Frick Building, Office skyscraper in Downtown Pittsburgh, United States
The Frick Building is a 20-story office tower in downtown Pittsburgh, faced with granite on the exterior. The lobby inside is lined with Italian marble and features bronze decorative elements alongside stained glass windows.
The building was completed in 1902, designed by architect Daniel Burnham on behalf of industrialist Henry Clay Frick. A street regrading project in 1912 raised the ground level around the structure, which required a new main entrance to be created.
The lobby features marble columns, bronze lion sculptures, and colored glass windows that visitors can still see today. This level of detail was common in early 1900s office buildings funded by wealthy industrialists who used architecture to signal power and status.
The building stands in central downtown Pittsburgh and can be approached from both Forbes Avenue and Fifth Avenue. The main ground-floor entrance opens directly into the decorated lobby, which is accessible to the public.
What visitors now walk through as the main lobby was originally the basement of the building. The 1912 street regrading buried the old ground-floor entrance and turned the space below it into today's entry level.
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