CHARLES KLAUDER

'Charles Zeller Klauder' (1872 - 1938) was an American architect best known for his work on university buildings and campus designs, especially his Cathedral of Learning, the first educational skyscraper.

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Biography

Gallery

References

Notes

External links

Biography

Born on February 9, 1872, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, his commissions include the University of Pittsburgh, Penn State University, Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee, the University of Colorado at Boulder, and Cornell University. Several of his landmark Neo-Gothic buildings at Pitt are the Cathedral of Learning, Heinz Memorial Chapel, Stephen Foster Memorial, and the Palestra. The Cathedral of Learning, upon its completion, was the tallest educational building in the world, and today it ranks behind only a tower at Moscow University. It is also listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The Marks Scout Resource Center at 22nd and Winter Streets in Philadelphia was built in 1929. Klauder designed the building in the Beaux Arts style.^[1]
He died, aged 66, on October 30, 1938.

Gallery

References

★ Pitt: The Story of the University of Pittsburgh 1787-1987, Alberts, Robert C., , , University of Pittsburgh Press, 1987, ISBN 0-8229-1150-7

★ College Architecture in America and Its Part in the Development of the Campus, Klauder, Charles Zeller and Herbert C. Wise, , , Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929,

Notes

1. philadelphiabuildings.org

External links

★ Charles Z. Klauder Collection, Carnegie Mellon University Architecture Archives