Ewart Building
- Style
- Romanesque Revival
- City
- Pittsburgh, PA
The Ewart Building is a historic commercial skyscraper at 921-925 Liberty Avenue in Downtown Pittsburgh, built in 1891 in the Richardsonian Romanesque style for wholesale grocer Samuel Ewart. The Ewart family ran their grocery business here until 1925 and retained ownership of the building until 1969. It stands on part of the site of the old Fort Fayette.
the building
Built on Fort Fayette. The building occupies part of the site of Fort Fayette, the fortification that once stood on this ground before Pittsburgh's commercial core grew up around it.
the style
Built in 1891, the Ewart Building was designed in the Richardsonian Romanesque style, the heavy, round-arched masonry idiom common in Pittsburgh's commercial buildings of the era.
More on Romanesque Revivalsignificance
The Ewart Building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 9, 1979.
nearby
- Benedum Center
- Gulf Tower
- Trinity Cathedral
- Century Building
- Joseph F. Weis, Jr. United States Courthouse
- Heinz Hall