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Pittsburgh Athletic Association
The Pittsburgh Athletic Association at the University of Pittsburgh is a historic, Benno Janssen designed building located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Opened as the home of a private social and athletic club of the same name, the building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Completed in 1911, the building is an eight-story, steel frame structure clad in stone and terra cotta in the Venetian High Renaissance style. Architect Benno Janssen used a Venetian Renaissance palace as a prototype for his design, seemingly inspired by the Palazzo Corner della Ca' Grande, Palazzo Grimani di San Luca, and Biblioteca Marciana in Venice, all works of the architect Jacopo Sansovino.
The interior features a lobby with 17-foot-high coffered ceilings adorned with medallions and rosettes, stone walls, and a marble fireplace. Other featured spaces include the Pennsylvania Room, originally a billiards room; the Schenley Lounge, which initially featured multiple works of art; the Oakland Room, originally a ladies' reception room; a dining room with Palladian windows; and an oak-paneled grille room with a fireplace and barrel-vaulted ceilings.
Located at the corner of Fifth Avenue and Bigelow Boulevard in the city's Oakland district, the building faces three other landmark buildings: the University of Pittsburgh's Cathedral of Learning and William Pitt Union (formerly The Schenley Hotel) as well as the Soldiers and Sailors National Military Museum and Memorial. The latter, as well as the nearby Twentieth Century Club, was also designed by Benno Janssen.
The Pittsburgh Athletic Association social club was organized in 1908 by real estate developer Franklin Nicola. Before the opening of the Pittsburgh Athletic Association building, the club operated out of the Farmer's Bank Building (now razed), downtown at Forbes Street (then Diamond) and Smithfield.
The Pittsburgh Athletic Association was a nonprofit membership club that operated until 2017.
It offered comprehensive athletic facilities, sports lessons, spa services, fine dining, and overnight accommodations. Some of the building's more interesting features include a pool on the third floor, full basketball and squash courts, a 16-lane bowling alley, and a room dedicated to former University of Pittsburgh football coach Johnny Majors. The club held several annual events, the most popular of which included an Easter brunch, a lobster dinner, and collegiate boxing events.
From 1916 to 1920, the PAA fielded an elite amateur ice hockey team featuring such Canadian stars as Herb Drury and brothers Joe and Larry McCormick. The team won the championship of the short-lived National Amateur Hockey League in 1918. When the Olympic Games first included ice hockey in 1920, four of the eleven players on the silver medal-winning U.S. team came from the PAA squad.
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Pittsburgh Athletic Association
The Pittsburgh Athletic Association at the University of Pittsburgh is a historic, Benno Janssen designed building located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Opened as the home of a private social and athletic club of the same name, the building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Completed in 1911, the building is an eight-story, steel frame structure clad in stone and terra cotta in the Venetian High Renaissance style. Architect Benno Janssen used a Venetian Renaissance palace as a prototype for his design, seemingly inspired by the Palazzo Corner della Ca' Grande, Palazzo Grimani di San Luca, and Biblioteca Marciana in Venice, all works of the architect Jacopo Sansovino.
The interior features a lobby with 17-foot-high coffered ceilings adorned with medallions and rosettes, stone walls, and a marble fireplace. Other featured spaces include the Pennsylvania Room, originally a billiards room; the Schenley Lounge, which initially featured multiple works of art; the Oakland Room, originally a ladies' reception room; a dining room with Palladian windows; and an oak-paneled grille room with a fireplace and barrel-vaulted ceilings.
Located at the corner of Fifth Avenue and Bigelow Boulevard in the city's Oakland district, the building faces three other landmark buildings: the University of Pittsburgh's Cathedral of Learning and William Pitt Union (formerly The Schenley Hotel) as well as the Soldiers and Sailors National Military Museum and Memorial. The latter, as well as the nearby Twentieth Century Club, was also designed by Benno Janssen.
The Pittsburgh Athletic Association social club was organized in 1908 by real estate developer Franklin Nicola. Before the opening of the Pittsburgh Athletic Association building, the club operated out of the Farmer's Bank Building (now razed), downtown at Forbes Street (then Diamond) and Smithfield.
The Pittsburgh Athletic Association was a nonprofit membership club that operated until 2017.
It offered comprehensive athletic facilities, sports lessons, spa services, fine dining, and overnight accommodations. Some of the building's more interesting features include a pool on the third floor, full basketball and squash courts, a 16-lane bowling alley, and a room dedicated to former University of Pittsburgh football coach Johnny Majors. The club held several annual events, the most popular of which included an Easter brunch, a lobster dinner, and collegiate boxing events.
From 1916 to 1920, the PAA fielded an elite amateur ice hockey team featuring such Canadian stars as Herb Drury and brothers Joe and Larry McCormick. The team won the championship of the short-lived National Amateur Hockey League in 1918. When the Olympic Games first included ice hockey in 1920, four of the eleven players on the silver medal-winning U.S. team came from the PAA squad.