credited with designing the Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Cathedral. He also designed the Western Theological Seminary in Pittsburgh. He also designed Midtown Towers, originally known as the Keenan Building and built in 1907.[1]It was built for Colonel Thomas J. Keenan owner and founder of the Penny Press that became Pittsburgh Press[2] The building may have been modeled after the Spreckel Building/ Call Building (1898) of San Francisco. It is decorated with visages of 10 notables associated with Pittsburgh and Pennsylvania, including then-mayor George Guthrie and then-governor Edwin Stuart, in addition to George Washington and Teddy Roosevelt.[1][3][4] The dome was once capped with the figure of an eagle in flight.[1]

Andrew Carnegie Free Library (Carnegie, Pennsylvania)

Hannah may have begun his career working as part of Struthers & Hannah, a Pittsburgh architectural firm credited with the design of the Andrew Carnegie Free Library (Carnegie, Pennsylvania) (1901), a Carnegie library at 300 Beechwood Avenue in Carnegie, Pennsylvania. Plans for a Presbyterian church at Hamilton and Lang avenues, alterations to the Commercial National Bank Building at 316 Fourth Ave, brick and terra cotta People's National Bank building[5] At the firm, Hannad is credited with the The First Congregational Church (1904) on Dithridge Street near Forbes, a sandstone-fronted gray brick building that eventually became the St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Cathedral. [6]

Works

Other projects

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Building Age, Volume 29, p. 321
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1
  3. ↑ Pittsburgh City Paper, March 17, 2005
  4. ↑ Culture Now, Museum Without Walls
  5. ↑
  6. ↑ Oakland Walter C. Kidney - 2005 page 122c
  7. ↑ http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/sectionfront/life/christmas-naturally-515180/#ixzz2U2hpt1ZD
  8. ↑ photo of Gregg house
  9. ↑ Keenan building includes photos
  10. ↑ photo of Midtown Towers
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1
  12. ↑
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  14. ↑ http://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/ar_display_projects.cfm/78556


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