FRICK FINE ARTS BUILDING
First and second floor plans:
Schenley Plaza before 1913: This old view shows Carnegie Library
and Carnegie Mellon University (background left) and Phipps Conservatory
(background right), looking approximately as you see them here. Forbes
Field baseball stadium is on the right. This was destroyed a generation
ago, and replaced by Forbes Quadrangle and Mervis Hall. St. Pierre's ravine,
the depression in the center, has become a parking lot. The bridge in the
background of the old view is still standing exactly as it was, except
that it is buried, and the Mary Schenley fountain stands on it. The Frick
Fine Arts Building was constructed about where a formal garden with
concentric walkways once stood.
Schenley Plaza and the Frick Fine Arts Building today.
Charles Z. Klauder's drawing of a proposed Frick Fine Arts Building
in Baroque style, ca. 1932.
Eggers & Higgins, proposed Frick Fine Arts Building, 1960
B. Kenneth Johnstone: Frick Fine Arts Building as built, 1963.
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