109-115 Wood Street
- Year
- 1897
- Style
- Renaissance Revival
- City
- Pittsburgh, PA
- Collection
- steel city beaux-arts
109-115 Wood Street in Downtown Pittsburgh is actually two adjoining buildings — 109-111, built in 1897, and 113-115, built in 1902 — both designed by architect Charles Bickel in the Renaissance Revival style. Known historically as the Hartje Bros. Paper Manufacturing Co. building, it later housed the Pittsburgh Ballet Theater.
the building
Two buildings, one facade. The block reads as a single Renaissance Revival composition, but it was built in two campaigns five years apart: 109-111 in 1897 and 113-115 in 1902, both by Charles Bickel.
the style
Charles Bickel designed the building in the Renaissance Revival style, giving the Wood Street facade the ordered, classically derived front typical of Pittsburgh's late-nineteenth-century commercial core.
More on Renaissance Revivalthe architect
Charles Bickel was the American architect responsible for both halves of the building, completed in 1897 and 1902.
significance
The building was named a Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation Historic Landmark in 1975 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 4, 1996. In 2013 it was folded into the boundary increase of the Firstside Historic District.
nearby
- PPG Place
- Burke Building
- Dollar Savings Bank
- Pittsburgh Engineers' Building
- Buhl Building
- The Salvation Army Building